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So are they ever going to bundle all of the 1960's THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. episodes and put them on DVD?

T.H.R.U.S.H.
Robert Vaughn as Napoleon Solo
David McCallum as Illya Kuryakin



PEACH

The answer to these two words?

....is a babe!!!

What about April Dancer and Mark Slate?

Yeah baby! I so totally agree! oo I used to just love playing spies with my two little boyfriends when I was 6, and I always wanted to be Illya Kuryakin!!

The skateboards at that time had metal wheels LOL and we used to terrorize Pacific Heights in San Francisco, ducking in and out of the Victorian Mansion alleys. Oh we thought we were so devious LOL (geez what a racket those skateboards made, it's hysterical how kids take themselves so seriously).

He was my hearthrob. He still is!! So . . . why no DVD on this campy cult favorite?

P.E.A.C.H.

YES! I'm so glad I'm not the only one ancient around here.

PEACH

The U.N.C.L.E. shows were very entertaining. They had good actors and action packed plots. I would buy both series just to see some of the guest stars, such as Boris Karloff.

I'm not "ancient" but am a huge fan of classic TV as most of it is so much better than the programming of this age. I became a fan of this show a couple years ago when reruns aired on TNT, and would buy complete season sets on DVD of this series in a heartbeat!

Well, I guess that I must be ancient since I watched the series when they originally aired.

Heck ya! I loved this show!! I've been wondering about it too...

And yeah, his character was a totally brainy britishy babe.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who had a metal wheel skateboard. Steel wheels and a real wood board. We had those steel wheels worn down to the axels, before we finally threw them out. We too watched U.N.C.L.E on it's first run. I even had a toy spy suitcase with a spy camera built in and a cool spy gun. Definitely looking foward to the DVD release.

MGM-UA put out 16 uncut episdoes on LD, 8 to a box set. They were:

1) The Project Strigas Affair(William Shatner/Leonard Nimoy)
2) The Never Never Affair(Cesar Romero/Barbara Feldon)
3) The Off-Broadway Affair(Shari Lewis)
4) The Take Me To Your Leader Affair(Nancy Sinatra)
5) The Galatea Affair(Joan Collins/Noel Harrison)
6) The Deadly Yoys Affair(Angela Lansbury/JayNorth)
7) The Five Daughters Affair Pt.1+2(Joan Crawford/Telly Savalas)

1) The Gazebo In The Maze Affair(George Sanders/Bonnie Franklin)
2) The Yukon Affair(George Sanders)
3) The Minus X Affair(Eve Arden)
4) The Come With Me To The Casbah Affair(Abbe Lane)
5) The Hot Number Affair(Sonny and Cher)
6) The Arabian Affair(Michael Ansara)
7) The Concrete Overcoat Affair Pt.1+2(Jacl Palance/Janet Leigh/Joan Blondell)

I'll let you look up and find out during what season these played.

Good old "Dr. No," it started everything!

I also watched many of these when they ran on TNT, albeit time compressed, edited and often airing at 4 A.M. after a basketball game. I preferred the less goofy black and white episodes. I remember one episode that guest starred both William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy pre-Trek. Ah, I see its listed above.


I'm more of a Napoleon Solo fan myself though not in the way some female fans might be. Robert Vaughn was damn suave. I really wish he'd been given better roles in later years.

My first crush was on Noel Harrison. I sure hope the series will be released some day.

Oh and a to Ms Peach.... your posts are too cute.

It's time for this classic to get the deluxe treatment!

I had that same briefcase complete with the special U.N.C.L.E. gun. That was such a great toy.

Babe-a-Licious! Remember how he used to toss his hair back out of his face? Woof. And Vaughn was Mr. Suave. Mr. Control.

P.E.A.C.H.

Oh Mike does this bring back memories. I noticed you're from No. Cal. If perchance you were around San Francisco during the 60's you will remember that there used to be a Sears & Roebuck on "Pill Hill" (a location a few miles from Downtown S.F., for the uninitiated).

That was where my mom broke down and finally grudged to get me my first skateboard: A blue Sears & Roebuck job, about 15" long with metal wheels that could wake the dead. Ka-click, Ka-click, Ka-click, Ka-click . . . I used to go to the top of the block and ride those sidewalks going at the blistering speed of about .01 miles-per-hour LOL. Oh we were demons on our skateboards! My two little boyfriends also had Sears skateboards.

Somehow these factored into the very important business of playing Man from U.N.C.L.E. LOL. Being three, one person always had to play the villian, so we would rotate roles. But I always wanted to be Illya.

I'll never forget how mortified my mother was when she finally discovered that we were decapitating various limbs from my Barbie dolls and hanging their parts out the window of my 2nd story bedroom. Having failed also with the Barbie Doll Dreamhouse and the Chatty Cathy, she doubtless considered a skateboard the lesser of two vices. The neighbors never forgave her.

My skates were even more appalling than the skateboard — hideous strap-on orthopedic-looking metal jobs with metal wheels that you soon realized went approximately at the speed with which your legs drove them (certainly no more). I could stand still on a hill in S.F. (now that's a redundant statement LOL) in those dumb skates and nothing would compel those wheels to go. I used to just walk around with them on LOL.

P.E.A.C.H.

What a good job you did researching this Sparks! Isn't it impressive to see these names? Honestly, I'm genuinely surprised that U.N.C.L.E. hasn't been boxed in a classy DVD set. I'll bet there are millions of people who would love to see this series for the first time . . . if for no other reason than to be able to see the early careers of some of the supporting cast members, many of whom would go on to become prominent stars in their own right.

Who caught U.N.C.L.E. the last time it was tossed around? MGM? Warner? It's confusing when you look at the VHS versions of these episodes to see who exactly owns it right now.

P.E.A.C.H.

Oh maaaaaaaan. An U.N.C.L.E. gun? Now I am jealous!

Geez can you imagine how much these toys would get on EBAY? oh oh . . . No. I won't.

P.E.A.C.H.
My poor long-suffering credit card.

Was that the briefcase that had a knife that popped out near the latches and the "camera" was activated by pressing one of the latches? Or am I confusing that with my James Bond spy attache?

Yes I too saw the Man From UNCLE during its first run. I guess that makes me ancient too.

This is yet another set to go on my wish list.

I'm waiting for "The Girl from U.N.C.L.E." with Stephanie Powers. A little t&a to boost rating but it didn't help...it didn't help "Batman" with BatGirl!