This may be the last update I get to do to this thread that started the various Yum threads I've been doing the last two years, because to my annoyance my UNCLE DVDs will no longer play on my computer with the screen cap tools (they play fine on all regular DVD players and on all other computers but mine, so go figure!). However, with a bit of jury rigging on another computer with more imperfect screen cap tools, a quick acknowledgment for Jill Ireland in her fourth and final MFU appearance in the two part "Five Daughters Affair".
Her go-go dancer Imogene is daughter #3 in the list of those Solo and Ilya must find to get parts of a formula that will turn seawater into gold (and which THRUSH baddie Herbert Lom is also after)
Jill ends up engaged and married to London bobby Terry-Thomas by episode's end (and wedding ceremonies for Curt Jurgens and daughter #4, Danielle de Metz and a new ceremony for Telly Savalas and daughter #2 Diane McBain as well! This may be the only time two future Bond villains appeared on American TV in the same episode.)
If this ends up being the end for the MFU Yum thread as far as contributions on my part go (hopefully others can join in with their efforts!), I have to say it's been a fun two years going through this entire series and becoming a fan of its tongue-in-cheek approach to the spy craze of the 60s.
I want to offer my thanks to Eric for this fabulous thread. I've been lurking for a couple years here at FSM, and this latest post of pix of the lovely Jill Ireland has prompted me to de-lurk.
I was an UNCLE fan as a kid in the 60s, though I despised the Season 3 episodes, they were too comically over-the-top for my tastes. And the "Five Daughters Affair" was an episode I had completely forgotten.
Now I'll dig out my complete UNCLE box set and find this episode in particular. Thanks, Eric!
You're most welcome! I agree, the S3 episodes do venture too far into silliness at times (though S4 was guilty to some degree of overcompensating) but "Five Daughters Affair" benefits from its higher production values and deeper guest cast ensemble (clearly intended to be a theatrical release overseas; Joan Crawford has a one scene cameo in Pt. 1)
Hopefully this bizarre situation with my computer DVD player will resolve itself to allow for a few more remaining spotlights still not done after all this time, though at the moment I can't think of any significant episodes/guest shots that have been overlooked.
reading a new book THE BRITISH INVASION' and it goes in to some length about what a major teen idol Mccallum was.He was kinda the first Brit actor to ride the wave of beatlemania btw he was only two years younger than Vaughan!
The color caps of Craig, including the topless one, are pretty good to begin with and I can't seem to get much if any improvement out of them. Likewise, this b&w frame gets only a little better:
Whereas Nancy Sinatra fit in with the mood of the late 60s, Solo's romantic interest for that same episode was someone best associated with an earlier part of the decade, Whitney Blake, who for four years had been perfect wife and mother Dorothy Baxter on the sitcom "Hazel."
Whitney Blake is on today's episode of The Virginian and even in farmer's wife attire she's quite lovely. Your two-year-old post already took care of my request!
I've been taking the scattershot approach to viewing them, doing a mixture of episodes from all four seasons (interspersed as well with early episodes of GFU from a recently purchased boot set) rather than going in sequence. The transfers are outstanding, with the softest looking ones being in S3. They probably could have saved themselves a lot on packaging if they hadn't done three episodes per disc (or OTOH, found space to include more than just one of the theatrical releases, or perhaps even GFU itself!) but there's really no reason to quibble about any aspect of this release. It's a topnotch job well worth savoring slowly, and a model of what a TV on DVD release *should* be like.
Just made a quick edit to the first entry as I discovered too late I'd read the credits sheet wrong regarding the identity of the UNCLE radio operator in the pilot.
Were "The Girl From U.N.C.L.E." episodes in the boot set taken from ones that aired on T.N.T.?
Whereas Nancy Sinatra fit in with the mood of the late 60s, Solo's romantic interest for that same episode was someone best associated with an earlier part of the decade, Whitney Blake, who for four years had been perfect wife and mother Dorothy Baxter on the sitcom "Hazel."
Whitney Blake is on today's episode of The Virginian and even in farmer's wife attire she's quite lovely. Your two-year-old post already took care of my request!
