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

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Premiere	September 22, 1964
Finale	January 15, 1968
Creator	Sam Rolfe
Network/Provider	NBC
Style	60-minute action / adventure
Company	Arena Productions, MGM Television
Distributor	MGM Television (until 1982), MGM/UA Television (1982-86), Turner Program Services (1986-96), Warner Bros. Television (1996- )
Seasons	4
Episodes	105 (List of episodes)
Origin	USA

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an action / adventure program that aired on NBC. A spinoff of the show came in the form of The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

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. Leo G. Carroll played Alexander Waverly, the British head of the organization (Number One of Section One). Barbara Moore joined the cast as Lisa Rogers in the fourth season.

The series, though fictional, achieved such cultural prominence that props, costumes and documents, and a video clip are in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library's exhibit on spies and counterspies. Similar U.N.C.L.E. exhibits are in the museums of the Central Intelligence Agency and other US agencies and organizations gathering intelligence.

U.N.C.L.E.'s adversary was T.H.R.U.S.H. (W.A.S.P. in the pilot movie). 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.

Seasons

Season	Premiere	Finale				#
NBC
Season One	September 22, 1964	April 19, 1965				29
Season Two	September 17, 1965	April 15, 1966				30
Season Three	September 16, 1966	April 14, 1967				30
Season Four	September 11, 1967	January 15, 1968				16

TV Movie

Title	Network		Airdate
The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair	CBS		April 5, 1983

In-Depth

• At a Glance: Additional information about the series

DVD Releases

Title			Release			Discs
Complete Series  (Region 1)
The Complete Series			October 21, 2008	purchase		41
Made-for-TV Movies  (Region 1)
Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair			March 3, 2009	purchase		1

External Links

• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. on IMDb

• opening creditson YouTube