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(no episodes are scheduled this year)

"Adriatic Express Affair" (last seen 9/13/99)

"The Alexander the Greater Affair" #1104/1105 (2-part, last seen 7/3/00), 1965
Rip Torn as ruthless businessman Alexander, who plans to rule the world from Greece. Dorothy Provine, Donna Mitchelle, James Hong as the Prince

"The Arabian Affair" (1965, last seen 10/5/99)
THRUSH holds vaporizing weapon; Solo protects a 65 year old THRUSH agent in New York who may defect; Illya is held prisoner by a shiek in Arabia (Michael Ansara of Star Trek ep #61). Tom Hatten

"The Bat Cave Affair" #1055 (last seen 5/29/00)
Solo uses hillbilly clairvoyant Clemency McGill (Joan Freeman) to counter the efforts of Count Zark (Martin Landau, who recently starred as Bela Lugosi in "Ed Wood"), a vampirish THRUSH agent who plans to use radioactive bats to jam the world's radar systems from his castle. Solo and Clemency make their way to the castle with Illya, but Zark manages to release the bats.

"Birds and Bees Affair" #1045 (last seen 1999)
THRUSH has developed, with the aid of Dr. Elias Swan, a strain of minute, deadly bees. THRUSH agent Mr. Mozart captures Illya and Tavia Sandor and uses a high-frequency sound machine that threatens to shatter their eardrums to force Illya to take him to UNCLE headquarters so he can release the bees. Illya does so, but Mozart is intercepted and a rooftop battle threatens to unleash the pernicious bees
Guest Stars: John Abbot, John McGiver, Anna Capri

"Bow Wow Affair" #1020 (1965, last seen 1999)
UNCLE suspects THRUSH has trained world leaders' dogs to kill their owners. Guest stars: Susan Oliver, Pat Harrington, Paul Lambert. Note: in 1972, James Garner starred in a tv-movie with the same theme "They Only Kill Their Masters," which led to The Rockford Files tv series.

"Brain Killer Affair," Elsa Lanchester, Yvonne Craig (Batgirl in the Batman tv series (last seen 9/20/99)

"Bridge of Lions Affair" #1047/1048 (1966, 2-Part)
In part 1, Thefts of cats lead Solo and Kuryakin to THRUSH's new rejuvenating chemical in London. In part 2, THRUSH rescues Solo, Illya, Waverly and a nurse, then tosses them back when they won't talk. (last seen 1999)
Guest stars: Vera Miles, James Doohan, Bernard Fox, Maurice Evans

"Candidate's Wife Affair" #1065 (last seen 1999)
Solo and Illya protect Miranda Bryant, the wife of a presidential candidate, from a THRUSH plot to kidnap her, not realizing that she has already been kidnapped and replaced with a double, Irina (Diana Hyland in a dual role), an unwitting dupe of THRUSH. When they do catch on, the candidate, Senator Bryant, and his aide, Fairbanks, agree to play along - but Fairbanks knows more than he's letting on... Guest Stars: Richard Anderson, Larry D. Mann

"Cap and Gown Affair" (1967) #1087 (last seen 1999)
A murder attempt doesn't dissuade Waverly from accepting his alma mater's honorary degree, with Solo and Illya as protection. Guest stars Henry Jones

"The Cherry Blossom Affair" #1037 (last seen 6/12/00) 1965
TNT description: Solo and Illya go to India to help Suzanne de Serre (Jill Ireland), a French botanist trying to find out why the jungle is dying and local natives are disappearing. Prince Panat (Lee Bergere) and Drusilla Davina (Florence Marly), along with Colonel Quillon (Alan Caillou), are systemically using a chemical to destroy the jungle and kidnapping natives to work in the jewel mines for the prince. (this TNT description sounds completely wrong. As I recall, it's set in Japan and is about a device that can activate any volcano in any nation on the Pacific Rim)

"The Childrens Day Affair" by Dean Hargrove #1039 (last seen 7/10/00) 1965
Illya & Solo are surrounded by armed THRUSH agents - grade school children

"Concrete Overcoat" #1068/1069 (1966, 2-Part)
In part 1, the probe of a Nazi scientist's plot with THRUSH leaves Solo at the altar and Illya in the grip of an assassin.
Part 2: When THRUSH kidnaps Solo's bride-to-be, he rushes to rescue her and Illya, and to thwart THRUSH's diabolical plot. (last seen 1999)
Guest stars Jack Palance, Janet Leigh, Jack LaRue, Elisha Cook, cameo by Joan Blondell

