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Guest Star: June Lockhart (before Lost in Space)

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June Lockhart, was one of many "inocent" characters in The Man From UNCLE series. She is one of the guest stars (along Ricardo Montalban) of Episode 12, "The Dove Affair". In this episode, Lockhart is an American high school teacher travelling one East Europe country. June was born in New York City, in 1925. She worked in the 1950s series Lassie .  June Lockhart and Robert Vaughn in The Man From UNCLE The Dover Affair aired in December, 15, 1964. Exactly 9 months after this day, June Lockhart would be Maureen Robinson for the very first time in the hit series Lost in Space . She changed carreers, working as marketing manager and art director for a furniture manufacturer. June is now 91. June Lockhart as Maureen Robinson in Lost in Space Much more about UNCLE: Amazon.com  -  http://goo.gl/OD1XKW   Amazon Australia  -  http://goo.gl/ODQYPY   Amazon Brazil  -  http://goo.gl/qYPYg6   Amazon Canada  -  http://goo.gl/XrC6gc   Amazon France

Wikipedia: All 24 Man From UNCLE Novels

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Two dozen novels were based upon  Man from U.N.C.L.E.  and published between 1965 and 1968. Unhampered by television censors, the novels were generally grittier and more violent than the televised episodes. The series sold in the millions, and was the largest TV-novel tie-in franchise until surpassed by  Dark Shadows  and  Star Trek . The Man from U.N.C.L.E.  (a.k.a.  The Thousand Coffins Affair ) by  Michael Avallone . When villages in Africa and Scotland are wiped out by a plague of madness, Solo and Kuryakin dig up a graveyard and a monster named Golgotha. The Doomsday Affair  by  Harry Whittington . The agents must find the mystery man "Tixe Ylno" before he triggers war between the USA and the USSR. The Copenhagen Affair  by John Oram. "UFOs" are buzzing Europe, and the U.N.C.L.E. agents crisscross Denmark to find the factory before THRUSH launches an armed fleet. The Dagger Affair  by  David McDaniel . DAGGER fanatics have an energy damper that can s

Entertainment Weekly on Robert Vaughn: "It all changed with Napoleon Solo"

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Fritz Weaver, guest star of the very first The Man From UNCLE episode, is dead

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Fritz Weaver (1926-2016)  as Andrew Vulcan in  The Vulcan Affair episode Fritz Weaver, Tony-Winning Character Actor, Dies at 90 By  ROBERT BERKVIST NOV. 27, 2016 Continue reading the main story Share This Page Share Tweet Email More Fritz Weaver, a Tony Award-winning character actor who played a German Jewish doctor slain by the Nazis in the 1978 mini-series “Holocaust” and an Air Force colonel who becomes increasingly unstable as the nation faces a nuclear crisis in the 1964 movie “Fail Safe” died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 90.  His death was confirmed by his son-in-law, Bruce Ostler. Mr. Weaver won a Tony in 1970 for his role in Robert Marasco’s drama “Child’s Play” about the malevolent environment at an exclusive Roman Catholic school for boys.  But winning the Tony did not catapult Mr. Weaver into stardom. “What I remember is a vast silence from the phone,” he said, “because people said, ‘We won’t offer it, now, because we can’t of

UNCLE: The geo-credibility factor

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Produced with a low budget and precarious resources, The Man From UNCLE needed to maintain a certain tone of realism in its episodes. One of the instruments for this was to insert elements of geographic identification before each scene. This detail gave the series a journalistic feel. Some examples: Much more about UNCLE: Amazon.com  -  http://goo.gl/OD1XKW   Amazon Australia  -  http://goo.gl/ODQYPY   Amazon Brazil  -  http://goo.gl/qYPYg6   Amazon Canada  -  http://goo.gl/XrC6gc   Amazon France -  http://goo.gl/IGxkLq   Amazon Germany  -  http://goo.gl/Wtz6WB   A mazon India -  http://goo.gl/vtNMYo   Amazon Italy  -  http://goo.gl/gPOn6X   Amazon Japan -  http://goo.gl/Cwqw1s   Amazon Mexico  -  http://goo.gl/xY6ANr   Amazon Netherlands -  http://goo.gl/y1t4KO   Amazon Spain  -  http://goo.gl/ph9s0Z   Amazon UK -  http://goo.gl/RDkUxB

Associated Press: "Robert Vaughn, suave ‘Man from UNCLE’ star, dies at 83"

