The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

I love detective shows and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. was one of my favorites when I was a kid. As a six-year-old, I had a desperate crush on blond spy David McCallum, who played Russian Illya Kuryakin, to Robert Vaughn's American Napoleon Solo.

The women in that series were only eye candy, but then there was The Girl From U.N.C.L.E., starring Stephanie Powers, as Agent April Dancer. I vaguely remember that show, but it didn't last long. Critics claimed Powers was ill-suited for the role, a trifle limited on acting ability, and that she came across as a timid agent. 

Too bad for The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. It was cancelled after only one season. Off topic here, but why was a female agent called a girl when she was a grown woman? I digress... 

Stephanie Powers is much better remembered from Hart to Hart, as amateur sleuth Jennifer Hart, who solved crimes along with her jet setting husband Jonathan Hart, played by Robert Wagner. 

If you enjoy a crime solving duo with a feisty heroin and a strong silent guy who aren't  jet-setters, but a couple looking for their next paying gig, please check out my RomCozy Black OOps Detective Mysteries, Cad to Cadaver and Growler to Grave. 

Now, back to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. If you're not familiar with the series, here's the gist from Wikipedia:

The series centered on a two-man troubleshooting team working for U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law and Enforcement): American Napoleon Solo, and Georgian (Georgia-USSR) Illya Kuryakin.

U.N.C.L.E.'s adversary was T.H.R.U.S.H.... The original series never divulged what T.H.R.U.S.H. represented, but in several U.N.C.L.E. novels by David McDaniel, it is the Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity, described as founded by Col. Sebastian Moran after the death of Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls in the Sherlock Holmes story, "The Final Problem."

T.H.R.U.S.H.'s aim was to conquer the world. Napoleon Solo said, in "The Green Opal Affair", "T.H.R.U.S.H. believes in the two-party system — the masters and the slaves," and in the pilot episode ("The Vulcan Affair"), T.H.R.U.S.H. "kills people the way people kill flies — a reflex action — a flick of the wrist." So dangerous was T.H.R.U.S.H. that governments — even those ideologically opposed, such as the United States and the Soviet Union — had cooperated in forming and operating the U.N.C.L.E. organization. Similarly, when Solo and Kuryakin held opposing political views, the friction between them in the story was held to a minimum.

 The show was quite fun to watch with all the espionage and intrigue! And there was just enough humor to lighten the mood.

Were you a fan of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.?

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