"Deadly Decoy Affair" #1015 (1965)
THRUSH tries to rescue its top agent from Solo and Kuryakin, while Mr. Waverly takes a decoy agent over a different route. (last seen 1999)

"Deadly Games Affair" #1005 (1964)
Solo and Kuryakin must locate a former Nazi doctor (Alexander Scourby) who can suspend life (last seen 1999)

"Deadly Goddess Affair" #1044 (1966)
Solo faces death and Illya faces possible matrimony as they try to steal the cash THRUSH wants to use to take over Africa. (last seen 1999)
Arab sheik: Victor Buono (see his villain biography at Wild Wild West)

"Deadly Toys Affair" #1036 (last seen 1999)
Illya and Solo guard a boy genius (Jay North) THRUSH wants to train as a controlable future leader; gueststars include Angela Lansbury of The Manchurian Candidate(1962)

"Deadly Quest Affair" #1096 (1967)
A vengeful, clever killer (Darren McGavin) has Illya kidnapped from a hospital room by 2 thugs dressed as orderlies and uses the Russian as bait to lure Solo into a death trap (last seen 1999)

“Dippy Blonde Affair” #1043 (last seen 2/7/00)
A daffy blonde (Joyce Jameson) decides to become an UNCLE agent to avenge the death of her THRUSH beau.

"Discotheque Affair" #1032 (last seen 1999)
THRUSH rents an apartment next to UNCLE headquarters to wiretap Waverly's office; guest star Harvey Lembeck

"The Double Affair" (last seen 10/11/99) 1964
Illya is attacked by little toy robots, firing real bullets. Guest star: Harold Gould

"The Dove Affair" #1012 (last seen 6/19/2000) b/w, 1964
A mystery on the Orient Express starring June Lockhart & Ricardo Montalban

“The Fiddlesticks Affair” #1016 (last seen 4/10/00)
Solo and Kuryakin attempt to steal $50 million which THRUSH has stashed in a vault under a casino; guest Dan O'Herlihy.

"Finny Foot Affair" #1010 (last seen 1999)
Illya and Solo head to a mysterious castle, where they learn an entire Norwegian town died of old age. Guest stars teen actor Kurt Russell

“The Five Daughters Affair” 1085/1086, 2-part (last seen 3/20/00), released to theaters as "The Karate Killers" (1967)
In part 1, Solo and Illya race THRUSH to find a divided formula for extracting gold from seawater. In part 2, the trail leads Solo and Illya to Tokyo and the Arctic.
Guest stars: Joan Crawford, Curt Jurgens, Herbert Lom, Telly Savalas, Terry-Thomas, Jill Ireland, Kim Darby.

"The Foreign Legion Affair" #1049 (last seen 6/5/00) 1966
Illya parachutes out of a plane carrying THRUSH code documents, but lands in the desert at an abandoned Foreign Legion post run by Captain Basil Calhoun (Howard Da Silva). Illya is accompanied by a stewardess, Barbara (Danielle DeMetz) while Solo races to find them before THRUSH does.

"The Four Steps Affair" #1021 (last seen 8/07/00)

"The Foxes and Hounds Affair" #1031 (last seen 7/24/00) 1965
Solo, Illya and Waverly must escape THRUSH to destroy a mind-reading machine. Guest stars Vincent Price as a villain who clearly is a fan of Edgar Allen Poe.

"The Galatea Affair" #1060 (last seen 4/24/00) 1966
Illya and Mark Slate train a gum-chewing New Yorker to double for a baroness connected to THRUSH (Joan Collins in a dual role).

