![]() ![]() By 1968, UNCLE had run its course and was replaced by Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. There was a spinoff called The Girl From UNCLE with Stephani Powers but failed to catch on and was cancelled after one year. In real life, McCallum was a teenage heartthrob and received thousands of fan letters each week. ![]() Vaughn starred as the dapper Napoleon Solo while McCallum (Scottish by birth) played the role of Illya Kuryakin, a Russian blond headed agent. Most were lavish international cases involving the crime syndicate THRUSH. Carroll, who was a movie actor in the 1930's and 40's and starred in the 1950's comedy Topper, played Alexander Waverly whose job was to assign cases to agents and then monitor them as they were being handled. UNCLE stood for United Network Command for Law and Enforcement and had secret headquarters in New York City. Starring Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, and Leo G. The Man From UNCLE: aired on NBC from 1964-1968. The 1960's gave birth to some of the most entertaining "secret agent/spy" TV shows in American television history (thanks in part to the James Bond movies that were released at that time) and below are a few of my favorites that I enjoyed growing up during that era: Now I won't reveal details of what triggered that but let's just say that it gave me an idea for this week's blog. This afternoon one of our employees reminded me of the character Emma Peel from the 1960's TV series "The Avengers". ![]()
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