Episode
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Pieces of Fate Affair
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 23
- Air date
- 1967-02-24
Episode context
The Pieces of Fate Affair is Episode 23 in Season 3 of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. It aired on 1967-02-24.
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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 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.
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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 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.
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.
Episode 26: The When in Roma Affair
In Rome, American tourist Darlene Sims becomes the unwitting carrier of a perfume atomizer with a secret formula. THRUSH uses a suave ladies man Cesare Guardia to charm Darlene, but he falls in love with her in the process.
Episode 19: The Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Rum Affair
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.
Episode 27: The Apple A Day Affair
Solo and Illya find that THRUSH agent Colonel Picks has developed exploding apples, which will be used to trigger a nuclear stockpile. Nina Lillette, a pretty hillbilly girl, latches onto them for excitement. Illya joins a picking crew at the farm, but he is buried alive in a tunnel with the volatile apples.
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 28: The Five Daughters Affair (1)
Solo and Illya visit the laboratory of Dr. True, who has discovered how to extract gold from seawater. But Dr. True dies from a poison given him by THRUSH agent Randolph, and Randolph also kills his wife Amanda. The gold extraction formula was distributed in portions by True to his daughters, in inscriptions on a photo of himself. Solo and Illya meet Sandy True, who accompanies them to Rome, to find her half sister Margo, now unhappily married to the destitute Baron de Fanzini to London, to find the next sister Imogen, who has been arrested by a Constablefor indecent exposure and finally the Alps, to find Yvonne, who is breaking off an unhappy relationship with Karl Von Kesser. But after decoding the message in Japan, Solo, Illya and Sandy are captured by Randolph and taken to THRUSH central for execution.
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 29: The Five Daughters Affair (2)
Solo and Illya visit the laboratory of Dr. True, who has discovered how to extract gold from seawater. But Dr. True dies from a poison given him by THRUSH agent Randolph, and Randolph also kills his wife Amanda. The gold extraction formula was distributed in portions by True to his daughters, in inscriptions on a photo of himself. Solo and Illya meet Sandy True, who accompanies them to Rome, to find her half sister Margo, now unhappily married to the destitute Baron de Fanzini to London, to find the next sister Imogen, who has been arrested by a Constablefor indecent exposure and finally the Alps, to find Yvonne, who is breaking off an unhappy relationship with Karl Von Kesser. But after decoding the message in Japan, Solo, Illya and Sandy are captured by Randolph and taken to THRUSH central for execution.