The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) are the two Agents of the United Network Command for Law Enforcement (U.N.C.L.E.), who fight evil (primarily an organization of bad people called, T.H.R.U.S.H.) and use charm, wit, and a never ending assortment of gadgets.
- 1964-1968
- 4 seasons
- NBC
- Action & Adventure, Suspense, Drama
- TV-PG
Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) are the two Agents of the United Network Command for Law Enforcement (U.N.C.L.E.), who fight evil (primarily an organization of bad people called, T.H.R.U.S.H.) and use charm, wit, and a never ending assortment of gadgets.
Season 2 Episode Guide
30 Episodes 1965 - 1966
Episode 1
Alexander the Greater Affair: Part One
Fri, Sep 17, 1965 60 mins
A mysterious U.S. industrialist, Mr. Alexander, steals a new type of nerve gas from the U.S. Army. He leaves behind a small tablet with the number eight on it. Solo and Kuryakin investigate, with the help of Alexander's ex-wife Tracey, who seeks Alexander to sign her final divorce papers. The trio finds Alexander's parents working like slaves at a Greece rock quarry with the number five painted all around. After freeing the parents (and avoiding Alexander's thugs), they travel to a temple where they are captured by Alexander. It turns out Alexander plans to take over an Asian nation, breaking each of the Ten Commandments along the way.
Episode 2
Alexander the Greater Affair: Part Two
Fri, Sep 24, 1965 60 mins
Solo, Kuryakin and Tracey escape Alexander's death trap. The scene shifts to Washington and Virginia. Alexander breaks commandment No. 7 by seducing a prince's wife. He is planning on breaking No. 6 (Thou Shall Not Kill) and when that is done, his plot will be complete. Solo is menaced by a muscular thug while Kuryakin is endangered by employees of Alexander's farm in Virginia.
Episode 3
The Ultimate Computer Affair
Fri, Oct 1, 1965 60 mins
Thrush is developing an "ultimate computer," which, if it becomes fully operational, will mean the criminal organization even more formidable. The device is housed in a Thrush facility that uses a South American prison as a front. Kuryakin infiltrates it as a prisoner while Solo pretends to be the husband of an international prison inspector, Salty Oliver.
Episode 4
The Foxes and Hounds Affair
Fri, Oct 8, 1965 60 mins
The Magnificent Merlin, a nightclub magician in Paris, has developed an electronic mind translator. He offers it to U.N.C.L.E. who becomes highly interested after Merlin demonstrates he can successfully read sensitive information from Ilya's mind. Senior THRUSH operative Victor Marton hears of the device and covets it after Merlin reads his mind, too. Waverly realizes this, so he sets up Mimi Doolittle, an innocent American tourist who had substituted as Merlin's assistant for his final performance, to appear as the courier to bring the machine to U.N.C.L.E.'s New York labs. Napoleon is blindly sent as a recognizable U.N.C.L.E. agent to intercept her luggage and complete the deception. Lucia Belmont, one of Marton's rivals for THRUSH status, grabs Napoleon. Later, they go after Mimi and snag Ilya as he tries to protect her. Meanwhile, Ilya's partner Cantrell takes the mind translator to Canada via a commercial flight. From there he will charter a private plane and bring it to New York. Belmont uses sodium pentathol-plus to worm the arrival time and destination for Cantrell's plane. Napoleon and Ilya must coach Mimi to use her undeveloped feminine wiles to distract a guard so they can escape. Marton's plastic explosive handkerchief plays an unexpected role.
Episode 5
The Discotheque Affair
Fri, Oct 15, 1965 60 mins
Solo and Kuryakin investigate a Thrush operation which uses a a discotheque as a front.
Episode 6
The Re-Collectors Affair
Fri, Oct 22, 1965 60 mins
The Re-Collectors are hunting down Nazis, who had stolen priceless art works. Solo and Kuryakin investigate and discover the situation really is more complicated.
Episode 7
The Arabian Affair
Fri, Oct 29, 1965 60 mins
Thrush, at a base in the Middle East, is developing a "vaporizer," which dissolves almost any object. Kuryakin tries to enlist the assistance of a tribe of Arabs to help. Solo, meanwhile, convinces a soon-to-be retired Thrushman that he'll live longer if he switches sides.
Episode 8
The Tigers Are Coming Affair
Fri, Nov 5, 1965 60 mins
Agriculturist Suzanne de Serre (Jill Ireland) is in India, working for a UN agency helping out the poor. She calls for help, when the theft of her insecticides is followed by the destruction of jungle foliage. UNCLE agents Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Kuryakin (David McCallum) arrive undercover as a newspaperman and his photographer, respectively. They discover that the region's ruler, Prince Panat (Lee Bergere), and ex-Army officer Col. Quillon (Alan Caillou) are destroying the people's homes and using them as forced labor in the Prince's ruby mines.
Episode 9
The Deadly Toys Affair
Fri, Nov 12, 1965 60 mins
The son of a Thrush scientist is one of the most brilliant minds ever. UNCLE seeks to prevent the boy from ever working for Thrush.
Episode 10
The Cherry Blossom Affair
Fri, Nov 19, 1965 60 mins
The search for a volcano-activating device takes Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) to Japan, where they must find Thrush's Far East headquarters.
Episode 11
The Virtue Affair
Fri, Dec 3, 1965 50 mins
Mr. Robspierre, a descendant of the original Robspierre, plans to launch a nuclear missile and destroy France's vineyards. By doing so, he hopes to restore the virtue of France. Solo works to protect the daughter of a scientist Robspierre abducted while Kuryakin infiltrates Robspierre's operation.
Episode 12
The Children's Day Affair
Fri, Dec 10, 1965 60 mins
Thrush is operating a school for boys which really is training young assassins. The school's next target is an UNCLE gathering of top officials.
