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I'm rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review contains spoilers.

Professor Lillian Stemmler (Eve Arden) has developed an experimental drug that temporarily boosts (or reduces) all attributes (Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, a...

I'm rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review contains spoilers.

Deep in the Ozarks lives a girl called Clemency McGill, and she's psychic. OR she's a THRUSH agent trying to trick UNCLE into delivering top agents into the hands of evil.

That's the...

I'm rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review contains spoilers.

There's a [fictional] micro-nation in Europe that exists exclusively as a safe haven for international criminals. Got a price on your head? Go to Ingolstein, where everyone is welcome a...

I'm rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review contains spoilers.

Evil THRUSH is after Dr. Remington, a leading geologist. What does THRUSH want with a geologist?? Nobody knows, but UNCLE figures that if THRUSH wants to kidnap him, it's probably impor...

I'm rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review contains spoilers.

In this episode, we get a break from THRUSH, with the main villain being a British mob keen to monopolize the global supply of diamonds. To ensure their success, they team up with Delga...

I'm rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review contains spoilers.

First of all, I'll say that I get it. Looking at a "season" of The Man from UNCLE compared to modern TV shows, it's amazing to see how much got produced. There are thirty episodes in...

I'm rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review contains spoilers.

I'm not exaggerating when I say this is one of the best Man from UNCLE episodes I've seen yet. It ranks up there with the pilot episode, and shockingly it doesn't feature Napoleon Solo...

I'm rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review contains spoilers.

Quick summary: Ilya Kuryakin and an airline attendant get stranded in the Sahara and stumble into the clutches of a captain who believes he's commanding a regiment of the Foreign Legion...

I'm rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review contains spoilers.

A two-part episode. It's mostly good, although the main plot is the least interesting thing about it. The story is something I feel like we must have seen before, or maybe it's the reve...

I'm rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review contains spoilers.

There's a mole in UNCLE! Classified documents have been removed from headquarters, and it's Napoleon Solo's job to find out who removed them. Waverly has to go to Japan, so he gives Sol...

I'm rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review contains spoilers.

Tiny.

Killer.

Bees.

That's the episode. But the actual plot is about failure.

Everything Kuryakin tries in this episode fails spectacularly. He fails to apprehend the villain, h...

I'm rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review contains spoilers.

In this episode, the UNCLE agents go to a small Hellenic island called Circe, after the goddess. In myth, Circe's island was called Ææa and I'm assuming that the show producers were equ...

I'm rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review contains spoilers.

In many ways, this episode feels like "classic" Man from UNCLE (and by "classic", I mean first season). The plot is a little unpredictable, at least by second season standards. You thin...

I'm rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review contains major spoilers for this episode.

The Very Important Zombie Affair isn't an amazing episode, but it's not bad for what it is. The plot is simple and the setup is predictable from the title. A pra...

I'm rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review may contain spoilers.

I'm reviewing the episodes The Adriatic Express Affair and The Yukon Affair in one post because, to be perfectly honest, neither really justify a dedicated review.

The Adriatic

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I'm rewatching every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review may contain spoilers.

I have a feeling this episode had a great script. I think I see what they were going for, and I can imagine it being very intriguing in written form, but somehow something got lost i...