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I Deal in Danger


I Deal in Danger is a 1966 American DeLuxe Color spy film compiled from the first four episodes of a television series, "Blue Light", which aired on ABC-TV in early 1966. Directed by Walter Grauman, it starred Robert Goulet as David March, an Allied spy in Nazi Germany during World War II. He is aided by a French agent, Susanne Duchard, played by Christine Carère. In Nazi Germany during World War II, David March (Robert Goulet) is an American traitor who has been given
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, reports that 15% of 132 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating was 4.1/10. The site's consensus reads: "Insipid and mirthless, I-Spy bares little resemblance to the TV series that inspired it." Metacritic rated it 35/100 based on 31 reviews. Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" rated it 2/4 stars and wrote, "This is a remake by the numbers, linking a halfwit plot to a series of standup routines in which Wilson and Murphy show how
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Trackdown (TV series)


that same interview, was partly responsible for the creation of "Dragnet" along with that series' star, Jack Webb. "Trackdown" first brought Culp to national public attention, eight years before he starred with Bill Cosby in "I Spy". The series narrator was character actor Ed Prentiss . Hoby Gilman's use of the Smith & Wesson .44 Schofield revolver instead of the more-popular Colt Peacemaker is also notable. Syndicated reruns of this series have been broadcast in the early 2000s on TV Land and other cable
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deluge of imitators, such as the eurospy genre and several from America. Notable examples include the two "Derek Flint" films starring James Coburn, "The Quiller Memorandum" (1966) with George Segal, and the "Matt Helm" series with Dean Martin. Television also got into the act with series like "The Man from U.N.C.L.E" and "I Spy" in the U.S., and "Danger Man" and "The Avengers" in Britain. Spies have remained popular on TV to the present day with series
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Trackdown (TV series)


was one of the evil Marple Brothers that he encountered in episode one. His sister was played by actress Peggy Webber, reprising her role from the series pilot. She went on to guest-star in "Child Out of Time", an episode of Culp's series "I Spy" a few years later. In an interview, Robert Culp stated that "Trackdown" was conceived by its creators as "the Western Dragnet". The pilot of the series was written by John Robinson, who according to Culp in
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taboo region of Vietnam. The 1966 episode was "The Tiger," written by Robert Culp, and during filming a romance ensued between Culp and Vietnamese–French guest star France Nuyen. The two were married the following year, and Nuyen went on to appear in several more episodes. Co-star Culp wrote the scripts for seven episodes (one of which he also directed), including the show's first broadcast episode, "So Long, Patrick Henry." Prior to joining "I Spy", Culp wrote
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Spy Game (TV series)


Spy Game is an American action-adventure television series that aired on ABC for 13 episodes during the spring and summer of 1997. The series was created by screenwriter and physician Ivan Raimi, director Sam Raimi, and writer John McNamara. The series was originally developed under the title "Cloak and Dagger", but was renamed prior to airing. The series starred Linden Ashby as Lorne Cash, a retired secret agent who reluctantly agrees to get back into the "spy game" and work for a secret government agency. Following
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Kim Schraner


Kim Schraner (born 1976) is a Canadian actress, who starred in the children's spy TV series "Spynet", shown in Canada on CBC Television. Schraner starred in the Showcase soap opera "Paradise Falls" as the character Jessica Lansing. She starred in the pilot episode of "T.R.A.X.", which wasn't picked up as a series. She's had appearances in various TV shows, including PSI Factor, Twice In A Lifetime, The Newsroom, and Due South. She's also appeared in the TV
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Gabriele Ferzetti


, opposite Michael Parks (Adam), Ulla Bergryd (Eve), Richard Harris (Cain), Franco Nero (Abel), and Huston himself as Noah, the narrator, the serpent, and God. He also made his television debut with his appearance in two episodes of the American spy series, "I Spy". Ferzetti starred in "A ciascuno il suo" ("We Still Kill the Old Way", 1967) under director Elio Petri, and the TV series "". Ferzetti featured in
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-laced Rhodes Scholar fluent in many languages, Cosby's "Scotty" was really the brains of the team. His partner was the athlete and playboy who lived by his wits. "I Spy" was a trailblazer in its use of exotic international locations in an attempt to emulate the James Bond film series. This was unique for a television show, especially since the series actually filmed its lead actors at locations ranging from Spain to Japan, rather than relying on stock footage. Compare with the recent series, "Alias
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The Invisible Man (2000 TV series)


The Invisible Man (also shortened to "The I-Man" in Season 2) is a Sci-Fi American television series starring Vincent Ventresca, Paul Ben-Victor, Eddie Jones, Shannon Kenny and Michael McCafferty. It aired for two seasons, from June 9, 2000 to February 1, 2002. The plot revolves around Darien Fawkes (Ventresca), a thief facing life imprisonment who is recruited by a spy agency that is constantly short on funds, and given the power of invisibility via implantation of a special
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a pilot script for a proposed series in which he would have played an American character like James Bond. He took the script to his friend Carl Reiner, who recommended he meet with Sheldon Leonard, who was in the midst of creating "I Spy". This script was eventually rewritten by Culp and produced as the episode "The Tiger." In the DVD audio commentary for the "Home to Judgment" episode, Culp reveals that his seven episodes were the only ones filmed exactly as written. He wrote them to
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Evita Muñoz


TV series such as: "Columbo" and "I Spy". During the 1980s, she played the role of the witch Hermelinda Linda in several films. On television, she co-starred with Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo in the sitcom "Dos mujeres en mi casa". In 1986, she co-starred in the sitcom "Nosotros los Gómez". In the 1990s, she continued working in a series of soap operas for Televisa up to nowadays, as well as making films such as "De lengua me
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List of films based on spy books


