Sunday, October 28, 2012

The Man From U.N.C.L.E.











The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is another of the many 1960's espionage drama's. This one also had a touch of  "SpyFi" at times, much like the Bond films, and was created with input from the man himself: Ian Fleming. Starring Robert Vaughn as Napoleon Solo and David McCallum as Russian Illya Kuryakin, it produced 105 episodes that aired between September 1964 and January 1968. It spun off The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. for the 1966-1967 TV season (29 episodes) which wouldn't be very noteworthy today, but in 1966 was certainly a bit groundbreaking. "Man" was very popular during its first two seasons, but by the third season it had a lot of competition from other espionage shows and the producers decided to inject more humor into the scripts which didn't work out very well and the show lost its popularity and favor with an audience that was discovering new shows like Mission: Impossible and I Spy.
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

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