Man From UNCLE Episode 21: The Four Steps Affair

- April 09, 2018

The Man From UNCLE
Episode 21
The Four Steps Affair
Writers: Peter Allan Fields e Joseph Calvelli
Director: Alvin Ganzer
Guests: Luciana Paluzzi (Angela), Michael Petit (Miki), Susan Seaforth
(Kelly Brown), Miguel Landa (Dancer)
Filmed: 01-12 January 1965
Premiere: 22 February 1965

Acts titles:
1 - "Step One: Kidnapped"
2 - "Step Two: Ambushed"
3 - "Step 3: Murdered"
4 - "Step 4: Counter Attack"

The affair:
In East Hampton (USA), UNCLE agent Dancer is wounded and calls UNCLE. The line is cut. His lover Angela betrays him. Dancer is shot. At UNCLE headquarters in New York, Alexander Waverly talks with Australian agent Kitt Kittridge. Kuryakin says that agent

Dancer left a clue that leads to Miki, the Lama boy of the kingdom of Shanti. Miki is in New York for dental care, protected by Dancer and his guardian, Kaza. His disappearance may cause a civil war in Shanti. THRUSH strikes. Illya, Miki and Brown are kidnapped and locked in THRUSH headquarters. Solo and Rittridge goes after Kaza, whose mission is to kill the boy Miki. In his cell in the base of THRUSH, Illya gives Miki maturity lessons. They are rescued by an UNCLE team led by Napoleon Solo. At JFK airport, Miki gives a press call and says goodbye to Solo and nanny Brown. Kuryakin acomplish his last mission: deliver a gumball box to Lama boy.

FYI: This episode is an amalgam of a new episode (which began filming in New Year 1965) with material used for feature films The Vulcan Affair and The Spy with My Face. So it is a bit confusing. The hair of Napoleon changes from scene to scene and he hardly meets Illya. In the episode is revealed one of the phones from UNCLE: PLAZA-36098. The Dancer agent, who appears at the beginning of the episode, apparently has nothing to do with April Dancer, future Girl from UNCLE.

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