A list of spy films that are based on books. If a book has been turned into both a film and a TV series (or TV film), then the TV series is included. More to add More to add More to add * BBC mini-series In March 2015, shooting wrapped on the film adaptation, "Damascus Cover" of Howard Kaplan's novel "The Damascus Cover" set in 1989 at the fall of the Berlin Wall, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, John Hurt, Jurgen Prochnow and Olivia
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for the series). During the show's run, two albums of re-recorded music composed (except where indicated) and conducted by Hagen were released. "Music from the Television Series I Spy" (Warner Bros. WS-1637): I Spy (Capitol ST-2839): In 2002 Film Score Monthly released a limited-edition disc of original soundtrack music from the series. The underlying rights to the original series are now owned by independent film company Peter Rodgers Organization, Ltd. (PRO), but original production company Triple
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Linda Marsh


and Bennington College. She left Bennington after two years to pursue a career in acting. Marsh became one of the attractive young actresses who were regularly romanced by the stars of popular TV series, including "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." (S3E21, "The It's All Greek to Me Affair", 1967 Feb 03), "I Spy", "The Wild Wild West" (S1E14, "The Night of the Howling Light", 1965 Dec 17), "It Takes a Thief" (S1E11,
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Eleanor Parker


ABC drama about psychiatry, "Breaking Point". In 1968, she portrayed a spy in "How to Steal the World", a film originally shown as the two-part concluding episodes of NBC's "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.". In 1969–70, Parker starred in the television series "Bracken's World", for which she was nominated for a 1970 Golden Globe Award as Best TV ActressDrama. "I wanted to do the series so I could stay put," she said. "Every movie I'm
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Spy Game (TV series)


The series was a throwback to the stylish spy series of the 1960s, with particular comparison being made to "The Avengers" and "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", while at the same time poking fun at the genre. (The opening credits were a parody of the opening credits of "The Avengers".) The show's first episode featured cameos by numerous stars of spy shows of the past (including Patrick Macnee and Robert Culp). "Spy Game" was canceled after nine of the thirteen episodes produced were
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Florence Halop


"The Jimmy Durante Show". Halop transitioned to television in the early 1950s with a role in the series "Meet Millie". After the series ended in 1956, Halop guest starred on various television series during the late 1950s and 1960s including roles in "Playhouse 90", "Going My Way", and "I Spy". Between 1976 and 1982, she guested six times on the TV series "Barney Miller", each time playing a different character. In 1984, she had a guest stint on
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I Spy (film)


I Spy (commonly styled I-SPY) is a 2002 American buddy spy comedy film directed by Betty Thomas, and starring Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson. The film is based on the television series of the same name that aired in the 1960s and starred Robert Culp and Bill Cosby. The film was released in the United States on November 1, 2002. At the Bureau of National Security headquarters, Special Agent Alex Scott is accosted by his rival, Carlos, before being briefed on his next mission. Scott is assigned
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Dateline: Danger!


Dateline: Danger! is an American syndicated newspaper comic strip published from November 11, 1968 to March 17, 1974, created and produced by writer John Saunders and artist Al McWilliams. The series, about two intelligence agents working undercover as reporters, co-starred the character Danny Raven, the first African-American lead character of a mainstream comic strip. Inspired by the television series "I Spy", the first TV dramatic show to co-star an African-American in a lead role, writer John Saunders and
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David Bellamy


". Bellamy published many scientific papers and books between 1966 and 1986 (see #Bibliography). Many books were associated with the TV series that he worked on. During the 1980s he replaced Big Chief I-Spy as the figurehead of the I-Spy range of children's books, to whom completed books were sent to get a reward. In 1980 he released a single written by Mike Croft with musical arrangement by Dave Grosse to coincide with the release of the I-Spy title "I Spy Dinosaurs" (
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agent TV shows, films, and spin-off merchandise. What set "I Spy" apart from contemporary programs such as "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", "The Avengers", and "The Wild Wild West" was its emphasis on realism. There were no fanciful 007-style gadgets, outlandish villains or campy, tongue-in-cheek humor. Although Culp and Cosby frequently exchanged breezy, lighthearted dialog, the stories invariably focused on the gritty, ugly side of the espionage business. Occasionally the series produced purely comedic
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Spy (2015 TV series)


Spy () is a 2015 South Korean television series based on the Israeli drama "The Gordin Cell" but modified to depict North/South Korean relations. A family drama with spy thriller elements, it starred Kim Jae-joong as a genius analyst working for the National Intelligence Service (NIS), while Bae Jong-ok played his mother, an ex-spy from North Korea. "SPY" aired two episodes a week back to back on Fridays on KBS2 from January 9 to March 6, 2015 for a
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"I Spy" comic book between 1966 and 1968. Unlike many television series of the time, every episode of "I Spy" received an original score – as was the case with the other shows from Sheldon Leonard, like "The Andy Griffith Show" and "The Dick Van Dyke Show". Earle Hagen, Leonard's regular composer, wrote the main theme and scored most of the episodes (collaborating on three with Carl Brandt; Hugo Friedhofer, Nathan Van Cleave, Robert Drasnin and Shorty Rogers also wrote music
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the addition of the word 'Returns' beneath 'I Spy' and a new arrangement of the theme music. Cosby was the executive producer. Here, Robinson has become director of the agency, while Scott has left the business. However, the aging agents have to leap into action once again, this time to keep an eye on their children, Bennett Robinson (George Newbern) and Nicole Scott (Salli Richardson-Whitfield) who are now operatives. This was shown as a "CBS Movie Special" on February
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Bill Cosby sexual assault cases


have also been canceled. On November 19, 2014, TV Land and NBC both ended their relationships with Cosby: TV Land announced that it was pulling reruns from its schedule and also removing clips of the show from its website, while NBC scrapped its plans to develop a brand new sitcom starring Cosby. In December 2014, the Magic Johnson-owned Aspire removed the two series "I Spy" and "The Bill Cosby Show" from its lineup. In July 2015, broadcast network Bounce TV pulled reruns, and BET
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The Professionals (TV series)


