Goodbye, Robert Culp.

Sad news to hear that Robert Culp has died at age 79, after giving us his sardonic best (in PT 109, when he [as Ensign Barney Ross] and Cliff Robertson [as JFK] confront gun-wielding natives: "Speak to them in Latin, Jack."). Go here to listen to the I Spy theme by Earle Hagen; go here to see Culp as FBI agent Bill Maxwell in The Greatest American Hero; go here to see a 2007 interview with Culp.

About the image: Robert Culp as Kelly Robinson in the opening to I Spy.

Earle Hagen, RIP.

Emmy-winning composer Earle Hagen, whose themes for TV shows include I Spy and The Mod Squad, has died at age 88. His "Harlem Nocturne" was also used as the theme for Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.

Here are some comments by Hagen on his music for I Spy and an Archive of American Television interview with Hagen in 1997.