Why Actor DAVID McCALLUM was ALMOST FIRED from the MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
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- Опубликовано: 18 апр 2021
- In this video, I'll tell you the behind-the-scenes story of how David McCallum was almost fired from the MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. before the first episode ever aired! It's a fascinating story as fans are all now familiar with the iconic role of Illya Kuryakin that McCallum made famous.
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This is a good 10-minute biography of the series. The first season, in black and white, was dark and intense. The Batman influence ruined this show, and allowed for the ridiculous year of ‘The Girl From UNCLE.’ When I was little this show woke me up to international relations and travel, though it was all shot in a studio. The 1983 TV movie did very well by the series. This video mini-doc didn’t mention that there were several ‘Man from UNCLE’ movies edited together for release in movie theaters as full length features- with more sex! Later in life I became friends with David McCallum’s first wife, Jill Ireland, who guested on several episodes. Thank you for doing this.
I loved this show when I was a kid. Used to go to the library to check out the books that were written with additional adventures. Huge crush on Iliya. Used the think I was so cool because I knew what the acronyms for UNCLE and THRUSH stood for. Those were the days.
All the way with Illya K.!
I think I had a crush on Ilya also lol.
Loved the series. The last movie screwed up the chrs.-which is why I generally dislike rebooted chrs. (My dad introduced me to the programme and also to "Star Trek" by telling me that 2 actors-Shatner and Nimoy- who played on an episode were portraying a cpt.and an alien). David's great on "NCIS" as Ducky. I was glad to meet him after a couple of plays in Atlanta. A very kind and talented man! Love his music too!
As did I.
Same here.
These were the types who wanted Rodenberry to dump the guy with the pointy ears
This was a great post thanks for the good memories! My mom was not happy when I wore my Sunday suit out to play UNCLE on Saturday with my buddies. We took pencils ✏️ and stuck needles in the erasers as antenna’s ! Jumping over walls , climbing fences , and running through yards to combat THRUSH! The suit eventually had a few patches! 😂 Great show , good times . 🇺🇸
Black turtleneck shirts were a thing back then,especially if you were on a “covert operation” at night! Sometimes I was Napoleon Solo,and sometimes James Bond! Great post Tim and memories! 😂
Should have seen my mother when my snub nose .38 fell out of my shoulder holster…..at church. I was probably 7-8 years old. I loved Bat Masterson and the Thin Man, any show of that genre or detective show of any type. All kids had toy guns back before liberals took over. I finally did get it back but it took a while.
@@petegregory517 😂 classic mom reaction! Lucky for you it wasn’t a .38 caliber cap-gun, the impact might of caused 💥 lol! Good memory 👍🏼
@@timacoata7456 It actually was a capper. I probably used em all up or just forgot em😂. Like the time my horse stood on my foot, in the dark, and wouldn’t move. Then leaned on me into the barn wall. It was about this same time frame. I was terrified, equally both times. Just don’t forget some things.
Loved this show ❤️...so lucky to have grown up in this time, also loved The Avengers with Diana Rigg and Patrick Magnee...
I love the Man from U.N.C.L.E tv series and the 60's & 2015 Movies. As a kid I had the Man From U.N.C.L.E Couter spy trench coat, Napoleon Solo Gun Secret Service Gun sets, Comic PB ,HC annuals Board and card games, Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin Model sets,Piranha Model car and the Attach'e/Brief case
I couldn’t imagine The Man from U.N.C.L.E without David McCallum… just like I couldn’t imagine it without Robert Vaughn.
The two of them together were a perfect fit. That’s why the show worked so well.
Strange maybe.. I watched an interview with David McCallum he said they like each other but did not hang out off set.. and yet the chemistry was great!
@@leeanneyoungman8028I think I saw the same interview, they were the perfect combo on screen..
