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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.

Genres:Action & AdventureComedySci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:NBC

Top Episode Ratings Summary

The best episode of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." is "The Mad, Mad, Tea Party Affair", rated 8.8/10 from 236 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "The Mad, Mad, Tea Party Affair" aired on 2/1/1965 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Project Strigas Affair".

  • The Mad, Mad, Tea Party Affair
    8.8/10 236 votes

    #1 - The Mad, Mad, Tea Party Affair

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/1/1965

    Prior to an important conference at U.N.C.L.E. headquarters, a bizarre series of events occurs revolving around a strange man Mr. Hemmingway (Richard Haydn) who keeps appearing and disappearing at will in the building. Solo and Illya learn that he has been placed there by Waverly to test the security system, but THRUSH also has an inside agent, Riley (Peter Haskell), who plants an exploding false tabletop on the conference table at the direction of Dr. Egret (Lee Meriwether). Solo has only a few minutes, before the conference is to begin, to try and find out who the infiltrator is.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Project Strigas Affair
    8.6/10 318 votes

    #2 - The Project Strigas Affair

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1964

    Solo and Illya devise a clever scheme to discredit a Balkan intelligence chief (Werner Klemperer) with a bogus secret gas. With the help of a bankrupt exterminator (William Shatner) and his wife, Illya poses as a fellow countryman and exploits the paranoia of the chief and his bumbling assistant (Leonard Nimoy).

    Director: Joseph Sargent

    Writer: N/A

  • The Never-Never Affair
    8.6/10 227 votes

    #3 - The Never-Never Affair

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/22/1965

    U.N.C.L.E. Portuguese translator Mandy Stevenson (Barbara Feldon) hungers for more excitement, so Solo sends her on a fake mission to get Waverly's tobacco not realizing she has taken an important microfilm that THRUSH is after. Solo, Illya and THRUSH pursue her through the streets of Manhattan, and eventually she and Solo are captured by the THRUSH leader, Victor Gervais (Cesar Romero), and Solo has to use his skills as a marksman to escape.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Deadly Decoy Affair
    8.5/10 218 votes

    #4 - The Deadly Decoy Affair

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/11/1965

    U.N.C.L.E. must transport captured THRUSH official Egon Stryker (Ralph Taeger) from New York to Washington with THRUSH rescuing him. While Waverly takes a decoy along one route, Solo and Illya take the real Stryker. Or is it ? But in a mixup, Fran Parsons (Joanna Moore),a secretary on her lunch hour, gets handcuffed to Stryker and has to go along.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Finny Foot Affair
    8.3/10 244 votes

    #5 - The Finny Foot Affair

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/1964

    Solo gets an unwelcome young companion (Kurt Russell), a ten year old who wants Solo to marry his widowed mother, in his efforts to find the source of a deadly chemical that killed an entire Scottish village. In a race to find the source with General Yokura (Leonard Strong), Solo eventually uses a ring on the finger of a statue to pinpoint a cave where the deadly chemical has leaked from, but has to use his wits to escape when he is trapped there by Yokura and his men.

    Director: Marc Daniels

    Writer: Jack Turley

  • The Foxes and Hounds Affair
    8.3/10 138 votes

    #6 - The Foxes and Hounds Affair

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1965

    U.N.C.L.E. and Thrush agents compete to gain possession of a mind-reading device created by a magician who has been murdered by Thrush.

    Director: Alf Kjellin

    Writer: Peter Allan Fields

  • The Waverly Ring Affair
    8.1/10 101 votes

    #7 - The Waverly Ring Affair

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/28/1966

    When secret ""File 40"" documents turn up outside headquarters, Waverly assigns Solo and Illya to find out if George Donnell is a double agent. Carla Drosten is too anxious to accuse Donnell and Solo must use special ""Waverly rings"" to try and expose the real double agent.

    Director: John Brahm

    Writer: N/A

  • The Project Deephole Affair
    8.1/10 90 votes

    #8 - The Project Deephole Affair

    Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 3/18/1966

    THRUSH agent Elom tries to kidnap a geologist who has developed an earthquake activating machine, but mistakes debt-ridden salesman Buzz Conway for the scientist. Solo and Illya let THRUSH go on thinking Conway is the scientist, while Elom lets his attraction for THRUSH agent Narcissus Darling interfere with his judgment. Conway is captured, and Solo and Illya must rescue him and find the machine.

