s American television spy drama series

"THRUSH" redirects here. For other uses, see Thrush.

For the film adaptation, see The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (film).

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American spy fiction television series^[1] produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television and first broadcast on NBC. The Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine follows secret agents, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for a secret international counterespionage and law-enforcement agency called U.N.C.L.E. The series premiered on September 22,completing its run on January 15, The program led the spy-fiction craze on television, and by there were nearly a dozen imitators. Several episodes were successfully released to theaters as B movies or double features. There Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine also a spin-off series, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., novel and comic book series, and merchandising.

With few recurring characters, the series attracted many high-profile guest stars. Props from the series are exhibited at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum and at the museums of the Central Intelligence Agency and other US intelligence agencies. The series won the Golden Globe Award for Best TV Show in

Originally, co-creator Sam Rolfe wanted to leave the meaning of U.N.C.L.E. ambiguous so it could refer to either "Uncle Sam" or the United Nations.^[2]:&#;14&#; Concerns by the MGM legal department about using "U.N." for commercial purposes resulted in the producers' clarification that U.N.C.L.E. was an acronym for the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.^[3] Each episode had an "acknowledgement" to the U.N.C.L.E. in the end titles.

Background[edit]

The series consists of episodes originally broadcast between andproduced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Arena productions. The first season was produced in black and white, the remainder in color.

The first episode was broadcast on September 22,as part of the Tuesday night NBC lineup, but moved to Monday nights, a half hour earlier, the following January.^[4]

Ian Fleming contributed to the concepts after being approached by the show's co-creator, Norman Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine According to the book The James Bond Films Fleming proposed two characters, Napoleon Solo and April Dancer (later appearing on the spin-off series The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.). The original name for the show was Ian Fleming's Solo.^[6]Robert Towne, Sherman Yellen, and Harlan Ellison later wrote scripts for the series. Author Michael Avallone, who wrote the first original novelization based upon the series (see below), is sometimes incorrectly cited as the show's creator.

Originally, Solo was the focus of the series, but Russian agent Illya Kuryakin drew so much enthusiasm from fans, the agents became a team.^[7]

Premise[edit]

The series centered on a two-man troubleshooting team working for multi-national secret intelligence agency U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law and Enforcement): American Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn), and Russian Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum). Leo G. Carroll played Alexander Waverly, the British chief of the organization. Barbara Moore joined the cast as Lisa Rogers in the fourth season.

The series, though fictional, achieved such cultural prominence that props, costumes and documents, and a video clip are in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum's exhibit on spies and counterspies. Similar U.N.C.L.E. exhibits are in the museums of the Central Intelligence Agency and other US intelligence agencies.^{[citation needed]}

THRUSH[edit]

U.N.C.L.E.'s primary adversary was THRUSH (WASP in the pilot movie). The original series never divulged who or what THRUSH represented, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine, nor was it ever used as an acronym. In the U.N.C.L.E. novels written by David McDaniel, it stands for the Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity,^[8] described as having been founded by Colonel Sebastian Moran after the death of Professor Moriarty Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine the Reichenbach Falls in the Sherlock Holmes short story "The Final Problem". But in a second season episode, guest star Jessie Royce Landis plays a character who claims that she founded THRUSH.

THRUSH's aim was to conquer the world. THRUSH was considered so dangerous an organization that even governments who were ideologically opposed to each other – such as the United States and the Soviet Union – had cooperated in forming and operating the U.N.C.L.E. organization. Similarly, when Solo and Kuryakin held opposing political views, the friction between them in the story was held to a minimum. Although executive producer Norman Felton and Ian Fleming conceived Napoleon Solo, it was the producer Sam Rolfe who created the global U.N.C.L.E. hierarchy, and he included the Soviet agent, Illya Kuryakin. Unlike the CIA or the British SIS (Secret Intelligence Service), U.N.C.L.E. was a global organization of agents from many countries and cultures.

Innocent character[edit]

The creators decided an innocent character would be featured in each episode, giving the audience someone with whom to identify.^[5] Despite many changes over four seasons, "innocents" remained a constant – from a suburban housewife in the pilot, "The Vulcan Affair" (film version: To Trap a Spy), to those kidnapped in the final episode, "The Seven Wonders of the World Affair".

Episodes[edit]

Main article: List of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episodes

Solo – the pilot[edit]

Filmed in color from late November to early DecemberCodename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine, with locations Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine a Lever Brothers soap factory in California, the television pilot made as a minute film was originally titled Ian Fleming's Solo and later shortened to Solo. However, in February Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine law firm representing James Bond movie producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli demanded an end to the use of Fleming's name in connection with the series and an end to the use of the name and character "Solo", "Napoleon Solo" and "Mr. Solo". At that time filming was underway for the Bond movie Goldfinger, in which Martin Benson was playing a supporting character named "Mr. Solo", being an American Mafia boss murdered by Auric Goldfinger. The claim was the name "Solo" had been sold to them by Fleming, and Fleming could not use it again. Within five days Fleming had signed an affidavit that nothing in the Solo pilot infringed any of his Bond characters, but the threat of legal action resulted in a settlement in which the name Napoleon Solo could be kept but the title of the show had to change.