David McCallum is a piece of garbage because I had a nightmare that he was in a morgue with a dead body
David McCallum is a piece of garbage because I had a nightmare that he was in a morgue with a dead body
@@leeanneyoungman8028yeah, went to lunch once. That was the extent of the social aspect.
The casting of Leo G Carrol as Mr Waverley was inspired considering that he played a similar role in Hitchcock's North by Northwest. As a child though & long before I knew that, he was liked as the older man of experience, who you couldn't help but warm to.
Leo G. Carroll was great in a number of roles for many years. See IMDB.
I was a huge U.N.C.L.E. fan - for the first season. After that, the typical network executive disease set in and, well, it was good while it lasted. How do they GET to be network executives in the first place? IMHO if Vaughn and McCallum were in charge of writing and production, the series would have lasted a lot longer.
Agree on all points.
Network Programming was my dream job when I was a child and teenager. I always thought I could do a much better job than Fred Silverman or Bill Pailey. I guess I'll never get that opportunity.
Ahead of it's time. An uncle fighting thrush.
My favorite Secret Agent Tv series.I had the Man from.Uncle Collectibles The Man from Uncle Napoleon Solo Toy pistol, Napoleon Solo and illya Kuryakin Aurora Model Sets, Hard cover ,Paperback &comic books. Also Annuals, Piranha Model car, MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E Attache case, Trenchcoat ,The board and Card Games.Also the Video cassette Tapes.
David Mc Callum was also a classically trained Oboist and put out an album playing popular songs.
David McCallum is worthless because I had a nightmare that he was a morgue a dead body
Loved this show as a very young teenager. There were all sorts of "fan perks" offered by local tv stations of the shows they aired. I sent away for, received, and still have my official "Man from UNCLE" ID card - over 50 years later.
I think I still have my official ID card!
The Wild, Wild West had a similar secret agent feel to it.
Yes, "James Bond in the Old West."
Yes. It brilliantly combined the established western genre with the newly popular secret agent persona.
@@jeffthompson9622 "Brilliantly"? That's what the edit button is for in the lower right corner of your text box.
@@danielfronc4304 Well, that was my view of it when I saw it as a kid in the '60s.
I loved this show !!!! They had the coolest gun's !!!! I just wished I could have looked as cool as illya kuryakin in a black turtleneck.
a couple of mistakes in the facts....first the original 90 minute pilot movie was in fact called Solo, they didn't change the name until it went to series, secondly , The Avengers actually predate TMFU by several years but did not arrive in America until TMFU had aired
I like it as a small kid.
But I really really really loved their neat guns.
I also learned to spell uncle from watching the show.
In this video, the author says that "The Avengers" was invented after "The Man From Uncle". Not true. "The Avengers" first aired in 1961 (in Britain), "Uncle" in 1964. "Avengers" first ran in the US in 1965, but pre-dated "Uncle" by 3 years - making "Avengers" arguably the first spy show on television. We copied the Brits - again - as we did on "All in the Family", "The Office", and God knows how many others. I loved & watched both shows, but credit where credit's due.
Three's company, Dancing with the Stars, House of Cards, Kitchen Nightmares, American Idol, etc
Also a 30 minute version of "Danger Man" was produced in 1962
British comedy great stuff.
@@boogerie Right! And it was so good - the most authentic of all the spy shows (later titled "Secret Agent Man" in the US). And, a few later, it spawned "The Prisoner", one of the best shows ever on TV to this day in my opinion. And still relevant.
Sanford and Son. Originally Steptoe and Son in the UK
When it was cancelled, the show that took its timeslot, beginning January 22, 1968, was "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In."
which killed "The Avengers" because it was aired opposite in US. And dirty little secret, those British shows made most money being sold to American television and losing that income got them cancelled in UK too. Happend to "UFO" was was planning another series/season. The new SHADO Moonbase becomes the Space: 1999 mooonbase instead.