's Doyle in a sketch called "Tinker Tailor Smiley Doyle" (Series 11; broadcast February 1985 - March 1985). This was a joint send-up of "The Professionals" and the "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" TV drama, with Ronnie Barker playing George Smiley along the lines of Alec Guinness' portrayal in "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy". Corbett's Doyle provides the brawn to the brains of Barker's Smiley and actually comes out the worse. The sketch guest-starred
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3, 1994. Culp again reprised the role of Kelly Robinson during a dream sequence in a 1999 episode of Bill Cosby's series, "Cosby", entitled "My Spy." Cosby's character falls asleep while watching "I Spy" on television and dreams he's caught up in an espionage adventure. With Cosby's name replaced with that of his character here, Hilton Lucas, the old title sequence was again faithfully recreated. (Culp had earlier appeared with Cosby in 1987 on "The Cosby Show" episode
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Andrea Dromm


Has Gone Before" (1965), the series' second pilot. Dromm then moved on to do "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming" (1966), in which she played a teenaged babysitter who falls in love with a handsome Soviet sailor. She then co-starred in "Come Spy with Me" (1967), a spy spoof that fell flat. She also appeared as hostess of a TV special on surfing. After this experience, she returned to New York modeling, and for
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American Woman


). It was heard during the ending credits of the "Witchblade" TV film (2000), starring Yancy Butler and based on the Top Cow comic book series. American Woman was featured in the second instalment of the Austin Powers film trilogy, "The Spy Who Shagged Me", with Heather Graham dancing provocatively whilst it played. The song was featured in an episode of ""Due South""s first season. Kelly Clarkson recorded a cover version of the song as a theme song from the Paramount Network TV series,
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Walter Wager


basis for the 1990 action film "Die Hard 2", starring Bruce Willis. Additionally, Wager wrote a number of original novels in the 1960s under the pseudonym "John Tiger" that were based on the TV series "I Spy" and "". He also wrote the farce "My Side, by King Kong as Told to Walter Wager", published by Macmillan in 1976. His series "Blue Leader", "Blue Moon", and "Blue Murder" featured tough Beverly Hills private detective Alison Gordon
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Mel Brooks


Henry, Brooks created a comedic TV show titled "Get Smart" about a bumbling James Bond-inspired spy. Brooks explains: "I was sick of looking at all those nice sensible situation comedies. They were such distortions of life... I wanted to do a crazy, unreal comic-strip kind of thing about something besides a family. No one had ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first." The show stars Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86. The series
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Flying Blind (TV series)


Boyle guest starred as Alicia's father, a former spy, and Charles Rocket had a recurring role as movie maker Dennis Lake. Thomas Haden Church, acting full-time on "Wings," also served in a recurring role as Jonathan. In addition to Leoni, an assortment of stars had guest spots or cameos in the series before they became famous, including Diedrich Bader, Jill Hennessy, Greg Grunberg, Lisa Kudrow, Andy Dick, Willie Garson and Noah Emmerich. The series was created by Richard Rosenstock, who
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Rookie Agent Rouge


Rookie Agent Rouge () is 2016 Chinese television series directed by Xu Zizhou, starring Zhao Liying and Lu Yi. The series aired on Dragon TV and Zhejiang TV from 27 September to 21 October 2016. The drama is currently licensed by Netflix. Lan Yanzhi (Rouge) is a privileged banker's daughter in Shanghai and a student activist who mistakenly comes into possession of a letter from the Japanese Army in 1937. Song Mian, an undercover agent for the Guomindang (Nationalist Party), mistakes her for a spy. To
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The Spy Who Loved Me (film)


The Spy Who Loved Me is a 1977 British spy film, the tenth in the "James Bond" series produced by Eon Productions, and the third to star Roger Moore as the fictional secret agent James Bond. Barbara Bach and Curt Jürgens co-star. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert and the screenplay was written by Christopher Wood and Richard Maibaum. The film takes its title from Ian Fleming's novel "The Spy Who Loved Me", the tenth book in the James Bond series, though it does not contain
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"Bald and Beautiful" as Cliff Huxtable's old friend "Scott Kelly", a merger of their "I Spy" characters' names.) A movie remake, also titled "I Spy", followed in 2002 with Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson. In this iteration, the character names are reversed, so Alexander Scott (Wilson) is now the white secret agent and Kelly Robinson (Murphy) the black athlete, now a boxer (It also changed the original premise of them both being agents, with Robinson
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The Man Who Never Was (TV series)


The original television pilot starred Canadian actor Don Harron as Mark Wainwright but a change in sponsor led to the new sponsor requesting Robert Lansing in the role. Lansing initially plays the dual role of Peter Murphy, an American spy, and Mark Wainwright, an influential playboy millionaire who is his exact double. One evening, as the spy is being chased through the streets, he sees Wainwright drunkenly stumbling out of a bar. Stunned at the physical resemblance, Murphy unwittingly allows enemy agents to kill Wainwright, after which he assumes his
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I Spy (1965 TV series)


