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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

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    The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 1 Episode 18 - The Mad, Mad, Tea Party Affair
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    #1 - 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.

    Director:Seymour Robbie
    Writer:Dick Nelson

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  2. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 1 Episode 19 - The Secret Sceptre Affair
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    #2 - 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.

    Director:Marc Daniels
    Writer:Anthony Spinner

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  3. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 1 Episode 20 - The Bow-Wow Affair
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    #3 - 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.

    Director:Sherman Marks
    Writer:Alan Caillou

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  4. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 1 Episode 21 - The Four-Steps Affair
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    #4 - 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.

    Director:Alvin Ganzer
    Writer:Peter Allan Fields

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  5. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 1 Episode 22 - The See-Paris-and-Die Affair
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    #5 - 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.

    Director:Alf Kjellin
    Writer:Peter Allan Fields

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  6. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 1 Episode 23 - The Brain-Killer Affair
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    #6 - 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.

    Director:James Goldstone
    Writer:Archie L. Tegland

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  7. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 1 Episode 24 - The Hong Kong Shilling Affair
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    #7 - 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.

    Director:Alvin Ganzer
    Writer:Alan Caillou

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  8. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 1 Episode 25 - The Never-Never Affair
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    #8 - The Never-Never Affair

    S1:E25

    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:Joseph Sargent
    Writer:Dean Hargrove

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  9. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 1 Episode 26 - The Love Affair
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    #9 - The Love Affair

    S1:E26

    Solo attends a revival meeting conducted by evangelist Brother Love (Eddie Albert), who is actually a THRUSH leader constructing a nuclear spaceship with the aid of a kidnapped scientist, Dr. Hradny (Robert H. Harris). College student Pearl Rolfe (Maggie Pierce) is kidnapped by Love's followers, and Solo must rescue both victims and destroy Love's plan at the same time.

    Director:Marc Daniels
    Writer:Albert Aley

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  10. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 1 Episode 27 - The Gazebo in the Maze Affair
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    #10 - The Gazebo in the Maze Affair

    S1:E27

    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
    Writers:Dean Hargrove, Antony Ellis

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  11. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 1 Episode 28 - The Girls of Nazarone Affair
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    #11 - The Girls of Nazarone Affair

    S1:E28

    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:Alvin Ganzer
    Writer:Peter Allan Fields

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  12. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 1 Episode 29 - The Odd Man Affair
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    #12 - The Odd Man Affair

    S1:E29

    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:Joseph Sargent
    Writer:Dick Nelson

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  13. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 1 - The Alexander the Greater Affair (1)
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    #13 - The Alexander the Greater Affair (1)

    S2:E1

    Alexander 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 steal the army's ""will gas"" to help him do so, and Solo investigates. Solo encounters Tracey Alexander, 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 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:Joseph Sargent
    Writer:Dean Hargrove

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  14. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 2 - The Alexander the Greater Affair (2)
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    #14 - The Alexander the Greater Affair (2)

    S2:E2

    Alexander 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 steal the army's ""will gas"" to help him do so, and Solo investigates. Solo encounters Tracey Alexander, 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 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:Joseph Sargent
    Writer:Dean Hargrove

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  15. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 3 - The Ultimate Computer Affair
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    #15 - The Ultimate Computer Affair

    S2:E3

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

    Director:Joseph Sargent
    Writer:Peter Allan Fields

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  16. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 4 - The Foxes and Hounds Affair
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    #16 - The Foxes and Hounds Affair

    S2:E4

    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

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  17. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 5 - The Discotheque Affair
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    #17 - The Discotheque Affair

    S2:E5

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

    Director:Tom Gries
    Writer:Dean Hargrove

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  18. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 6 - The Re-Collector's Affair
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    #18 - The Re-Collector's Affair

    S2:E6

    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:Alvin Ganzer
    Writer:Alan Caillou

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  19. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 7 - The Arabian Affair
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    #19 - The Arabian Affair

    S2:E7

    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

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  20. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 8 - The Tigers are Coming Affair
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    #20 - The Tigers are Coming Affair

    S2:E8

    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

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  21. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 9 - The Deadly Toys Affair
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    #21 - The Deadly Toys Affair

    S2:E9

    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:Robert Hill

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  22. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 10 - The Cherry Blossom Affair
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    #22 - The Cherry Blossom Affair

    S2:E10

    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:Joseph Sargent
    Writer:Mark Weingart

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  23. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 11 - The Virtue Affair
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    #23 - The Virtue Affair

    S2:E11

    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:Jud Taylor
    Writer:Henry Slesar

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  24. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 12 - The Children's Day Affair
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    #24 - The Children's Day Affair

    S2:E12

    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:Sherman Marks
    Writer:Dean Hargrove

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  25. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 13 - The Adriatic Express Affair
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    #25 - The Adriatic Express Affair

    S2:E13

    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:Robert Hill

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Mad, Mad, Tea Party Affair" is the worst rated episode of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Seymour Robbie and written by Dick Nelson, it aired on 2/1/1965. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Secret Sceptre Affair".