Episode
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Adriatic Express Affair
Overview
Solo and Illya board the Adriatic Express train on New Year's Eve to intercept Madame Nemirovitch, a THRUSH agent who is carrying a chemical that is capable of stopping the reproductive process. Eva, a young girl who delivers a message to Madame Nemirovitch as the train leaves, is caught on board. Throughout the evening, the THRUSH agent and Solo and Illya engage in a battle of wits as the train speeds along its route.
Details
- Series
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 13
- Air date
- 1965-12-17
Episode context
The Adriatic Express Affair is Episode 13 in Season 2 of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. It aired on 1965-12-17.
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Episode 12: The Children's Day Affair
A top-level U.N.C.L.E. conference is to be held in Switzerland, but a nearby boys' school is actually a THRUSH front run by Mother Fear and Dennis Jenks that is training its students to be assassins. Solo is captured by the boys, and, when he refuses to reveal the conference location, is forced to operate the controls of two electric trains so they do not collide with each carrying a vial of deadly nerve gas. Illya and Anna Paola, a social worker who resent children, are also captured. The escape, and arrive at the conference just as the boy's choir is ready to kill Waverly and the others with THRUSH rifles from under their robes.
Episode 14: The Yukon Affair
Squire G. Emory Partridge returns, having acquired in Alaska a large quantity of Quadrillenium X, a very heavy metal with high magnetic powers which THRUSH wants to use to disrupt world communications. Solo and Illya are nearly killed by the local Eskimos, but are saved by the chief's daughter, Murphy. Partridge and his niece Victoria capture them, but they escape only to end up in a tavern brawl.
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Episode 16: The Dippy Blonde Affair
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Episode 9: The Deadly Toys Affair
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Episode 17: The Deadly Goddess Affair
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Episode 8: The Tigers are Coming Affair
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Episode 18: The Birds and the Bees Affair
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Episode 7: The Arabian Affair
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