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Stefan, did you receive your "I Spy" book yet? How is it?
Zelig, I didn't receiv it yet.
Amazon informed me that there was a delay and it is scheduled for February 2007.
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I'm sorry to hear that...of course, "the People" will expect a full review and appraisal after you receive and read it.
Back to "M:I": Have any screen captures of season three's "The Mercenaries"
And what do you want?
PS: You can count on me that I will read and read again the "I Spy Companion" to track it down and compare it with other companions, etc... I am impatient to verify the credits for each episode, especially the music credits.
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One more thing, I am amused by the use of imaginary pseudo exotic words fashioned by Bruce Geller.
Example:
"Soravno Priziion Militik", meaning Military Prison of Soravno.
Velcome to the Demökratik Repùblik!
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#26: A CUBE OF SUGAR
Summary:
Undercover operative Vincent Deane is a former jazz musician and a full-time drug addict that is arrested and accused of homicide by the Eastern Europe police. Actually, the authorities are looking for a microchip and its related code that he has hidden. Rollin and Cinnamon pose as beatnik junkies to sneak into the psychiatric quarter of the police precinct to get the device back and let Barney and Willy free Deane.
Cast and details:
Counterintelligence head Senko Brobin and officer Polya are played by Francis Lederer and Kurt Kreuger. Dan keeps his real identity to visit Deane (we see his ID of spy) and later poses as a local electrician worker. Willy and Barney pose as local electric workers from a company in order to operate in the sewer. Rollin poses as a dope fiend who works as a beatnik artist in "The Happening", the local nightclub while psychedelic go-go dancers perform on red tables (see Cinnamon in "The Carriers"); Rollin uses a multitask Swiss knife to escape from his padded cell; Rollin disguises as Brobin. Cinnamon poses as Deane’s wife and uses a magnetic ring to detect the chip from cubes of drug-laced sugar. During the apartment scene, Dan mentions the fact that Dr. Ira Green treats Rollin and Cinnamon to be immuned to the effects of drugs.
Review:
A terrific episode and a drug pamphlet that is among the best season 1. Listen carefully to trumpeter DON ELLIS' abstract free jazz score a la "French Connection".
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When will be able to avail ourselves to season two of this fine, new item?
Sans Mr. Briggs, Alas...
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I am sure we will have season 2 two weeks after England:
March 26, 2007.
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When will be able to avail ourselves to season two of this fine, new item?
Sans Mr. Briggs, Alas...
Comrad Steven, would you mind answering the e-mails I sent you. Please reply at the Stefan Castle.
Thanks for your cooperation.
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How about something with Pernell Roberts or the gold heist? IMO, "The Mercenaries" is one of Mission's finest moments...ever.
I hope there IS extensive mention of I Spy's music, with it having so many original scores and all. I'm mourning the lost opportunity that FSM had with just that on (albeit fine) score release. Great music.
I concur THE MERCENARIES is among the best ten episodes of season 3: I like the umbrella heater that melt gold bars like lemon ice cream.
I will check out thoroughly the music chapter of the "I Spy" companion, do not worry.
Instead of releasing "CHips", FSM should have continued the "I Spy" volumes as the U.N.C.L.E. That's my strong opinion.
"You little worm! I'm not some clerk. You're dealing with Imry Rogosh."
---Imry Rogosh from "Operation Rogosh".
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"Now we'll exchange Gorman for the girl my way.
You'll wait to hear from me.
And one more little thing, Egan.
If anything happens to that girl,
anything,
I'll finish you.
Wherever you are,
whatever you're doing,
I'll find you
and I'll kill you.
And you know I can do it."
--Dan Briggs talking to Gangster Frank Egan from "The Ransom".
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How about something with Pernell Roberts or the gold heist? IMO, "The Mercenaries" is one of Mission's finest moments...ever.
I hope there IS extensive mention of I Spy's music, with it having so many original scores and all. I'm mourning the lost opportunity that FSM had with just that on (albeit fine) score release. Great music.
Zelig,
Read this, this is a message from the author of the book:
"There is quite a bit in the book about the excellent music in I Spy - and many quotes from Earle Hagen - and many quotes from others, including Robert Culp, about the importance of Hagen's music."