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New York (AP) — Robert Vaughn, the debonair, Oscar-nominated actor whose many film roles were eclipsed by his hugely popular turn in television’s “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” died last week at age 83. Vaughn passed away Friday, Nov. 11 after a brief battle with acute leukemia. “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” was an immediate hit, particularly with young people, when it debuted in 1964. It was part of an avalanche of secret agent shows (“I Spy,” ‘’Mission: Impossible,” ‘’Secret Agent”), spoofs (“Get Smart”), books (“The Spy Who Came in From the Cold”) and even songs (“Secret Agent Man”) inspired by the James Bond films. Vaughn’s urbane superspy Napoleon Solo teamed with Scottish actor David McCallum’s Illya Kuryakin, a soft-spoken, Russian-born agent. The pair, who had put aside Cold War differences for a greater good, worked together each week for the mysterious U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law and Enforcement) in combatting the international crime syndicate THRUSH. “Girls ag

WSAU: "Open Channel D"

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Tuesday, November 15, 2016 by  Tom King I failed to mention yesterday, the passing of actor Robert Vaughn. From 1964-68 he starred in one of my favorite tv shows, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. What started as a mostly serious James Bond imitator eventually devolved into campiness...but for a kid in elementary school...this was good tv. From the secret entrance in Del Florio's Tailor Shop...to the cool gadgets like the pen communicators ("open Channel D" became a catch phrase and had us all talking into our BICS). The suaveness of Vaughn's character Napoleon Solo (cool name too) and the total coolness of his Russian counterpart Ilya Kuriakin (played by David McCallum) was like catnip. The plots got pretty silly near the end and most of us had moved to other things by 1968...but for a couple of years "The Man From UNCLE delivered the goods. They also had UNCLE books, toys and other merchandise available. I have a record album of the music from the show. To

N4BB: "Robert Vaughn - 5 Interesting Facts You May Not Know"

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by  Sam Mitchell  •  November 13, 2016 in  Celebrity Net Worth How many of you are fans of the spy genre? I can’t imagine there are many who aren’t. It’s a genre filled with an exciting blend of reality and fantasy. It’s about the dangers of exposing secrets and the game of intelligence. We’ve seen it unfold in the news and in television, film and novels. From the thrilling adventures of James Bond, to the more gripping, intense thrills of Jason Bourne (and Jack Bauer). At a time when Bond films were first being produced, there was an extremely popular 1960’s series titled “The Man from U.N.C.L.E”, which starred Robert Vaughn as Napoleon Solo (a film which was recently remade into a Guy Ritchie-vehicle starring Henry Cavill). Robert Vaughn soon became a star and has had roles in the A-Team and, most recently, on “Hustle”, where he played grifter Albert Stroller. Unfortunately, Robert Vaughn passed away yesterday, at the age of 83. He had a very prolific career and will alway

Washington Post: "It was a cultural phenomenon"

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By  Matt Schudel   November 12 at 7:19 PM From 1964 to 1968, Mr. Vaughn was one of the most recognizable stars in Hollywood, playing Napoleon Solo in the NBC spy spoof “ The Man from U.N.C.L.E .” The character was developed by Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, as something of a small-screen Bond. Darkly handsome, with a prominent chin and a distinctive, cultivated voice, Mr. Vaughn starred alongside David McCallum, playing the Russian spy Illya Kuryakin. Together, they were an international crime-fighting duo defying Cold War convention in a tongue-in-cheek series that was one of the most popular shows of its time. Each week, the pair from the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement, a private organization “involved in maintaining political and legal order anywhere in the world,” accepted a mission from their boss, played by Leo G. Carroll. With wit and panache, they  overcame  the deadly gadgets and thugs put in their way by their nemesis, THRUSH — while fin

USAToday: Robert Vaughn life in rare pictures

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Robert Vaughn (Napoleon Solo) and David McCallum (Illya Kuryakin) in the remains of what used to be UNCLE's secret entrance in the MGM studios. The set was destroyed by fire in March 31, 1967. (AP) Surrounded by fans and protected by police in London, as a rock star. (Getty Images) With bride Linda Staab, June 29, 1974. (AP) As president Harry S Truman in President: The Man From Independence (1974). (AP) Winning the Emmy Ward as supporting actor for the drama series Washington: Behind Closed Doors in 1979 (AP). Atending the Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony in July 27, 1998 with wife Linda Staab, daughter Caitlin and son Cassidy. (Wire Image) Much more about UNCLE: Amazon.com  -  http://goo.gl/OD1XKW   Amazon Australia  -  http://goo.gl/ODQYPY   Amazon Brazil  -  http://goo.gl/qYPYg6   Amazon Canada  -  http://goo.gl/XrC6gc   Amazon France -  http://goo.gl/IGxkLq   Amazon Germany  -  http://goo.gl/Wtz6WB   A mazon India -  http://goo.gl/vtNMY