Episodes 1-25 of the first season of the television series are also available on Joost and all 82 episodes are available on Videosurf, from the DMGI Classics channel, and can be streamed on Hulu. "Get Smart", the spy-spoof television series, did a parody of the show in the 1968 episode titled "Die Spy". In this, agent Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) pretends to be an international table-tennis champion. The episode faithfully recreates the theme music, montage graphics, and back
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Michael Rennie


persona, culminating in a parallel plot also involving an assembly of world leaders); an episode of "I Spy" ("Lana"); and two episodes of "The F.B.I."; and was a "THRUSH" agent in an episode of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." (1967 TV series) ("The Thrush Roulette Affair"/Barnaby Partridge). Also "Branded". Rennie's later films included "Ride Beyond Vengeance" (1966), "Cyborg 2087" (1967), the all-star
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roles in the 1940s and 1950s, was the executive producer (receiving top billing before the title in the series' opening title sequence). He also played a gangster-villain role in two episodes and appeared in a third show as himself in a humorous cameo. In addition, he directed one episode and served as occasional second-unit director throughout the series. "I Spy" broke ground in that it was the first American television drama to feature a black actor (Cosby) in a lead role. Originally an
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Nina Franoszek


in Visioner directed by Elodie Keene. She is the first person narrator of Marlene Dietrich in , a documentary directed by Dietrich's grandson, J. David Riva. Franoszek played a spy in the action-adventure series Berlin Break, for Columbia/Sony Pictures and RTL Germany. In the Twentieth Century Fox TV series The Loop Franoszek guest starred in her first role in Icelandic-language. She plays the director of the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial in 12 Means I Love You (German title: 12 Heisst Ich Liebe Dich),
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", which also utilized worldwide settings but rarely filmed outside the Los Angeles region. Contrast the extensive use of location shooting with "I Spy's" contemporaries on NBC "" and "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", which were mostly filmed on the Desilu and MGM back lots, respectively. Location filming is expensive and requires significantly more planning than studio filming, but the resulting quality was key to "I Spy's" success. Each season the producers would select four or five scenic locations around the world and create stories
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. In Region 4, Umbrella Entertainment has released all 3 seasons on DVD in Australia. In September of 1982 the religious cable channel Christian Broadcasting Network began airing I Spy nationwide on weeknights at 8:00 PM, and continued to do so for the next 2+ years. In 1986, Nick at Nite added I Spy to it's evening lineup at 9:00 and continued to air the program until the Fall of 1987 (see the list of programs broadcast on the Wikipedia page for each of these two cable channels). In 2011
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being a civilian boxer who is essentially brought in to act as Scott's cover story while he carries out his mission). The film was initially a commercial and critical failure. In his 2009 "Movie Guide", film critic Leonard Maltin describes the film as an "In-name-only reincarnation of the smart 1960s TV show... An object lesson in bad screenwriting, with an incoherent story, and characters that make no sense." The original television series and the 1994 reunion movie are both available on DVD.
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It Takes a Thief (1968 TV series)


It Takes a Thief is an American action-adventure television series that aired on ABC for three seasons between 1968 and 1970. It stars Robert Wagner in his television debut as sophisticated thief Alexander Mundy, who works for the U.S. government in return for his release from prison. For most of the series, Malachi Throne played Noah Bain, Mundy's boss. It was among the last of the series in the 1960s spy television genre, although "" continued for several more years. "It Takes a Thief" was inspired
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Quiller (TV series)


Quiller is a British drama television series starring Michael Jayston. The series premièred with the episode "The Price of Violence" on 29 August 1975 on BBC One. Quiller is the alias of a fictional spy created by English novelist Elleston Trevor who featured in a series of Cold War thrillers written under the pseudonym "Adam Hall". The second episode's script - "Tango Briefing" - was written by "Adam Hall", adapted from his own novel of the same name. All the other episodes were written for the
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Homeland (TV series)


Homeland is an American spy thriller television series developed by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa based on the Israeli series "Prisoners of War" (Original title , literally "Abductees"), which was created by Gideon Raff. The series stars Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison, a Central Intelligence Agency officer with bipolar disorder, and Damian Lewis as Nicholas Brody, a U.S. Marine Corps Scout Sniper. Mathison had come to believe that Brody, who was held captive by al-Qaeda as a prisoner of war, was "turned"
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Heather Graham


series schedule, referring to her as "TV's sexiest star" which appeared in the January 27, 2006 issue. Graham is often cast in sexual roles including those of Felicity Shagwell ("Austin Powers: The Spy who Shagged Me"), porn stars Rollergirl ("Boogie Nights") and Sharonna ("The Guru"), prostitute Mary Kelly ("From Hell"), porn director Margaret ("About Cherry") and stripper Jade ("The Hangover" and "The Hangover, Part III
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establish a specific dramatic tone and level of quality for the other writers to follow. Nevertheless, Culp and Cosby were dissatisfied with the often frivolous and formulaic scripts they received and rewrote most of their dialog and improvised a great deal during filming. In "I Spy Returns" (1994), a nostalgic television movie (and unsold pilot episode for a new series), Culp and Cosby reprised their roles as Robinson and Scott for the first time since 1968. The original opening title sequence is reused with no changes other than
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A Line in the Sand (TV series)


A Line in the Sand is a two-part British television mini-series, adapted by Gerald Seymour from his novel of the same name, that first broadcast on ITV on 7 June 2004. The series, directed by James Hawes, stars Ross Kemp as Frank Parry, a former MI6 spy who tries to escape his past by hiding out in a remote village on the Suffolk coast. The series was originally scheduled for broadcast in September 2001, but was later shelved until June 2004, due to a major plotline which
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Alex Henteloff