The role of the head of U.N.C.L.E. in the pilot was Mr. Allison, played by Will Kuluva, rather than Mr. Waverly, played by Leo G. Carroll, and David McCallum's Illya Kuryakin only had a brief role. Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine to some scenes were shot for television, including those needed to feature Leo G. Carroll. The pilot episode was reedited to 50 minutes to Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine a one-hour time slot, converted to black and white, and shown on television as "The Vulcan Affair".

Additional color sequences with Luciana Paluzzi were shot in Apriland then added to the pilot for MGM to release it outside Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine United States as a B movie titled To Trap a Spy.^{[2][page&#;needed]} This premiered in Hong Kong in November The extra scenes were reedited to tone down their sexuality, and then used in the regular series in the episode "The Four-Steps Affair".

Beyond extra scenes for the feature film, and revised scene shots and edits made for the television episode, there are other differences among the three versions of the story. Before the show went into full production there was concern from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that the name of THRUSH for the pilot's international criminal organization sounded too much like SMERSH, the international spy-killing organization in Fleming's Bond series. The studio suggested Raven, Shark, Squid, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine, Vulture, Tarantula, Snipe, Sphinx, Dooom [sic], and Maggot (the last used in early scripts). Although no legal action took place, the name "WASP" was used in the feature version To Trap a Spy. The original pilot kept THRUSH (presumably since it was not intended to be released to the public in that version). Felton and Rolfe pushed for the reinstatement of "THRUSH". Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine turned out that WASP could not be used, since Gerry Anderson's British television series Stingray was based on an organization called W.A.S.P. (World Aquanaut Security Patrol). By MayCodename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine, THRUSH was retained for the television episode edit of the pilot. Despite this, WASP was used by the feature film in Japan in lateand it was left in the American release in

Another change among the three versions of the pilot story was the cover name for the character of Elaine May Donaldson. In the original pilot it was Elaine Van Nessen; in the television version and the feature version it was Elaine Van Every. Illya Kuryakin's badge number is 17 in the pilot, rather than 2 during the series, and Solo's hair, after new footage was added, changed back and forth from a slicked back style to the less severe style he wore throughout the series.

With the popularity of the show and the spy craze, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine Trap a Spy and the second U.N.C.L.E. feature The Spy with My Face were released in Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine United States as an MGM double feature in early

Season 1[edit]

The show's first season was in black-and-white. Rolfe created a kind of Alice's Adventures In Wonderland world, where mundane everyday life would intersect with the looking-glass fantasy of international espionage which lay just beyond. The U.N.C.L.E. universe was one where the weekly "innocent" would get caught up in a series of fantastic adventures, in a battle of good and evil.^[5]

U.N.C.L.E. headquarters in New York City was most-frequently entered by a secret passage in Del Floria's Tailor Shop. Another entrance was through The Masque Club. Mr. Waverly had his own secret entrance, hinted at in Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine episode "The Mad, Mad Tea Party Affair." The episodes were largely filmed on the MGM back lot.^[9] The same building with an imposing exterior staircase was used for episodes set throughout the Mediterranean area and Latin America, and the same dirt road lined with eucalyptus trees on the back lot in Culver City stood in for virtually every continent of the globe. The episodes followed a naming convention where each title was in the form of "The ***** Affair", such as "The Vulcan Affair", "The Mad, Mad, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine, Tea Party Affair", and "The Waverly Ring Affair", etc. The only exception was "Alexander the Greater Affair". The first season episode "The Green Opal Affair" establishes that U.N.C.L.E. uses the term "affair" to refer to its different missions.

Rolfe endeavored to make the implausible elements in the series seem not only feasible but entertaining.^{[citation needed]} In the series, frogmen emerge from wells in Iowa, shootouts occur between U.N.C.L.E. and THRUSH agents in a crowded Manhattan movie theater, and top-secret organizations are hidden behind innocuous brownstone facades. The series began to dabble in spy-fi, beginning with "The Double Affair" in which a THRUSH agent, made to look like Solo through plastic surgery, infiltrates a secret U.N.C.L.E. facility where an immensely powerful weapon called "Project Earthsave" is stored; according to the dialogue, the weapon was developed to protect against a potential alien threat to Earth. The Spy with My Face was the theatrical film version of this episode.

In its first season The Man from U.N.C.L.E. competed against The Red Skelton Show on CBS and Walter Brennan's short-lived The Tycoon on ABC. The ratings were poor and it faced cancellation. But NBC switched it to Monday nights where it found a receptive audience. The success of the James Bond film Goldfinger also created a huge interest in spy entertainment which greatly benefitted the series. During this time producer Norman Felton told Alan Caillou and several of the series writers to make the show more tongue-in-cheek.^[10]

Seasons 2–4[edit]

David McCallum as Illya Kuryakin

Switching to color, U.N.C.L.E. continued to enjoy huge popularity. When Rolfe Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine the show at the conclusion of Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine first season, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine, David Victor became the new showrunner. Over the next three seasons, five different showrunners would supervise the U.N.C.L.E. franchise, and each one took the show in a direction that differed considerably from that of the first season. In an attempt to emulate the success of ABC's mid-season hit Batman, which had proved hugely popular with its debut in earlyU.N.C.L.E. moved swiftly towards self-parody and slapstick.^[7] In contrast to other seasons, the fourth and final season had a recurring female character, Lisa Rogers, played by Barbara Moore in ten episodes.^[11]