Episode 13
The Adriatic Express Affair
Fri, Dec 17, 1965 60 mins
Solo and Kuryakin, aboard the Adriatic Express from Vienna to Venice, are seeking a Thrush chemical that can end the reproductive process in life forms. We meet Madame Nemirovitch, who claims to be the founder of Thrush.
Episode 14
The Yukon Affair
Fri, Dec 24, 1965 60 mins
G. Emory Partridge returns, this time operating out of the Yukon, to again endanger Solo and Kuryakin.
Episode 15
The Very Important Zombie Affair
Fri, Dec 31, 1965 60 mins
El Supremo, the corrupt ruler of a Caribbean nation, abducts an opposition leader who had been under the protection of U.N.C.L.E. Solo and Kuryakin travel to El Supremo's country to free the opposition leader and bring down El Supremo.
Episode 16
The Dippy Blonde Affair
Fri, Jan 7, 1966 60 mins
Thrush is conducting an operation using a mortuary as a front. One Thrushman appears to commit suicide. Another is falling for the "dead" man's girlfriend. UNCLE is using the girlfriend, whose name is Jojo Tyler and the "dippy blonde" of the episode title, to break the operation.
Episode 17
The Deadly Goddess Affair
Fri, Jan 14, 1966 60 mins
Solo and Kuryakin lock horns with Colonel Hubris, a Thrush operative. They also run into trouble with the local police.
Episode 18
The Birds and the Bees Affair
Fri, Jan 21, 1966 60 mins
Thrush wipes out UNCLE's Geneva station with a strain of small, almost invisible, killer bees. The criminal organization next wants to use the bees on UNCLE's New York headquarters.
Episode 19
The Waverly Ring Affair
Fri, Jan 28, 1966 60 mins
Thrush has a mole inside UNCLE's New York headquarters. All signs point to George Dennell, a good-natured UNCLE employee who envies enforcement agents such as Solo and Kuryakin. Dennell protests he is innocent and Solo takes a big chance on George.
Episode 20
The Bridge of Lions Affair: Part 1
Fri, Feb 4, 1966 60 mins
Solo is sent to investigate the disappearance of an elderly scientist and emergence of man who looks like a youthful version of the scientist. He begins by talking to the man's daughter but she is killed before she could tell him anything. He then tries to talk to her employer, a woman who wants to empowered. He learns that a another scientist who worked with the one he is looking for works for her, so he looks for him. Eventually he learns that THRUSH is also looking for him.
Episode 21
The Bridge of Lions Affair: Part II
Fri, Feb 11, 1966 60 mins
A British politician's career is suddenly rejuvenated after he's been exposed to a device that reverses the aging process. But he's also a prisoner. He needs additional treatments and the machine is now under the control of Thrush and the politician's manipulative wife.
Episode 22
The Foreign Legion Affair
Fri, Feb 18, 1966 60 mins
Kuryakin, who has photographed Thrush codes needed by UNCLE, is captured by the criminal organization. He parachutes, with a stewardess, from a chartered aircraft over the North African desert. They end up at a Foreign Legion post, still manned by Basil Calhoun, who doesn't know the legion has been disbanded. Both Solo and Thrush are trying to get to Kuryakin.
Episode 23
The Moonglow Affair
Fri, Feb 25, 1966 60 mins
After Solo and Kuryakin are sidelined, Waverly turns to two agents: April Dancer, a young woman, and Mark Slate, a veteran operative who, it turns out, is older than 40, the retirement age for enforcement agents.
Episode 24
The Nowhere Affair
Fri, Mar 4, 1966 60 mins
Solo, on the verge of capture by Thrush, takes Capsule B, which induces amnesia.
Episode 25
The King of Diamonds Affair
Fri, Mar 11, 1966 60 mins
The title refers to criminal Rafael Delgado, an expert diamond thief. He's involved with a band of criminals, who dress in British style (bowler hats and umbrellas) but who speak Italian. It's implied they are Mafia types trying to pass themselves off as British. Delgado, even while in prison, has pulled off a stunning robbery with the help of the gang. So many diamonds are missing it could affect the world's economy.
Episode 26
The Project Deephole Affair
Fri, Mar 18, 1966 60 mins
Thrush mistakes Buzz Conway for a scientist. Solo and Kuryakin use that to their advantage while trying to smash a Thrush operation headed by Marvin Elom. Narcissus Darling, a Thrush femme fatale, also is involved.
Episode 27
The Round Table Affair
Fri, Mar 25, 1966 60 mins
Mafia types have taken control of Ingolstein, a small European country. The tiny nation has no extradition treaty, providing criminals with refuge.
Episode 28
The Bat Cave Affair
Fri, Apr 1, 1966 60 mins
Count Zark, a Thrush agent, operates out of Transylvania and has developed a worldwide menace involving bats. Meanwhile, UNCLE is checking out a young woman who seems capable of reading the minds of others. Solo and Kuryakin discover how both events are related.
Episode 29
The Minus-X Affair
Fri, Apr 8, 1966 60 mins
Professor Lillian Stemmler is collaborating with Thrush. She has developed two formulas: Plus X, which heightens the senses, and Minus X, which temporarily transforms people into child-like morons. Thrush intends to use both to steal U.S. military secrets.
Episode 30
The Indian Affairs Affair
Fri, Apr 15, 1966 60 mins
Thrushman L.C. Carson has kidnapped Chief Highcloud of the Cardiac tribe of Indians in Oklahoma. The criminal organization also is menacing the chief's daughter, Charisma, who dances in New York. It turns out Thrush is working on a hydrogen bomb on the Cardiac reservation. Solo leads a group of Indians, all riding motorcycles, in a climatic fight with the Thrush forces.