Alex Henteloff (born May 23, 1942) is an American actor. Born in Los Angeles, California, Henteloff has appeared mostly on television in guest starring roles. He portrayed the attorney Arnold Drake Ripner in a recurring role on the television series "Barney Miller". His many TV appearances include "I Spy", "Mannix", "Baretta", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", "McCloud", "Ironside", "M*A*S*H", "Pistols 'n' Petticoats", "Soap
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Mata Hari (TV series)


Mata Hari is a 2017 Russian-Portuguese television series, produced by British-Russian-Ukrainian production company Star Media in association with Channel One (Russia) and Inter (Ukraine). The series is dedicated to the story of the legendary spy, fatal temptress and passionate dancer Margareta Zelle, better known under the pseudonym Mata Hari, who was engaged in espionage activities in favor of Germany during the First World War. Margaret MacLeod, persecuted by her ex-husband, is deprived of custody of her daughter and abandoned to
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Avery Brooks


television history to do so since Bill Cosby co-starred with Robert Culp in the NBC spy series "I Spy" from 1965 to 1968. Brooks also directed nine episodes of the series, including "Far Beyond the Stars", an episode focusing on racial injustice. Series producer Ronald D. Moore said of Brooks: In 1984, Brooks received critical praise for his featured role in PBS's American Playhouse production of "Half Slave, Half Free: Solomon Northup's Odyssey", directed by Gordon Parks. The story chronicled
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WMAQ (AM)


move to a Top-40 format. In 1964, WNBQ TV changed its call letters to match WMAQ radio as the stations emphasized the common NBC ownership. When Floyd Brown joined the staff in 1965, his photo wound up on the cover of the RCA Employee magazine next to one of Bill Cosby, who was starring in "I Spy" on NBC-TV; Floyd was the first African-American hired as a network announcer. A radio veteran, having been involved at the start of Gordon McLendon's WYNR, his smooth
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I Spy (1965 TV series)


I Spy is an American secret-agent television adventure series. It ran for three seasons on NBC from 1965 to 1968 and teamed US intelligence agents Kelly Robinson (Robert Culp) and Alexander "Scotty" Scott (Bill Cosby), traveling undercover as international "tennis bums". Robinson poses as an amateur with Scott as his trainer, playing against wealthy opponents in return for food and lodging. Their work involved chasing villains, spies, and beautiful women. The creative forces behind the show were writers David Friedkin and Morton
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-and-forth banter between Robinson and Scott—with actor/comedian Stu Gilliam imitating Cosby. Robert Culp makes an uncredited cameo appearance as an inebriated Turkish waiter. A number of original novels based upon the series were published, most written in the mid-to-late 1960s by Walter Wager under the pseudonym "John Tiger." The "I Spy" novels were published by Popular Library: The following tie-ins, not by Wager, were also published. Gold Key Comics also published six issues of an
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I Was a Spy


I Was a Spy is a 1933 British thriller film directed by Victor Saville and starring Madeleine Carroll, Herbert Marshall, and Conrad Veidt. Based on the 1932 memoir "I Was a Spy" by Marthe Cnockaert, the film is about a Belgian woman who nurses injured German soldiers during World War I while passing intelligence to the British. "I Was a Spy" was also the first film dubbed in Poland (while there were earlier examples of films dubbed in Polish, they were recorded in Paramount studio in Joinville, France
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (miniseries)


Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1979 seven-part drama spy miniseries made by BBC TV. John Irvin directed and Jonathan Powell produced this adaptation of John le Carré's novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (1974). The mini-series, which stars Alec Guinness, Alexander Knox, Ian Richardson, Michael Jayston, Anthony Bate, Ian Bannen, George Sewell and Michael Aldridge, was shown in the United Kingdom from 10 September to 22 October 1979 and in the United States beginning on 29 September 1980. In the
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Burke's Law (1963 TV series)


Burke's Law is an American detective series that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1966. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his 1962 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II. The original series was converted from a detective show to a spy drama, Amos Burke Secret Agent, in its third and final season. The series was revived in 1994–95 on CBS with Barry again playing Burke having returned to detective work. The show shares
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Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me


Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me is a 1999 American spy comedy film directed by Jay Roach, and the second installment in the "Austin Powers" film series. It stars franchise co-producer and writer Mike Myers as Austin Powers, Dr. Evil, and Fat Bastard. The film also stars Heather Graham, Michael York, Robert Wagner, Seth Green, and Elizabeth Hurley. The film's title is a play on the James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977). The film grossed
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Espers (comics)


the bulk of readers in the industry..." "When I was a kid there was a short-lived British TV series called The Champions about three people with psychic powers who worked for some mysterious agency in Geneva. They went around the world fighting various criminal masterminds and conspiracies. While I only had vague memories of the show, I remember liking the concept, so that's what I decided to do. Marry the spy genre with psychic super-heroes, only tone it down and make it more 'real.
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Hunted (2012 TV series)


on his homepage that the show's title had been changed again to "Hunted". Spotnitz spent a lot of time researching private spy agencies. He told Screen International: "It's not an area I was very aware of until I went looking for it. Most private contractors don't want to be noticed. Their websites are dry and boring and they don't want the wrong kind of attention. I talked to people who run these companies in the US, United Kingdom and Switzerland and then I researched the type
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Jeffrey Donovan


short-lived TV series "Threshold", Donovan played the antihero Dr. Sloan. Donovan also played the recurring role of William Ivers in "Crossing Jordan". In 2004, he had his first leading role in the American remake of the British television series "Touching Evil" with Vera Farmiga on the USA Network. From 2007 to 2013, Donovan starred in "Burn Notice", as Michael Westen, a spy who was burned, seemingly by the CIA or Homeland Security, for reasons unknown to him, and marooned
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Secret Agent Man (TV series)


