mastermindjcg
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It usually sucks when someone you grew up watching on TV dies and you least expect it. It's just been brought to by radar that actor/writer/director Robert Culp just died. You either know him, depending on which generation you belong to, as Bill Cosby's partner on the 60's spy series I Spy(which, incidentally, he did, sort of, conceive the idea for the show until Sheldon Leonard came along and improved the idea)or you know him as FBI agent Bill Maxwell from The Greatest American Hero(now, you're gonna have that theme song stuck in your head for hours).
He's right up there, status-wise, with cats like William Shatner, Robert Urich, Bill Bixby, as someone who was Mister Television, but the thing that sets him apart from a lot of TV stars/icons/whatever is that this guy did it all. He wrote a lot of TV episodes, directed some of them, and was a lot of fun to watch, especially when he was in perpetual John Wayne-mode on "Hero". I, personally, dig the old episodes of "Spy" because it's lightning in a bottle with him and a young, pre-Jell-o, Cosby travel the world, shoot bad guys, and joke around with one another. Culp was a class act(RIP).
-so sayeth the mastermind-
He's right up there, status-wise, with cats like William Shatner, Robert Urich, Bill Bixby, as someone who was Mister Television, but the thing that sets him apart from a lot of TV stars/icons/whatever is that this guy did it all. He wrote a lot of TV episodes, directed some of them, and was a lot of fun to watch, especially when he was in perpetual John Wayne-mode on "Hero". I, personally, dig the old episodes of "Spy" because it's lightning in a bottle with him and a young, pre-Jell-o, Cosby travel the world, shoot bad guys, and joke around with one another. Culp was a class act(RIP).
-so sayeth the mastermind-
