Series synopsis
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American action & adventure comedy sci-fi & fantasy television series that premiered on NBC on September 22, 1964. It ended on January 15, 1968. It was created by Sam Rolfe, Norman Felton. It stars Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll and Barbara Moore.
Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the auspices of the U.N.
Their immediate superior is Mr. Waverly.
Together they operate out of a secret base beneath the streets of New York City, and accesses through several cover business such as Del Floria's Tailor Shop and the Masque Club.
This secret intelligence service is called U.N.C.L.E.
United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.
Premise
Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the auspices of the U.N.
Their immediate superior is Mr. Waverly.
Together they operate out of a secret base beneath the streets of New York City, and accesses through several cover business such as Del Floria's Tailor Shop and the Masque Club.
This secret intelligence service is called U.N.C.L.E.
United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Robert Vaughn as Napoleon Solo
- David McCallum as Illya Kuryakin
- Leo G. Carroll as Alexander Waverly
- Barbara Moore as Lisa Rogers
Guest cast
- Richard Anderson as Senator Steve Bryant
- Ricardo Montalban as Satine
- Slim Pickens as Clint Spinner
- Alexander Scourby as Professor Amadeus / Wolfgang Wolp
- Leonard Nimoy as Vladeck
- Glenn Corbett as Bernie Oren
- John Winston
- Joan Freeman as Clemency McGill
- Pat Crowley as Elaine May Donaldson
- William Shatner as Michael Donfield
- Yvonne Craig as Cecille Bergstrom
- Ivan Dixon as Jean Francis Soumarin
Episodes
This series spans 5 seasons with 106 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 1 | ||
| Season 1 | 29 | September 22, 1964 | April 19, 1965 |
| Season 2 | 30 | September 17, 1965 | April 15, 1966 |
| Season 3 | 30 | September 16, 1966 | April 14, 1967 |
| Season 4 | 16 | September 11, 1967 | January 15, 1968 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Solo Unaired color pilot episode which MGM used to sell the series to NBC. The plot was reworked and became the subsequent black & white episode The Vulcan Affair. This was included as a bonus track in the 41 DVD set, The Man from U.N.C.L.E - Complete Series. |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Vulcan Affair After a THRUSH attempt to kill Waverly is thwarted, Solo is assigned to prevent the assassination of a visiting African premier (William Marshall) at the hands of Andrew Vulcan (Fritz Weaver), and with the help of a housewife (Patricia Crowley) he learns that the premier himself is allied with THRUSH and plans to kill his two top aides (Ivan Dixon and Rupert Crosse) in a fake accident. |
September 22, 1964 |
| 2 |
The Iowa Scuba Affair Solo investigates the curious death of an air force man in Iowa with scuba gear, and with the help of Jill Denison (Katherine Crawford) uncovers a plan by Clint Spinner (Slim Pickens) to steal a missile- plane from a secret base under a farm. |
September 29, 1964 |
| 3 |
The Quadripartite Affair In Yugoslavia, Solo and Illya are aided by Marion Raven (Jill Ireland) in stopping Gervaise Ravel (Anne Francis) and her partners from using a fear gas to overthrow various governments. While two of them are captured, two of them escape, and the story continues in "The Giuoco Piano Affair" |
October 6, 1964 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Alexander the Greater Affair (1) Alexander a megalomaniac industrialist, plans to conquer the world like his namesake, Alexander the Great by breaking each of the ten commandments along the way. he has his henchman Parvix steal the army's ""will gas"" to help him do so, and Solo investigates. Solo encounters Tracey Alexander, Alexander's ex-wife, who wants to tag along with Solo to get the money Alexander owes her. The trail leads Solo, Illya, and Tracey to a posh party at Alexander's, where Solo defeats him in a human chess game; to a tomb, where Alexander and his aide Dr. Kavon leave Solo tied under a descending scimitar while Illya and Tracey are hanging over a bottomless pit with a candle burning their rope; To Alexander's farm in Virginia, where Illya is nearly cut in two by various farm implements. |