"Girls of Nazarone Affair" #1028, teleplay by Dean Hargrove
UNCLE agents Solo and Illya travel to the Riviera, where they search for a serum that supposedly provides great strength and even brings the dead back to life. There they meet Madame Streigau, who is actually Dr. Egret of THRUSH, as well as Lucia Nazarone and her beautiful blonde helpers. With the help of teacher Lavinia Brown, they trick Nazarone into believing they have the serum also and become targets of her superwomen. (last seen 5/1/00)

"Green Opal Affair" #1006 (last seen 1/10/00)
An enemy agent (Carroll O'Connor) has been kidnapping potential world leaders, then brainwashing them to be loyal to THRUSH

"The Giuoco Piano Affair" #1007, Directed by Richard Donner, 1964
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. (last seen 6/12/00)

"The Gurnius Affair" (1967) # (last seen 5/99)
A prison warden ignores warnings from Solo & Illya that a Nazi war criminal is planning to escape. He does, using a mind-control device, photographed by a reporter (Judy Carne)

"The Hong Kong Shilling Affair" #1024 (last seen 8/14/00)

"The Hot Number Affair"

"How To Steal The World" (1968) feature version of ???
Solo and Illya are captured by a ruthless General (Leslie Nielson) working for idealists who are capturing scientists to end all conflict by blanketing the world with a mind-control gas. Guest stars include Dan O'Herlihy (last seen on TCM, 6-26-00)

"The It's All Greek to Me Affair" (last seen 10/5/99) 1967
Solo and Illya go to Athens to give a new code to a contact, only to have it stolen by a man planning to sell it to THRUSH. Ilya is captured by a Greek (Harold J. Stone) who hopes to sell him for ransom.

"The J Is For Judas Affair" #1090 (last seen 5/15/00) 1967
Solo and Ilya are asked by Adam Tenza (Chad Everett) to protect his millionaire industralist father Mark Tenza (Broderick Crawford) from assassination by THRUSH, much to the resentment of the elder Tenza. When Tenza is killed by a bomb, Solo and Illya must find out where J - Tenza's other son, James - is, to protect him also. But Adam Tenza is actually planning to kill J, in order to hand his father's empire over to THRUSH. Chad Everett

Karate Killers (last seen on TCM) - see "Five Daughters"

“The King of Knaves Affair” #1013 (1964, b/w)
Kidnapped Solo learns a deposed Middle East ruler (Paul Stevens) is brainwashing mob leaders to conquer the world (last seen 3/27/00)

"The Love Affair" #1026 (last seen 5/22/00)
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

"The Mad Mad Tea Party Affair" #1018 (last seen 4/17/00) 1965
Lee Meriwether, Zohra Lampert (star of movie "The Girl The Goldwatch & Everything), Richard Haydn as a red herring

"Man From Thrush Affair" #1099 (last seen 1/17/00) 1967

"The Matterhorn Affair" (last scheduled 7/18/00)
Kuryakin and Solo race enemy agents searching for the remaining half of plans THRUSH stole for a miniature atomic reactor

"The Minus "X" Affair" #1056 (last seen 5/8/00, TNT lists title as "Minds X" each time) 1965
Solo and Illya try to protect Professor Lillian Stemmler (Eve Arden) from THRUSH after she invents a drug called Plus X, which heightens all the human senses. Unbeknownst to them, she is a THRUSH agent herself who at first cooperates willingly, then has second thoughts. But THRUSH kidnaps her daughter and forces her to cooperate. The drug is given to three THRUSH agents who will attack a U.S. government plutonium plant using their superior senses, while at the same time the guards will be given a dose of Minus X, which will have the opposite effect, turning them into primative animals. Guest Stars: Theodore Marcuse, Sharon Farrell

"Monks of St. Thomas Affair" #1061 (last seen 1999) 1966
THRUSH hides a laser gun in an Alpine monastery to threaten the capitals of Europe

"The Moonglow Affair" (1966) #1050 (last seen 4/10/00)
Illya is at a fashion show in a cosmetics company, with a high-tech lab in the basement. Solo breaks in & is hit with the beam from a mind-altering device. Mary Ann Mobley guest stars as April Dancer, UNCLE's newest agent, teamed with a veteran agent (Norman Fell) to find Illya and find out what turned Solo's mind to putty before it becomes permanent. Guest badguy: Kevin McCarthy of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers

“My Friend the Gorilla Affair” #1071 (last seen 1/31/00) 1966
A dying native in a newly-independent African nation leads to a mad scientist experimenting on humans to create a master race. Then, Illya and Solo meet a girl living with a gorilla and another seeking a lost sister as they try to stop the renegade professor.

"The Napoleon's Tomb Affair" #1077 (last seen 1/24/00)
As Solo and Illya guard a North African leader in Paris, THRUSH plots to rob Napoleon's tomb.

Neptune Affair #1011 (1964, last seen 4/17/00)
Illya is recalled to the Red Army when missles with crop-destroying biological warheads begin falling on the Soviet Ukrain, fired from somewhere in the West. He tells Solo that he has 24 hours...