During the third season the producers made a conscious decision to increase the level of humor.^[7] This new direction resulted in a severe Nielsen ratings drop, and nearly resulted in the show's cancellation. It was renewed for a fourth season and an attempt was made to go back to serious storytelling, but the ratings never recovered and U.N.C.L.E. was cancelled midway through the season.^[7]

Spin-off: The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.[edit]

The series was popular enough to generate a spin-off series, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (–67) The "girl" was first introduced during The Man From U.N.C.L.E. episode "The Moonglow Affair" (February&#;25, ) and was then played by Mary Ann Mobley, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine. The spin-off series ran for one season, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine, starring Stefanie Powers as agent "April Dancer", a character name credited to Ian Fleming, and Noel Harrison as agent Mark Slate (who had been played substantially differently by actor Norman Fell in the pilot). There was some crossover between the two shows, and Leo G. Carroll played Mr. Waverly in both programs, becoming the second actor in American television to star as the same character in two separate series.

Reunion TV movie[edit]

Main article: Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.

A reunion telefilm, Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. subtitled The Fifteen Years Later Affair, was broadcast on CBS in America on April&#;5,with Vaughn and McCallum reprising their roles, and Patrick Macnee replacing Leo G. Carroll, who had died inas the head of U.N.C.L.E. A framed picture of Carroll appeared on his desk. The movie included a tribute to Ian Fleming via a cameo appearance by an unidentified secret Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine with the initials "JB". The part was played by George Lazenby who was shown driving James Anaconda Wild Slot Machine Review trademark vehicle, an Aston Martin DB5. One character, identifying him, says that it is "just like On Her Majesty's Secret Service", which was Lazenby's only Bond film.

The movie, written by Michael Sloan and directed by Ray Austin, briefly filled in the missing years. THRUSH had been put out of business, and the escape of its leader from prison begins the story. Solo and Kuryakin, who had retired, are recalled by U.N.C.L.E. to recapture the escapee and defeat THRUSH once and for all. Rather than reuniting the agents and recapturing their chemistry, however, the agents are separated and paired with younger agents. Like most similar reunion films, this production was considered a trial balloon for a possible new series which never materialized.

Although some personnel from the original series were involved (like composer Gerald Fried and director of photography Fred Koenekamp), the movie was not produced by MGM but by Michael Sloan Productions in association with Viacom Productions.

Theme music[edit]

The theme music, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine, written by Jerry Goldsmith, changed slightly each season.^[12] Goldsmith provided only three original scores and was succeeded by Morton Stevens, who composed four scores for the series. After Stevens, Walter Scharf did six scores, and Lalo Schifrin did two. Gerald Fried was composer from season two through the beginning of season four. The final composers were Robert Drasnin (who also scored episodes of Mission: Impossible, as did Schifrin, Scharf, and Fried), Nelson Riddle (whose score for the two-part episode "The Concrete Overcoat Affair" was so loathed by Norman Felton that he never hired the composer again, although the music did get tracked into other third-season episodes), and Richard Shores.

The music reflected the show's changing seasons. Goldsmith, Stevens, and Scharf composed dramatic scores in the first season using brass, unusual time signatures and martial rhythms. Gerald Fried and Robert Drasnin opted for a lighter approach in the second, employing harpsichords and bongos. By the third season, the music, like the show, had become more camp, exemplified by an R&B organ and saxophone version of the theme. The fourth season's attempt at seriousness was duly echoed by Richard Shores' somber scores.

Guest stars and other actors[edit]

Apart from Solo, Kuryakin and Waverly, very few recurring characters appeared on the show Quintris Slots Machine any regularity. As a result, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. featured many high-profile guest performers during its three-and-a-half-year run.

William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy appeared together in a episode, "The Project Strigas Affair", a full two years before Star Trek premiered. Shatner played a heroic civilian recruited for an U.N.C.L.E. mission, and Nimoy played the villain's henchman. The villain was portrayed by Werner Klemperer.^[13]James Doohan appeared in multiple episodes, each time as a different character.

Barbara Feldon played an U.N.C.L.E. translator eager for field work in "The Never-Never Affair", one year before becoming one of the stars of Get Smart.Robert Culp played the villain in 's "The Shark Affair". Leigh Chapman appeared in a recurring role as Napoleon Solo's secretary, Sarah, for several episodes in ^[14]

Woodrow Parfrey appeared five times as a guest performer, although he never received an opening-title credit. Usually cast as a scientist, he played the primary villain in one episode, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine, "The Cherry Blossom Affair". Another five-time guest star was Jill Ireland, who at the time was married to David McCallum. Ricardo Montalbán appeared in two episodes as the primary villain. "The Five Daughters Affair" featured a cameo appearance by Joan Crawford. Janet Leigh and Jack Palance appeared in "The Concrete Overcoat Affair" and Sonny and Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine made an appearance in the third season episode "The Hot Number Affair".^[13] Other notable guest stars included: Richard Anderson, Eve Arden, Whitney Blake, Joan Blondell, Lloyd Bochner, Judy Carne, Roger C. Carmel, Ted Cassidy, Joan Collins, Walter Coy, Yvonne Craig, Broderick Crawford, Joan Crawford, Kim Darby, Albert Dekker, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine, Ivan Dixon, Chad Everett, Anne Francis, Harold Gould, Grayson Hall, Pat Harrington Jr., James Hong, Allen Jenkins, Patsy Kelly, Richard Kiel, Marta Kristen, Elsa Lanchester, Martin Landau, Angela Lansbury, Herbert Lom, Julie London, Jack Lord, Lynn Loring, Jan Murray, Leslie Nielsen, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine Marshall, Eve McVeagh, Carroll O'Connor, David Opatoshu, Leslie Parrish, Eleanor Parker, Slim Pickens, Vincent Price, Dorothy Provine, Cesar Romero, Charles Ruggles, Kurt Russell, Telly Savalas, Nancy Sinatra, Guthrie Thomas, Terry-Thomas, Rip Torn, Fritz Weaver, and Elen Willard (in her last acting appearance).