Secret Agent Man is a spy-fi television series that aired on UPN in 2000. The series was created by writer Richard Regen. "Secret Agent Man" starred Costas Mandylor as Monk, a gallivanting secret agent, who was one of a team of agents that included Holliday, played by Dina Meyer and Davis, played by Dondre Whitfield. The team reported to Brubeck, played by Paul Guilfoyle. The frequent guest villain is the former agent Prima, played by Musetta Vander. All the lead characters share the last names
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Cascade Brown


the kids TV show My Spy Family as Donna. My Spy Family is a live action children's comedy series, which is aired on Boomerang in the UK and on the Cartoon Network in South Africa, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Iceland. Ms Brown's other popular TV show includes Parents of the Band which co-starred Bafta-nominated Jimmy Nail. Ms Brown's first job was on the popular BBC1 daytime soap Doctors, which she also did again later in her career. She then went on to roles in
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Gábor N. Forgács


Jurassic Park". Forgacs also worked as cinematographer in a Canadian and US production, the "I Spy", directed by Betty Thomas, starring Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson. At the year of 2000 he has started to produce films and TV series and creating international co-productions in his own firm, the Parabel Filmstudio. From 2003 he has been working actively in Hungary and taking part in creation of the concept of the new Hungarian Film Law. In 2004, he was representing Hungary at the Cannes Film Festival as
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Sheldon Leonard


Daddy") (1953–64), "The Andy Griffith Show" (1960–68), "Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C." (1964–69), "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (1961–66), and "I Spy" (1965–68). He also directed several TV series episodes, including four of the first eight episodes of the TV series "Lassie" (Season 1, 1954). Leonard also provided the voice of Linus the Lionhearted in a series of Post Crispy Critters cereal TV commercials in 1963-64, which
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List of unproduced television projects based on Marvel Comics


by Rod Hardy, the film stars David Hasselhoff as Fury, a retired super spy who is approached to return to duty to take down the terrorist organization HYDRA, who threaten to attack Manhattan with a pathogen they have reconstituted known as the Death's Head virus. Lisa Rinna plays Contessa Valentina "Val" Allegra de Fontaine, and Sandra Hess plays Andrea von Strucker / Viper. The film was met with a mixed to poor reception, resulting in the studio not picking up the series. A different Nick Fury TV series was
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Runaway (1984 American film)


, I think: 'Why is everything so complicated? I don't want to work so hard to understand it.' " The star was Tom Selleck who had a small role in Crichton's film "Coma" and since become a star on TV in "Magnum, P.I.". He later said, "With my TV series, I don't have the luxury of taking on a lot of projects. So when I got offered a movie and the timing's right, I say yes. I keep thinking
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Illya Kuryakin


Illya Nickovitch Kuryakin is a fictional character from the 1960s TV spy series "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." The series was remarkable for pairing an American, Napoleon Solo, and the Russian Kuryakin as two spies who work together for an international espionage organisation at the height of the Cold War. Kuryakin was played by Scottish actor David McCallum. Although originally conceived as a minor character, Kuryakin became an indispensable part of the show, achieving co-star status with the show's lead, Napoleon Solo. McCallum's blond good looks and
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Hunted (2012 TV series)


the UK and work with British television. Spotnitz had lived in Europe before and was interested in returning. He claims the idea was appealing but it simply never happened. The years passed and Spotnitz was talking to "The X-Files" star Gillian Anderson, who was visiting Los Angeles from London where she lives, and she asked, "Would you ever consider doing a show (in Britain)?". Spotnitz started talking to her about doing a spy series and then the first call he made was to Stephen
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Matt Helm


Helm project continued, with Steven Spielberg reportedly signed to produce a film and possibly direct, with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci also producing. The project never came to fruition. A television series loosely based upon Hamilton's character was launched by the ABC Network in 1975. Titled simply "Matt Helm," the series starred Anthony Franciosa as a retired spy from "The Machine" who becomes a private detective. After being launched by a pilot TV movie, it ran for only 13 episodes. It had no connection to the
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I Spy (1965 TV series)


episodes such as "Chrysanthemum," inspired by "The Pink Panther", and "Mainly on the Plains" with Boris Karloff as an eccentric scientist who thinks he's Don Quixote. However, most episodes dealt with more serious subjects (e.g., heroin addiction in "The Loser") and did not shy away from ending on a somber note. It was also one of the very few American dramatic television series of the 1960s ("The Twilight Zone" was another) to set an episode in the then-
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The Split (film)


career as an extra but became a sought-after stunt performer in the mid-60s after producer Sheldon Leonard chose him to double for Bill Cosby in the pioneering espionage drama "I Spy", the first American TV series to co-star a black actor. Brown was badly injured during the shooting of "The Split", suffering serious multiple leg fractures that required a two-year convalescence, and ultimately ended Brown's promising stunt career, although he went on to found the Black Stuntman's Association during his recuperation, and
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Heaven (Rebecca Ferguson album)


Telegraph" gave the album 5 out of 5 stars, saying "There is nothing about this record I don't like. After 12 years, reality TV has finally turned out someone who not only has the hallmarks of a real star, but is also an artist in her own right." Digital Spy also gave the album a 5/5 review: "Fortunately, it would seem the best has been saved for last. She may have been branded "the shy one" on last year's show, but there's
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Lydia Dean Pilcher


