JAMES BOND: 1960s Inspired TV Shows 

I was a kid during the run of all these shows. It was a fun time. I've always said that the 1960s was the golden era of television. We had just 3 networks, but they offered everything. We had cops, the old west, spies, space travelers, monsters, variety shows, comedy shows, music shows, fantasy, wars, comedies, family shows, family comedies, funny cops, funny spies, funny monsters, witches, genies... all on just 3 channels.

Johnny Quest brilliant I still remember it, me and my school mates used to discuss it at school.

Wild Wild West and Takes A Thief were my two favorites in Bondmania days.

11 of These Shows I'm Gonna Get on DVDs. Thanks For the Post.

I loved Diana Rigg in The Avengers. She was one of the first female characters who could fight and defeat a man. She had a brilliant mind as well. She was James Bond without the promiscuity.

Great video! I loved so many of those shows. Hard to pick a favorite ❤

Amazing and awsome is the legacy and influence of mr bond, jamesbond!!!!!!

Ah, the cold war. Quest and The Prisoner were my favorites. Cold war Bonds were the best.

I found 'The Champions' quite appealing and enjoyed the others, too .. .

Loved these shows. Especially the Avengers

Thanks for remembering The Champions! It wasn't as flashy as some of the others on the list, but it was my favorite.

My top 5 favorites shows, with no particular order, were: The Saint, The Avengers, The Wild Wild West, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Mission Impossible

The Prisoner was my introduction to 60's spy media and hands down the best show I've ever seen.

There was also a memorable episode of The Beverly Hillbillies where Jed's dimwitted nephew, Jethro, decided he wants to be a "double nought spy". He develops his own gadgets based on Oddjob's hat and a blade that pops out of his boot like in From Russia With Love. He also adds gadgets to the family truck. In another episode, Mr. Drysdale's father shows up to the bank with two beautiful women. Wanting to talk to his father alone, he excuses the women by saying he want to discuss the new bond picture with his father, referring to financial bonds. One of the girls says "Oh, is there new one out? Goldfinger is my favorite".

So many great shows on tv in the 1960's! Why didn't we have an affordable way to record them back then? Aaargh! I had to do homework on weeknights instead, and wait for Summer reruns.

Even though I was only around from 1981 onwards, I Loved this era's genre of Spy TV. I've watched almost every show mentioned and 9 of those - in their entirety thanks to DVDs.

A couple of honourable mentions ... detective shows that became spy shows thanks to the James Bond inspired spy craze. "77 Sunset Strip" was popular a show featuring detectives Jeff Spencer and Stu Bailey, assisted by "Kookie" the most popular character on the show. For its final season, Jeff Spencer and Kookie were dumped, and Stu Bailey now worked for the Government as a secret agent. "Burke's Law" featured Gene Barry as a wealthy detective who was chauffer driven in a Rolls Royce while he solved crimes. In its final season, the show became "Amos Burke - Secret Agent." Neither show survived the change in format.

I am a huge Saint fan. Nobody did it better than Sir Roger, The Definitive Saint!

I loved Mission Impossible. Spock from Star Trek as a man of many faces and disguises. The Great Paris. Leonard was far my favorite character and I was sad when he quit the series.

I remember Mission Impossible really well. The opening with the lit match. And never coming close to figuring out what was going on.

I remember ALL of them except for The Baron.

The funniest episode of Beverly Hillbillies was where Jethro had just seen Goldfinger so he tells Uncle Jed he's going to be a Double Naught Spy it was hilarious you can find it on here Jethro puts an ejector seat in the truck and Granny sits in it and she's ejected up into a tree.

all great shows from a very special decade if you were a kid like me. First among equals IMO was Mission: Impossible. I still watch it on Paramount+. And I had a crush on Diana Rigg for many years.

I don't recall ever seeing Danger Man, The Baron or The Champions in my market area. However I do recall seeing other Brit shows in the Saturday 6PM time slot on UHF TV. UFO, The Prisoner and Space 1999.

Very cool.