Gadgets[edit]

Communications devices[edit]

U.N.C.L.E.'s security badge; Napoleon Solo's business card; insignia of the evil Online Poker Site Reviews organization, CIA Museum

The characters in the series had a range of useful spy equipment, including handheld satellite communicators. A catchphrase often heard was "Open Channel D" when agents used their pocket radios; these were originally disguised as cigarette packs, later as cigarette case, and still later as fountain pen.^[15] One of the original pen communicator theatrical property is now in the museum of the CIA.^[16] Replicas have been made over the years for other displays, and this is the second-most-identifiable prop from the series (closely following the U.N.C.L.E. Special pistol).^[17]

U.N.C.L.E. car[edit]

A few of the third-and fourth-season episodes featured an "U.N.C.L.E. car", which was a modified Piranha Coupe, a plastic-bodied concept car based on the Chevrolet Corvair chassis built in limited numbers by the custom car designer Gene Winfield.^[18] The U.N.C.L.E. car had been lost after the Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine of the TV series, but it was found in Colorado during the early s, and it was restored to original condition by Oscar-winning special effects artist Robert Short of California.^[19]

Weaponry[edit]

Main article: The Man from U.N.C.L.E, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine. gun

Robert Vaughn with his Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine "The Vulcan Affair"

Robert Vaughn with his modified P ()

One prop, designed by the toy designer Reuben Klamer^[20] often referred to as "The Gun", drew so much attention that it actually spurred considerable fan mail, and was often so addressed. Internally designated the "U.N.C.L.E. Special", it was a modular semi-automatic firearm weapon. The basic pistol could be converted into a longer-range carbine by attaching a long barrel, an extendable shoulder stock, a telescopic sight, and an extended magazine. In this "carbine mode", the pistol could fire on full automatic. This capability brought authorities to the set to investigate reports that the studio was illegally manufacturing machine guns, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine. They threatened to confiscate the prop guns and it took a tour of the prop room to convince them that these were actually "dummy" pistols incapable of firing live ammunition, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine. The actual pistol used as the prop was the Mauser Model Pocket Pistol, but it was unreliable, it jammed constantly, and it was dwarfed by the carbine accessories. It was soon replaced by the larger and more-reliable Walther P

The long magazine was actually a standard magazine with a dummy extension, but it inspired several small-arms manufacturers to begin making long magazines for various pistols. While many of these continue to be available 40 years later, long magazines were not available for the P38 for some years.^{[clarification needed]}

THRUSH had a range of weaponry of its own, much of them only in the development stage before being destroyed by the heroes. A notable item was the infraredsniperscope, enabling villains to aim gunfire in total darkness. The prop was built from a U.S. Army-surplus M1 carbine, with a vertical foregrip and barrel compensator, and using army-surplus infrared scopes. The infrared Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine effect was achieved using a searchlight to illuminate the target. The viewfinder image was a negative version of the film. When the scopes were switched on a pulsing chirp sound effect was used. The fully equipped carbines were seen only once, in "The Iowa Scuba Affair", Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine. After that, a mockup of the scope was used to make handling easier.

German small arms were well represented in the series. Not only were P38s frequently seen (both as the U.N.C.L.E. Special and in standard configuration), but also the Luger pistol pistol. In the pilot episode "The Vulcan Affair", Illya Kuryakin is carrying a M pistol. The Mauser C96 and MP 40 machine pistols were favored by opponents. U.N.C.L.E. also used the MP Beginning in the third season, both U.N.C.L.E and THRUSH agents used rifles that were either the Spanish CETME or the Heckler & Koch G3 (based on the CETME).

Awards and nominations[edit]

Emmy Awards

• Outstanding Individual Achievements in Entertainment – Actors and Performers (nominated) – David McCallum^[21]
• Outstanding Program Achievements in Entertainment (nominated) – Sam Rolfe^[22]
• Outstanding Continued Performance Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Series (nominated) – David McCallum^[23]
• Outstanding Dramatic Series (nominated) – Norman Felton^[24]
• Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Drama (nominated) – Leo G. Carroll^[24]
• Individual Achievements in Music – Composition (nominated) – Jerry Goldsmith
• Outstanding Achievements in Film Editing (nominated) - Henry Berman, Joseph Dervin, William Gulick^[25]
• Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Drama (nominated) – Leo G. Carroll^[26]

Golden Globe Awards

• Best TV Star – Male (nominated) – Robert Vaughn
• Best TV Star – Male (nominated) – Robert Vaughn
• Best TV Star – Male (nominated) – David McCallum
• Best TV Show (won)
• Best TV Show (nominated)

Grammy Awards

• Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show (nominated) – Lalo Schifrin, Morton Stevens, Walter Scharf, Jerry Goldsmith

Logie Awards

• Best Overseas Show (won)

Feature films[edit]

Theatrical releases of episodes[edit]

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. rated so highly in America and the UK that MGM and the producers decided to film extra footage (often more adult to evoke Bond films) for two of the first season episodes and release them to theaters after they had aired on TV. The episodes with the extra footage that made it to theaters were the original pilot, "The Vulcan Affair", retitled To Trap a Spy and "The Double Affair" retitled as The Spy with My Face. Both had added sex and violence, new sub-plots and guest stars not in the original TV episodes. They were released in early as an U.N.C.L.E. double-feature program first run in neighborhood theaters, bypassing the customary downtown movie palaces which were still thriving in the mids and where new movies usually played for weeks or months before coming to outlying screens.

