8.8/10235 votesLoading...#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
8.6/10317 votesLoading...#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
8.6/10227 votesLoading...#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
8.5/10218 votesLoading...#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
8.3/10243 votesLoading...#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
8.3/10138 votesLoading...#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
8.1/10100 votesLoading...#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
8.1/1090 votesLoading...#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
8.0/10231 votesLoading...#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
8.0/10103 votesLoading...#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
7.9/10108 votesLoading...#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
7.9/1094 votesLoading...#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
7.8/10168 votesLoading...#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
7.8/10234 votesLoading...#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
7.8/10212 votesLoading...#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
7.8/10103 votesLoading...#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
7.8/1082 votesLoading...#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
7.7/10236 votesLoading...#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: Alan Caillou
7.7/10195 votesLoading...#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
7.7/1096 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10133 votesLoading...#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
7.6/1083 votesLoading...#22 - 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
7.6/1081 votesLoading...#23 - 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
7.6/1075 votesLoading...#24 - The Maze Affair
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 12/18/1967
Oliver Barnes (Lawrence Mantaigne), a THRUSH agent, unsuccessfully tries to destroy a package. Solo and Illya suspect a connection between this and a new ""molecutronic gun"" developed by Dr. Fabray (William Marshall). Solo runs into Abbe Nelton (Anna Capri). Fabray turns out to be a THRUSH collaborator. The entire scheme was a plan to get Illya to take the ""gun"" actually a bomb, into U.N.C.L.E. headquarters in Trojan Horse fashion.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: N/A
7.5/10180 votesLoading...#25 - The Deadly Games Affair
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1964
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Dick Nelson
The Best Episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Every episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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 ...
Genres:Action & AdventureComedySci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:NBC
Best Episodes Summary
"The Mad, Mad, Tea Party Affair" is the best rated episode of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.". It scored 8.8/10 based on 235 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/1/1965. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Project Strigas Affair".