The BEST episodes of I Spy
Every episode of I Spy ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of I Spy!
A pair of American operatives work undercover as a tennis pro and his trainer. Kelly Robinson is the man with a racket, Alexander Scott is, among other things, a polyglot. The creation of the Cinemobile for location shooting enabled far-flung episodes in Hong Kong, Europe, Mexico, etc. The writing is of a standard that would be very difficult to match in any circumstances, or as Scott & Robinson might say, the wonderfulness of its marvelousness is only equal to the marvelousness of its wonderfulness.
#1 - Three Hours on a Sunday Night
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/8/1965
Missing microfilm must be paid for or Scott will be killed, but where to get the shekels?
#2 - No Exchange on Damaged Merchandise
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1965
A prisoner exchange requires a search for a double agent.
#3 - Tatia
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1965
Vietnam has not seen three agents assigned there, and Scott suspects Robinson's girlfriend.
#4 - Sophia
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1966
Scott's foster daughter in Rome is about to be married, and he's in a great deal of trouble.
#5 - A Gift from Alexander
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1966
A literary masterpiece is out of the Soviet Union, will our boys kindly retrieve it?
#6 - One of Our Bombs Is Missing
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1966
A very delicate dilemma, an atom bomb lost in a plane crash near an Italian village.
#7 - To Florence, with Love (1)
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/1966
Squiring a Leonardo to Florence.
#8 - To Florence, with Love (2)
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1966
Now, to replace the faux Leonardo in the museum with the real one in our hands.
#9 - Tonia
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/4/1967
A most prickly diversion. Scott has fallen in love with a radical expatriate, Robinson disapproves, Scott resigns. Her cell leader welcomes discord; she is murdered, Robinson is blamed.
#10 - Carry Me Back to Old Tsing-Tao
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1965
A businessman in Hong Kong owes the IRS; Robinson & Scott carry the loot.
#11 - A Cup of Kindness
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1965
One of their own has joined the adverse party, so Scott & Robinson are sent to Hong Kong after him.
#12 - Dragon's Teeth
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1965
A murder happens in front of them, and Robinson & Scott must investigate a mysterious organization.
#13 - The Lotus Eater
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/11/1967
Robinson takes a powder and calls it quits in the Greek archipelago.
#14 - Chrysanthemum
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1965
A French spy hampers the search for missing files.
#15 - So Coldly Sweet
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1966
Kelly and Scotty are assigned to beautiful Palm Springs to vet a beautiful defector with some truly interesting secrets. A wonderful setting for a budding romance with Kelly if only the bad guys would stop shooting at her.
#16 - The Honorable Assassins
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/16/1967
To Marrakesh with an old man's cash and his daughter and some bandits after the old man.
#17 - An American Empress
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/25/1967
San Francisco, the Empress of China, fireworks, the Reds.
#18 - Pinwheel
Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/15/1968
What is this ring of spies set up in Africa? Melanie knows, or thinks she knows, or anyway means to find out, why not?
#19 - Happy Birthday Everybody
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/26/1968
Protecting the retired agent and family against the deranged and vengeful gotten loose on the streets.
#20 - Oedipus at Colonus
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1967
A holy leader of men dies apparently on the eve of religious fighting in Morocco.
#21 - Home to Judgment
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/8/1968
Pursued all the way down on the farm, Robinson & Scott fend off attackers.
#22 - Night Train to Madrid
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/22/1967
USO tour interrupted by adverse machinations toward angry comedian.
#23 - So Long, Patrick Henry
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1965
A defector in old Hong Kong claims the attention of Robinson & Scott.
#24 - Let's Kill Karlovassi
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/1967
Assassinating a double agent on the beach in the Aegean just doesn't sound like fun.
#25 - This Guy Smith
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/5/1968
Vacationing at a mountain retreat, they strike at an adverse communications officer, who strikes back with a frame.