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The Best Episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

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The Best Episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

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 ...

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  1. Background image for The Project Strigas Affair
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - The Project Strigas Affair

    S1:E9

    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).

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    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for The Dove Affair
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - The Dove Affair

    S1:E12

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for The Deadly Decoy Affair
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - The Deadly Decoy Affair

    S1:E15

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for The Iowa Scuba Affair
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - The Iowa Scuba Affair

    S1:E2

    Solo investigates the curious death of an air force man in Iowa with scuba gear, and with the help of Jill Denison (Katherine Crawford) uncovers a plan by Clint Spinner (Slim Pickens) to steal a missile- plane from a secret base under a farm.

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  5. Background image for The Quadripartite Affair
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - The Quadripartite Affair

    S1:E3

    In Yugoslavia, Solo and Illya are aided by Marion Raven (Jill Ireland) in stopping Gervaise Ravel (Anne Francis) and her partners from using a fear gas to overthrow various governments. While two of them are captured, two of them escape, and the story continues in "The Giuoco Piano Affair"

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  6. Background image for The Shark Affair
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - The Shark Affair

    S1:E4

    Solo and Illya investigate a series of kidnappings that lead to a modern-day pirate ship run by Captain Shark (Robert Culp), who is filling his Noah's Ark with craftsmen from all walks of life to repopulate the world after the nuclear holocaust he feels is imminent. With the help of Harry Barnman (Herbert Anderson) and his wife Elsa (Sue Anne Langdon). Solo and Illya pose as shipwrecked sailors to in turn wreck his plans.

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    Director:Marc Daniels
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for The Deadly Games Affair
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - The Deadly Games Affair

    S1:E5

    When a rare postage stamp at an auction reveals that a former SS scientist, Professor Amadeus, is still alive and experimenting with the secret of "suspended animation," Solo and Illya enlist the aid of college students Terry Brent (Brook Bundy) and Chuck Boskirk (Burt Brinckerhoff) to beat THRUSH agent Angelique (Janine Gray) to Amadeus's lab, where Solo is captured so his blood can be used to revive the suspended body of the Fuhrer.

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    Director:Unknown
  9. Background image for The Green Opal Affair
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - The Green Opal Affair

    S1:E6

    In the Yucatan, THRUSH agent Walter Brach (Carroll O'Connor) brainwashes important people from many nations to be "time bombs" who will return to their jobs and do THRUSH's bidding. After eluding Brach's henchmen Chuke (Shuji J. Nozawa) and his leopards, Solo and housewife Chris Linnel (Joan O'Brien) enlist the aid of Mrs. Karda (Dovima), Brach's numerologist, to help them escape.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - The Giuoco Piano Affair

    S1:E7

    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.

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  11. Background image for The Double Affair
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - The Double Affair

    S1:E8

    THRUSH creates a double for Solo, and with the seductive aid of Serena (Senta Berger), Darius Two (Michael Evans) kidnaps Solo and substitutes the phony into U.N.C.L.E.'s efforts to transport the code to a secret new weapon. Illya and stewardess Sandy Wister (Sharon Farrell) eventually realize a switch has been made, and the real Solo escapes and in a climactic scene battles "himself".

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for The Finny Foot Affair
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - The Finny Foot Affair

    S1:E10

    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.

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    Director:Marc Daniels
  13. Background image for The Neptune Affair
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - The Neptune Affair

    S1:E11

    A rocket launch which releases a damaging spore into the Soviet grain belt is traced back to the US. Illya Kuryakin is made to return home to Russia, who threaten to retaliate, so Napoleon Solo is forced to search alone for the group of scientists who are trying to start World War III.

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    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for The King of Knaves Affair
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - The King of Knaves Affair

    S1:E13

    Solo and Illya investigate the disappearance of several crime figures, and the trail leads to Fasik el Pasad (Paul Stevens), a deposed ruler who is building an army of criminals to regain power. Solo poses as a black-market arms dealer and infiltrates the operation, but is hampered by well-meaning Ernestine Pepper (Diana Millay), a notary public trying to find one of Fasik's men, Angel Galley (Jan Melin).

