THE FIRST SEASON 1964-1965

Excerpted from
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Book - The Behind-the-Scenes Story of a Television Classic , by Jon Heitland, (c) 1987
Used with permission from author

8:30 p.m. EST Tuesdays (episodes 1-14) 8:00 p.m. EST Mondays (episodes 15-29) For the entire season: Producer: Sam Rolfe (with exception of the pilot, which was produced by Norman Felton) Associate Producer: Joseph Gantman (pilot), Joseph Calvelli (episodes 2-19), Robert Foshko (episodes 20-29) Assistant to Producer: George Lehr Entire season broadcast in black-and-white.

1. The Vulcan Affair

After a THRUSH attempt to kill Waverly is thwarted, Solo is assigned to prevent the assassination of a visiting African premier (William Marshall) at the hands of Andrew Vulcan (Fritz Weaver), and with the help of a housewife (Patricia Crowley) he learns that the premier himself is allied with THRUSH and plans to kill his two top aides (Ivan Dixon and Rupert Crosse) in a fake accident.

Prod. #1059 (feature version, To Trap a Spy, #6006)
Airdate: September 22, 1964
Filmed: November 20-22, 26-27, 29, 1963; additional footage March 31, April 1-2, 1964
Former Title: "The Vulcan Files"
Producer: Norman Felton
Writer: Sam Rolfe
Director: Don Medford
Assistant Director: Maurice Vaccarino
Editor: Henry Berman
Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Set Decorator: Frank McEveety
Rerun Date: April 26, 1965

2. The Iowa Scuba Affair
Solo investigates the curious death of an air force man in Iowa with scuba gear, and with the help of Jill Denison (Katherine Crawford) uncovers a plan by Clint Spinner (Slim Pickens) to steal a missile- plane from a secret base under a farm.

Prod. #7415
Airdate: September 29, 1964
Filmed: June 1-5, 8, 1964
Former Title: "The Kansas Scuba Affair", "The Silo Affair"
Writer: Harold J. Bloom
Director: Richard Donner
Assistant Director: Maurice Vaccarino
Editor: Fred Maguire
Music: Morton Stevens
Set Decorator: Jerry Wunderlich
Rerun Date: July 12, 1965

3. The Quadripartite Affair
In Yugoslavia, Solo and Illya are aided by Marion Raven (Jill Ireland) in stopping Gervaise Ravel (Anne Francis) and her partners from using a fear gas to overthrow various governments.

Prod. #7414
Airdate: October 6, 1964
Filmed: August 3-7, 12-14, 17-18, 1964
Writer: Alan Caillou
Director: Richard Donner
Assistant Director:E. Darrell Hallenbeck
Editor: Henry Berman
Music: Walter Scharf
Set Decorator: Robert Benton
Rerun Date: May 3, 1965

4. The Shark Affair
Solo and Illya investigate a series of kidnappings that lead to a modern-day pirate ship run by Captain Shark (Robert Culp), who is filling his Noah's Ark with craftsmen from all walks of life to repopulate the world after the nuclear holocaust he feels is imminent. With the help of Harry Barnman (Herbert Anderson) and his wife Elsa (Sue Anne Langdon). Solo and Illya pose as shipwrecked sailors to in turn wreck his plans.

Prod. #7408
Airdate: October 13, 1964
Filmed: June 26, 29-30, July 1-3, 1964
Former Titles: "The Corsair Affair", "The Private Affair", "The Pirate Affair"
Writer: Alvin Sapinsley
Director: Marc Daniels
Assistant Director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck
Editor: Fred Maguire
Music: Walter Scharf
Set Decorator: Jerry Wunderlich
Rerun Date: May 10, 1965

5. The Deadly Games Affair
When a rare postage stamp at an auction reveals that a former SS scientist, Professor Amadeus, is still alive and experimenting with the secret of "suspended animation," Solo and Illya enlist the aid of college students Terry Brent (Brook Bundy) and Chuck Boskirk (Burt Brinckerhoff) to beat THRUSH agent Angelique (Janine Gray) to Amadeus's lab, where Solo is captured so his blood can be used to revive the suspended body of the Fuhrer.

