The WORST episodes of I Spy
Every episode of I Spy ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - Suitable for Framing
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/25/1968
Faux Senator is arranged to assassinate a President.
#2 - The Time of the Knife
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1965
An agent is killed, the microfilm is missing, his girlfriend is threatened.
#3 - The Tiger
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/5/1966
A definitive mission to Vietnam in order to rescue the daughter of a physician.
#4 - Always Say Goodbye
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/26/1966
A womanizing American hampers efforts to protect a Japanese economic conference from Communist sabotage.
#5 - Court of the Lion
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/2/1966
A Zulu (Oxon.) who trades diamonds for revenge, a gangster dominating a small village, and radioactive isotopes.
#6 - Turkish Delight
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/9/1966
Who is kidnapping the great agronomists in Mexico City?
#7 - Bet Me a Dollar
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/16/1966
They bet each other a dollar that one can evade the other for a week, but he's been contaminated with anthrax and must be found in 24 hours.
#8 - Return to Glory
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/23/1966
An exiled South American dictator has plans, or has he, really?
#9 - The Conquest of Maude Murdock
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/2/1966
A redoubtable Embassy figure in Mexico deals them a turn.
#10 - A Day Called 4 Jaguar
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/9/1966
Quetzalcoatl has appeared in the Mexican jungle, or is it an AWOL cosmonaut pursued by his old comrades?
#11 - Crusade to Limbo
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/23/1966
Infiltrate a revolutionary South American group, with Hollywood connections, that's the assignment.
#12 - My Mother, the Spy
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/30/1966
An agent abroad and pregnant with information must report to the boys back home after her affair with the adverse party.
#13 - There Was a Little Girl
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/6/1966
Bodyguard work for a VIP's daughter. She buys an objet d'art, and hell ensues.
#14 - It's All Done with Mirrors
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/13/1966
Sinister Soviet scientist Dr. Karolyi kidnaps Kelly and brainwashes him into believing Scott is a traitor who must be killed.
#15 - One Thousand Fine
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/27/1966
Greed, jealousy, and treachery await when Robinson and Scott are ordered to find a lost gold shipment in the Mexican jungle.
#16 - Little Boy Lost
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/14/1966
Lonely little tyke borrows a guidance system to attract his father's attention. The adverse party is interested.
#17 - Now You See Her, Now You Don't
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/23/1967
Betrayal and deduction on the trail of an absconded mathematician last seen on the isle of Mykonos.
#18 - Shana
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/4/1968
She has a bit of top secret propellant, the Communists have her brother.
#19 - The Name of the Game
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/11/1968
Why, says the ex-general, don't they let us fight? He will have game, let it be us, or Robinson & Scott.
#20 - Apollo
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1967
Undercover counterspying at NASA with an ex-wife as beard, who disappears.
#21 - The Barter
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/12/1966
Russian defector for American girl: good business or not?
#22 - Sparrowhawk
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1966
Las Vegas on vacation with a king as bodyguards, and an assassin's menace.
#23 - Lisa
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/7/1966
A Grecian mail order bride may be a Trojan horse.
#24 - Get Thee to a Nunnery
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/1/1967
Yanks vs. Brits after Nazi art treasures in a convent garden.
#25 - Philotimo
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/1967
The best you can say about a child prodigy who takes you for a ride is maybe he's defective, after all.