The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Complete Series (1964): DVD Deal

Save 57% on “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Complete Series (1964)” today from Amazon.Com. Watch exclusive trailers and order your copy now. 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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DISC COLLECTION SEASON 1
EPISODE LIST

DISC ONE
1. The Vulcan Affair
2. The Iowa-Scuba Affair
3. The Quadripartite Affair

DISC TWO
4. The Shark Affair
5. The Deadly Games Affair
6. The Green Opal Affair

DISC THREE
7. The Giuoco Piano Affair
8. The Double Affair
9. The Project Strigas Affair

DISC FOUR
10. The Finny Foot Affair
11. The Neptune Affair
12. The Dove Affair

DISC FIVE
13. The King of Knaves Affair
14. The Terbuf Affair
15. The Deadly Decoy Affair

DISC SIX
16. The Fiddlesticks Affair
17. The Yellow Scarf Affair
18. The Mad, Mad Tea Party Affair

DISC SEVEN
19. The Secret Sceptre Affair
20. The Bow-Wow Affair
21. The Four-Steps Affair

DISC EIGHT
22. The Sea-Paris-and-Die Affair
23. The Brain-Killer Affair
24. The Hong Kong Shilling Affair

DISC NINE
25. The Never-Never Affair
26. The Love Affair
27. The Gazebo in the Maze Affair

DISC TEN
28. The Girls of Nazarone Affair
29. The Odd Man Affair

DISC ELEVEN
SPECIAL BONUS FEATURES include:
- Featurette–The Spy-Fi Tour: Archives, Art and Artifacts
- U.N.C.L.E. Feature Film–One Spy Too Many
- Bonus Feature: U.N.C.L.E. V.I.P.S.–A Celebration of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Guest Stars

DISC COLLECTION SEASON 2
EPISODE LIST

DISC ONE
1. Alexander the Greater Affair, Part I
2. Alexander the Greater Affair, Part II
3. The Ultimate Computer Affair

DISC TWO
4. The Foxes and Hounds Affair
5. The Discotheque Affair
6. The Re-Collectors Affair

DISC THREE
7. The Arabian Affair
8. The Tigers Are Coming Affair
9. The Deadly Toys Affair

DISC FOUR
10. The Cherry Blossom Affair
11. The Virtue Affair
12. The Children’s Day Affair

DISC FIVE
13. The Adriatic Express Affair
14. The Yukon Affair
15. The Very Important Zombie Affair

DISC SIX
16. The Dippy Blonde Affair
17. The Deadly Goddess Affair
18. The Birds and the Bees Affair

DISC SEVEN
19. The Waverly Ring Affair
20. The Bridge of Lions Affair, Part I
21. The Bridge of Lions Affair, Part II

DISC EIGHT
22. The Foreign Legion Affair
23. The Moonglow Affair
24. The Nowhere Affair

DISC NINE
25. The King of Diamonds Affair
26. The Project Deephole Affair
27. The Round Table Affair

DISC TEN
28. The Bat Cave Affair
29. The Minus-X Affair
30. The Indian Affairs Affair

DISC ELEVEN
SPECIAL BONUS FEATURES include:
- Featurette–The Cloak & Swagger Affair: The Untold History of The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
- “Solo”–The Original Color U.N.C.L.E. Pilot
- Bonus Feature: U.N.C.L.E. V.I.P.S.–A Celebration of U.N.C.L.E. Guest Stars!

DISC COLLECTION SEASON 3
EPISODE LIST

DISC ONE
1. The Her Master’s Voice
2. The Sort of Do-It-Yourself Dreadful Affair
3. The Galatea Affair

DISC TWO
4. The Super-Colossal Affair
5. The Monks of St. Thomas Affair
6. The Pop Art Affair

DISC THREE
7. The Thor Affair
8. The Candidate’s Wife Affair
9. The Come with Me to the Casbah Affair

DISC FOUR
10. The Off-Broadway Affair
11. The Concrete Overcoat Affair, Part I
12. The Concrete Overcoat Affair, Part II

DISC FIVE
13. The Abominable Snowman Affair
14. The My Friend the Gorilla Affair
15. The Jingle Bells Affair

DISC SIX
16. The Take Me to Your Leader Affair
17. The Suburbia Affair
18. The Deadly Smorgasbord Affair

DISC SEVEN
19. The Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Rum Affair
20. The Napoleon’s Tomb Affair
21. The It’s All Greek to Me Affair

DISC EIGHT
22. The Hula Doll Affair
23. The Pieces of Fate Affair
24. The Matterhorn Affair

DISC NINE
25. The Hot Number Affair
26. The When in Roma Affair
27. The Apple a Day Affair

DISC TEN
28. The Five Daughters Affair, Part I
29. The Five Daughters Affair, Part II
30. The Cap and Gown Affair

DISC ELEVEN
SPECIAL BONUS FEATURES include:
- Interview–Double Agents: The Robert Vaughn and David McCallum Reunion
- The Secret Tapes of Illya Kuryakin: Home Movies from the Set of The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
- Bonus Feature: U.N.C.L.E. V.I.P.S.–A Celebration of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Guest Stars

DISC COLLECTION SEASON 4
EPISODE LIST

DISC ONE
1. The Summit-Five Affair
2. The Test Tube Killer Affair
3. The “J” for Judas Affair

DISC TWO
4. The Prince of Darkness Affair, Part I
5. The Prince of Darkness Affair, Part II
6. The Master’s Touch Affair

DISC THREE
7. The Thrush Roulette Affair
8. The Deadly Quest Affair
9. The Fiery Angel Affair

DISC FOUR
10. The Survival School Affair
11. The Gurnius Affair
12. The Man From Thrush Affair

DISC FIVE
13. The Maze Affair
14. The Deep Six Affair

DISC SIX
15. The Seven Wonders of the World Affair, Part I
16. The Seven Wonders of the World Affair, Part II

SPECIAL BONUS FEATURES include:
- Featurette–MGM’s Secret Operations
- Bonus Feature: U.N.C.L.E. V.I.P.S.–A Celebration of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Guest Stars

PLUS…
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Bonus Disc 1

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Bonus Disc 2

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