Prod. #7416
Airdate: October 20, 1964
Filmed: July 23-24, 27-30, 1964
Former Title: "The Stamp Affair"
Writer: Dick Nelson
Director: Alvin Ganzer
Assistant Director: Tom McCrory
Editor: Joseph Dervin
Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Set Decorator: Robert Benton
Rerun Date: May 17, 1965

6. The Green Opal Affair
In the Yucatan, THRUSH agent Walter Brach (Carroll O'Connor) brainwashes important people from many nations to be "time bombs" who will return to their jobs and do THRUSH's bidding. After eluding Brach's henchmen Chuke (Shuji J. Nozawa) and his leopards, Solo and housewife Chris Linnel (Joan O'Brien) enlist the aid of Mrs. Karda (Dovima), Brach's numerologist, to help them escape.

Prod. #7419
Airdate: October 27, 1964
Filmed: July 15-17, 20-22, 1964
Former Title: "The Missing Persons Affair"
Writer: Robert E. Thompson
Director: John Peyser
Assistant Director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck
Editor: Henry Berman
Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Set Decorator: Robert Benton
Rerun Date: August 16, 1965

7. The Giuoco Piano Affair
Gervaise Ravel (Anne Francis) returns and Solo and Illya again enlist Marion Raven (Jill Ireland) to help them pursue her through the Andes, where the treachery of police lieutenant Manuera (James Frawley) impedes their efforts to capture Ravel.

Prod. #7422
Airdate: November 10, 1964
Filmed: August 6-7, 10-14, 18, 1964
Writer: Alan Caillou
Director: Richard Donner
Assistant Director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck
Editor: Joseph Dervin
Music: Walter Scharf
Set Decorator: Robert Benton
Rerun Date: May 24, 1965

8. The Double Affair
THRUSH creates a double for Solo, and with the seductive aid of Serena (Senta Berger), Darius Two (Michael Evans) kidnaps Solo and substitutes the phony into U.N.C.L.E.'s efforts to transport the code to a secret new weapon. Illya and stewardess Sandy Wister (Sharon Farrell) eventually realize a switch has been made, and the real Solo escapes and in a climatic scene battles "himself".

Prod. #7417 (feature version, The Spy with My Face, #6011)
Airdate: November 17, 1964
Filmed: August 28, 31, September 1-4, 8, 1964; additional footage for feature September 9-11, 1964
Writer: Joseph Calvelli, CLyde Ware
Director: John Newland
Assistant Director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck
Editor: Joseph Dervin
Music: Mort Stevens
Set Decorator: Robert Benton
Rerun Date: May 31, 1965

9. The Project Strigas Affair
Solo and Illya devise a clever scheme to discredit a Balkan intelligence chief (Werner Klemperer) with a bogus secret gas. With the help of a bankrupt exterminator (William Shatner) and his wife, Illya poses as a fellow countryman and exploits the paranoia of the chief and his bumbling assistant (Leonard Nimoy).

Prod. #7426
Airdate: November 24, 1964
Filmed: September 29-30, October 1-2, 5-6, 1964
Writer: Henry Misrock
Director: Joseph Sargent
Assistant Director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck
Editor: Bill GUlick
Music: Walter Scharf
Set Decorator: Robert Benton
Rerun Date: August 30, 1965

10. The Finny Foot Affair
Solo gets an unwelcome young companion (Kurt Russell), a ten year old who wants Solo to marry his widowed mother, in his efforts to find the source of a deadly chemical that killed an entire Scottish village. In a race to find the source with General Yokura (Leonard Strong), Solo eventually uses a ring on the finger of a statue to pinpoint a cave where the deadly chemical has leaked from, but has to use his wits to escape when he is trapped there by Yokura and his men.

