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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0014381395228
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Original recording remastered
Label: IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT
Manufacturer: IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Running Time: 1429 minutes
Sales Rank: 1267
Studio: IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT
Theatrical Release Date: September 15, 1965
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Product Description:
Robert Culp and Bill Cosby star as international espionage agents Kelly Robinson and Alexander Scott on highly dangerous missions in this ever-popular award-winning series. Culp poses as a world-class playboy/tennis player and Cosby goes undercover as his trainer. Together they travel the world trading quips and fighting high-level crime with cool bravado and extraordinary savoir-faire. Combining humor with action/intrigue 'I Spy' was the first adventure TV series to be shot in exotic international locales establishing a new standard for television dramas.System Requirements:LENGTH: 1429 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 014381395228 Manufacturer No: ID3952PQDVD
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Rating:  - Not what I remember...
As many of you who have bought this product or are considering it, I was born in the early 50's and remember television through the 60's very fondly. I remember this show as being exciting and very visual. I liked both stars a lot back then. However, times change. I have purchased many dvd collections of shows from this period and I have to say this about the most boring of them all. I am sure it is both the fault of romantic notions of the time and being exposed to better programs over time. Nice locations, but very mundane scripts and stories you can write the ending to after two minutes. So, my advice is if you think you liked this and want to revisit it, do so with caution--buy Burke's Law, Route 66 or Honey West instead.
Rating:  - I Spy holds up well
My brothers and I watched I Spy when it first aired and in syndication, and I've just started watching the first season on DVD. I love the location shoots, with now-familiar character actors like Mako, James Hong and Beulah Quo, and the writing holds up reasonably well, too.
I had recalled Kelly and Scotty as equals, but in the first several episodes, Robinson certainly seems to be the lead agent. They are friends, however, and both use the word "wonderfulness," the title of one of Cosby's comedy albums, a lot while bantering back and forth. I think Kelly uses it more than Scotty. The early episodes seem to feature more of Kelly's cover identity as a tennis pro than I recalled.
The first three of Robert Culp's audio commentaries bears little relationship to the background video of So Long Patrick Henry, The Loser and Court of the Lion but Culp authored those episodes and is effusively proud of them. He initially sounds hesitant, almost apologetic, in his telling of his background and the creation of the show, but warms to the subject. During his Court of the Lion commentary Culp describes meeting guest star and future wife France Nuyen.
Ideally Culp and Cosby would have been commenting together, laughing and joking as they did on the show, but at least we have them both in every episode.
Rating:  - The Price is Right
It's great to watch this show again after so many years. Many of the other shows from the era slid into silliness, but I Spy was a class act. These transfers are not too bad. They are a bit dirty, particularly the (excellent) opening graphics. So, essentially, this isn't quite on par with the transfer of The Invaders for instance. Shadow areas are also a bit crushed. Overall the presentation is nice and is quite pleasant upconverted. The price is what hooked me into buying the first season. No regrets, but I would have paid extra for a real remaster.
Rating: - Fantastic
To sum it up in a nut shell. Great picture quality, great sound and above all, great fun. If you love the old classic T.V shows, then you owe it to yourself to get I Spy. Well worth it.
Rating: - GREAT RETRO
If you'd like to see and hear what was going on in the 1960s, then this is for you. The music, fashions, dialogue, and social comment are a "HERE'S HOW IT WAS" discourse set in a most wonderfully entertaining format. The locales, as well as the photography, are terrific. The asides are classic. Earl Hagen, the dean of film scoring at that time, shows why he was the dean of film scoring at that time in each episode. As we used to say in the '60s, "DIG THIS."
TONY HOROWITZ
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