    Director: Alex March

    Writer: N/A

  • The Dove Affair
    8.0/10 231 votes

    #9 - The Dove Affair

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/15/1964

    When a minor European leader is assassinated, Solo steals a medallion from his body containing a microdot listing the THRUSH agents in the country, but must elude the secret police and outwit intelligence agent Satine (Ricardo Montalban), who also wants the medal. Teacher and tour guide Sara Taub (June Lockhart) and her high school students are used by Solo to try and sneak the medal over the border.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Adriatic Express Affair
    8.0/10 103 votes

    #10 - The Adriatic Express Affair

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/17/1965

    Solo and Illya board the Adriatic Express train on New Year's Eve to intercept Madame Nemirovitch, a THRUSH agent who is carrying a chemical that is capable of stopping the reproductive process. Eva, a young girl who delivers a message to Madame Nemirovitch as the train leaves, is caught on board. Throughout the evening, the THRUSH agent and Solo and Illya engage in a battle of wits as the train speeds along its route.

    Director: Seymour Robbie

    Writer: N/A

  • The Re-Collector's Affair
    7.9/10 109 votes

    #11 - The Re-Collector's Affair

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1965

    The 'Re-collectors' claim to be trying to locate works of art stolen by the Nazi's but all is not as it appears.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Minus-X Affair
    7.9/10 94 votes

    #12 - The Minus-X Affair

    Season 2 Episode 29 - Aired 4/8/1966

    Solo and Illya try to protect Professor Lillian Stemmler from THRUSH after she invents a drug called Plus X, which heightens all the human senses. Unbeknownst to them, she is a THRUSH agent herself who at first cooperates willingly, then has second thoughts. But THRUSH agent Rollo kidnaps her daughter Leslie and forces her to cooperate. The drug is given to three THRUSH agents who will attack a U.S. government plutonium plant using their superior senses, while at the same time the guards will be given a dose of Minus X, which dulls the senses.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Bow-Wow Affair
    7.8/10 169 votes

    #13 - The Bow-Wow Affair

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/15/1965

    Waverly's cousin is killed by his own dog when he refuses to sell his stock to a gypsy named Delgrovia (Paul Lambert), so Illya investigates and, with the help of Ursula (Susan Oliver) and dog expert Guido Panzini (Pat Harrington Jr.), traces two of the dogs to Delgrovia's estate, where he and Ursula are soon cornered by a pack of deadly Doberman pinschers.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Brain-Killer Affair
    7.8/10 233 votes

    #14 - The Brain-Killer Affair

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/8/1965

    Waverly is poisoned, and taken to a hospital where he is subjected to the rays of a brain-altering machine by THRUSH agent Dr, Dabree (Elsa Lanchester) designed to make him ineffective without killing him. While investigating others who have suffered the same fate, Solo finds Cecille Bergstrom (Yvonne Craig) and together they try to unravel the mystery and save Waverly.

    Director: James Goldstone

    Writer: N/A

  • The Gazebo in the Maze Affair
    7.8/10 212 votes

    #15 - The Gazebo in the Maze Affair

    Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/5/1965

    Squire G. Emory Partridge (George Sanders) kidnaps Illya and lures Solo to his manor in order to kill them off in his dungeon torture chamber in revenge for a past encounter. But Peggy Durance (Bonnie Franklin) helps them escape, with the unintended aid of Partridge's bumbling wife Edith (Jeanette Nolan).

    Director: Alf Kjellin

    Writer: Dean Hargrove

  • The Children's Day Affair
    7.8/10 104 votes

    #16 - The Children's Day Affair

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/10/1965

    A top-level U.N.C.L.E. conference is to be held in Switzerland, but a nearby boys' school is actually a THRUSH front run by Mother Fear and Dennis Jenks that is training its students to be assassins. Solo is captured by the boys, and, when he refuses to reveal the conference location, is forced to operate the controls of two electric trains so they do not collide with each carrying a vial of deadly nerve gas. Illya and Anna Paola, a social worker who resent children, are also captured. The escape, and arrive at the conference just as the boy's choir is ready to kill Waverly and the others with THRUSH rifles from under their robes.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Concrete Overcoat Affair (2)
    7.8/10 83 votes

    #17 - The Concrete Overcoat Affair (2)

