Episode
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Candidate's Wife Affair
Overview
Solo and Illya protect Miranda Bryant, the wife of a presidential candidate, from a THRUSH plot to kidnap her, not realizing that she has already been kidnapped and replaced with a double Irina, an unwitting dupe of THRUSH. When they do catch on, the candidate, Senator Bryant and his aide Fairbanks, agree to play along but Fairbanks is the one behind the plot to put a THRUSH agent in the White House.
Details
- Series
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 1966-11-04
Episode context
The Candidate's Wife Affair is Episode 8 in Season 3 of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. It aired on 1966-11-04.
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Episode 7: The Thor Affair
Solo and Illya are assigned to protect Dr. Fazie Nahdi, a Gandhi like peace advocate, during a conference. Nellie Canford, a high school teacher, becomes linked to their efforts when her dental work begins receiving radio transmissions. Mahdi stays at the home of Brutus Thor, who is actually a THRUSH leader who is trying to kill him and Illya is trapped in a room full of toys that begin firing real bullets.
Episode 9: The Come With Me to the Casbah Affair
Solo and Illya go to Algiers to obtain a rare old book containing a THRUSH code from Pierrot La Mouche who has stolen it from his boss, Colonel Hamid. But La Mouche has a high price he wants U.N.C.L.E. to help him obtain Janine whom he is in love with.
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Episode 6: The Pop Art Affair
A dissatisfied THRUSH collaborator tips U.N.C.L.E. off to a new deadly hiccup gas. A pendant he wears leads Illya to Greenwich Village and an art gallery run by Mark Ole, a THRUSH agent. Starving artist Sylvia Harrison joins Illya, who is nearly suffocated at the hands of a foam producing machine.
Episode 10: The Off Broadway Affair
An off-broadway actress is murdered during a phone call to U.N.C.L.E., and Solo and Illya investigate a connection between the show and a sudden malfunction in U.N.C.L.E.'s communications. The understudy, Janet Jarrod, takes over the lead role, and Illya joins the cast to find the jamming device.
Episode 5: The Monks of St. Thomas Affair
THRUSH agent Abbot Simon takes over the monastery at St. Thomas to use the mountain location to aim a new laser gun at a long distance target the Louvre in Paris. Solo visits the area and meets Andrea Fouchet, and together they try to stop Simon before he destroys the world's greatest art treasures.
Episode 11: The Concrete Overcoat Affair (1)
While in Italy investigating a THRUSH plan to divert the Gulf Stream with heavy water, Solo finds himself eluding THRUSH guards, and ends up hiding under the bed of Pia Monteri. Solo escapes a shotgun wedding, the family feels Pia's honor has been compromised, and the girl's American uncles retired Prohibition-era gangsters ""Fingers"" Stilletto, Enzo ""Pretty"" Stilletto, and Federico ""Feet"" Stilletto are called. At the island headquarters of Louis Strago, Illya is tortured by Strago's sadistic female assistant, Miss Diketon. Solo joins forces with the Stilletto brothers to try and rescue him.
Episode 4: The Super-Colossal Affair
Frank Cariago, the U.S. head of a crime syndicate, is under pressure from Uncle Giuliano. Cariago decides to buy a movie production directed by Sheldon Veblan so his girlfriend, Ginger Laveer can have the starring role. But the picture is a disguised plan to drop a bomb on the family's biggest rival-Las Vegas.
Episode 12: The Concrete Overcoat Affair (2)
While in Italy investigating a THRUSH plan to divert the Gulf Stream with heavy water, Solo finds himself eluding THRUSH guards, and ends up hiding under the bed of Pia Monteri. Solo escapes a shotgun wedding, the family feels Pia's honor has been compromised, and the girl's American uncles retired Prohibition-era gangsters ""Fingers"" Stilletto, Enzo ""Pretty"" Stilletto, and Federico ""Feet"" Stilletto are called. At the island headquarters of Louis Strago, Illya is tortured by Strago's sadistic female assistant, Miss Diketon. Solo joins forces with the Stilletto brothers to try and rescue him.
Episode 3: The Galatea Affair
In spoof of ""My Fair Lady,"" Solo is recuperating from a fall into a Venice canal, Illya teams with Mark Slate to uncover Baroness Bibi de Chasseur, a THRUSH money courier who has contact with the treasurer of THRUSH. They recruit a barroom entertainer, Rosy Shlagenheimer, an exact double, to impersonate her. The switch is made, but in the confusion the Baroness makes another switch and poses as Rosy, then finds herself falling in love with Slate.
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 2: The Sort of Do-It-Yourself Dreadful Affair
Solo is nearly killed by a superhuman, robotlike girl, Margo Hayward, one of an army of such devices invented by Dr. Pertwee for THRUSH. Illya joins up with Margo's ex-roommate, Andy Francis, and finds the laboratory, where a roomful of robots attack them.
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.