My Mother The Spy 2

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td> <div align="center"> <A HREF="http://dnads.directnic.com/oasisc.php?s=3&w=468&h=60"> <IMG SRC="http://dnads.directnic.com/oasisi.php?s=3&w=468&h=60" WIDTH=468 HEIGHT=60 BORDER=0></A> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=1 style="border-right: 1px solid #555555;" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" width="100%" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="782" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 270 WIDTH="403"><bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="17dc96190.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="25" ALT="New in 2008 on the I Spy website" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </FONT>Trace the complete plotss of  <A HREF="slphpictures.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Storyboard: So Long Patrick Henry">So Long Patrick Henry</A> and <A HREF="tatiapictures.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Storyboard: Tatia">Tatia</A> in images, dialogue and description!</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> The Illustrated Guide to I Spy</div> <div> My Mother The Spy 2</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="140b5e010.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="257" ALT="Bill Cosby & Robert Culp" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="902" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 2463 ><NOBR><bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="724" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 2012 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="_i_spy__episodes.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="I Spy Episodes"><IMG SRC="14ca644b0.jpg" border=0 width="100" height="75" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="personnel.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="I Spy Team"><IMG SRC="14cd644b0.jpg" border=0 width="100" height="75" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id94.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="I Spy Archive"><IMG SRC="14ce644b0.jpg" border=0 width="100" height="75" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Illustrated Guide to I Spy with Robe"><IMG SRC="14cf644b0.jpg" border=0 width="100" height="75" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="152" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 194 WIDTH="146"><div> Buy "My Mother The Spy" and all the other episodes from </div> <div> I Spy Season 1</div> <bR> <div>  <iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=ispyresourcce-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B0012EBV88&fc1=FFFFC7&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=F1BB15&bc1=000000&bg1=060606&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe>  </div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="559"><div> Comments from The I Spy Forum continued</div> <bR> <bR> <div> The music used in the car chase sequence at the end was used previosly in SO LONG PATRICK HENRY, and again during the 3rd season in APOLLO. A recording of it is included on the CD collection put together by our own Kelly and Scotty here. I can also still recall clearly the jazz tune used during the barroom brawl scene, although I think, in retrospect, it has the effect of making fist-fighting seem like just a lot of jazzy fun. </div> <bR> <div> Alejandro Rey, as I'm sure other here will be eager to remind Col. Benkvoski, landed a regular part the very next year in Sally Fields' sit-com THE FLYING NUN. He played, as I recall, a well-healed quasi-legal type, perhaps a gambler or casino owner or something, named Carlos, whom Fields was always trying to cajole into giving money to her convent and its charity work. Rey was a very attractive and appealing actor, and I found it hard not to warm to his screen presence. He died, as I recall, in the mid-80s, although I could be bit off on this.</div> <bR> <div> The car chase, as I recall , appeared to have been filmed in the same Malibu hills where so many Rockford Files chases were filmed.</div> <bR> <div> bbr</div> <div>  </div> <div> Author:  Tatia Loring</div> <div> Date:  January 16 2002 at 7:02 PM</div> <bR> <div> Well, I have always liked "My Mother, The Spy" (though it has some problems) and agree pretty much down the line with Col. Benkovski. (Sorry SAM, we don't see eye-to-eye on this one ... SAM's review is tucked into her posting "Location vs Character" on 1/13) ...</div> <bR> <div> As the Col. points out, the storyline dealt with some very interesting concepts - what if a female agent gets pregnant ... AND the father is an enemy agent - which ties into what the Col. described as "the sexual nature of the espionage profession as portrayed by Hollywood," plus it touches on a daring topic for the 60s "single" (or in that day - "unwed") mothers .... very ambitious and intriguing ideas to handle - and they handled it well. </div> <bR> <div> First, they enveloped the story in the wonderful joy and brightness of Mr. Hagen's lively, jazzy, up-beat Mexican-themed music which lent a lighter air to the story - and then they added some wonderful comic episodes that worked perfectly!!! - especially the scene mentioned by Billy Bob with the tourist - and the ones in the hospital, and especially in the bar - and yes, I've always wondered too, if Scotty accidentally threw beer on himself or that was planned - along with Kelly's cute remark "About the first one who laughs at my friend ..." I wonder how much of that was ad-libbed?</div> <bR> <div> The only scene that didn't come across well was the back lot neighborhood where Angela lived - the apartment and streets looked like cardboard ... the exterior outside Tiba's shop also looked like back lot, but worked much better.</div> <bR> <div> Getting back to female agents - we have mentioned in other discussions the almost total absence of "good guy" female agents during this period - except for Cinnamon on Mission: Impossible and the lovely Mrs. Peel of the Avengers (and later the Girl from UNCLE) ... that's about it!! They did sometimes show the "good" tough-old-bird variety of female agents like "Bessie" in "Lisa" and "Aunt Helen" in "Danny Was A Million Laughs" ... but female agents in general, when around, were always wily, seductive enemy agents of the Mata-Hari ilk, the likes of which lucky James Bond always seemed to run into - and who Kelly met along the way occasionally also. <IMG SRC="eb00e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Which brings us to Kelly Robinson and his attitude towards women ... we have concluded in previous discussions that Mr. Robinson was never going to win the "Gloria Steinem Distinguished Service Award" in this department ... but there is one scene in "My Mother" where he first confronts Angela in the Mexican dressing room and he treats her with the fullest respect he would have for any other fellow agent. When he asks her to explain herself, he appraises her coldy as she responds. "You're an agent, that's part of the job. You were trained for it." Though not approving of her actions, he treats her as an equal. Gold star for Mr. R.</div> <bR> <div> A few quick observations - in that scene I just mentioned - Sally Kellerman looked wonderful as a brunette, and on re-watching they did hide her pregnancy very well in the early scenes .... Kelly also looked and sounded "really" good in that scene (trust Tatia on this one!) .... there is one nice cinematic touch where you see the man Angela has just shot framed through the small hole in her purse made by the bullet, very nicely done .... and the nurse at the hospital was played by Sam Peckinpah's second wife Begoña Palacios ... I remember reading in the Peckinpah book "If They Move, Kill 'Em" that Bob helped Begoña get a part on "I SPY," but I hadn't known in which episode ... and there she was in the credits!!</div> <bR> <div> "My Mother, The Spy" A- (OK, so Tatia's a softie) <IMG SRC="eb00e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> As ever, Tatia </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id53.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Mother the Spy">1</A>  -  <A HREF="mother2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Mother The Spy 2">2</A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Illustrated Guide to I Spy with Robe">HOME</A>      <A HREF="_i_spy__episodes.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="I Spy Episodes">EPISODES</A>      <A HREF="history_of__i_spy_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="History of I Spy">history</A>      <A HREF="personnel.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="I Spy Team">I SPY TEAM</A></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="_i_spy__stars_culp_and_cosby.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="I Spy Stars Robert Culp Bill Cosby">STARS</A>      <A HREF="_i_spy__creator_sheldon_leonard.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="I Spy Creator Sheldon Leonard">PRODUCERS</A>      <A HREF="id376.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Earle Hagen on I Spy Music">MUSIC</A>      <A HREF="_i_spy__directors.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="I Spy Directors">DIRECTORS</A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="_i_spy__writers.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="I Spy Writers">WRITERS</A>      <A HREF="id94.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="I Spy Archive">FEATURES</A></div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> I Spy Episodes</div> <bR> <div> A - 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