Review of The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair

David McCallum and Robert Vaughan return to their roles as Illya Kuryakin and Napoleon Solo respectively and while they are on the screen together the film shines. Keeping them apart for a lot of the film was a mistake. It was their interaction that made the original television series memorable. Unfortunately Solo was saddled with a younger U. N. C. L. E. Operative who was just annoying. The film also missed Leo G. Carroll as Mr Waverley and the referential James Bond scene was just completely out of place. The story is ordinary; archvillain holds the world to ransom kind of thing but there good scenes with Ilya and Napoleon and the finale is exciting. Anthony Zerbe as the main villain Justin Sepheran from THRUSH was the best of the rest of the cast.

Having seen the original series when first aired in the mid-Sixties I confess to having a frisson at the uttering of the words "Open Channel D"!