Liberté: A Call to Spy", a character driven thriller based on the true stories of women who worked spies during the French Resistance of WWII, starring Stana Katic (ABC TV's series, "Castle") and Radhika Apte ("Sacred Games" -Netflix) as Noor Inayat Khan. Before this in 2017, Pilcher co-directed the feature film, "Radium Girls,"starring Joey King and Abby Quinn with Executive Producer Lily Tomlin, which premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. Pilcher previously directed the HBO documentary "
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Pine Gap (TV series)


" a critical review, writing that the series was "less a spy drama than an attempt to cure insomnia." He also criticized the series for what he regarded as its poor story writing and unsatisfactory acting, giving it one out of five stars. Helen Razer of the "Daily Review" also gave the TV series a negative review, disparaging it as "a poor attempt at promoting favourable propaganda about Australia–United States relations". Razer also criticized what she regarded as the tokenistic use of Aboriginal characters. Pat
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Jean Marzollo


Home Sweet Home" br "How Kids Grow" br "I Am a Leaf" br "I Am a Rock" br "I Am a Star"br "I Am an Apple" br "I Am Fire" br "I Am Planet Earth"br "I Am Snow" br "I Am Water" br "I Love You: A Rebus Poem"br "I See a Star: A Christmas Rebus Story"br "I Spy a Balloon"br "I Spy a Butterfly" br "I Spy a Candy Cane"br "I Spy a
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I Spy (1965 TV series)


that took advantage of the local attractions. Episodes were filmed in Hong Kong, Athens, Rome, Florence, Madrid, Venice, Tokyo, Acapulco, San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Morocco. The success of the show is primarily attributed to the chemistry between Culp and Cosby. Fans tuned in more for their hip banter than for the espionage stories, making "I Spy" a leader in the buddy genre. The two actors quickly developed a close friendship that mirrored their on-screen characters, a friendship that would
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Ben Kaplan (Spooks)


Ben Kaplan DSO, portrayed by Alex Lanipekun was a starring character in the British spy series, Spooks. Ben Kaplan first appeared in Series 6, Episode 5 as a freelance journalist who was in a relationship with Jo Portman. He tried to expose what was going on with MI5's and Section D's activities in stopping terrorism. During the crisis in which three important diplomats (the Iranian Special Consul Dariush Bakshi, the British Foreign Secretary Ruth Chambers and the CIA's London liaison Bob Hogan, all guests on the TV panel
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Raza Jaffrey


Raza Jaffrey (born 28 May 1973) is an English actor and singer, who starred as Dr. Neal Hudson on the CBS TV medical drama "Code Black". He is best known for playing Zafar Younis on the BBC One spy drama series "Spooks". In 2014, he played Pakistani Lieutenant Colonel Aasar Khan in season 4 of the Showtime series "Homeland". Jaffrey was born in Liverpool, Merseyside, the son of an Indian sea captain from Agra and an English mother from Liverpool. He grew up in
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Spycatcher (TV series)


Spycatcher was a BBC television series, starring Bernard Archard, which ran from 1959 to 1961. It was based on the real-life activities of Dutch counterintelligence officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Oreste Pinto (once called "the greatest living authority on security"), who specialised in the interrogation of suspected spies during World War II and had later published his memoirs under the title "Spy Catcher". Each episode showed Pinto (Archard) questioning refugees to England from Nazi-dominated Europe, and eventually exposing them as enemy agents
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Darling Lili


Darling Lili is a 1970 American musical spy film written by William Peter Blatty and Blake Edwards, who also directed. It starred Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson, and Jeremy Kemp. It was the last full musical to have song lyrics written by Johnny Mercer. Set during World War I, the film centers on Lili Smith, a beloved English musical star, who is actually a German spy. The uncle who is her constant companion is really Colonel Kurt Von Ruger, a fellow spy and her contact with the German military.
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Cultural influence of Star Trek


had happened earlier in a British medical soap opera, "Emergency – Ward 10". Also, the spy series "I Spy", featured a scripted, unedited interracial kiss between Robert Culp (white) and France Nuyen (Vietnamese) in the episode "The Tiger"; a kiss that would not gain the controversy or attention as the "Star Trek" kiss. "Star Trek"s contributions to television history include giving women jobs of respect, most notably through the casting of Nichelle Nichols, a black actress, as
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Cosby


. A notable later episode was the fourth-season premiere, "My Spy", which showed Hilton watching an episode of "I Spy" (the 1960s series in which Cosby co-starred) and then dreaming an adventure with Robert Culp's character from that series. The same season also presented an episode entitled "Loving Madeline" which featured the standard opening credits for the series but was in fact a tribute to Kahn featuring the cast members out of character discussing the recently deceased actress, punctuated by clips from past
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Top Secret (TV series)


Top Secret is a British TV spy series broadcast in two seasons on ITV in 1961-1962 which was produced by Associated-Rediffusion. It starred William Franklyn as suave secret agent Peter Dallas, over a total of 26 black-and-white episodes, each filling a 60 minutes slot. All episodes also featured Patrick Cargill as wealthy businessman Miguel Garetta, and Alan Rothwell as Dallas's nephew Mike. The series was produced by Associated-Rediffusion Television. The directors were Adrian Brown and Raymond Menmuir, and the main writer
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I Spy (1965 TV series)


into his character. Scott does not drink or smoke—while Kelly Robinson does both. There are frequent references to Scott's childhood in Philadelphia and attending Temple University (Cosby is sometimes seen wearing his own Temple sweatshirt), and in the "Cops and Robbers" episode, Scotty returns home to Philadelphia to revisit his old neighborhood. "I Spy" was a fixture in the popular secret agent genre of the 1960s—a trend that began with the James Bond films. By 1965, virtually every studio was producing secret
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CBS Thursday Night Movie