Prod. #7426
Airdate: November 24, 1964
Filmed: September 29-30, October 1-2, 5-6, 1964
Writers: Jack Turley, Jay Sims
Director: Marc Daniels
Assistant Director: Tom McCrory
Editor: Joseph Dervin
Music: Morton Stevens
Set Decorator: Robert Benton
Rerun Date: August 9, 1965

11. The Neptune Affair
Solo races to avert a U.S.-Soviet war and finds the source of rockets spreading a fungus deadly to the Soviet wheat crop. Posing as a country bumpkin, he infiltrates a secret underwater rocket site run by Vincent Lockridge (Henry Jones). Assisted by Felicia Lavimore (Marta Kristen) and her boyfriend Gabe Melcroft (Jeremy Slate), Solo infiltrates the base and tries to stop the next launch.

Prod. #7405
Airdate: December 8, 1964
Filmed: June 18-19, 22-25, 1964
Writers: Henry Sharp (teleplay), John W. Block (story)
Director: Vincent McEveety
Assistant Director: Wilbur Mosier
Editor: Henry Berman
Music: Jerry Goldsmith, Walter Scharf
Set Decorator: Jerry Wunderlich
Rerun Date: None

12. The Dove Affair
When a minor European leader is assassinated, Solo steals a medallion from his body containing a microdot listing the THRUSH agents in the country, but must elude the secret police and outwit intelligence agent Satine (Ricardo Montalban), who also wants the medal. Teacher and tour guide Sara Taub (June Lockhart) and her high school students are used by Solo to try and sneak the medal over the border.

Prod. #7410
Airdate: December 15, 1964
Filmed: August 19-21, 24-26, 1964
Former Title: "The Butterfly Affair"
Writer: Robert Towne
Director: John Peyser
Assistant Director: Tom McCrory
Editor: Bill Gulick
Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Set Decorator: Robert Benton
Rerun Date: None

13. The King of Knaves Affair
Solo and Illya investigate the disappearance of several crime figures, and the trail leads to Fasik el Pasad (Paul Stevens), a deposed ruler who is building an army of criminals to regain power. Solo poses as a black-market arms dealer and infiltrates the operation, but is hampered by well-meaning Ernestine Pepper (Diana Millay), a notary public trying to find one of Fasik's men, Angel Galley (Jan Melin).

Prod. #7418
Airdate: December 22, 1964
Filmed: July 7-10, 13-14, 1964
Former Title: "The Notary Public Affair", "The Crimeless Wave Affair"
Writer: Ellis Marcus
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Assistant Director: Wilbur Mosier
Editor: Joseph Dervin
Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Set Decorator: Robert Benton
Rerun Date: None

14. The Terbuf Affair
On vacation Solo is asked by an old love interest, Clara Valdar (Madlyn Rhue) to help her smuggle Gypsy leader Emil (Jacques Aubuchon) out of Terbuf with evidence that the corrupt head of the secret police, Colonel Morisco (Alan Caillou), has been embezzling foreign aid money with the aid of the repulsive Major Vicek (Albert Paulsen).

Prod. #7435
Airdate: December 29, 1964
Filmed: October 27-30, November 2-3, 1964
Former Title: "The Lethal Ladies Affair"
Writer: Alan Caillou
Director: Richard Donner
Assistant Director: Tom McCrory
Editor: Bill Gulick
Music: Jerry Goldsmith, Walter Scharf
Set Decorator: Robert Benton
Rerun Date: August 2, 1965

15. The Deadly Decoy Affair
U.N.C.L.E. must transport captured THRUSH official Egon Stryker (Ralph Taeger) from New York to Washington with THRUSH rescuing him. While Waverly takes a decoy along one route, Solo and Illya take the real Stryker or is it the real one? with them. But in a mixup, Fran Parsons (Joanna Moore),a secretary on her lunch hour, gets handcuffed to Stryker and has to go along.