A selling point to seeing these films theatrically was that they were being shown in color, at a time when most people had only black and white TVs (and indeed the two first-season episodes that were expanded to feature length, while filmed in color, had only been broadcast in black and white). The words "in color" featured prominently on the trailers, TV spots, and posters for the film releases. The episodes used to make U.N.C.L.E. films were not included in the packages of television episodes screened outside the United States.^{[2][page&#;needed]}

Subsequent two-part episodes, beginning with the second season premiere, "Alexander The Greater Affair", retitled One Spy Too Many for its theatrical release, were developed into one complete feature film with only occasional extra sexy and violent footage added to them, sometimes as just inserts. In the Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine of One Spy Too Many, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine subplot featuring Yvonne Craig as an U.N.C.L.E. operative carrying on a flirtatious relationship with Solo was also added to the film; Craig does not appear in the television episodes.

The later films were not released in America, only overseas, but the first few did well in American theaters and remain one of the rare examples of a television show released in paid theatrical engagements. With the exception of the two-part episode "The Five Daughters Affair", shown as part of Granada Plus's run of the series, the episodes which became movies have never aired on British television.

The films in the series:

remake[edit]

Main article: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine film adaptation of the television series Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine produced by Warner Bros. and Turner Entertainment, and was released in Directed by Guy Ritchie, the film stars Armie Hammer, Henry Cavill, and Hugh Grant as Kuryakin, Solo, and Waverly, respectively.^[27] Filming began in September ,^[28] and the movie was released on August 14, The film received generally positive reviews.^[29]

In other media[edit]

Soundtrack albums[edit]

Although album recordings of the series had been made by Hugo Montenegro and many orchestras cover versions of the title theme, it wasn't until that the first of three double-disc albums of original music from the series were released through Film Score Monthly (FSM).

Comic books[edit]

Several comic books based on the series were published. In the US, there was a Gold Key Comics series which ran for twenty-two issues. Entertainment Publishing released an eleven-issue series of one- and two-part stories from January to September that updated U.N.C.L.E. to the s, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine, while largely ignoring the reunion TV-movie. A Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine comics story, "The Birds of Prey Affair", was put out by Millennium Publications inwhich showcased the return of a smaller, more-streamlined version of THRUSH, controlled by Dr. Egret, who had melded with the Ultimate Computer. The script was written by Mark Ellis and Terry Collins, with artwork by Nick Choles, and transplanted the characters into the s.

Two Man from U.N.C.L.E. strips were originated for the British market in the s (some Gold Key material was also reprinted), the most notable for Lady Penelope comic, which launched in January This was replaced by a Girl from U.N.C.L.E. strip in January Man from U.N.C.L.E. also featured in the short-lived title Solo (published between February and September ) and some text stories appeared in TV Tornado.

In –, DC Comics launched Batman '66 Meets the Man from U.N.C.L.E., Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine, a crossover with its Batman '66 series.

Merchandise[edit]

Licensed merchandise included a Man from U.N.C.L.E.digest-size story magazine, board games, Gilbert action figures, Aurora plastic model kits, lunch boxes, and toy guns.^[30]

An example of this, the Louis Marx "Target Gun Set", a dart-gun shooting-game released in the form of a quasi-playset, is built around the setting of U.N.C.L.E. headquarters in New York City. Art on the cardboard stand displays both the U.N.C.L.E. and THRUSH logos, and a half-dozen soft plastic figures per "side" were provided, including Solo, Kuryakin and Waverly. The game measures 57 by 18 inches (&#;cm ×&#;46&#;cm); the figures, at 6 inches (15&#;cm), represent one of the few attempts Marx made at supplementing its 6-inch figure line. The U.N.C.L.E. figures are cast in blue, except for a single (unnamed) figure in tan; THRUSH agents are cast in gray. Marx was released an arcade game licensed under The Man from U.N.C.L.E.^[31]

Corgi Toys produced a die-cast toy model of the "Thrushbuster", an Oldsmobile 88, with figures of 'Napoleon Solo' and 'Illya Kuryakin' which popped in and out of the car windows firing guns by pressing down on a model Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine protruding through the roof.^[32]

Novels[edit]

Two dozen novels were based upon Man from U.N.C.L.E. and published between and Unhampered by television censors, the novels were generally grittier and more violent than the televised episodes. The series sold in the millions, and was the largest TV-novel tie-in franchise until surpassed by Dark Shadows and Star Trek.

1. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (a.k.a.The Thousand Coffins Affair) by Michael Avallone. When villages in Africa and Scotland are wiped out by a plague of madness, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine, Solo and Kuryakin dig up a graveyard and a monster named Golgotha.
2. The Doomsday Affair by Harry Whittington, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine. The agents must find the mystery man "Tixe Ylno" before he triggers war between the US and the USSR.
3. The Copenhagen Affair by John Oram. UFOs are buzzing Europe, and the U.N.C.L.E, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine. agents crisscross Denmark to find the factory before THRUSH launches an armed fleet.
4. The Dagger Affair by David McDaniel. DAGGER fanatics have an energy damper that can shut down electrical fields, atomic reactions, and human beings, and even THRUSH is panicked. This is the novel in which McDaniel introduced the acronym for THRUSH, though it was never used by any other of the novelists nor on the show itself.
5. The Mad Scientist Affair by John T. Phillifent. The agents stop biochemist "King Mike" from poisoning London, then discover his second plan is to contaminate the entire North Sea.
6. The Vampire Affair by David McDaniel. Napoleon and Illya don't believe in vampires and werewolves, but an U.N.C.L.E. agent has died, so they must investigate an ancient castle in Transylvanian Romania.
7. The Radioactive Camel Affair by Peter Leslie. Solo joins a caravan and Kuryakin threads a war zone to reach a missile base deep in the Sudan hinterlands.
8. The Monster Wheel Affair by David McDaniel. The agents canvass the globe and infiltrate a remote island to confirm an inexplicable space station belongs to Egypt.
9. The Diving Dames Affair by Peter Leslie. The deaths of two merry missionaries lead the agents to the plains of Brazil and a giant dam with no apparent purpose.
10. The Assassination Affair by J. Hunter Holly. Surviving assassins' bullets and a "do-it-yourself murder room", the agents follow THRUSH to desolated Michigan farms and a scheme to starve the world.
11. The Invisibility Affair by Thomas Stratton (Robert Coulson and Gene DeWeese). The agents track an invisible dirigible to a submarine in Lake Michigan – and a plot to hijack an entire country.
12. The Mind Twisters Affair by Thomas Stratton, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine. People in Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine college town are unaccountably catatonic, euphoric, and raging. The agents must ferret out who and how before the "experiment" goes nationwide.
13. The Rainbow Affair by David McDaniel. The agents consult every classic fictional spy and detective in England to find the Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine best bank robber before THRUSH can recruit or kill him.
14. The Cross of Gold Affair by Fredric Davies (Ron Ellik and Fredric Langley). Clues hidden in crossword puzzles lead the agents, hippies, and frogmen to a Coney Island death-trap to stop the biggest heist in history.
15. The Utopia Affair by David McDaniel. Solo must command U.N.C.L.E. North America while Waverly is on a forced six-week vacation, and an undercover Illya tries to protect Waverly from THRUSH assassins.
16. The Splintered Sunglasses Affair by Peter Leslie
17. The Hollow Crown Affair by David McDaniel, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine. In the last published David McDaniel's novel, THRUSH Agent Ward and Irene Baldwin from The Dagger Affair return in a battle against an U.N.C.L.E. lab chief who has defected to THRUSH.
18. The Unfair Fare Affair by Peter Leslie
19. The Power Cube Affair by John T. Phillifent
20. The Corfu Affair by John T. Phillifent
21. The Thinking Machine Affair by Joel Bernard
22. The Stone Cold Dead in the Market Affair by John Oram
23. The Finger in the Sky Affair by Peter Leslie
24. The Final Affair by David McDaniel. Completed but never published, the manuscript has been circulated by fans.

Volumes 10–15 and 17 of the series were only published in the United States.

The Rainbow Affair is notable for unnamed cameos by The Saint, Miss Marple, John Steed, Emma Peel, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine, Willie Garvin, Tommy Hambledon, Neddie Seagoon, Father Brown, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine, a retired Sherlock Holmes (aged nearly ), and Dr. Fu Manchu.

Whitman Publishing published three hardcover novels aimed at young readers: The Affair of the Gunrunners' Gold and The Affair of the Gentle Saboteur by Brandon Keith, and The Calcutta Affair by George S. Elrick. The first two broke the "Affair" naming convention used by the franchise on most other TV episodes and book releases.

A children's storybook was written by Walter B. Gibson entitled The Coin of El Diablo Affair.

The digest-sized Man from U.N.C.L.E, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine. Magazine featured original novella continuing the adventures of Solo and Kuryakin. Published under the house name "Robert Hart Davis", they were written by such authors as John Jakes, Dennis Lynds, and Bill Pronzini. 24 issues, which also offered original crime and spy-fiction short stories and novelettes, and occasional SF and fantasy reprints under the title "Department of Lost Stories", ran monthly from February to January An additional novella entitled "The Vanishing City Affair" was advertised on page of the January issue for the proposed (but never published) February issue. It is as yet unconfirmed, however, if this novella was shelved for possible future release elsewhere or if it was ever written at all.

Three science-fiction novels appear to be rewrites of "orphaned" U.N.C.L.E. novel outlines or manuscripts: Genius Unlimited by John Rackham (a pseudonym of Phillifent), The Arsenal Out of Time by McDaniel, and Agent Of T.E.R.R.A. #1: The Flying Saucer Gambit by Jack Jardine (writing as Larry Maddock).

TV Annuals[edit]

There have been four TV Annuals published in UK between and by World Distributors which features written stories and reprint of a Gold Key Comics story which were never published in the UK.

