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Oct 10, 2008 - 10:35 AM
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Eric Paddon
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S2's "The Dippy Blonde Affair" gives us as the title character, Robert Vaughn's girlfriend at the time, Joyce Jameson who specialized in dumb blonde character roles on many TV shows.
Jojo Tyler is the unwitting girlfriend of a THRUSH operative who one evening learns what his line of work is about as he kills a scientist who has finished work on a project. And then, when Napoleon leads an UNCLE raid on the hideout and is captured, her boyfriend wants Jojo to kill Solo, but she has other ideas.
Things take some interestingly complex turns when Jojo's boyfriend seemingly kills himself in captivity and UNCLE gets her to pose as a loyal THRUSH operative returning the tampered weapons component to THRUSH so they can figure out where its going to be shipped to. Jojo even does a fake killing of Ilya to establish her bona fide!
Her role also includes romancing her boyfriend's THRUSH superior Robert Strauss (Stalag 17). But then we learn that her boyfriend isn't really dead but faked his suicide and was supposed to be revived by THRUSH so he can finish the weapon. But Strauss, infatuated with Jojo, doesn't want to revive him and thus we get served up an interesting three-way set-up of THRUSH vs. THRUSH in addition to UNCLE vs. THRUSH that makes this a strongly written episode.
Of course in the end, all these tangled threads will eventually unknot themselves completely in UNCLE's favor....with Napoleon of course getting the girl at the end, as always (to Ilya's perpetual chagrin).
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Oct 23, 2008 - 12:40 AM
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Continuing with S2 and "The Deadly Goddess Affair", this episode doesn't boast a strong female guest star (Victor Buono's villain is the centerpiece of the episode, and offers yet again one of those frustrating cases of a great UNCLE villain who only appeared once) but is not without some ladies to take note of.
In a story that brings Solo and Ilya to the Italian island of "Circe" to intercept money needed by Buono for his nefarious plot, we have Brioni Farrell as a local girl engaged to policeman Daniel J. Travanti (then billed as Dan Travanty).
A year later, Brioni appeared in the Trek episode "Return Of The Archons".
Her sister in the episode, who Solo finds himself forced to become engaged to, is Marya Stevens. Whereas Brioni was just beginning her career of TV guest appearances in this episode, Marya's decade long career of TV guest shots that included shows like "Bachelor Father", "Cheyenne", "Bat Masterson" and "Thriller" ended with this appearance.
Appearing as a belly dancer named Ayesha in the opening sequence is the very obscure (just a handful of credits listed in imdb) Stassa Damascus.
Interestingly, the following season's "Come With Me To The Casbah Affair" (previously spotlighted here) would feature Abbe Lane as a belly dancer also named Ayesha and Jacques Aubuchon as a villain highly similar to Victor Buono's, which makes one wonder if that episode was meant to be a return engagement for Buono that never came off.
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