I watched too much TV when I was young (this is why I don't have a TV today)

[BillyJack]

Yet another US spy TV show from the '60s that was wildly popular and memorable (and the first???). The show is centered around agents Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kurakin, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum respectively. They both work for the spy agency U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law and Enforcement). Although one is American and the other Russian, both work together in the same agency to bring down the network THRUSH (Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity), which is bent on world domination and even more powerful than the US or USSR.

This show is memorable for its suspenseful storylines, implausible situations (i.e. spy headquarters being situated in a little building in small-town USA, U.N.C.L.E. and THRUSH agents having a shoot-out in a NYC theater, and so on) that occur in our daily world, ordinary people like ourselves being caught up in extraordinary situations, and the interaction between Solo and Kurakin

http://www.squidoo.com/spytvshows#module52780272

[grasswire]

1. I love TV

I'm not an addict, but I love it.

I have been watching some episodes of The Waltons lately. I never saw them when they were fresh. Ron Howard actually starred in an episode the other day -- a young Ron Howard. I was surprised by that.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. I didn't see The Waltons all that often first-run.

But it was so big that I knew about it, and I can't help noticing that nice guy John-Boy is now cast as depraved killers and the like. x(

[Rhiannon12866]

2. I certainly remember The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

It was really huge when I was a kid, everybody paid attention to it! There were some boys in my class that were so into it, they pretended they were agents, battling THRUSH, even during school. I remember that they carried around hollowed out books to hide their "secrets..." :)

[kiva]

3. David McCallum...

from spy to Ducky on N.C.I.S.

[JohnnyRingo]

5. Loved those aviator glasses Kurakin wore

I had all the spyware like the little AM radio that turned into a pistol at the push of a button and the prerequisite brief case for my gear. I don't recall the episode where Solo was jammin' to Herman's Hermits when THRUSH attacked from nowhere though. At least it made me stop playing Sgt Saunders with a Thompson.

I remember they'd get in a shootout, but those magic silencers made certain no one noticed. Vip vip!, you're a dead spy. LOL