That was a trip and a half Tatia. Wonderfully nostalgic. I'm sort of embarrassed to admit that I watched, or at least remember all those shows even though I was in grade school at the time. All except Mona McClusky. That must be a very obscure series. I can't find out if it made it through a complete season. IMDB which has detailed cast and episode information for such notable 1965-1966 NBC flops as My Mother the Car, Mister Roberts and The Wackiest Ship in the Army, only lists information for 2 episodes, and the title of one of those is unknown. It starred Juliet Prowse as the title character, a movie star married to an army sergeant who insists that they live on the base on his pay. The husband/sergeant is played by our old friend Denny Miller. I guess if this show had been a success (in some parallel universe), a different big lunkhead would have played Wally in "Anyplace I Hang Myself Is Home".
The fifteen or twenty seconds devoted to promoting I Spy are interesting. They certainly provided zero insight into what the show was actually like. Bill Cosby is only shown in that silly headdress from the end of "Affair in T'Sien Cha" (unless I missed something), giving the impression he is only there for comic relief. It seems clear that they didn't want to freak anyone out.
Jimmy
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