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/2/1966

    While in Italy investigating a THRUSH plan to divert the Gulf Stream with heavy water, Solo finds himself eluding THRUSH guards, and ends up hiding under the bed of Pia Monteri. Solo escapes a shotgun wedding, the family feels Pia's honor has been compromised, and the girl's American uncles retired Prohibition-era gangsters ""Fingers"" Stilletto, Enzo ""Pretty"" Stilletto, and Federico ""Feet"" Stilletto are called. At the island headquarters of Louis Strago, Illya is tortured by Strago's sadistic female assistant, Miss Diketon. Solo joins forces with the Stilletto brothers to try and rescue him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Giuoco Piano Affair
    7.7/10 236 votes

    #18 - The Giuoco Piano Affair

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1964

    The conuation of "The Quadripartite Affair". Gervaise Ravel (Anne Francis) returns and Solo and Illya again enlist Marion Raven (Jill Ireland) to help them pursue her through the Andes, where the treachery of police lieutenant Manuera (James Frawley) impedes their efforts to capture Ravel.

    Director: Richard Donner

    Writer: N/A

  • The Odd Man Affair
    7.7/10 195 votes

    #19 - The Odd Man Affair

    Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/19/1965

    Retired U.N.C.L.E. agent Albert Sully (Martin Balsam) is brought back to impersonate a crime syndicate leader, and insists on leaving Solo and Illya behind and running the operation himself. He reunites with wartime fellow agent and old flame Bryn Watson (Barbara Shelly) and tracks down a secret crime conference, with the exasperated Solo and Illya trying to keep him from being killed in the process.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Cherry Blossom Affair
    7.7/10 96 votes

    #20 - The Cherry Blossom Affair

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/19/1965

    THRUSH eastern in Japan acquires a volcano-activating device, and Solo and Illya, along with Cricket Okasada, a film student, infiltrate a toy store and a karate school to find it. THRUSH leader Mr. Kutuzov oversees local THRUSH head Harada in the operation, and Solo finds himself fighting for his life against a life size sword wielding puppet.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Fiddlesticks Affair
    7.6/10 134 votes

    #21 - The Fiddlesticks Affair

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/18/1965

    THRUSH agent Anton Korbel (Ken Murray) guards THRUSH's fifty-million dollar treasury in a vault beneath his casino, and Solo and Illya recruit a naive girl from Minneapolis, Susan Callaway (Marlyn Mason), and shady safecracker Marcel Rudoph (Dan O'Herlihy) to break in and destroy the cash.

    Director: Theodore J. Flicker

    Writer: Peter Allan Fields

  • The Girls of Nazarone Affair
    7.6/10 139 votes

    #22 - The Girls of Nazarone Affair

    Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/12/1965

    Solo and Illya travel to the Riveria, where they search for a serum that supposedly provides great strength and even brings the dead back to life. There they meet Madame Streigau (Marian Moses), who is actually Dr. Egret of THRUSH, as well as Lucia Nazarone (Danica d'Hondt) and her bevy of beautiful blonde helpers. With the help of teacher Lavina Brown (Kipp Hamilton), they trick Mazarone into thinking they have the serum also, and become the targets of her "superwomen".

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Peter Allan Fields

  • The Galatea Affair
    7.6/10 84 votes

    #23 - The Galatea Affair

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1966

    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.

    Director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck

    Writer: N/A

  • The Concrete Overcoat Affair (1)
    7.6/10 88 votes

    #24 - The Concrete Overcoat Affair (1)

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/25/1966

    While in Italy investigating a THRUSH plan to divert the Gulf Stream with heavy water, Solo finds himself eluding THRUSH guards, and ends up hiding under the bed of Pia Monteri. Solo escapes a shotgun wedding, the family feels Pia's honor has been compromised, and the girl's American uncles retired Prohibition-era gangsters ""Fingers"" Stilletto, Enzo ""Pretty"" Stilletto, and Federico ""Feet"" Stilletto are called. At the island headquarters of Louis Strago, Illya is tortured by Strago's sadistic female assistant, Miss Diketon. Solo joins forces with the Stilletto brothers to try and rescue him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Deadly Quest Affair
    7.6/10 81 votes

    #25 - The Deadly Quest Affair

    Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 10/30/1967

    Illya recuperating in the hospital, is kidnapped by an old enemy, Viktor Karmak (Darrin McGavin), to lure Solo into a trap. Solo follows a clue to a twelve block condemned area of Manhattan, and finds modern artist Sheila Van Tillson (Marlyn Mason). Karmak appears and announces that Solo has until dawn to find Illya before a deadly gas kills him, while Karmak and his pet jaguar will try to hunt Solo down at the same time.

    Director: Alf Kjellin

    Writer: N/A