DISCOVER--the best of the Girl from UNCLE episodes
The Girl from UNCLE, a much maligned spin-off from the hit series and 1960s secret agent phenomenon The Man from UNCLE was a ratings disaster and ran for just one season. There were thirty episodes and here's the best half. Okay, this series takes a lot of abuse, particularly from those who choose to blame it for the demise of Man from UNCLE, but the show was fun, the leads were likeable, and the camp craze and the spy fad had pretty much run their course--there were a lot of factors at play here. At least we know Mike Myers was watching... Lighten up, leave your preconceptions at the door, and try these. When this show was bad it was really bad, but it had its moments... and here they are...
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- DirectorBarry ShearStarsStefanie PowersNoel HarrisonLeo G. CarrollThrush, operating on an island near Greece, has found a way to cause people to move in slow motion. April Dancer and Mark Slate are sent to smash the operation.Kurt Kasznar is clearly having the time of his life as the bad guy in this one, the two leads have a great rapport together, and Thunderball's Luciana Paluzzi is in the cast. The network chose this episode to lead off with, and they were probably right... "The Mata Hari Affair", which makes April look incompetent, appears to have been the first one filmed...
- 1966–19671h6.9 (35)TV EpisodeDirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsStefanie PowersNoel HarrisonLeo G. CarrollApril goes undercover as a missing heiress to stop the takeover of a small oil rich country.Arabian nights nonsense, with all the usual suspects...
- DirectorSherman MarksStarsStefanie PowersNoel HarrisonLeo G. CarrollNapoleon Solo joins April Dancer on an assignment in London. They are to escort a gangster's daughter to safety. However, they are being stalked by the minions of assassin Mother Muffin. The agents will face a number of dangers all over London.This is the one with Boris Karloff in drag and Robert Vaughn as Solo...
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsStefanie PowersNoel HarrisonLeo G. CarrollTHRUSH agents attack an UNCLE outpost in Rome and make off with a Montori device. With this device in their possession all of UNCLE's transmissions are compromised. Conrad Rossano, a famous fashion designer, is UNCLE's chief suspect. April goes undercover as a fashion buyer and Mark as an American bodyguard to a high price fashion model. Also involved is a Professor with a brain washing device which leaves the victim susceptible to his suggestions.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsStefanie PowersNoel HarrisonLeo G. CarrollIn Denmark, Thrush operative Ole Bergman has supervised development of a power beam capable of blowing up submarines and ships. The device, however, needs a sophisticated power regulator to prevent itself from blowing up. The criminal organization has been smuggling microdots inside cheese with plans for just such a power regulator. Stanley Umlaut has accidentally consumed some of the cheese. Now, April and Mark seek to protect from from Thrush, which wants to recover the microdots in Stanley's stomach.
- DirectorJud TaylorStarsStefanie PowersNoel HarrisonLeo G. CarrollThe Cult of Cambodyses, a group of killers based in the Middle East, is used by Thrush to perform murder. The cult, however, wants to break free of its alliance with Thrush. It plans to gain control of a formula that can transfer the consciousness of a long-dead person into the mind of a living descendant. It turns out Cambodyses has only one living descendant, a woman who the cult covets. U.N.C.L.E. and Thrush are also after the woman, who it turns out has a bit part in a Western movie being filmed at a Berlin film studio. April and Mark have their hands full with both the cult and with Thrush, which wants to bring the cult back under its control. Cult members are raised to be killers at birth and ingest poison from a young age. They are like "human snakes," immune to poison themselves, but they can kill simply by scratching their victims.
- DirectorRichard C. SarafianStarsStefanie PowersNoel HarrisonLeo G. CarrollApril Dancer (Stefanie Powers) infiltrates a gypsy circus run by Sadvaricci (Lloyd Bochner) who is using his manly charms to lure rich women into parting with valuable stock before killing them in various «accidents». April and her fellow agent infiltrate the circus posing as an aerialists. A jealous gypsy girl (Anna Strasberg) who doesn't like Sadvaricci attentions being turned to the new girl in the camp, attempts to kill the UNCLE agent by shooting her off her aerialist position, but Mark Slate (Noel Harrison) saves the day, and April. Sadvaricci slaps Panthea in her caravan, but she is not repentant, and later she challenges April to a death fight, in front of everyone. Sadvaricci fakes to bend to the old gypsy custom, and let's them fight with knives - only because he was not sure what girl to choose... April wins the hard fight - and is congratulated by Sadvaricci. But the worse is still to come.
- DirectorBarry ShearStarsStefanie PowersNoel HarrisonLeo G. CarrollQuite silly, but Tura Satana's in it, and who can resist a story with a super-strength formula in it?
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsStefanie PowersNoel HarrisonLeo G. CarrollApril and Mark go undercover in the world of music to protect a prince who will be assassinated when a certain song is played to trigger an avalanche.
- 1966–19671h7.2 (29)TV EpisodeDirectorE. Darrell HallenbeckStarsStefanie PowersNoel HarrisonLeo G. CarrollA young girl helps April and Mark thwart a plan to plunder the Vatican treasury.
- 1966–19671h8.1 (31)TV EpisodeDirectorE. Darrell HallenbeckStarsStefanie PowersNoel HarrisonLeo G. CarrollApril and Mark infiltrate a youth clinic on Rejuven Isle somewhere in Scandanavia. A Baroness is blackmailing wives of important men and forcing them to pay for the youth injections with top secret documents.
- DirectorBarry ShearStarsStefanie PowersNoel HarrisonLeo G. CarrollApril and Mark thwart a villain's plan to kill the wealthiest men of the world during a poker game.Noel Harrison can hardly keep a straight face when Victor Buono is stomping around, and neither can I...
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsStefanie PowersNoel HarrisonLeo G. CarrollThrush has established a series of "mobile assault teams" that are disrupting operations of U.N.C.L.E. Mark Slate infiltrates one such team and has made recordings that could reveal additional information, including the headquarters for the operation. However, Slate is on the run from Thrush and ditches his recorder in what appears to be an empty car. An accountant is sleeping in the back seat and finds the recorder. When Slate is attacked and wounded by Thrush forces, the accountant speeds off, still with the recorder in his possession. Alexander Waverly puts April Dancer in charge of the mission and she tracks down the accountant while dealing with Thrush agents following her. Slate, despite his wound, refuses to take a passive role and ends up discovering the Thrush operations is based out of a secret headquarters beneath a used-car lot. He poses as a Thrush inspector. Before the mission is over, both April and Mark will be endangered.
- 1966–19671h7.4 (25)TV EpisodeDirectorAlf KjellinStarsStefanie PowersNoel HarrisonLeo G. CarrollApril and Mark travel to Hawaii to find a Japanese war criminal and uncover a stolen submarine.Noel Harrison carries this one, with a bizarre concept and Michael J. Pollard and Angelique Pettyjohn in the cast.
- DirectorRichard C. BennettStarsStefanie PowersNoel HarrisonLeo G. CarrollMark inherits a haunted English castle and becomes a target for his relatives who want to inherit it. April tries to elude a THRUSH killer in the castle.Obsessed with the popular culture of the 1960s and surrounding decades, Jon Abbott has been writing about film and TV for over thirty years in around two dozen different publications, trade, populist, and specialist. He is the author of several books, including
Irwin Allen Television Productions 1964-1970,
Stephen J. Cannell Television Productions: A History of All Series and Pilots,
The Elvis Films,
Cool TV of the 1960s: Three Shows That Changed the World,
and Strange New World: Sex Films of the 1970s.
See his Amazon author's page, and his other lists on the IMDB, all under the pre-fix DISCOVER.