"The Never Never Affair" #25 (1965)
A low-level UNCLE translator (Barbara Feldon of Get Smart) wants a field mission, so Solo sends her on a "routine assignment", just as a visiting THRUSH mobster (Cesar Romero) comes to town (last seen 9/20/99). Intro: Illya is on the run from bad guys whose guns fire napalm grenades

"The Nowhere Affair" #1051 (last seen 4/3/00)
Illya tries to rescue amnesiac Solo, snared by a THRUSH temptress, before THRUSH's secret mountain fortress is blown to bits. Meanwhile, Solo wanders out of the Nevada desert into a ghost town and is befriended by an old prospector (J. Pat O'Malley), and they find another agent - dead. Lou Jacobi plays the cybernetics expert being held by THRUSH in Nowhere, Nevada

“The Odd Man Affair” #1029 (last seen 2/21/00) 1965
Retired UNCLE agent Albert Sully is brought back to impersonate a crime syndicate leader and insists on leaving Solo and Illya behind and running the operation himself. He tracks down a secret crime conference, with old flame and fellow wartime agent Bryn Watson, while the exasperated Solo and Illya try to keep him from getting killed in the process.
Guest Star: Martin Balsam, the private detective in Psycho

"Off Broadway" #1067 (last seen 1999)
UNCLE communications break down after an actor who tried calling in dies

"Pieces of Fate Affair" #1080 (last seen 1999), by Harlan Ellison (1967)
UNCLE feels that information in a popular spy novel could only have come from a dead THRUSH historian's missing diaries

“The Prince of Darkness Affair” 1091/1092, 2-part (1967)
A bad guy with a heat ray (John Dehner), cameo by John Carradine (last seen 3/13/00)

"The Project Deephole Affair" #1053, by Dean Hargrove
THRUSH agent Elom (Leon Askin) tries to kidnap a geologist who has developed an earthquake-activating machine, but mistakes debt-ridden salesman Buzz Conway (Jack Weston, who costarred as the sailor in "Incredible Mr. Limpet," 1964) for the scientist. Solo and Ilya let THRUSH go on thinking Conway is the scientist, while Elom lets his attraction (Barbara Bouchet) interfere with his judgment. Conway is captured, and Solo and Illya must rescue him and find the machine. (last seen 5/8/00)

"The Project Strigas Affair" (last seen 10/18/99) 1964
Solo and Illya use a complex deception to discredit a Balkan intelligence chief with a bogus secret gas. With the help of an exterminator and his wife, Illya poses as a fellow countryman and exploits the paranoia of the officer (Werner Klemperer) and replace him with his assistant (Leonard Nimoy) before he starts WW3; William Shatner also guests, as the exterminator drafted to help UNCLE. Plot spoofs Mission Impossible including ending with everyone watching the bad guy being arrested

"The Quadripartite Affair" #1003 (1964) Directed by Richard Donner
In Yugoslavia, Solo and Illya are aided by Marion Raven (Jill Ireland) in stopping Gervaise Ravel (Anne Francis of Forbidden Planet) and her partners from using a fear gas to overthrow various governments. Richard Anderson, Roger C. Carmel (last seen 5/15/00)

"The Recollectors Affair" #1033 (last seen 5/1/00)
UNCLE tracks a group selling paintings stolen during World War II back to their original owners.

“The Roundtable Affair” #1054 (last seen 2/28/00)
A band of criminals, led by Lucho Nostra, takes over the tiny European country of Ingolstein, planning to take advantage of its lack of extradition treaty. Prince Frederick is afraid to kick them out and Nostra tries to force Princess Vicky into a marriage with one of his henchmen. Will these thugs bankrupt the tiny country? And what can UNCLE do to stop them?

"The Secret Sceptre Affair" #1019 (last seen 10/18/99)
Solo and Illya agree to help Major Morgan, a legendary mercenary & Solo's old commanding officer, steal a national symbol (a golden scepter) for his people from a Middle East dictator. Morgan is killed, and Solo, Illya and Zia, 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 scepter for him because of the precious gems it contains

"The See Paris and Die Affair" #1022 (1965, last seen 5/22/00)
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 on the Orient Express.

