Episode
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Rum Affair
Overview
Investigating the shipment of a tidal-wave machine by THRUSH, Illya ends up aboard a merchant vessel run by Captain Morton. Morton is obsessed with his past disgrace in a court martial, and the crew is on the verge of a mutiny, which Illya leads just as THRUSH arrives to take possession of the device.
Details
- Series
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 19
- Air date
- 1967-01-20
Episode context
The Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Rum Affair is Episode 19 in Season 3 of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. It aired on 1967-01-20.
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Episode 18: The Deadly Smorgasbord Affair
Solo goes to Sweden to obtain a new suspended animation device from Dr. A.C. Nilson, but the device and its inventor are taken by THRUSH. The doctor's daughter Neila helps Solo find him, and the doctor's assistant, Inga Anderson also feigns cooperation but is actually working for THRUSH agent Heinrich Beckmann. Beckmann uses the device to invade U.N.C.L.E.'s Scandinavian headquarters, and only Solo has a chance to stop him.
Episode 20: The Napoleon's Tomb Affair
President Nasasos Tunik visits Paris. His assistant, Malanez, is determined to persuade the president that the French are his enemy, and arranges for various embarrassing and insulting incidents to occur. Solo and Illya are assigned to see that the visit goes smoothly, but Tunik falls in love with Candyce, and Malanez plans to disgrace Tunik by framing him in a plot to steal the body of Napoleon from his tomb.
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Episode 17: The Suburbia Affair
Dr. Rutter, after inventing antimatter, hides out in Suburbia under the name Willoughby because he fears his creation will be used destructively. Solo and Illya take a house there to find him. But THRUSH agent Miss Witherspoon also wants to find Rutter, and when Rutter sends his neighbor Betsy after some rare medicine from the pharmacist, Fletcher, the chase is literally on the find Rutter first.
Episode 21: The It's All Greek to Me Affair
In Greece, Illya tries to recover stolen U.N.C.L.E. documents, but they fall into the hands of Stavros, a Greek bandit, who has ambushed Illya, thinking he is his daughter Kira's convict husband, Manolakas returning from prison. Kita is in love with Nico instead, and Solo and Illya must resolve the love triangle in order to retrieve the documents.
Episode 16: The Take Me to Your Leader Affair
Scientist Adrian Cool spots a UFO approaching earth on his radar. His daughter, Coco is kidnapped, and Illya follows and he's captured also. Simon Sparrow, a power-mad millionaire, has faked the approaching UFO to secure power for himself as the representative on earth of the ""aliens"". Sparrow captures Solo and puts him in an experimental wind tunnel to kill him, but he is saved by Corinne. Coco develops a crush on Illya; while they are trying to stop Sparrow, they end up aboard his ""UFO"".
Episode 22: The Hula Doll Affair
Brothers Simon and Peter Sweet both rival THRUSH leaders vying for promotion, do not realize that the toy hula doll they possess has an extremely powerful new U.N.C.L.E. explosive inside that is activated by heat. As the outside temperature rises, Illya and Solo try to recover it with the help of Wendy Thyme. Solo poses as a representative of THRUSH Central, but Mama Sweet a real member of THRUSH Central appears on the scene.
Episode 15: The Jingle Bells Affair
Solo and Illya must protect Premier Georgi Koz, a Khrushchev like European leader, on a visit to New York, Priscilla Worth is befriended by Loz and she takes him to a school for Santa Clauses run by Francis X. O'Reilly where just one of a series of assassination attempts against him must be thwarted by the two U.N.C.L.E. agents.
Episode 23: The Pieces of Fate Affair
Jacqueline Midcult writes a best selling novel, The Pieces of Fate, which U.N.C.L.E. recognizes as being based on a series of missing THRUSH diaries. She loses her memory during a THRUSH attempt to kill her, and THRUSH agents Ellipsis Zark and Jody Moore, a book critic, plot to kidnap her and find out where she found the diaries. Solo and Illya take Jacqueline to a small town where her Uncle Charly and Aunt Jessie live, to try and revive her memory, but Zark and Moore follow and they all converge on the attic where the diaries are hidden at the same time.
Episode 14: The My Friend, the Gorilla Affair
In Africa, Professor Kenton has developed a superman formula which he has been using on the natives, hoping to build an army with which to conquer all of Africa. Premier Khufu resists the use of the drug on his people. Illya meets up with Harry Blackburn, a shady safari guide, and Marsha Woodhugh, who is searching for her lost sister, a Tarzan like woman named ""Girl"" who has captured Solo.
Episode 24: The Matterhorn Affair
A dying man carrying a partial film with the secret of Project Quasimodo, a miniature atomic bomb, gives only one clue to finding the rest of the film: the name of Marvin Klump, inept car salesman. THRUSH agents Rodney Backstreet and Beirut capture Klump. Solo and Illya, with the aid of Klump's sister Heather, follow them first to the Alps, them back to the U.S.,where the answer to the puzzle lies in a cemetery.
Episode 13: The Abominable Snowman Affair
Illya goes to the Himalayan country of Chupat to protect the high lama, but is shot by ""Calamity"" Rogers, an American rodeo star. Solo is sent to find Illya, and learns that the prime minister has kidnapped the real successor to the throne and intends to install his own son instead. An entranced girl, Amra Palli tries to kill Solo after being brainwashed by the prime minister.
Episode 25: The Hot Number Affair
A THRUSH code is hidden in a dress pattern, and Solo and Illya go to the garment district and encounter the design shop of two down on their luck designers and their model Ramona and the cutter who has a crush on her, Jerry. THRUSH also tries to retrieve the garment, but Ramona keeps forgetting where she left it.