The Doomsday Flight" (1966) starring Jack Lord; "The Borgia Stick" (1967), an industrial spy drama with Don Murray and Inger Stevens; and "" (1968), the original manifestation of Peter Falk's police detective/character, Lt. Columbo. NBC thus remained the acknowledged pioneer in TV-movies until 1969, when the ABC network produced and premiered its new weekly series of made-for-TV films, "The ABC Movie of the Week". Some of this series of
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Caroline Munro


1975) with Joan Collins, and "At the Earth's Core" (1976) with Peter Cushing and Doug McClure. She appeared also as Tammy, a nursing employee of a sinister health farm, in "The Angels of Death", an episode of the TV series "The New Avengers" that featured also rising stars Pamela Stephenson and Lindsay Duncan. In 1977, Munro turned down the opportunity to play villainess Ursa in "Superman" in favour of Naomi in "The Spy Who Loved Me." Munro continued
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Randy Stuart


" for Warner Bros. After 1957's "Incredible Shrinking Man", she was cast as Nancy Dawson in the 1958 western film, "Man from God's Country", starring George Montgomery. She also guest-starred about that time in Montgomery's short-lived television western television series, "Cimarron City". Stuart's TV career had a solid start with her co-starring role as Louise Baker, the wife of Cold War spy Alan Hale Jr., in the 26-episode filmed adventure series, "Biff Baker,
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Interactive children's book


Spy: Fun House (1993), I Spy: Mystery (1993), I Spy: Fantasy (1994), I Spy: School Days (1995), I Spy: Spooky Night (1996), and I Spy: Treasure Hunt (1999). A subsequent and more challenging series was begun in 1997 with I Spy: Super Challenger! (1997) and was continued with other installments such as I Spy: Gold Challenger! (1998), I Spy: Extreme Challenger! (2000),
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Dolores del Río


The Dinah Shore Chevy Show" (1960), the TV movie "The Man Who Bought Paradise" (1965), "I Spy" and "Branded" (1966). In 1968, del Río first performed on Mexican television in an autobiographical documentary narrated by her. Her last appearance on television was in a 1970 episode of "Marcus Welby, M.D.". In 1978, she appeared in "The Children of Sanchez", directed by Hall Bartlett and starring Anthony Quinn. She made a brief appearance playing
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I Spy (1965 TV series)


F Productions remains the copyright holder. Selected episodes of the series were made available on VHS in North America in the early 1990s. Image Entertainment released the complete series on DVD in Region 1 in 2002, initially in a series of single-disc volumes (each with four episodes), which were later compiled into three box sets. The episodes were not presented in any particular order. In addition, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released the 1994 reunion made-for-TV film on DVD in Region 1 on October 8,
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War & Peace (2016 TV series)


"Digital Spy" describing it as "the most spellbinding moment of television we'll see this year". Benji Wilson from "The Telegraph" described the third episode as a "dazzling mazurka of roiling passions and misplaced affection", giving 5 stars. The feature-length finale received 5 stars from "The Telegraph". The entire series of "War & Peace" was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 8 February 2016 by BBC DVD. Special features include making-of
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Matt Helm (TV series)


a secret government agency—nor the films—in which Helm was a womanizing, wisecracking secret agent. The series, having no connection to the movies, sees Matt Helm, a retired spy from an organization called "The Machine", opening a private detective business. Thus, most of the plot lines were standard detective stories of the day, such as one episode in which Helm investigates the disappearance of a race horse. Laraine Stephens co-starred as Claire Kronski, Helm's assistant. A pilot TV movie aired
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I-Spy (Michelin)


The I-SPY books are spotters' guides written for British children, and particularly successful in the 1950s and 1960s in their original form and again when relaunched by Michelin in 2009 after a seven-year gap in publishing. The I-SPY books are a series of around forty small volumes that have sold hundreds of thousands of copies each, totalling sales of 25 million worldwide by 2010. Each book in the "I-Spy" series covers a different subject, such as "I-SPY Cars", "
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Ania Bukstein


the Best Actress award in PÖFF Festival for her role in "A Quiet Heart" who also won the award for the Best Film. In 2017, Bukstein appeared in the American TV series "Genius", portraying the Russian spy Margarita Konenkova, with whom Albert Einstein had an affair after the death of his second wife. In 1998, she appeared in a children's play "Tzav Tzav HaMelech" ("King Turtle Turtle"). In 2002, she starred in Leah Goldberg written play "Baalat HaArmon" (
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Florence Henderson


. Henderson appeared with Gordon MacRae in the "Oklahoma!" segment of the 90-minute television special, "" (1954). She later appeared in "The Abbe and the Nymph", an episode of the 1950s TV series "I Spy" (not to be confused with the 1960s series of the same name). She also portrayed Meg March in a CBS-TV musical adaptation of "Little Women", which aired October 16, 1958. Henderson appeared in two episodes of "The United States Steel Hour
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The Samurai (TV series)


39 episodes, compared to the 128 episodes of the original series. In 1973, a colour TV series was also made for 26 new episodes in an abortive attempt of a remake and then a short-lived reboot. All of the TV series were sponsored by Takeda Pharmaceutical. The series portrayed the adventures of a roving samurai detective/spy, Akikusa Shintarō (秋草新太郎) (played by Koichi Ose), whose real identity is Matsudaira Nobuchiyo - the older half-brother of Tokugawa Ienari, the 11th Tokugawa shogun, who
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