“Seven Wonders/World” #1102/1103, 2-part (last seen 3/6/00)

"The Shark Affair" #1004 (last seen 7-31-00)
A deranged sea captain (Robert Culp of I-Spy) kidnaps scientists and writers to repopulate Earth after an expected nuclear holocaust

"The Sort of Do-It-Yourself Dreadful Affair" by Harlan Ellison, #1059 (last seen 6/19/2000) 1966
Illya goes undercover in a bank with a high-strung boss (Fritz Feld). Intro: Solo is attacked by an unstopable female robot

"The Suburbia Affair" #1074 (last seen 4/3/00)
Solo and Illya rent a house in a Stepford Family-type nieghborhood and promptly get a free gift - a bottle of milk with a bomb inside. Someone knows they are searching the peaceful suburban street for a scientist who vanished after finding the secret of anti-matter. Guest star Victor Borge

"The Summit Five Affair" (last seen 10/11/99)
Guest star: Lloyd Bochner

"The Super Colossal Affair" #1061 (last seen 5/29/00)
Frank Cariago (Bernard Fein), the U.S. head of a crime syndicate, is under pressure from Uncle Giuliano (J. Carrol Naish). Cariago decides to buy a movie production directed by Sheldon Veblan (Shelley Berman) so his girlfriend, Ginger Laveer (Carol Wayne) can have the starring role. But the picture is a disguised plan to drop a bomb on the family's biggest rival - Las Vegas.

"The Take Me to Your Leader" #1073, (last seen 7/10/00) 1966
An astronomer says a huge flying saucer is headed for Earth, but Solo & Illya are sceptical. Guest star: Nancy Sinatra as his daughter, who's promptly kidnapped

"The Terbuf Affair" #1014 (last seen 8/14/00)

"Thrush Roulette Affair" #1095 (last seen 1/3/00)
Solo finds himself opposing homicidal Illya when he tries to discover the secrets of a private, life-or-death roulette game.

"The Tigers Are Coming Affair" #1035 (last seen 4/24/00)
Solo and Illya pose as a brash reporter and a magazine photographer to help a French chemist (Jill Ireland) learn why India's jungles are dying after an UNCLE agent disappears.

"To Trap A Spy" movie - see Vulcan

"The Ultimate Computer Affair" #1030 (last seen 6/5/00)
Illya gets himself thrown into a Latin American penal colony to try and find THRUSH'S Ultimate Computer, a super-machine which runs the entire organization. Solo poses as the husband of social worker Salty Oliver (Judy Carne) to get inside also, but Governor Callahan (Charlie Ruggles) and his Captain of the guards Cervantes (Roger C. Carmel, Star Trek's Harry Mudd) see through his cover, and trick Illya into blowing up a phony computer.

"The Vulcan Affair" (Pilot, last seen 10/18/99, aka movie title "To Trap A Spy")
Solo and Kuryakin are assigned to foil the plans of WASP, a crime-for-hire syndicate, to take control of an African nation. Episode title refers to head of Vulcan company

"The Waverly Ring Affair" #1046 (last seen 7-31-00) 1966, dir. John Brahm
Waverly assigns Solo and Kuryakin to learn which of two UNCLE employees is the spy who took a top-secret file. Larry Blyden, Elizabeth Allen

"The Yellow Scarf Affair" #1017, (last seen 6/26/00)
An UNCLE agent is strangled aboard an airplane, which then crashes near Bombay to cover up the crime, killing all passengers. Guest stars Linden Chiles (1965)

“The Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Rum Affair” #1076 (last seen 3/27/00)
Kuryakin stows away aboard a THRUSH ship carrying a tidal-wave device from Hong Kong being used to extort $10 billion (inside joke: ship's engineer is called Scotty); guest Dan O'Herlihy.

"The Yukon Affair" #1041 (last seen 7/24/00)
Evil Squire Partridge (George Sanders, Batman's Mr. Freeze) as the bad guy, in Alaska of course, returns for a magnetic metal that can control world communications.

Final month on TNT was August, 2000:

1026   8/07/2000, 4:00 AM   Love Affair
1021   8/07/2000, 5:00 AM   Four Steps Affair
1024   8/14/2000, 4:00 AM   Hong Kong Shilling Affair
1014   8/14/2000, 5:00 AM   Terbuf Affair

Birthdays:
Sept. 19, 1933: David McCallum
Sept. 22, 2000: 36th anniversary of the show's debut on NBC
Nov. 22, 1932: Robert Vaughn