Prod. #7438
Airdate: January 11, 1965
Filmed: November 30, December 1-4, 7, 1964
Former Title: "The Decoy Affair"
Writer: Albert Aley
Director: Alvin Ganzer
Assistant Director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck
Editor: Bill Gulick
Music: Walter Scharf
Set Decorator: Budd Friend
Rerun Date: June 7, 1965
Note: A new time slot and new introductory sequence began with this episode. Series was preempted by a special NBC White Paper on January 5, 1965.

16. The Fiddlesticks Affair
THRUSH agent Anton Korbel (Ken Murray) guards THRUSH's fifty-million dollar treasury in a vault beneath his casino, and Solo and Illya recruit a naive girl from Minneapolis, Susan Callaway (Marlyn Mason), and shady safecracker Marcel Rudoph (Dan O'Herlihy) to break in and destroy the cash.

Prod. #7433
Airdate: January 18, 1965
Filmed: November 18-20, 23-25, 1964
Former Title: "The Jack and Jill Affair"
Writers: Aben Kandel, Peter Allan Fields
Director: Theodore Flicker
Assistant Director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck
Editor: Henry Berman
Music: Lalo Schifrin
Set Decorator: Budd Friend
Rerun Date: June 14, 1965

17. The Yellow Scarf Affair
Solo goes to India to investigate the death of a fellow U.N.C.L.E. agent in an airline crash, and discovers that a cult of Thuggees headed by a maharajah (Murray Matheson) is causing the crashes in order to loot the passengers. But Solo and THRUSH agent tom Simpson (Linden Chiles) are looking to recover one item in particular - U.N.C.L.E.'s new polygraph device.

Prod. #7424
Airdate: January 25, 1965
Filmed: October 19-23, 26, 1964
Writer: Robert Yale Lippincott (teleplay), Boris Ingster (story)
Director: Ron Winston
Assistant Director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck
Editor: Henry Berman
Music: Morton Stevens
Set Decorator: Robert Benton
Rerun Date: None

18. The Mad-Mad Tea Party Affair
Prior to an important conference at U.N.C.L.E. headquarters, a bizarre series of events occurs revolving around a strange man Mr. Hemmingway (Richard Haydn) who keeps appearing and disappearing at will in the building. Solo and Illya learn that he has been placed there by Waverly to test the security system, but THRUSH also has an inside agent, Riley (Peter Haskell), who plants an exploding false tabletop on the conference table at the direction of Dr. Egret (Lee Meriwether). Solo has only a few minutes, before the conference is to begin, to try and find out who the infiltrator is.

Prod. #7421
Airdate: February 1, 1965
Filmed: December 16-18, 21-23, 1964
Former Title: "The Hemmingway Affair"
Writer: Dick Nelson
Director: Seymour Robbie
Assistant Director: Eric Von Stroheim Jr.
Editor: Bill Gulick
Music: Jerry Goldsmith, Morton Stevens
Set Decorator: Budd Friend
Rerun Date: June 21, 1965

19. The Secret Sceptre Affair
Solo and Illya agree to help Major Morgan (Gene Raymond), Solo's old commanding officer, steal a national symbol sceptre for his people from a dictator Morgan is killed and Solo and Illya and Zia (Ziva Rodann), Morgan's female aide, are captured and sentenced to death. After they escape, they find that Morgan is still alive and has duped them into stealing the sceptre for him because of the precious gems it contains.

Prod. #7437
Airdate: February 8, 1965
Filmed: December 8-11, 14, 1964
Former Title: "The Pythias Affair"
Writer: Anthony Spinner
Director: Marc Daniels
Assistant Director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck
Editor: Joseph Dervin
Music: Jerry Goldsmith, Morton Stevens
Set Decorator: Budd Friend
Rerun Date: None

20. The Bow Wow Affair
Waverly's cousin is killed by his own dog when he refuses to sell his stock to a gypsy named Delgrovia (Paul Lambert), so Illya investigates and, with the help of Ursula (Susan Oliver) and dog expert Guido Panzini (Pat Harrington Jr.), traces two of the dogs to Delgrovia's estate, where he and Ursula are soon cornered by a pack of deadly Doberman pinschers.

