The Best Episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 1
Every episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 1!
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.
Season 1 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." season 1 is "The Vulcan Affair", rated 7.4/10 from 352 user votes. It was directed by Don Medford and written by Sam Rolfe. "The Vulcan Affair" aired on 9/22/1964 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Iowa Scuba Affair".
7.4/10 352 votes#1 - The Vulcan Affair
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1964
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.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: Sam Rolfe
7.3/10 208 votes#2 - The Iowa Scuba Affair
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1964
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.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: Harold Jack Bloom
7.3/10 193 votes#3 - The Quadripartite Affair
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1964
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"
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: Alan Caillou
7.2/10 189 votes#4 - The Shark Affair
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1964
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.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 180 votes#5 - 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
7.3/10 163 votes#6 - The Green Opal Affair
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1964
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.
Director: John Peyser
Writer: Robert E. Thompson
7.7/10 236 votes#7 - 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
7.4/10 172 votes#8 - The Double Affair
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1964
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".
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
8.6/10 318 votes#9 - 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
8.3/10 244 votes#10 - 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
7.0/10 142 votes#11 - The Neptune Affair
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1964
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.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 231 votes#12 - 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
6.9/10 137 votes#13 - The King of Knaves Affair
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/22/1964
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).
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 211 votes#14 - The Terbuf Affair
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/29/1964
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).
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: N/A
8.5/10 218 votes#15 - 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
7.6/10 134 votes#16 - 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
7.2/10 129 votes#17 - The Yellow Scarf Affair
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/25/1965
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.
Director: Ron Winston
Writer: N/A
8.8/10 236 votes#18 - 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
7.1/10 127 votes#19 - The Secret Sceptre Affair
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/8/1965
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.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 169 votes#20 - 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
7.5/10 147 votes#21 - The Four-Steps Affair
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/22/1965
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Peter Allan Fields
7.2/10 123 votes#22 - The See-Paris-and-Die Affair
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/1/1965
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.
Director: Alf Kjellin
Writer: Peter Allan Fields
7.8/10 233 votes#23 - 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
7.4/10 123 votes#24 - The Hong Kong Shilling Affair
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/15/1965
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.6/10 227 votes#25 - 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