I Spy: A History and Episode Guide to the Groundbreaking Television Series

I Spy: A History and Episode Guide to the Groundbreaking Television Series

I Spy: A History and Episode Guide to the Groundbreaking Television Series

I Spy: A History and Episode Guide to the Groundbreaking Television Series

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Overview

One of the most popular and award-winning television series of the sixties, I Spy was the first weekly broadcast to star both a white and a black actor. In 1964, though, producer Sheldon Leonard had, with heavy risk, financed the show himself, and his idea for a racially incorporated cast had earned his show the moniker "Sheldon's Folley." Pairing established white actor Robert Culp with Bill Cosby, a black comedian with barely an acting credit to his name, certainly turned some heads at NBC, and many wondered whether affiliates in the South would ever air the show. Only two years later, Cosby accepted the Emmy for leading actor--and I Spy cemented its role in history.

This is a complete history of I Spy and the profound change it evoked in broadcasting, social ideals and racial equality. Rich with interviews and photographs, it discusses I Spy's unique approach to race, co-starring interracial actors as equals. It also describes how the show became the template for popular "buddy genre" shows and films that followed, covers the show's significance as the first series to shoot episodes around the world, and puts I Spy in context with other works within the spy genre at a time when spy books, shows and films exploded in popularity. A complete episode guide includes writers, directors, cast, crew, plot synopsis and commentary.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786427505
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 02/08/2007
Pages: 452
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Marc Cushman is a Los Angeles based writer of television and films with TV credits including Diagnosis: Murder, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Linda J. LaRosa divides her time between New York and California. She is the author of Winter of the Heart which was filmed as an award winning mini-series in Italy and France.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     
Foreword by Robert Culp     
Prologue     

1. The History of a Genre     
2. The Road to Hong Kong     
3. The First Block of Episodes     
4. On to Japan     
5. The Second Block of Episodes     
6. South of the Border     
7. The Third Block of Episodes     
8. Wrapping Season One     
9. Basking in the Sun     
10. The Fourth Block of Episodes     
11. Growth, Genre, Gratitude, and Gondolas     
12. The Fifth Block of Episodes     
13. Exposure     
14. The Sixth Block of Episodes     
15. Wrapping Season Two     
16. Tie-Ins     
17. Morocco to Greece     
18. The Seventh Block of Episodes     
19. A Change in Plans     
20. The Eighth Block of Episodes     
21. The Grind Continues     
22. The Ninth Block of Episodes     
23. Wrapping Season Three     
24. The Fourth Season     
25. I Spy Stripped     
26. The First Reunion     
27. The Second Reunion     
28. The Third Reunion     
29. The Fourth Reunion     

Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
Index     
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