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The Best Episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2

Every episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2!

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

Season 2 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." season 2 is "The Alexander the Greater Affair (1)", rated 7.4/10 from 123 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "The Alexander the Greater Affair (1)" aired on 9/17/1965 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Alexander the Greater Affair (2)".

  • The Alexander the Greater Affair (1)
    7.4/10 123 votes

    #1 - The Alexander the Greater Affair (1)

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1965

    Alexander (Rip Torn) a megalomaniac industrialist, plans to conquer the world like his namesake, Alexander the Great by breaking each of the ten commandments along the way. he has his henchman Parvix (David Sheiner) steal the army's ""will gas"" to help him do so, and Solo investigates. Solo encounters Tracey Alexander (Dorothy Provine), Alexander's ex-wife, who wants to tag along with Solo to get the money Alexander owes her. The trail leads Solo, Illya, and Tracey to a posh party at Alexander's, where Solo defeats him in a human chess game; to a tomb, where Alexander and his aide Dr. Kavon (David Opatoshu) leave Solo tied under a descending scimitar while Illya and Tracey are hanging over a bottomless pit with a candle burning their rope; To Alexander's farm in Virginia, where Illya is nearly cut in two by various farm implements.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Alexander the Greater Affair (2)
    7.3/10 117 votes

    #2 - The Alexander the Greater Affair (2)

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1965

    Alexander (Rip Torn) a megalomaniac industrialist, plans to conquer the world like his namesake, Alexander the Great by breaking each of the ten commandments along the way. he has his henchman Parvix (David Sheiner) steal the army's ""will gas"" to help him do so, and Solo investigates. Solo encounters Tracey Alexander (Dorothy Provine), Alexander's ex-wife, who wants to tag along with Solo to get the money Alexander owes her. The trail leads Solo, Illya, and Tracey to a posh party at Alexander's, where Solo defeats him in a human chess game; to a tomb, where Alexander and his aide Dr. Kavon (David Opatoshu) leave Solo tied under a descending scimitar while Illya and Tracey are hanging over a bottomless pit with a candle burning their rope; To Alexander's farm in Virginia, where Illya is nearly cut in two by various farm implements.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Ultimate Computer Affair
    7.5/10 115 votes

    #3 - The Ultimate Computer Affair

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1965

    Illya Kuryakin infiltrates a South American prison camp where Thrush are storing the 'Ultimate Computer'.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Foxes and Hounds Affair
    8.3/10 138 votes

    #4 - 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 Discotheque Affair
    7.5/10 116 votes

    #5 - The Discotheque Affair

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1965

    Napoleon Solo is given the job of searching for Thrush security records.

    Director: Tom Gries

    Writer: Dean Hargrove

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

    #6 - 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 Arabian Affair
    7.4/10 105 votes

    #7 - The Arabian Affair

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1965

    Illya goes to find Thrush's vaporizing machine, but is captured by Sophie, the headstrong daughter of the local tribal chief, Sulador. in New York Solo convinces retiring THRUSH agent David Lewin that THRUSH intends to kill him, and elicits his help. Lewin and Solo are taken to the base in the desert, just as Illya leads the band of nomads, whose confidence he has gained, in an attack on the base.

    Director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck

    Writer: Peter Allan Fields

  • The Tigers are Coming Affair
    6.7/10 101 votes

    #8 - The Tigers are Coming Affair

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/1965

    Solo and Illya go to India to help Suzanne de Serre, a French botanist trying to find out why the jungle is dying and local natives are disappearing. Prince Panat and Drusilla Davina, along with Colonel Quillon, are systematically using a chemical to destroy the jungle and kidnapping natives to work in the jewel mines for the prince.

    Director: Herschel Daugherty

    Writer: Alan Caillou

  • The Deadly Toys Affair
    7.3/10 114 votes

    #9 - The Deadly Toys Affair

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1965

    THRUSH is so eager to get their hands on a boy genius that they murder the boy's father. But then they have to deal with the boy's madcap aunt.

    Director: John Brahm

    Writer: N/A

  • The Cherry Blossom Affair
    7.7/10 96 votes

    #10 - 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 Virtue Affair
    7.3/10 90 votes

    #11 - The Virtue Affair

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/3/1965

    French fanatic Robespierre seeks to destroy France's vineyards in his quest for virtue, and Solo enlists the aid of scientist Raoul Dubois and his daughter Albert in combating the plan. Illya is captured by THRUSH agent Carl Voegler and, with a target painted on his back, is hunted through the woods by Voegler's archers.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Henry Slesar

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

    #12 - 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 Adriatic Express Affair
    8.0/10 103 votes

    #13 - 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 Yukon Affair
    6.9/10 98 votes

    #14 - The Yukon Affair

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/24/1965

    Squire G. Emory Partridge returns, having acquired in Alaska a large quantity of Quadrillenium X, a very heavy metal with high magnetic powers which THRUSH wants to use to disrupt world communications. Solo and Illya are nearly killed by the local Eskimos, but are saved by the chief's daughter, Murphy. Partridge and his niece Victoria capture them, but they escape only to end up in a tavern brawl.

