I Spy

Name: I Spy
Genre: Drama

1965–1968NBCDrama

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Two agents under cover as a tennis player and his trainer, and the first American drama to cast a Black actor as a lead.

I Spy opens with a main title sequence of 56 seconds.

It arrived on NBC in 1965, when Truth or Consequences, Another World and Search for Tomorrow were also on the network.

The opening titles

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1960–ITVDrama

The longest-running television soap in the world, opening on rooftops and a cornet ever since 1960.

1965–NBCDrama

"Like sands through the hourglass" — the same sentence, over the same hourglass, for sixty years.

1964–1968NBCDrama

Sixties spy graphics and a brass chart, in the register every subsequent spy show either copied or reacted against.

1965–1969CBSDrama

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1962–1971NBCDrama

The first ninety-minute western on American television, and the third longest-running of them all.

1968–2012ABCDrama

Llanview, and the first American daytime serial written around class and ethnicity rather than around a hospital.