Prod. #7411
Airdate: February 15, 1965
Filmed: December 28-31, 1964, January 1-4, 5, 1965
Former Title: "The Pyrenees Affair"
Writer: Alan Caillou
Director: Sherman Marks
Assistant Director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck
Editor: Joseph Dervin
Music: Jerry Goldsmith, Morton Stevens
Set Decorator: Budd Friend
Rerun Date: July 26, 1965

21. The Four Steps Affair
Solo and Illya protect a young Himalayan prince (Michel Petit) and his nurse (Susan Seaforth) from THRUSH agents who want to kidnap him one of whom turns out to be his bodyguard.

Prod. #7445
Airdate: February 22, 1965
Filmed: January 1-8, 11-12, 1965
Former Title: "The Himalayan Affair"
Writers: Peter Allan Fields, Joseph Calvelli
Director: Alvin Ganzer
Assistant Director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck
Editor: Henry Berman
Music: Jerry Goldsmith, Morton Stevens
Set Decorator: Budd Friend
Rerun Date: None
Note: This episode consisted in large part of extra footage shot for feature versions of episodes 1 and 8

22. The See Paris and Die Affair
Solo uses the former girlfriend (Kathryn Hays) of 2 brothers, Joseph and Max Van Schreetan (Gerald Mohr, Lloyd Bochner), to thwart their plan to control the diamond market, while at the same time THRUSH agent Corio (Alfred Ryder) tries to steal their cache of gems.

Prod. #7442
Airdate: March 1, 1965
Filmed: January 13-15, 18-21, 1965
Former Title: "The Glittering Affair"
Writers: Peter Allan Fields (story, teleplay), Sheldon Stark (story)
Director: Alf Kjellin
Assistant Director: Eddie Saeta
Editor: Bill Gulick
Music: Walter Scharf, Morton Stevens
Set Decorator: Budd Friend
Rerun Date: June 28, 1965
Note: Episode 22 contained a special credit: "The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Theme performed by The Gallants".

23. The Brain Killer Affair
Waverly is poisoned, and taken to a hospital where he is subjected to the rays of a brain-altering machine by THRUSH agent Dr, Dabree (Elsa Lanchester) designed to make him ineffective without killing him. While investigating others who have suffered the same fate, Solo finds Cecille Bergstrom (Yvonne Craig) and together they try to unravel the mystery and save Waverly.

Prod. #7406
Airdate: March 8, 1965
Filmed: June 10-12, 15-17, 1964
Writer: Archie Tegland
Director: James Goldstone
Assistant Director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck
Editor: Joseph Dervin
Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Set Decorator: Jerry Wunderlich
Rerun Date: August 23, 1965

24. The Hong Kong Shilling Affair
Solo is aided by tourist Bernie Oren (Glenn Corbett) in finding a black market auction in Hong Kong run by Mr. Cleveland (Gavin McLeod) that sells military secrets, including a microfilm in a rare coin. Oren is infatuated with Heavenly Cortello (Karen Sharpe), and hinders more than he helps Solo, while Illya tries to infiltrate the auction disguised as a Mongolian warlord.

Prod. #7453
Airdate: March 15, 1965
Filmed: January 25-29, February 1, 1965
Former Title: "The Dragon's Tooth Affair"
Writer: Alan Caillou
Director: Alvin Ganzer
Assistant Director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck
Editor: Joseph Dervin
Music: Morton Stevens
Set Decorator: Budd Friend
Rerun Date: None
NoteL Episode 24 contained a special credit: "Special Makeup by William Tuttle".

