THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. – The Sort of Do-It-Yourself Dreadful Affair - 1966
This is the 61st episode of 1964 to 1968 spy series, THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. The series ran for a total of 105 episodes. The first season was filmed in black and with the remainder shot in colour. Robert Vaughn plays agent Napoleon Solo while David McCallum plays Illya Kuryakin. Leo G Carroll plays Mister Waverly, the boss of the secret agency known as U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law & Enforcement) Their main enemy is THRUSH, an organization out to take over the planet.
UNCLE agent, Robert Vaughn is doing a bit of break and enter at a New York pawnshop. The shop contains a safe with some top secret THRUSH documents. Before he can complete the mission, he is attacked. The attacker is a beautiful woman, Willy Koopman, who tosses Vaughn around like a rag doll. Vaughn pulls his automatic and empties several full clips into the woman with no effect.
Vaughn decides that he should beat the feet and leave. When he tells his boss, Leo G Carroll and fellow agent, David McCallum, they put down the tale to a bit too much work. He is sent on a trip to rest up. While escorting Vaughn to the airport, both McCallum and Vaughn are attacked by the same woman. There is another brawl with lead bouncing off the woman. When she finally drops, the UNCLE agents whisk her to headquarters. There they discover that Koopman is really a cyborg.
Needless to say who is behind this. The boys at THRUSH have a scientist (Woodrow Parfrey in one of his half dozen appearances on the series) who is building the cyborgs by hand.
UNCLE agent Vaughn gains entrance to the THRUSH lair as a Swiss banker. THRUSH needs a billion dollars so they can set up an assembly line. They of course intend to use the cyborgs as a near unstoppable army to conquer the world.
In charge of the project is, Barry Atwater and his assistant, Pamela Curran. Needless to say there is also a pretty girl helping out UNCLE. The rather statuesque Jeannine Riley fits the bill in this episode. Now, there is the starting to get old, routine of getting captured, then the just in time escape, the flying fists and the shootout with the THRUSH types. (THRUSH villains must be the worst shots in the world) UNCLE of course disposes of the villains and destroys the cyborgs.
I quite enjoyed this series when I was a kid back in the day. Having said that, I'm finding that the further I go into the series now, (this is season 3) the less impressed I am. They are starting to play out like bad BATMAN episodes or rejected GET SMART scripts. The comedy bits are really not needed.
This is the 61st episode of 1964 to 1968 spy series, THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. The series ran for a total of 105 episodes. The first season was filmed in black and with the remainder shot in colour. Robert Vaughn plays agent Napoleon Solo while David McCallum plays Illya Kuryakin. Leo G Carroll plays Mister Waverly, the boss of the secret agency known as U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law & Enforcement) Their main enemy is THRUSH, an organization out to take over the planet.
UNCLE agent, Robert Vaughn is doing a bit of break and enter at a New York pawnshop. The shop contains a safe with some top secret THRUSH documents. Before he can complete the mission, he is attacked. The attacker is a beautiful woman, Willy Koopman, who tosses Vaughn around like a rag doll. Vaughn pulls his automatic and empties several full clips into the woman with no effect.
Vaughn decides that he should beat the feet and leave. When he tells his boss, Leo G Carroll and fellow agent, David McCallum, they put down the tale to a bit too much work. He is sent on a trip to rest up. While escorting Vaughn to the airport, both McCallum and Vaughn are attacked by the same woman. There is another brawl with lead bouncing off the woman. When she finally drops, the UNCLE agents whisk her to headquarters. There they discover that Koopman is really a cyborg.
Needless to say who is behind this. The boys at THRUSH have a scientist (Woodrow Parfrey in one of his half dozen appearances on the series) who is building the cyborgs by hand.
UNCLE agent Vaughn gains entrance to the THRUSH lair as a Swiss banker. THRUSH needs a billion dollars so they can set up an assembly line. They of course intend to use the cyborgs as a near unstoppable army to conquer the world.
In charge of the project is, Barry Atwater and his assistant, Pamela Curran. Needless to say there is also a pretty girl helping out UNCLE. The rather statuesque Jeannine Riley fits the bill in this episode. Now, there is the starting to get old, routine of getting captured, then the just in time escape, the flying fists and the shootout with the THRUSH types. (THRUSH villains must be the worst shots in the world) UNCLE of course disposes of the villains and destroys the cyborgs.
I quite enjoyed this series when I was a kid back in the day. Having said that, I'm finding that the further I go into the series now, (this is season 3) the less impressed I am. They are starting to play out like bad BATMAN episodes or rejected GET SMART scripts. The comedy bits are really not needed.