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I had the gun and brief case😁
I remember trying to see how fast I could put it together. Years latter our Drill Sargent in the Army made us put together & take apart an M16 blind folded and timed us😁
My dad gave me an old suite of his, my mom sewed it to fit me for a Halloween costume and an Illya mask. Happy days.😁
David is now in his 80's. Time just flys by.
I still have they gun, badge and board game. My friend and I made a communicator out of a mechanical pencil. What happened to yours?
@@reb1691 Oh kool !!! It's very nice to know you still have yours. I never knew they had a board game till this video.
I guess my parents threw it out sad to say. I sure would be fun to have today just for the memories. 😁
@@ghostcityshelton9378 You are welcome to mine. I will gladly give it to someone who will appreciate it.
@@reb1691 lol! I had the gun and badge .. my buddies and I took regular pencils ✏️ and stuck needles in the eraser for the antenna. Lol.. couldn’t afford the mechanical pencil. We had to downgrade lol but it worked and “opened channel D”!👍🏻
Loved all the gagdets and the first time I saw Yvonne Craig.
The British TV show called Danger Man was shown on TV in 1960. Two other British spy TV shows came out in 1961 before The Man From Uncle, they were Ghost Squad and The Avengers. Maybe they were shown on American TV later, after The Man From Uncle. Also, I think the titles were different in America. One of my favourite TV shows was Vendetta, which was first shown on TV in 1966. All of these shows are now possible on DVD, except for Vendetta (the tapes were lost) which is a pity. The music of Vendetta was done by John Barry, very good music (Vendetta Theme, and also, The Danny Scipio Theme).
...and Danger Man was shown in the USA as Secret Agent. Note: Patrick McGoohan, a devout Catholic, turned down the 007 role.
I noticed Patrick McMacnee, John Steed of The Avengers in a picture. I was lucky enough to have a casual conversation with Robert Vaughn in a toy shop at the old Disneyland Hotel while his son was shopping with the money he earned and saved. Mr. Vaughn was a real gentleman and very down to earth. He told some interesting stories too.
Robert Vaughn is the only actor who had a REAL doctors degree.
I heard he was very short.
@@pollypurree1834 He was 5’9”.
wow, cool encounter!
I always enjoyed The Man from U.N.C.L.E.!!
David McCallum is a worthless pig because I had a nightmare that he was in a morgue with a dead body
UNCLE was a great series in Australia. School kids and their parents loved it. The UNCLE movies were a hit too.
The first season was so good, it still holds up today. The next 2 1/2 seasons sucked.
Loved this show. And Girl from Uncle
I was a Man From U.N.C.L.E. fiend! I was only seven years old when it first aired. I had never seen a Bond movie and didn't until 1971's Diamonds Are Forever. I watched it every week. My parents let me stay up to watch it when it was on during a "school night". My mother owned and ran a beauty salon. She had subscribed to almost all of the movies magazines at the time. Vaughan and McCallum and U.N.C.L.E. were in almost every issue! I read them all! I even bought McCallum's music album: "Music - A Part of Me". He arranged and conducted all of the music. Later, about ten years ago I discovered he cut another album a few years after the first one. Strangely enough, the theme of "Batman" is on it! I now own the VUDU complete set of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."
I wasn't crazy about The 15 Years Later Affair because they sent Napoleon and Illya out on separate adventures instead of having them work together.
Napoleon Solo, still the coolest secret agent spy name!
The fifth season episode of The A-Team was called "The UNCLE Affair" reuniting David McCallum and Robert Vaughn, who was a regular on the A-Team's fifth season.
Without Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, the show would have flopped big time. R.I.P David McCallum, you are a legend!
Yes we will all miss David bless him….As Ilya K he was the person I most wanted to be as a 6 year old
My sister and I used to laugh when Napoleon was flirting and telling the girl to call him Nappy. Nappy means diaper in British English. 😂
Yeah, he should have gone with 'Leo' or 'Leon'. "Separated by a common language", as the saying goes.
