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I Spy was a main fixture in the wildly popular secret agent genre of the 1960s — a trend that followed hot on the heels of the hugely successful James Bond films.
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""), with an anti-war, anti-violence (" Rambozo The Clown ") bent, moving away from the violent imagery of their early records, while remaining as subversive as ever (" I Spy ", " D. M. S. O .").
In 1968, he appeared in an episode of " I Spy ", in the role of " Hunter ", in the episode " Happy Birthday ... Everybody ".
* The 2005 film A Different Loyalty is an unattributed account taken from Eleanor Philby's book, Kim Philby: The Spy I Loved.
Film and television media were accused of bias in favor of mixing of the races, and many television programs with racially mixed casts, such as I Spy and Star Trek, were not aired on Southern stations.
The narrative tone of television espionage ranged from the drama of Danger Man ( 1960 – 68 ) to the sardonicism of The Man from U. N. C. L. E ( 1964 – 68 ) and the flippancy of I Spy ( 1965 – 68 ) until the exaggeration, akin to that of William Le Queux and E. Phillips Oppenheim before the First World War ( 1914 – 18 ), degenerated to the parody of Get Smart ( 1965 – 70 ).
A military museum may be dedicated to a particular or area, such as the Imperial War Museum Duxford for military aircraft, Deutsches Panzermuseum for tanks or the International Spy Museum for espionage, The National World War I Museum for World War I or more generalist, such as the Canadian War Museum or the Musée de l ' Armée.
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.
( A similar debate caused Cheapass Games to repackage their game Before I Kill You, Mr. Bond as James Ernest's Totally Renamed Spy Game.
" in 1965 ; on I Spy, in the episode " Little Boy Lost ", in 1966 ; and as an underage Marine on M * A * S * H, in the episode " Sometimes You Hear the Bullet ", in 1973.
" In 1967, he played an eccentric Spanish professor who believes himself to be Don Quixote in a whimsical episode of I Spy titled " Mainly on the Plains.
Starting in 1962, she began to be credited as Andrea Darvi, which she used as a stage name until 1966, when she gave her last acting performances: an installment of I Spy and an unbilled role in Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain.
Memorable moments of this series include Alan dry-vomiting his way through a speech about fireplaces after impaling his foot on a spiked fence ; mistakenly getting involved with swingers ; attacking a six-foot stuffed Beefeater bear ; his summing up the entire opening of The Spy Who Loved Me in less than a minute during a failed attempt at a 24-hour Bondathon ; Lynn's baptism at her Baptist church and, of course, the sad pulping of his autobiography which, despite taking up four weeks of his life to write, simply wasn't selling well ( partly because every anecdote ended with the phrase " Needless to say, I had the last laugh ".
A veteran stand-up performer, he got his start at various clubs, then landed a starring role in the 1960s action show, I Spy.
Meanwhile, on ABC, The Big Valley premieres ( 1965 – 1969 ), and NBC launches I Spy ( 1965 – 1968 ).
During the 1960s, he continued his television career, with guest appearances on such series as The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Route 66 ( a moving portrayal of a doomed pilot in the two-part episode " Fly Away Home "); Alfred Hitchcock Presents ; Perry Mason ( one of four actors in four consecutive episodes substituting for series star Raymond Burr, who was recovering from surgery ); Wagon Train ( a 90-minute colour episode as an English big game hunter who, in a display of amazing marksmanship, is able to kill an Indian chief from a great distance ); The Great Adventure ( in an installment of this anthology series about remarkable events in American history, he portrayed Confederate president Jefferson Davis ); Daniel Boone, ( in episodes " The Sound of Wings " and " First in War, First in Peace "); Lost in Space ( another two-part episode — as an all-powerful alien zookeeper, " The Keeper ", he worked one last time with his Third Man costar Jonathan Harris ); The Time Tunnel ( as Captain Smith of The Titanic, in the series ' 9 September 1966 premiere episode ); Batman ( as the villainous Sandman, in league with Julie Newmar's Catwoman ); three episodes of The Invaders ( as a malign variation of the Klaatu 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.
Robert Culp said that the comic strip Terry and the Pirates was his inspiration for the " tone " and " spirit " and " noir heightened realism " of the 1965 NBC TV series, I Spy, when he was writing the pilot.
Also in 1966, he played the role of Bernie in the I Spy episode " Trial by Treehouse " ( airing October 19, 1966 ), alongside series stars Bill Cosby and Robert Culp with guest stars Cicely Tyson and Raymond St. Jacques.
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In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.
Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.
In the mornings, I was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one above the counter, illuminated the entire hall.
Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
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