25. The Never-Never Affair
U.N.C.L.E. Portuguese translator Mandy Stevenson (Barbara Feldon) hungers for more excitement, so Solo sends her on a fake mission to get Waverly's tobacco not realizing she has taken an important microfilm that THRUSH is after. Solo, Illya and THRUSH pursue her through the streets of Manhattan, and eventually she and Solo are captured by the THRUSH leader, Victor Gervais (Cesar Romero), and Solo has to use his skills as a marksman to escape.

Prod. #7451
Airdate: March 22, 1965
Filmed: February 2-5, 8-9, 1965
Writer: Dean Hargrove
Director: Joseph Sargent
Assistant Director: Bill Finnegan
Editor: Henry Berman
Music: Jerry Goldsmith, Morton Stevens
Set Decorator: Budd Friend
Rerun Date: September 6, 1965

26. The Love Affair
Solo attends a revival meeting conducted by evangelist Brother Love (Eddie Albert), who is actually a THRUSH leader constructing a nuclear spaceship with the aid of a kidnapped scientist, Dr. Hradny (Robert H. Harris). College student Pearl Rolfe (Maggie Pierce) is kidnapped by Love's followers, and Solo must rescue both victims and destroy Love's plan at the same time.

Prod. #7403
Airdate: March 29, 1965
Filmed: September 21-25, 28, 1964
Writer: Albert Aley
Director: Marc Daniels
Assistant Director: Tom McCrory
Editor: Henry Berman
Music: Walter Scharf
Set Decorator: Robert Benton
Rerun Date: None

27. The Gazebo in the Maze Affair
Squire G. Emory Partridge (George Sanders) kidnaps Illya and lures Solo to his manor in order to kill them off in his dungeon torture chamber in revenge for a past encounter. But Peggy Durance (Bonnie Franklin) helps them escape, with the unintended aid of Partridge's bumbling wife Edith (Jeanette Nolan).

Prod. #7450
Airdate: April 5, 1965
Filmed: February 19, 22-26, 1965
Former Title: "The Old Fashioned Affair"
Writers: Dean Hargrove (story, teleplay), Anthony Ellis (story)
Director: Alf Kjellin
Assistant Director: Bill Finnegan
Editor: Joseph Dervin
Music: Walter Scharf
Set Decorator: Budd Friend
Rerun Date: July 5, 1965

28. The Girls of Nazarone Affair
Solo and Illya travel to the Riveria, where they search for a serum that supposedly provides great strength and even brings the dead back to life. There they meet Madame Streigau (Marian Moses), who is actually Dr. Egret of THRUSH, as well as Lucia Mazarone (Danica d'Hondt) and her bevy of beautiful blonde helpers. With the help of teacher Lavina Brown (Kipp Hamilton), they trick Mazarone into thinking they have the serum also, and become the targets of her "superwomen".

Prod. #7449
Airdate: April 12, 1965
Filmed: February 11-12, 15-18, 1965
Former Title: "The Beware of Blondes Affair", "The Skin Deep Affair"
Writers: Peter Allan Fields (teleplay), Peter Barry (story)
Director: Alvin Ganzer
Assistant Director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck (also second-unit director)
Editor: Bill Gulick
Music: Jerry Goldsmith, Morton Stevens
Set Decorator: Budd Friend
Rerun Date: None

29. The Odd Man Affair
Retired U.N.C.L.E. agent Albert Sully (Martin Balsam) is brought back to impersonate a crime syndicate leader, and insists on leaving Solo and Illya behind and running the operation himself. He reunites with wartime fellow agent and old flame Bryn Watson (Barbara Shelly) and tracks down a secret crime conference, with the exasperated Solo and Illya trying to keep him from being killed in the process.

Prod. #7434
Airdate: April 19, 1965
Filmed: March 1-5, 8, 1965
Former Titles: "The Odd Man Out Affair","The 86th Floor Affair"
Writer: Dick Nelson
Director: Joseph Sargent
Assistant Director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck
Editor: Henry Berman
Music: Morton Stevens
Set Decorator: Budd Friend
Rerun Date: July 19, 1965

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