Home media[edit]

In Novemberafter coming to an agreement with Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Time Life released a 41&#;DVD set (region&#;1) Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine direct order, with sales through stores scheduled for fall ^[33] An earlier release by Anchor Bay, allegedly set forwas apparently scuttled because of a dispute over the rights to the series with Warner Home Video.^[34][35]

On October 21,the Time-Life set was released to retail outlets in Region&#;1 (North America) in a special all-seasons box set contained within a small briefcase. The complete-series set consists of 41&#;DVDs, including two discs of special features included exclusively with the box set. Included in the set was the Solo pilot episode, as well as one of the films, One Spy Too Many. Paramount Pictures and CBS Home Entertainment released Return Of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. to DVD in Region&#;1 on March 3, ^[36][37]

On August&#;23,Warner Archive Collection released The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 8-Movie Collection on DVD via their "manufacture on demand" service.^[38] On November&#;4,Warner Home Video released the complete series set on DVD in Region&#;1 in a new repackaged version.^[39] On August&#;4,Warner Home Video released an individual release of season&#;1 on DVD in Region&#;1.^[40] Season&#;2 was released on February&#;2, ^[41]

In Region&#;2, Warner Bros. released the complete series set on DVD in the UK.^[42] They also released a separate movie collection on September&#;8, ^[43] The DVD contains five of the eight movies, missing the following: To Trap a Spy (), The Spy in the Green Hat () and One of Our Spies is Missing ().

On March&#;26,Fabulous Films released Return Of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. on Region&#;2 DVD.^[44]

U.N.C.L.E. in popular culture[edit]

Television and film[edit]

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (which replaced UNCLE) in its premier episode Jan. 22, one week after the final episode of UNCLE aired during the cocktail party sketch has Man From Uncle as the punch line of the final joke, prompting Leo G. Carroll in a cameo as the bartender to pull out a radio pen and say into it, "Kuryakin, get over here fast. I think I've found THRUSH headquarters at last!"^[45][46]

MGM's production "The Glass Bottom Boat" contains a scene in which Paul Lynde dresses up as a woman so that he can follow Doris Day, whom he suspects is an enemy agent, into the Ladies' Room. As makes his way through a crowded party, he passes the bar - at which Robert Vaughn is standing in evening dress. The musical score strikes up the Man from U.N.C.L.E. theme as Napoleon Solo gives the Lynde character a bemused once-over, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine.

InMGM released a theatrical Tom & Jerry short produced and directed by Chuck Jones titled "The Mouse from H.U.N.G.E.R." paid homage to the show, with Jerry as a secret agent tasked with the mission of retrieving a sizeable stash of cheese from the villainous Tom Thrush (portrayed by Tom).

References to the show in popular culture began during its original broadcast when it was parodied in an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, fittingly titled "The Man from My Uncle". References in other television shows have continued over the years, including a episode of Mad Men called "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword". It has also been referenced in other television shows including Get Smart Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine Angry Beavers,, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine.

The TV show My Favorite Martian (–) also used CRUSH as the name of the evil spy organization, spoofing THRUSH in two episodes. In the season two episode " 3/4", Tim finds a distress note from Agent of Top Secret, who is being tracked by CRUSH. Top Secret asks Tim to assist Agentto save In the season three episode "Butterball" Uncle Martin must rescue Tim who is kidnapped by Butterball.

A episode of The Avengers was titled Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine Girl from AUNTIE".

In a episode of the sitcom Please Don't Eat the Daisies titled "Say UNCLE", the young twins are fans of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and become convinced that their father Jim is a secret agent. In one scene, they watch Jim emerge from a tailor shop similar to Del Floria's. Another man entering the shop asks Jim for a match, and Jim gives him his matchbook. The boys are astonished, because the other man is David McCallum, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine, identified in the ending credits as Illya Kuryakin; they believe their father has just passed a secret message to the "real-life" Illya Kuryakin. The scene ends with the U.N.C.L.E scene transition: the action freezes and goes out of focus.^[47]

It was also referenced in Glad commercials in the late s and early s, which starred the "Man from GLAD", a trenchcoat-wearing agent who flew around in his combination boat/helicopter demonstrating Glad products to suburban housewives and saving the day.

Ina "secret agent" theme was used by Australian confectionery manufacturer Allen's to market their Anticol cough lozenges, with TV commercials running under the title "The Man From A.N.T.I.C.O.L.", featuring agent "Napoleon Brandy" combatting illnesses being spread by the agents of S.L.A.S.H.^[48][49]

In a late episode of The A-Team,Robert Vaughn – who had been added to the show's cast as mysterious retired agent for the show's final season, as part of an effort to revive flagging ratings – was Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine with guest star David McCallum, in an episode entitled "The 'Say U.N.C.L.E.' Affair". This story paid homage to The Man from U.N.C.L.E., complete with chapter titles, the word "affair" in the title, the phrase "Open Channel D", similar scene transitions, and much mention of Vaughn's and McCallum's respective characters having once worked closely together as agents.^[50] But in this story, McCallum's agent had turned villainous, selling Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine to the enemy and now capturing Vaughn to try to find out the whereabouts of a Soviet jet fighter.

Beginning inMcCallum starred Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine the CBS television series NCIS as Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard, M.D., a medical examiner. During the episode "The Meat Puzzle" (season&#;2, episode&#;13), as an inside joke, Naval Criminal Investigation Service agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) is asked, "What did Ducky look like when he was younger?" Gibbs responds, "Illya Kuryakin". The photo supposedly of a younger Ducky is actually a promotional photo from McCallum's Man from U.N.C.L.E. days.

