Dear Eric, I must say I was surprised and delighted to stumble upon your amazing UNCLE thread this evening. I've been a huge fan of the series since it first aired, and it's obvious to me that you're hooked on it too. The screen caps you've posted are tremendous. I think I downloaded them all.
What I was most happy to discover is that you were aware of the many differences in TO TRAP A SPY, a film that has somehow eluded me over the years. I remember seeing it theatrically, and then taping it on my old Betamax back in the 80s. However that cassette has long since self-destructed.
Since you have a copy, I was hoping I might propose a trade. I've got some rare UNCLE material that may be of interest to you. My email is "wynorski@pacbell.net" and I'd love to hear from you.
The second UNCLE theatrical film "Spy With My Face" also aired yesterday on TCM and now gets a spotlight here. It's an expanded version of "The Double Affair" and as that was a B/W episode, seeing a longer version in color is almost like watching an entirely new episode.
Senta Berger, as noted before in the original spotlight for "The Double Affair" had higher billing for the episode than David McCallum, and undoubtedly they knew from the get-go that her purpose in the episode was for the overseas theatrical benefit.
Once again, Senta seduces Solo so he can be switched with a THRUSH double and gain access to an important project while the real Solo is kept imprisoned in the Alps before THRUSH plans to do away with him in a "climbing accident."
In color, Senta almost looks like a German Liz Montgomery!
But the theatrical version allows for greater visibility, figuratively and literally, of Solo's angry jilted girlfriend, stewardess Sharon Farrell.
In the original episode, we didn't see Sharon until the dinner date where Senta snatches Napoleon away, but here we see her prior to the dinner date, angry that Napoleon has stood her up. And in the process, giving us a view you couldn't get on television!
Perhaps these pix are why McGarrett had her fired from Five-O during the last season?
And a color encore for the two bit players from "The Double Affair". First, in one of her very first acting roles, Michele Carey (seen too briefly as an UNCLE secretary).
And Donna Michelle who as in the third UNCLE film, which has been previously spotlighted, gets a slightly bigger role than on TV.
Lucianna Paluzzi is going to be at an autograph show in LA next weekend, I'm hoping to get the chance to meet her and have her sign a photo. I wonder if she'll have any UNCLE photo's at her table?
I saw her at the Hollywood Collector Show in 2005 & 2007 and I didn't notice any stills from her UNCLE appearance on her table. Of course, things change with time. Plus, I'm sure there will be photo stills dealers there who may have some pics from that appearance on hand for a quick sale.
Proving that old Yum threads never die or fade away, this one gets restarted with S3's "Pieces Of Fate Affair."
The record setting third and final UNCLE appearance for Sharon Farrell. She's the object of UNCLE's and THRUSH's attention because she's written a best selling spy novel filled with incidents that could only have come from a THRUSH historian's diaries. But she's now suffering from amnesia and can't remember where she had them!
THRUSH kidnaps her at a literary cocktail party and before she gets rescued both sides learn the trail goes back to her aunt and uncle's home in Ohio. (Her uncle is the one with the deep dark secret!)
And all the "Dark Shadows" fans will want me to take note of the episode's presence of Grayson Hall as a bitchy literary critic now working for THRUSH who aids in the kidnapping of Sharon.
Much better than many other S3 scripts, this episode also has Mr. Waverly venturing into the field for a nice change of pace!
Altered audio for later airings and altered credit card notwithstanding, I do believe the audio in the episode on DVD was the original character name.
Ellison also did a send-up of late 60s talk show host Joe Pyne in the opening sequence where Sharon goes on to plug her book and is subject to a merciless grilling by Pyne before a THRUSH assassin tries to gun her down.
A new Stefanie Powers GFU spotlight from episode #18, "The Catacomb And Dogma Affair", in which April and Slate must thwart a plot to plunder the treasures of the Vatican.
The episode teaser is well-executed, as April, guided by Slate via gondola, climbs up to a second floor balcony, deftly lures her target away from his chess game and then has time to on the spur of the movement make a checkmate move.
April clearly went to the same store Cathy Gale frequents for this black leather outfit!
Captured, April is made to pose for the mastermind's own version of a Titian painting.
Three time MFU veteran Danielle de Metz shows up in this episode too as an Italian stewardess (and she had previously been a stewardess in "The Foreign Legion Affair") who is dragged into the action when first April, and then Slate, must commandeer her car!
Thordis Brandt meanwhile keeps graduating to slightly bigger parts, this time as Mr. Waverly's assistant "Miss Ibsen"!
Seeing as there's mentions of Batman in these yum threads, perhaps you could find some caps of Shelby Grant, who played "Princess Sandra" in the Rats Like Cheese/Instant Freeze episodes of Batman? I believe she's the "Flint Girl" who shaves Coburn in the first film.
She's been married to Chad Everett since 1966, according to:
Well, I think I can accommodate with a "Batman" thread real soon that can spotlight Shelby and the many other notable female guests, since I am fortunate enough to have an uncut set of episodes from TV Land Canada. And I should also probably get to work on a "Mannix" thread at some point too (as well as update some of these others!).
As this thread nears its second anniversary I'm getting close to finally being finished with the series since I received it two Christmases ago! One of the remaining episodes from S3 I had yet to see was the Sonny and Cher episode "The Hot Number Affair", one of the goofiest MFU episodes of all time, complete with goofy kazoo score and the annoying intrusion of Sonny and Cher standards in their two scenes.
Cher has never been a favorite of mine in the Yum department, I will confess, but for the beneft of those who do rate her highly I would be remiss in not profiling her best images from this tale of stolen THRUSH codes hidden in a dress design that both agencies try to get their hands on.
And in the Unknown Yum category we have this lovely from the episode teaser when Solo and Ilya go to Greenwich Village to find the artist who has the dress pattern, but they knock on the wrong door first.
The second UNCLE theatrical film "Spy With My Face" also aired yesterday on TCM and now gets a spotlight here. It's an expanded version of "The Double Affair" and as that was a B/W episode, seeing a longer version in color is almost like watching an entirely new episode.
I know this isn't yum-related, but can I just say thank you to the writers and director for having good Solo and bad Solo wear different clothes for their climactic fight? More evil twin episodes (and movies) should do that...
