The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - The Complete Series
by Eddie Saeta, James Goldstone, Theodore J. Flicker, Alex March, Don Medford
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Actor: David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll, Robert VaughnDirector: Alex March, Don Medford, Eddie Saeta, James Goldstone, Theodore J. Flicker
Brand: WARNER HOME VIDEO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 5620 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product 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
DVD Reviews of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - The Complete Series
DVD Review: Great!
Summary: 5 Stars
My husband and I gave this to my mother-in-law for Christmas and she was so excited to start watching. The picture quality and sound is wonderful. We are very pleased with this product.DVD Review: Lunch Box Not Included...
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently wrote both Robert Vaughn and David McCallum to thank them for the great memories they gave me as kid growing up in the 1960s. To me, these guys were the two coolest dudes on the earth. There was something about this show, I'm not certain what exactly, that left an indelible mark on me. There were of course other shows of the era I loved, i.e., Lost in Space, Daniel Boone and, later, Secret Agent Man. But UNCLE was the king and the one I have the most affection for all these many years later. I'm so happy the series has finally found its proper home in this wonderful DVD set. The only addition I would have made would be to have included a miniature metal lunch box! I would have paid extra for that.DVD Review: THE HOLY GRAIL OF SPY SERIES
Summary: 5 Stars
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 attach? case.
For those of you who are not familiar with the show, and in truth it was before my time as well, UNCLE was a spy show set during the heart of the Cold War and inspired by the success of the James Bond film. UNCLE stood for the "United Network Command for Law and Enforcement", essentially an international law-enforcement agency. The show starred Robert Vaughn as American Agent Napoleon and David McCallum as Soviet Agent Illya Kuryakin. The British head of UNCLE was Alexander Waverly played by Leo G. Carroll.
The series premiered in 1964 on NBC and quickly became one of the top shows on TV and made huge stars out of Vaughn and McCallum. UNCLE was one of the first shows to truly take advantage of mass merchandising and licensing of its name. By 1965, the toy shelves were littered with model kits, games, die-cast vehicles, figures, and all sorts of other toys.
Uniquely hip was that every episode title ended in the word "Affair" such as "The Arabian Affair" or "The Foreign Legion Affair". The main nemesis of UNCLE was international criminal and terrorist organization known as THRUSH. Everything got started with "The Vulcan Affair" as Solo is assigned to prevent THRUSH agents from assassinating a new African delegate. One of the best episodes from season one is "The Deadly Games Affair". Solo and Kuryakin are after a Nazi scientist who has Adolph Hitler in suspended animation and is looking for the correct blood type to revive him.
The first season was filmed in black & white before switching to color for season two. By today's standards the show looks dated in terms of its gadgets but not in their use. There was the pocket radios that were disguised as cigarette packs or ink pens that were the forerunners of our modern day cell phones. And perhaps most fans fondest prop was the UNCLE special gun. The Gun (one of the most popular of the 1960s toys) was a Walther P38 that could be converted into a rifle.
Also unique about the show was it's pairing of an American and Russian agent together, which was a pretty radical concept during the era. Afterall, it was only two years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the incident that nearly sparked a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. But fans did not seem to mind. The two actors enjoyed a wonderful chemistry together and the banter between them is still fresh today. This is one of those great series that was made for DVD. Now, why Warner Bros. chose to release the entire series in one set instead of individually is a bit curious. Afterall, retail price on this bad boy is nearly $200 although considering the enormous amount of content, that is a reasonable price although I still suspect it will put off a lot of buyers who are not already fans.
Extras
When it comes down to it, there are just too many to list. You not only get extras on the season discs but there are also two bonus discs as well. I will provide a summary though.
The Bonus Discs come with numerous featurettes including:
Cold War, Hot Spies: U.N.C.L.E. and the Cold War This 21:00 minute featurette explores the series as it played out against the real Cold War and the politics of the era.
Guns, Gizmos, Gadgets and Garb (19:00) looks at the creation of the shows notable props such as the special gun, pen communicator, and Ilya's many trademark disguises
Behind the Wheel: U.N.C.L.E.'s Piranha (17:00) this wonderful featurette looks at the specially manufactured Pirahna car. It includes an interview with Gene Winfield who designed the car, and with Robert Short who is the current owner of the one-of-a-kind vehicle which is still drivable to this day.
Fandemonium (25:00) is a tribute to the show from its loyal base of fans who are now in the 50s or older. Many of them produced their own fanzines and organized fan clubs back in the 1960s and now are running websites dedicated to the show.
The bonus disc also feature special "debriefing" interviews with cast and crewmembers. These are brand new interviews with the likes of Vaughn, McCallum, Writer Dean Hargrove, and Directors Richard Donner and Joseph Sargent,
You also get original TV spots advertising the show, clips from Vaughn and McCallum's appearances on various other TV shows.
This is one of those sets that fans will definitely have to have. If you're a fan of spy shows or 1960s TV, this is a set that is worth the investment.
DVD Review: man from uncle
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this show as a child and I was not disappointed at all watching them again.DVD Review: Great series, great packaging
Summary: 5 Stars
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, played by the great Leo G. Carroll. Famous guest stars like Joan Crawford, Broderick Crawford, Chad Everett and Maurice Evans abound.
The set itself comes in a terrific attache case that almost makes you want to open channel D yourself. Each of the 4 seasons comes in its own well-protected individual case and there is a truckload of bonus material-enough to satisfy almost any fan. The only qualm here is how difficult the individual DVDs are to remove. More than a few times I thought I was going to break one trying to finagle it. Despite that, The Man From UNCLE is a superb piece of our television heritage.
Description of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - The Complete Series
It was the height of the Cold War, a time when most Americans had only the vaguest understanding of international espionage. Then, in 1964, the televised spy genre exploded on the screen in the U.S. and around the world when the groundbreaking series The Man From U.N.C.L.E. pulled the covers off of the spy game in what became must-watch television for the next four years on NBC. Here is The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: The Complete Series, beautifully packaged in a 60's style high tech attach, case, complete with all episodes along with hours of viewing extras.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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