    Director: Alf Kjellin

    Writer: N/A

  • The Very Important Zombie Affair
    6.6/10 93 votes

    #15 - The Very Important Zombie Affair

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/31/1965

    Solo and Illya travel to the Caribbean to help Dr. Delgado, who is under a voodoo curse and in a zombielike trance thanks to the local dictator, El Supremo, and his chief of police, Captain Ramirez. The U.N.C.L.E. agents are assisted by Suzy, an American hairdresser whom El Supremo will not let leave the island. They eventually turn to voodoo queen Mama Lou to turn the tables on him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Dippy Blonde Affair
    7.2/10 91 votes

    #16 - The Dippy Blonde Affair

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/7/1966

    THRUSH agent Harry Pendleton is captured and commits ""suicide"" with a reversible chemical, but his superior, Simon Baldinado, refuses to revive him because he is attracted to Pendleton's girlfriend, Jojo Tyler, Solo gets Jojo to help U.N.C.L.E. retrieve the ion projection machine Baldinado has hidden at the mortuary front for THRUSH by feigning affection for Baldinado, who allows his personal plans for Jojo to affect his judgment.

    Director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck

    Writer: N/A

  • The Deadly Goddess Affair
    7.2/10 99 votes

    #17 - The Deadly Goddess Affair

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/14/1966

    Solo and Illya travel to Circe to intercept a drone plane carrying a load of THRUSH cash. There, they encounter THRUSH agent Colonel Hubris, as well as two local girls who are looking for husbands.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Birds and the Bees Affair
    7.4/10 94 votes

    #18 - The Birds and the Bees Affair

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/21/1966

    THRUSH has developed with the aid of Dr. Elias Swan, a strain of minute, deadly bees. THRUSH agent Mr. Mozart captures Illya and Tavia Sandor and uses a high-frequency sound machine that threatens to shatter their eardrums to force Illya to take him to U.N.C.L.E. headquarters so he can release the bees. Illya does so, but Mozart is intercepted, and in a battle on a rooftop Mozart is shot and the bees get loose.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Waverly Ring Affair
    8.1/10 101 votes

    #19 - 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 Bridge of Lions Affair (1)
    7.5/10 99 votes

    #20 - The Bridge of Lions Affair (1)

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/4/1966

    Illya investigates the mysterious disappearance of cats in Soho, and he and Solo discover that a salon run by Madame De Sala is a front for her plan to develop a rejuvenation process, which De Sala plans to use on the now elderly target of her romantic desires, Sir Norman Swickert. Assisted by Joanna Sweet, a nurse, they end up in the bottom of a wine press. Meanwhile, THRUSH agent Jordin plots to obtain the process for THRUSH.

    Director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck

    Writer: N/A

  • The Bridge of Lions Affair (2)
    7.3/10 92 votes

    #21 - The Bridge of Lions Affair (2)

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/11/1966

    Illya investigates the mysterious disappearance of cats in Soho, and he and Solo discover that a salon run by Madame De Sala is a front for her plan to develop a rejuvenation process, which De Sala plans to use on the now elderly target of her romantic desires, Sir Norman Swickert. Assisted by Joanna Sweet, a nurse, they end up in the bottom of a wine press. Meanwhile, THRUSH agent Jordin plots to obtain the process for THRUSH.

    Director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck

    Writer: N/A

  • The Foreign Legion Affair
    6.7/10 102 votes

    #22 - The Foreign Legion Affair

    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/18/1966

    Illya parachutes out of a plane carrying THRUSH code documents, but lands in the desert at an abandoned Foreign Legion post run by Captain Basil Calhoun (Howard Da Silva). Illya is accompanied by a stewardess, Barbara (Danielle DeMetz) while Solo races to find them before THRUSH does.

    Director: John Brahm

    Writer: N/A

  • The Moonglow Affair
    7.5/10 98 votes

    #23 - The Moonglow Affair

    Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 2/25/1966

    While investigating a THRUSH plot to sabotage space shots, Solo and Illya are incapacitated by a quartzite radiation projector. Waverly assigns new trainee April Dancer along with over the age of retirement agent Mark Slateto find the antidote and destroy the plan. April infiltrates the cosmetics company of THRUSH agent Arthur Caresse as a model, but she is uncovered by Caresse's sister Jean.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Nowhere Affair
    7.0/10 87 votes

    #24 - The Nowhere Affair

    Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/4/1966

    Solo, while searching for a secret map in Nevada, swallows an amnesia capsule just before being captured. THRUSH agents Arum Tertunian and Longolius try to revive his memory with a seductive female agent, Mara, while Illya races to find him before he starts to remember.

    Director: Michael Ritchie

    Writer: N/A

  • The King of Diamonds Affair
    7.4/10 88 votes

    #25 - The King of Diamonds Affair

    Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/11/1966

    Solo and Illya discover that the world diamond market is being affected by a gang of English criminals headed by Blodgett, who smuggle diamonds inside pudding sold unwittingly by Victoria Poque. They enlist the aid of a master diamond thief, Rafael Delgado. Solo and Victoria end up in Brazil, with Solo tied to the front of a cannon and about to be executed.

    Director: Joseph Sargent

    Writer: Edwin Blum