THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. – The Neptune Affair - 1964
This is the eleventh episode of 1964 to 1968 spy series, THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. The series ran for a total of 105 episodes. The first season was filmed in B/W with the remainder shot in colour. Robert Vaughn plays agent Napoleon Solo while David McCallum plays Illya Kuryakin. Leo G Carroll plays Mister Waverly, the boss of the secret agency known as U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law & Enforcement) Their main enemy is THRUSH, an organization out to take over the planet.
This one has Vaughn and McCallum trying to stop a war between the Soviets and the USA. Someone has been launching rockets from the western States that are landing in the USSR. These are not a-bombs, but rockets containing a toxin that is destroying all of the wheat production in the country.
UNCLE soon narrows down the launch site to an oil platform off California. Agent Vaughn is sent in under cover as a Kansas wheat farmer on a sailing trip. He soon discovers all sorts of odd behaviour going on with the locals.
He soon pokes his nose in where it does not belong and is grabbed up. It seems there is a group of scientists who want to start ww3. The silly people figure there are too many people on the planet and they need to be culled.
With the help of local, Marta Kristen, Agent Vaughn soon has the rocket launch platform blown all to hell and back.
Henry Jones and John Banner play the main scientists with a screw loose. Miss Kristen some will recall as the elder daughter on the 1960's sci-fi series, LOST IN SPACE. John Banner of course played Sgt Schultz on the long running HOGAN'S HEROES.
All in all, not what one would call a superior episode of the series.
This is the eleventh episode of 1964 to 1968 spy series, THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. The series ran for a total of 105 episodes. The first season was filmed in B/W with the remainder shot in colour. Robert Vaughn plays agent Napoleon Solo while David McCallum plays Illya Kuryakin. Leo G Carroll plays Mister Waverly, the boss of the secret agency known as U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law & Enforcement) Their main enemy is THRUSH, an organization out to take over the planet.
This one has Vaughn and McCallum trying to stop a war between the Soviets and the USA. Someone has been launching rockets from the western States that are landing in the USSR. These are not a-bombs, but rockets containing a toxin that is destroying all of the wheat production in the country.
UNCLE soon narrows down the launch site to an oil platform off California. Agent Vaughn is sent in under cover as a Kansas wheat farmer on a sailing trip. He soon discovers all sorts of odd behaviour going on with the locals.
He soon pokes his nose in where it does not belong and is grabbed up. It seems there is a group of scientists who want to start ww3. The silly people figure there are too many people on the planet and they need to be culled.
With the help of local, Marta Kristen, Agent Vaughn soon has the rocket launch platform blown all to hell and back.
Henry Jones and John Banner play the main scientists with a screw loose. Miss Kristen some will recall as the elder daughter on the 1960's sci-fi series, LOST IN SPACE. John Banner of course played Sgt Schultz on the long running HOGAN'S HEROES.
All in all, not what one would call a superior episode of the series.