This weekly low budget James Bond knock-off was fun to watch at first but soon IMHO just got silly. Every week just before mid-show station ID break Napoleon Solo (or sometimes his sidekick Ilya Kuryatkin) would be captured by THRUSH and tied to a slow moving killing device while the THRUSH villain of the week would maniacally laugh at our hero's impending demise. Yet right after the station ID break our hero would use some device often disguised as a vest button or belt buckle to escape the death trap. Oh come now, folks! Don't you think at some point the THRUSH boss would tell his operatives "Hey look! The next time one of you dummies captures Solo don't get cutesy about killing him. Just whup out your gun and blow his brains out." Yet the BEST spy show that didn't insult our intelligence has to be Mission: Impossible.
Review of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