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    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for The Terbuf Affair
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - The Terbuf Affair

    S1:E14

    On vacation Solo is asked by an old love interest, Clara Valdar (Madlyn Rhue) to help her smuggle Gypsy leader Emil (Jacques Aubuchon) out of Terbuf with evidence that the corrupt head of the secret police, Colonel Morisco (Alan Caillou), has been embezzling foreign aid money with the aid of the repulsive Major Vicek (Albert Paulsen).

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    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for The Fiddlesticks Affair
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - The Fiddlesticks Affair

    S1:E16

    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.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - The Yellow Scarf Affair

    S1:E17

    Solo goes to India to investigate the death of a fellow U.N.C.L.E. agent in an airline crash, and discovers that a cult of Thuggees headed by a maharajah (Murray Matheson) is causing the crashes in order to loot the passengers. But Solo and THRUSH agent Tom Simpson (Linden Chiles) are looking to recover one item in particular - U.N.C.L.E.'s new polygraph device.

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    Director:Ron Winston
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for The Vulcan Affair
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #17 - The Vulcan Affair

    S1:E1

    After a THRUSH attempt to kill Waverly is thwarted, Solo is assigned to prevent the assassination of a visiting African premier (William Marshall) at the hands of Andrew Vulcan (Fritz Weaver), and with the help of a housewife (Patricia Crowley) he learns that the premier himself is allied with THRUSH and plans to kill his two top aides (Ivan Dixon and Rupert Crosse) in a fake accident.

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    Director:Don Medford
    Writer:Sam Rolfe
  19. Background image for The Jingle Bells Affair
    5.0/10(2 votes)

    #18 - The Jingle Bells Affair

    S3:E15

    Solo and Illya must protect Premier Georgi Koz, a Khrushchev like European leader, on a visit to New York, Priscilla Worth is befriended by Loz and she takes him to a school for Santa Clauses run by Francis X. O'Reilly where just one of a series of assassination attempts against him must be thwarted by the two U.N.C.L.E. agents.

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    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for The Mad, Mad, Tea Party Affair
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    #19 - The Mad, Mad, Tea Party Affair

    S1:E18

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for The Secret Sceptre Affair
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    #20 - The Secret Sceptre Affair

    S1:E19

    Solo and Illya agree to help Major Morgan (Gene Raymond), Solo's old commanding officer, steal a national symbol sceptre for his people from a dictator. Morgan is killed and Solo and Illya and Zia (Ziva Rodann), Morgan's female aide, are captured and sentenced to death. After they escape, they find that Morgan is still alive and has duped them into stealing the sceptre for him because of the precious gems it contains.

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    Director:Marc Daniels
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for The Bow-Wow Affair
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    #21 - The Bow-Wow Affair

    S1:E20

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for The Four-Steps Affair
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    #22 - The Four-Steps Affair

    S1:E21

    Solo and Illya protect a young Himalayan prince (Michel Petit) and his nurse (Susan Seaforth) from THRUSH agents who want to kidnap him one of whom turns out to be his bodyguard.

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  24. Background image for The See-Paris-and-Die Affair
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    #23 - The See-Paris-and-Die Affair

    S1:E22

    Solo uses the former girlfriend (Kathryn Hays) of 2 brothers, Joseph and Max Van Schreetan (Gerald Mohr, Lloyd Bochner), to thwart their plan to control the diamond market, while at the same time THRUSH agent Corio (Alfred Ryder) tries to steal their cache of gems.

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  25. Background image for The Brain-Killer Affair
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    #24 - The Brain-Killer Affair

    S1:E23

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for The Hong Kong Shilling Affair
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    #25 - The Hong Kong Shilling Affair

    S1:E24

    Solo is aided by tourist Bernie Oren (Glenn Corbett) in finding a black market auction in Hong Kong run by Mr. Cleveland (Gavin McLeod) that sells military secrets, including a microfilm in a rare coin. Oren is infatuated with Heavenly Cortello (Karen Sharpe), and hinders more than he helps Solo, while Illya tries to infiltrate the auction disguised as a Mongolian warlord.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"The Project Strigas Affair" is the best rated episode of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.". It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Joseph Sargent and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/24/1964. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Dove Affair".