@@kennethmartin1300 I wonder what Napoleon Solo would've thought if he knew there was a football player named Napoleon. Our fictional chrs. might be still alive in our hearts, even when the actors eventually die.
I watched every episode as a kid, it was sad to see it end. I had the the gun and briefcase.
I had the Secret Sam briefcase with gun and camera. Totally cool, and almost certainly UNCLE inspired.
The Mr. Waverley gold lion head cane that shot bullets was great in toy form.
We had that Man From Uncle boardgame. Don't remember a single thing about it though.
I was born in 57 and loved this series as a child. I watched every episode and films and my parents bought me all the toys associated with it. Great memories..
Another great show. These two characters worked well together.
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The avengers was going long before uncle, as it started in 1961.
Also, the story I have heard is that the guy up top said get rid of guy who name began with a "k" as they could not remember who it was. Will Kulva took the hit and the rest is history
Also, Steed was clearly a spy in The Avengers from the first episode “Hot Snow”.
But not in the US. It only began airing after MFU was already on the air. However Danger Man was already airing in the US since 1961.
@@darkwood777 I know that, but MFU didn’t influence the creation of the show. An argument could be made that it influenced later episodes.
Dianna Rigg and Julie Newmar could fill out a catsuit like no other!
@@richwagener, you are correct! MFU did influence the Avengers later on? In 1966 in fact? The Avengers episode “The Girl From Auntie” season 4 shown in Britain on 20/January/1966 and in America on 6/june/1966, starring Diana Rigg and Patrick McNee was a blatant tongue in cheek nod to the highly successful at the time MFU!
The Man from UNCLE was by far my favorite all-male TV spy show! But my all-time favorite is The Avengers! Steed and Emma Peel can not be beat! Diana Rigg was one of the first female bad-asses and still is #1 in many males, (and females), hearts! Also, anyone remember Honey West starring beautiful Anne Francis? Loved her too!
Agreed! Loved the Avengers! "Mrs. Peel, we're needed".
I liked "The Avengers" too, but "MFU" was the best. The "Return of The Man From U.N.C.L.E." was better than the latter. I'd rather watch re-runs or the episodes on my DVD set than any rebooted movie or series. I know actors pass on-RIP, Robert and others-but the recent lack of continuity as changed too many beloved chrs. I'd remember as they were.
THANK YOU for bringing these memories back to us. I loved this show. Second only to I-Spy.
I was a fan of both, though not the latter movies. Didn't they reverse the chr. names in the "I Spy" movies? They also changed thr chrs. in the 2009 "MFU" movies.
@@virginiaconnor8350 I believe you are correct.
The '83 reunion movie was one of the great reunions in TV history. I remember being glued to it. The Lazenby cameo was precious.
I'd love to go through the entire series one of these days to see if it holds up as well as The Avengers, for example.
Need people like Solo and Kuryakin cleaning up the evil today.
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I bet they could do a really cool reboot of The Man From UNCLE - IF they played it straight AND didn’t try to copy Mission Impossible. If I were the showrunner, I would get VERY talented, but little known, actors to play Solo and Kuriakin. Star Trek Next Generation did this, and it was pretty successful. I would also make every episode self-contained, so a viewer could start watching at any time AND watch the best episode first (if they want).
I would also base the stories on real events - like Law & Order, so the audience gets a sense of realism.
They did a remake movie of it back in 2015 and I was very disappointed. Didn’t do it justice at all. It was the same thing for The Green Hornet. I will never forgive Seth Rogan for making The Green Hornet look like an idiot.
There's actually one little addendum to this: Robert Vaughn was a regular in the 5th season of "The A-Team", and David McCallum guest starred in the 6th episode, "The Say UNCLE Affair".
David had incredible genes. He still looked great as the medical examiner on NCIS. Loved his Russian accent in the UNCLE series.