On the fifth episode of the fourth season of Mad Men (), "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword", as Sally Draper is watching an episode of the show at a sleepover, she is caught by her friend's mother absent-mindedly masturbating (apparently to David McCallum's Illya) while staring at the television. The episode shown is approximately correct for the year and month (March ) the Mad Men episode is set in.

Ben Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine The Man from Auntie was a British television comedy series written and performed by Ben Elton. The title of the series was a play on words of both the American spy series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and "Auntie", an informal name for the BBC.

A scene from The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is shown in the HBO movie Temple Grandin, the biographical movie about Temple Gradin who overcame many of her symptoms to acquire a Ph.D. in Animal Sciences, and in an early scene from the film, Claire Danes, who played Grandin in the film, repeated a line from the episode "The Gazebo in the Maze Affair": "Would you like for me to open the gate?"

The TV show was mentioned in the film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. There's a scene where Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) is told by casting agent Marvin Schwarz (Al Pacino) that due to Dalton playing the heavy in weekly television, he'll get typecasting to play the heavy in other media.

A colorful whip pan shot, similar to the TV show scene transitions, appears in Kill Bill Vol. 1 before the ticket-to-Okinawa and ticket-to-Japan Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine. Chapter Four is also titled "The MAN From Okinawa".

Comic books[edit]

Gold Key Comics released comic book series based on The Man from U.N.C.L.E in - and it ran for 22 issues.^[51]

The – comic book series T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents (The Higher United Nations Defense Enforcement Reserves) (Tower Comics), a strange combination of secret agents and superheroes, was inspired by the success of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.^[52]

The Marvel Universe spy agency S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Marvel Universe terror society Hydra (both created in ) were inspired by the Man From U.N.C.L.E. television program.^[53]

The Man from R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E. was a Man From U.N.C.L.E. parody in Archie Comics published in – The comic portrayed Archie and the gang as a group of high-tech spies, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine, as part of world-defense organization P.O.P. (an acronym for Protect our Planet). Their chief enemy was a counter-group known as C.R.U.S.H. (a spoof on THRUSH but whose acronym was never explained). Although Reggie, Veronica and Moose were initially cast as C.R.U.S.H. agents, they later became members of P.O.P. All the characters also had undefined acronyms for names (A.R.C.H.I.E., B.E.T.T.Y., etc.). R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E. stood for Really Impressive Vast Enterprise for Routing Dangerous Adversaries, Louts, Etc.^[54]

Books[edit]

Ted Mark's The Man from Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine ("Organization for the Rational Guidance of Youth") series of erotic literaturepaperback (Lancer Books) was a take-off of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. The series ran from to and inspired a film. Another title The Man from O.R.G.Y. series was published by Paperback Library from to Another similar title was The Man from S.T.U.D., by F. W. Paul (Paul W. Fairman), which published 11 titles between and Rod Gray's "Lady from L.U.S.T." (League of Undercover Spies and Terrorists) erotic fiction novels were a take-off of The Man from U.N.C.L.E; 25 books in the series were published between and Other similar pastiche paperback series included The Man From T.O.M.C.A.T., The Miss from S.I.S., The Man from S.A.D.I.S.T.O., The Man from P.A.N.S.Y., and The Girl from H.A.R.D.

"Lyra and Bon Bon and the Mares From S.M.I.L.E." is an upcoming title in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic chapter books published by Little, Brown, and Company, to be released in March ^{[needs update]}

Music[edit]

Musical examples include the song "Man Called Uncle" from Elvis Costello's album Get Happy!! and an Argentinian funk duo who took the name Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas honoring the fictitious spy. Alma Cogan paid a similar tribute to the Russian agent in her single "Love Ya Illya", released in under the pseudonym "Angela and the Fans", Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine. In the s, Martin Newell penned "Ilya Kuryakin Looked at Me"; the song was later covered by The Jennifers. The English two-tone band The Specials made an instrumental song called "Napoleon Solo". It was also the name of a Danish 2 Tone band. Space–surf band Man or Astro-man? covered the theme song for their EP Astro Launch. Man or Astro-man are instrumental, not surf however. The British trip-hop group Unkle derive their name from the show.

Video games[edit]

The protagonist in the spy-fi video games The Operative: No One Lives Forever () and No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way () works for an organization known as U.N.I.T.Y. The villains in both games work for an organization known as H.A.R.M. In the first game the main character (Cate Archer) overhears two H.A.R.M. guards talking about how they thought Man from U.N.C.L.E. was a good show.

The video game Team Fortress 2 () has an achievement referencing the show, named "The Man Sex and the City Ultra Slots Machine P.U.N.C.T.U.R.E."

Podcast[edit]

The fourth episode of the Paperback Warrior podcast focuses on The Man from U.N.C.L.E. novels and their impact on the spy-fiction genre. The show's co-host, Tom Simon, discusses both Michael Avalone's The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (a.k.a. The Thousand Coffin Affair) novel as well as Harry Whittington's The Doomsday Affair, Codename Diablo Suitmaker Slots Machine. Additionally, the co-host points to many successful authors contributing to the series' novels and novellas and suggests a three-book series entitled The Man from W.A.R. by Michael Kurland was directly influenced by The Man from U.N.C.L.E. series.^[55]

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