The Avengers reappear in the 70s as The New Avengers and i like that one more because of Joanna Lumley...and now a list of the 70's and 80's spy-TV-Shows

10:47 Interesting "hybrid" cast shot of _Mission: Impossible_ showing cast members from separate eras during the first four (to five) seasons: Dan Briggs, leader in season 1; Rollin Hand and Cinnamon Carter, seasons 1-3; Barney Collier and Willy Armitage, the only cast members of the entire series run; Jim Phelps, leader from season 2 onward; and Paris, from seasons 4 and 5. The next shot shows two more of the cast of season 5: Dana Lambert, and Dr. Doug Roberts (who also appeared in one season 6 episode).

The Wild Wild West was a sort of Bond tv show set in the old west.

I wasn't born until 1968, so I didn't watch any of these shows when they first aired, but I have at least heard of most of them. The only ones I hadn't heard of before were The Baron and the Champions. I watched Mission Impossible and Get Smart in syndication. My first exposure to The Wild Wild West was the reunion movie in 1979 or 1980. My Dad was a huge fan of that show. I wish it were easier to watch older shows today. Unless older shows were extremely popular, there hasn't been enough potential profit to justify tracking down all the rights holders (producers, actors, and musicians) and negotiating streaming rights. If there wasn't enough interest to warrant that or a DVD release, it can be very hard to watch those shows today. My platform of last resort is usually RU-vid. If a show aired (originally or in syndication) after 1975, there was probably someone who recorded that show on a VCR. A great deal of those recordings have been uploaded to RU-vid. While the uploader may have lacked the legal right to upload it, studios often don't bother to have them taken down, or perhaps they just claim the revenue from those videos.

I Spy and Mission Impossible are my favorites.

On a silly note, but keeping within the animated genre of spy -based show, there was Hanna-Barbera produced "Secret Squirrel. "

Im 66. I never heard of danger man 😮

Crazy enough, THE MAN FROM UNCLE debuted on US TV 5 days after GOLDFINGER hit theatres in England... but the movie did not debut in the US until December 21, by which time, UNCLE had already been on half a season! According to the audio commentaries I've heard, an unknown Hollywood exec came up with the idea, "James Bond in the old west"-- but didn't know what to do with it. Michael Garrison, who'd been an agent, took it, ran with it, put together a proposal, sold it, got the pilot made, and successfully sold the series to CBS! But then CBS has a major re-shuffling of execs, and Garrison was fired. So they had a new show on the schedule but nobody to produce it. After 3 episodes by 1 producer, it clearly wasn't working, and they knew it would die a quick death, so recruited Fred Freberger without any scripts in the can. He wrote a "series bible" and effectively SAVED the show. Meanwhile, Garrison won a lawsuit and was reinstated. When asked who HE wanted to produce HIS show, he said, "Freberger's doing a good job, let's keep him." Garrison became executive producer. Crazy enough, the show went thru 6 different producers in its 1st season. Garrison eventually became producer in its 2nd season, but by the end of it, was killed in an accident in his home. THE WILD WILD WEST was in the TOP 10 all 4 seasons-- still highly-rated when CBS bowed to censor pressure and cancelled it due to complaints about "violence on TV". Considering it's so difficult to create a show, sell it, and build ratings, it's CRIMINAL how many popular, successful shows have been taken off for ridiculous reasons. GET SMART, crazy enough, was and remains my #1 favorite 60s spy show. I came in about 5 weeks into it, was INSTANTLY hooked, and watched all the way to the end. When they did the 2nd reunion movie, GET SMART AGAIN, which had Max & 99 married for 20 years with their 2 kids in college, I saw it as a contrast to all the hopeless cyncism of 80s sitcoms, where nobody's personal life ever gets anywhere. In the 60s, Max & 99 getting involved, then married, then having 2 kids, may have been done to boost ratings, but, in retrospect, it's one of the most optimistic "big stories" ever done on TV, especially when you count that sequel movie. (The earlier sequel "never happened", as far as I'm concerned.)

They should have done an episode of Gomer Pyle where he gets mixed up in a spy plot they did this on Here's Lucy a couple times where she accidentally gets involved in espionage.

Aren't you forgetting one show and star? Get Smart! and Don Adams as Agent-86!