Well, I think I can safely say that everyone who could be pleased WILL be pleased, as the book discusses in-depth all sorts of things I never knew before (how the choice of editor affected the show, particularly the final episodes in season three) and there are several choice Culp and Cosby quotes throughout the book (I believe Culp was interviewed directly for the book)...I'm not trying to be coy, but I figure you guys don't want everything spelled out for you -- let the book reveal itself to you!
If anyone here was sitting on the fence (which I doubt, but...), I do think the book can be safely recommended to any I SPY or classic television fan. McFarland books CAN sometimes be a little pricey and overreliant on dry episode guides, but if you had that fear, don't; there is a lot of "meat" to the book, including some very nice stills, advertisements, frame grabs, etc.
Thanks for sending on my praise to Mr. Culp -- although as an English professor/writer I am embarrassed to see how I wrote that at the convention "I met and got Mr. Culp's autograph" -- makes it sound like I met the autograph! Oh, well, regardless, the book itself only begins with the foreward, and I eagerly await ignorning American Idol tonight and reading it cover-to-cover!
One off-topic tidbit I can offer to anyone interested; Culp's 70s film INSIDE OUT (which the authors correctly consider his most Kelly-Robinson-like feature role), where he co-stars with Telly Savalas, is now available in a German import widescreen-anamorphic DVD. If you don't have a multi-system player or TV, you can't watch it in America, but if you do, it was released by Warner Germany. I just ordered a copy myself, I don't know if you're allowed to put website links on this page, so I'll hold off, but I'll give the website where I ordered it if I get the O.K. It's a legitimate and trustworthy dealer and I've ordered from them multiple times, so....