I Spy Box Set #1

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Actor: Bill Cosby, Robert Culp
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1428 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-10-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment

DVD Reviews of I Spy Box Set #1

DVD Review: Prices Are Out OF WHACK and Amazon Does Not Make it Easy to Correct or Inform
Summary: 1 Stars

CAUTION: DO NOT BUY THE I SPY SERIES ON AMAZON. THE PRICING IS MESSED UP. The prices for the I Spy Boxed sets are progressively out of whack. List price is $39 per set. Amazon has $99 for first set; $150 for second set; and $200 for 3rd set. What is frustrating is that Amazon offers no easy way to call them and inform them that something is not quite right here (and give them the opportunity to fix it). Therefore, I'll do what they have you do with other resellers -- publicize their errors. I would have preferred to contact them so they could correct an obvious error, but they made it difficult to find a way to do so. At any rate: CAUTION: DO NOT BUY THE I SPY SERIES ON AMAZON. THE PRICING IS MESSED UP.

DVD Review: Buy it you'll lovw it
Summary: 5 Stars

Wow this disc takes me back to grade school in the 1960s Culp and Cosby at their greatest. I got this as a Christmas gift and I have really enjoyed all of the episodes. I hope I get box set #2 & box set #3 next Christmas.

DVD Review: Own a piece of TV history
Summary: 5 Stars

How often can a television series lay claim to having helped to change television, and, yes, even the world? I Spy did just that. This was the first series to star a White and a Black together, and I Spy marked the first time a Black actor won an Emmy ... three back-to-back Emmys, no less, for Bill Cosby as Best Lead in a Drama. Racial barriers were pushed aside when I Spy hit the air in September 1965. This was also the first series to shoot around the world and ushered in the technology to make that possible - film making techniques that are still used to this day! And this is where the "buddy picture" began. "Miami Vice, "Starksy & Hutch," "Lethal Weapon" all owe much to I Spy.
To find out how the makers of this series did it, how they accomplished the near impossible, read "I Spy: A History and Episode Guide to the Groundbreaking Series" ... then watch these episodes in a whole new light. They are more historic than you may yet know.
For the three box sets from Image, the DVD transfers are very good; the Robert Culp commentaries are well worth hearing; and you can use the above mentioned book as a guide to the proper order that the episodes were intended to be viewed - which will enhance the viewing experience.
This series should be remembered and cherished. TV was never the same again after it, and, in some ways, either were we.

DVD Review: I spy a great show
Summary: 5 Stars

I remeber this show from my misspent youth. I did not realize I was watching groundbreaking tv back then. No, I just thought that it was a greatshow. It is almost strange, when you think about it, that this was the first pairing of a white guy and black guy as partners in a serious setting. Don't mistake me, this is not an all serious show. There is situational humor and some of the best bantering dialogue of all time here. Follow the exploits of two secret agents as they travel around the world. They are not "superspys" at all, but they get the job done. Make a note of the exteriors. They actually went and filmed at the places they were supposed to be. No stock shots here. Watch this show, maybe not because of the socialogical implications, because it is good.

DVD Review: Two headed spy
Summary: 5 Stars

After Goldfinger hit so big in 1964, I (like everybody else at the time) read every James Bond novel Ian Fleming had written. What struck me the most was how much the novels gave us an insight into 007's mind by displaying his thoughts. The movie industry has generally shyed away from first-person narritive for some reason and so that element was lost in the movies. However, first in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. in 1964 and the next year in I-Spy, that externalized thinking was delivered with a simple device, namely buddies. Two spies constantly bantering. gave back the element of the thinking-man's spy story.
I-Spy remains unique in many ways though. First, each episode was filmed on location around the world and that adds an open and airy atmosphere that cannot be duplicated on a studio lot. Second, unlike James Bond who always saved the world from utter disaster, agents Scott and Kelly do what I assume secret agents actually do, which is more along the line of international detective work. Also they kind of muddle through their assignments at times relying upon luck rather than skill, and if one of them jumps out of a moving vehicle, then he will get a broken bone. Third, what was new for TV in 1965 was instead of the bad guys getting maimed the show had a tendacy to leave dead bodies laying around.
There was a total of 82 episodes included in all three seasons of the show and they are all included in the three box sets, however the sets are not arranged by season nor are they in chronological order.
BOX 1 has 22 episodes of season 1 (out of 28) and 6 episodes of season 2.
BOX 2 has 20 episodes of season 2 (out of 28) and 8 episodes of season 3.
BOX 3 has 18 episodes of season 3 (out of 26), 6 episodes of season 1, and 2 episodes of season 2.
Follow up:
Forget these box sets and get the new ones released in chronological order and by season.

Description of I Spy Box Set #1

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. Includes Volumes 1-7: A Cup Of Kindness, Dragon's Teeth, Tigers Of Heaven, Turkish Delight, Crusade To Limbo, Sparrowhawk, So Coldly Sweet.

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