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

In 1964, the cold war was growing strong and Ian Fleming's Bond was king of the fictional espionage world. It is perhaps unsurprising that film makers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer thought that the time was ripe for them to conquer TV, and that the best way to do that was to get Ian Fleming on board and have him create a show with a Bond like character. Originally conceived as Ian Fleming's Solo, the idea was to have an agent (named Solo), as the star of the show. He would work for a shadowy organisation whose sole purpose was to safeguard the free world and keep democracy and free enterprise safe. The agency was called United Network Command for Law and Enforcement, or UNCLE, ...  Read the complete review

The Man from U.N.C.L.E was aired in the 60's but has been repeated frequently, an American spy drama it starred Robert Vaughn and David McCallum as two secret agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin, they worked for a multi agency organisation drawing agents from across the globe and led by a British agent called Alexander Waverly played by Leo Carroll. In each episode they pitted their wits against the agents from THRUSH which not only sounds painful but were intent on world domination. This was an entertaining show and was interesting in the sense that the cold war was in full swing yet here you have American and Russian agents working ...  Read the complete review