September 17, 1965 |
| 2 |
The Alexander the Greater Affair (2) Alexander a megalomaniac industrialist, plans to conquer the world like his namesake, Alexander the Great by breaking each of the ten commandments along the way. he has his henchman Parvix steal the army's ""will gas"" to help him do so, and Solo investigates. Solo encounters Tracey Alexander, Alexander's ex-wife, who wants to tag along with Solo to get the money Alexander owes her. The trail leads Solo, Illya, and Tracey to a posh party at Alexander's, where Solo defeats him in a human chess game; to a tomb, where Alexander and his aide Dr. Kavon leave Solo tied under a descending scimitar while Illya and Tracey are hanging over a bottomless pit with a candle burning their rope; To Alexander's farm in Virginia, where Illya is nearly cut in two by various farm implements. |
September 24, 1965 |
| 3 |
The Ultimate Computer Affair Illya Kuryakin infiltrates a South American prison camp where Thrush are storing the 'Ultimate Computer'. |
October 1, 1965 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Her Master's Voice Affair Solo investigates a girl's school for the daughters of VIP's, including Miki Matsu, who has valuable secret information from her father, a Japanese diplomat. THRUSH agent Jason Sutro has gained the cooperation of the headmistress, Hester Partridge. The assistant dean, Verity Burgoyne, and all of the girl students have been brainwashed by Sutro to go into a trance upon hearing a recording of Brahm's Lullaby, and are ordered to kill Solo. |
September 16, 1966 |
| 2 |
The Sort of Do-It-Yourself Dreadful Affair Solo is nearly killed by a superhuman, robotlike girl, Margo Hayward, one of an army of such devices invented by Dr. Pertwee for THRUSH. Illya joins up with Margo's ex-roommate, Andy Francis, and finds the laboratory, where a roomful of robots attack them. |
September 23, 1966 |
| 3 |
The Galatea Affair In spoof of ""My Fair Lady,"" Solo is recuperating from a fall into a Venice canal, Illya teams with Mark Slate to uncover Baroness Bibi de Chasseur, a THRUSH money courier who has contact with the treasurer of THRUSH. They recruit a barroom entertainer, Rosy Shlagenheimer, an exact double, to impersonate her. The switch is made, but in the confusion the Baroness makes another switch and poses as Rosy, then finds herself falling in love with Slate. |
September 30, 1966 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Summit-Five Affair Visiting Berlin headquarters in preparation for a high level U.N.C.L.E. conference, ""Summit Five,"" Solo finds agent Heinz Newman (Don Chastin) mysteriously murdered. Illya goes to Berlin, as does Harry Beldon (Albert Dekker), one of Waverly's counterparts in Section 1. Beldon suspects that either Solo or Gerald Struthers (Lloyd Bochner) committed the murder, while Illya suspects Beldon's secretary Helga Deniken (Suzanne Cramer), but Beldon himself turns out to be the traitor, and he plans to kill Waverly at the conference. |
September 11, 1967 |
| 2 |
The Test Tube Killer Affair A dying UNCLE agent warns Napoleon and Illya that a group of supermen is being bred by THRUSH. The duo discover a school set up by the enemy organization in Mexico, who has already produced 7 emotionless killer students! As a graduating exercise, one is chosen to eliminate Solo and Kuryakin after they follow the boy to Austria. |
September 18, 1967 |
| 3 |
The 'J' for Judas Affair Solo and Illya are asked by Adam Tenza (Chad Everett) to protect his millionaire industrialist father Mark Tenza (Broderick Crawford) from assassination by THRUSH, much to the resentment of the elder Tenza. When Tenza is killed by a bomb, Solo and Illya must find out where J Tenza's other son, James is, to protect him also. But Adam Tenza is actually planning to kill J, in order to hand his father's empire over to THRUSH. |
September 25, 1967 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | NBC |
|---|---|
| First aired | September 22, 1964 |
| Last aired | January 15, 1968 |
| Runtime | 60 minutes |
| Status | ended |
| Schedule | Monday |