I Spy - Season 2
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Movie Reviews of I Spy - Season 2
Movie Review: I Spy Again
Summary: 5 Stars
It's everything I remembered about this TV show. I really enjoy watching these episodes again.Movie Review: Fun Series
Summary: 4 Stars
The 82 hour-long episodes (all in color) of the spy adventure series "I Spy" ran from 1965-1968 on NBC. All 28 episodes from season two are on this DVD, there was no significant changes to the style or background from season one. The same can be said for the 26 episodes of Season Three-probably a miscalculation as things had gotten a bit repetitive by that time and the series could have benefited from a bit of a shake-up.
It was a top-notch spy series with a fair amount of same "tongue-in-cheek" self-parody found in "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." and the popular James Bond movie franchise. But don't expect the same level of gadgetry and gimmicks; "I Spy" is much more about the witty banter between its pair of spies, Kelly Robertson (Robert Culp) and Alexander Scott (Bill Cosby). Their cover as they travel the world on assorted missions is tennis, Kelly is a tennis pro and Scotty is his trainer. They work for an unnamed U.S. espionage agency.
The intelligent and witty tone of the show obviously appealed to its fans as reflected by its three year broadcast run and subsequent syndication. Much of the credit for this goes to Sheldon Leonard who incorporated the more subtle comedy elements he had experimented with when producing "Make Room for Daddy", "The Andy Griffith Show", and "The Dick Van Dyke Show".
Cosby was hardly an unknown at the time of the series premiere. He was a wildly popular stand-up comic who had appeared many times on television variety shows and sold millions of record albums featuring his semi-autobiographical comedy routines. But his Alexander Scott character is generally a pretty serious guy (he does occasionally sneak in some of his comedy routines) and Cosby's portrayal is quite believable. Prior to this no comedian (and certainly no black comedian) had stared in an action show.
Culp is not so much the dashing James Bond style hero as a contemporary version of the less macho Bret Maverick type. He is not above pleading ignorance or confusion in a crisis. Fortunately the chemistry was excellent between the two stars.
Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.
Movie Review: If only it had had better writers
Summary: 4 Stars
An interesting idea and excellent actors. Both Cosby and Culp are good actors when trying to be serious and both can be exceptionally funny.
But the show suffered from spotty writing. Some of the stories were really very good, but many were pretty lackluster, and some down right pittiful. It often seemed to have the same plot over and over, just different bad guys.
Even the best actors need something to work with.
It`s not that the show is bad. Over all it`s quite good. But it could have been so much better with better stories.
Movie Review: A Good Spy Series
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a good spy series if you're a fan of the 60's spy genre. It's not as good as "Danger Man/Secret Agent" but much better than "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." AV quality is pretty good (at least as good as A&E's release of "The Saint").Movie Review: I Spy - Season 2
Summary: 3 Stars
Kind of wish wash secret agent stuff...to much comedy. The DVD case is very poor, it breaks the DVD around the mounting holes unless a person takes it out very very carefully.