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#10: THE CARRIERS
Summary:
The IMF replaces four Soviet operatives at 47 Opperstrate to infiltrate a East bloc training camp (Zona Restrik - Entre Ferbaten) camouflaged as a traditional American town named Willow Grove (Illinois) where agents have new identities, new jobs and learn to behave as typical Americans and will be infected with a green culture. The IMF must destroy this dangerous germ in the sub level of a phony movie theatre to thwart the warfare plan against the USA.
Cast and details:
American culture expert/Soviet camp head Major Janos Passik posing as John Peterson and his monitor Tiso Kastner played by Arthur Hill and Barry Russo. Arthur Hill will play in a famous germ sci-fi film: "The Andromeda Strain" (1970); Passik is a classic Mission nasty who practices the Russian roulette on the four IMFers, and as they ride off, the most unsanitary medical procedure you'll ever see on TV: see the DIY intravenous injection via a perfume spray and a fingernail file. Featuring guest IMFer bacteriologist Roger Lee (George Takei) who replaces Ho Min Tsung posing as George Fong working at the Los Angeles library. Dan poses as a MD and Soviet NVD Colonel Yakov; Dan forges four passports with steam and stings to death a guard with a pen. Willy poses as a postman and a NVD policeman. Rollin replaces Tigran Portisch posing as Charles Cooper working at American Field in Chicago. Barney replaces Raoul Overa posing as Edward Gordon doing fry cook-work at a hamburger stand at Coney Island. Cinnamon replaces Marya Glinska posing as Gloria Cabot working as a dancer at Tiger-A-Go-Go in Philadelphia; she uses a modelling clay to take the key print of a lab while kissing Janos Passik. Inside the sub level of the movie theatre, we can see a recycled prop (the geometric frame) from "Star Trek".
Review:
Among the series' finest because of the subversion's theme: a companion piece to "Operation Rogosh". The training camp framework comes from one episode of the 1964 series DANGER MAN entitled "Colony Three" that depicts a phony English town called Hamden. In 1967, the science-fiction series THE INVADERS' will also use that concept in "The Ivy Curtain" with a replica of an American school named the Midlands Academy which recycle the exact nighclub reference from "The Carriers"(also guest starring Barry Russo). Despite the credits of Lalo Schifrin, the episode is filed with stock music ("Pilot", "Memory", "Operation Rogosh")
Password of the four Soviet agents:
Tigran Portisch: "Is this the house of Tiso Kastner?"
Cinnamon: "Who sent you?"
Tigran Portisch: "Lamb."
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Barney: "I'm sorry we had to let a man like Imry Rogosh live."
Briggs: (Pause) "We didn't."
I'd like to know where is the L.A. location of the Stefan Castle?
I guess in Beverly Hills?
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"Why bother, man? This country is one big prison! Whoever you are, try and shut me up! They couldn't! I protest this entire country! It's better there, man. Better yet in the USA."
--Student agitator John Makavaoo (Barney Collier) from "Operation Rogosh"
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"To beauty, my dear. It is the one temptation I can never resist."
-- Prince Iben Kostas (Nehemiah Persoff) from "Odds on Evil".
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#14: THE SHORT TAIL SPY
Summary:
Inside the KGB, two sides compete for the power leadership and their ordeal is the assassination of a scientist defector named Professor Napolsky. Dan Briggs sends Cinnamon to seduce the head of the new breed: Andrei Fetyukov.
Cast and details:
Old Colonel Gregori Shtemenko posing as Texan Mr. Kincaid with a cowboy hat, young Andrei Fetyukov and their superior Suverin, defector Professor Napolsky are played by Albert Dekker, Hans Gudegast, Joe Sirola and Edward Colmans--Hans Gudegast's rendition of an Est bloc elitist killer/lover is perfect--his record consists of 30 dead women. As in "Operation Rogosh", Barney listens to the foe's talks (Fetyukov) but here, via a tricked pack of cigarettes. Dan poses as Henry "Hank" Clarke and as hired-killer Mr. Jones willing to shoot Napolsky for $50,000 given by Shtemenko; he uses flashlights to discredit Soviet agents (Shtemenko, Fetyukov): the freeze frames combined with the beacon music adds an unusual layer.
Review:
Among my favourite season 1 because this is the first Cinnamon episode and it shows how ambiguous her character can be--she's skilfully unloaded Fetyukov's Luger. Notice the love theme music of Cinnamon during the official party performed by two violinists.
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