Season 4 • Episode 16
LatestMr. Webb (Mark Richman), a THRUSH agent, and Margitta Kingsley (Eleanor Parker), the wife of U.N.C.L.E. agent Robert Kingsley (Barry Sullivan), plot to steal a docility gas from General Maximilian Harmon (Leslie Nielson), who has kidnapped Professor David Garrow (Dan O'Herlihy) and his son Steve (Tony Bill). Harmon and a group of scientists consider themselves the ""Seven Intellectual Wonders of the World"" and, with the gas and the troops, plan to take over control of the world and ensure peace.
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.
Costume
Solo's impeccable suits vs. Illya's beatnik turtlenecks.
Production
That secret HQ entrance through a tailor shop.
Acting
Vaughn and McCallum's effortless chemistry.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ian Fleming himself helped develop the concept and suggested the name Napoleon Solo before the Bond producers made him stop.
The show's massive Soviet-bloc popularity actually required scripts to be rewritten so Illya wasn't constantly humiliated—Eastern Bloc audiences loved him too much.
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