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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0883929035380
Feature: Episodes: The Vulcan Affair The Iowa Scuba Affair The Quadripartite Affair The Shark Affair The Deadly Games Affair The Green Opal Affair The Giuco Piano Affair The Double Affair The Project Strigas Affair The Finny Foot Affair The Neptune Affair The Dove Affair The King of Knaves Affair The Terbuf Affair The Deadly Decoy Affair The Fiddlesticks Affair The Yellow Scarf Affair T
Format: Box set, Black & White, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0EnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 1000042020
Number Of Items: 41
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Running Time: 5620 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 22, 1964
Features:- Episodes: The Vulcan Affair The Iowa Scuba Affair The Quadripartite Affair The Shark Affair The Deadly Games Affair The Green Opal Affair The Giuco Piano Affair The Double Affair The Project Strigas Affair The Finny Foot Affair The Neptune Affair The Dove Affair The King of Knaves Affair The Terbuf Affair The Deadly Decoy Affair The Fiddlesticks Affair The Yellow Scarf Affair T
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 10/21/2008 Rating: Nr
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For Baby Boomers, owning a season or two of a fondly remembered TV series on DVD is enough to satisfy any nostalgic yearnings. The Man From U.N.C.L.E., though, warrants the full-series treatment. It's a wild '60s flashback to the Espionage era that was ushered in by Ian Fleming's James Bond adventures. According to a series retrospective that's just one of this cleverly packaged set's prodigious extras, Fleming himself was recruited to create a spy series for American television. His contribution was the name "Napoleon Solo," the moniker of a crime boss in Goldfinger. That movie, which would kick Bond and spy mania into overdrive, had not yet opened when viewers were introduced to Robert Vaughn's Solo and David McCallum's Illya Kuryakin, agents of the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement. This covert agency operated out of Del Floria's Tailor Shop in New York under the command of true Brit Alexander Waverly (Leo J. Carroll, playing much the same character he portrayed in North by Northwest). The Man from U.N.C.L.E. offered a bit of hope in Cold War America that an American and Russian could work together to stop a common enemy, THRUSH, a ruthless organization bent on world domination. The intriguing conceit of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. was to give audiences an empathetic surrogate who would be plucked from their humdrum lives for whirlwind adventures with Solo and Kuryakin. In the pilot episode, Patricia Crowley guest-stars as a housewife who acts as bait to foil the plans of her former college boyfriend, who is plotting the assassination of a world leader. In a series benchmark, "The Never-Never Affair," a pre-Get Smart Barbara Feldon stars as an U.N.C.L.E. translator who unwittingly becomes involved in actual espionage. Seasons one and two are the series' best, with a stellar roster of guest stars ("The Project Strigas Affair" features the first onscreen pairing of William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy), stylish direction by directors who would go on to some renown (Michael Ritchie, Richard Donner), smart scripts, and great action (a movie theatre shoot-out in "The Never-Never Affair"). In its third season, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. adopted Batman's campy and absurdist tone with shark-jumping results While this season has its share of groaners (in one episode, Sollo watusis with a gorilla), several "Affairs" stand out. Jack Palance and Janet Leigh as a long cool woman in a white dress are great villains in "The Concrete Overcoat Affair." Harlan Ellison wrote the witty "The Pieces of Fate Affair," in which he takes some sly digs at television and literary critics (a THRUSH operative is a book reviewer). Joan Collins makes like Eliza Doolittle in a dual role as a Bronx stripper and a countess in "The Galatea Affair." The series went back to basics in Season Four, but by then, The Avengers was a bigger hit and the writing was on the wall for this once trendsetting series. This lavish box set affair contains upward of ten hours of bonus features, including the unaired series pilot, a series retrospective, an interview with a reunited Vaughn and McCallum, dossiers on each season's guest stars, one of the U.N.C.L.E. feature films edited and expanded from a two-part episode, segments about the great gadgets and cool music, U.N.C.L.E. designs and blueprints, and season-specific booklets.This definitive box set does full justice to a series that had such an impact on popular culture (as witness the bonus Tom & Jerry cartoon, "The Mouse From H.U.N.G.E.R."). More than a blast from the past, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is still a potent blend of "cloak and swagger." --Donald Liebenson
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So have you got a few weeks to spare with nothing to do? That's what it will take to get through this massive DVD set of one of the 1960's hippest TV shows, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. This set clocks in at an impressive 41 discs, which include all 105 episodes of the show along with two bonus discs. In all there are over ten hours of extras. The whole things comes packed in a neat attaché case.
For those of you who are not familiar with the show, and in truth it was before my time ... Read More
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I loved this show as a child and I was not disappointed at all watching them again.
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This series laid the groundwork for the "spy craze" of the mid 1960's. Super cool agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin globe-trot in order to put the kibosh on THRUSH, an evil and megalomaniacal organization bent on world domination. American and Russian ideologies clash, but are subsequently sublimated, for the good of the team while on these assignments. (Yes, we all can get along!). Presiding over these "affairs" and refereeing between the two protagonists is head of UNCLE Alexander Waverly, ... Read More
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Just can't get enough of the 60's. The Man From Uncle set is just another piece of my childhood. Long time in coming, but boy has it ever been well received. I understand the grinches that say "It doesn't compare to the slick presentation of todays shows". Yes that is true but It was our show, all of us who grew up in the 60's had the best...Beatles for music, Kennedy for president and The Man from Uncle, Wild Wild West, Mission Impossible and the original Twilight Zone, still the best science fiction/fantasy ... Read More
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The U.N.C.L.E. series has been available on DVD over in Europe for about 10 years, in PAL format, but the country that created the series could not seem to get past the legal red tape to release it here! until now!
This is a truely beautiful set, all four seasons with added two DVDs of bonus material, including the original FULL COLOR pilot "Solo", written by Bond creator Ian Fleming. The only reservation that I have with these copies, transferred from the master films, is that the sound is very hissy, and ... Read More
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