Robert Vaughn also starred in Gerry Anderson's second live action series (after UFO and before Space: 1999) The Protectors (1972)
David McCallum starred as Steel in the British series "Sapphire and Steel" (1979)
My favorite scene in NCIS has Gibbs being asked what Ducky was like when he was younger and Gibbs confuses the younger agent with his answer: "Illya Kuryakin"
I thought the ‘A Team’ thing co-opting The Uncle characters of Solo and Ilya was just AWFUL to be honest. They even had the character of Ilya Kuriakin trying to kill Napoleon Solo which was totally ridiculous…I don’t even count it as being part of the UNCLE show’s legacy. In its heyday the Man From Uncle was a much better series than ‘the A team’
Great content, thxs !
This show was so cool. Loved it. Girl from UNCLE too.
I love the series and have every episode. The 2015 movie was a misfire, and for one huge reason: they set it back in the 1960s, which was crazy. They could have, and still could, set a series of movies in the current world, like the Cruise MI movies, taking advantage of modern tech. Younger generations are not going to connect with retro 1960s stuff. That's ancient history to them and their mobile phone internet world. The premise of the original series could still work: 1960s-- the US and the Soviet Union hated each other, but with other countries worked to stop bad guys. 2020s - the US and Russia hate each other but conceivably work together with other countries to stop bad guys. It's movie fiction, but the premise could still work. It's a shame they messed up the 2015 movie. I was hoping for a series of modern set movies, like Cruise did with MI. Maybe someone will try again. Long live The Man from UNCLE.
Yes, it's really a shame they missed the boat on this one, David. I was really looking forward to the movie and I loved the casting of Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer as Solo and Kuryakin. Great chemistry. I'd watch another one but I'm from that older generation! 😀
I disagree. I love that movie.
@@careyatchison1348 Ditto. And part of the charm was how well they portrayed the 1960s and the people and places they set it in.
Ahem. As part of the younger generation who liked the movie and the show tell me why I think tech from the 1960s-2000s looks good?
LOL, as a kid when I got my U.N.C.L.E. gun, badge & I.D. I was hell on wheels in my yard by myself 😂😂😂😆😆😆
Wrong. "The Avengers" was already in production when UNCLE began. It was later picked up by ABC and was the first British show to be networked on American TV, coming just under the wire as the switch to color was underway. The original sale was conditioned on taking the B&W filmed episodes, which likely would have gone unaired otherwise.
Forgot to mention that Gene Roddenberry wrote a couple of scripts for The Man from U. N. C. L. E. one of them which introduced a future captain and science officer in other words Bill Shatner and Leonard Nimoy
One more fun fact in one of your split screen pictures where you have Solo and Kuryakyn on one side the young lady on the right side is Yvonne Craig - Batgirl
The Project Strigas Affair. That was the episode in which a pre-Kirk William Shatner pretended to be drunk and addressed a tall, thin, sinister dark figure as *Calvin Cooledge" as Shatner walked by him.
The thin man turned so we could see the unmistakable face of the man whose name would soon be forever be linked with Shatner's: Leonard Nimoy.
William Shatner,Leonard Nimoy First Acting Job Was In The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Launched There Careers.
Thank you for this in depth video on one of my most beloved series. 🤗
When I was a kid, I thought David MacCallum was a real Russian.
David McCallum is a worthless pig because I had a nightmare that he was in a morgue with a dead body
Thanks! Very popular also in France. Maybe a few words about Stefanie Powers in "The Girl from U.N.C.L.E." would be nice!
I Totally Agree. Stefanie Powers Character in The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. Was Originally Named Cookie Fortune and Not April Dancer. And The Show Was Originally Entitled The Girl From A.U.N.T.I.E. Acronym For Associated Unified Nations Taskforce for International Enforcement.
A good TV show 👍
U.N.C.L.E. United Network Command for Law Enforcement. T.H.R.U.S.H. Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity. I was in love with Ilya Kuryakin in the 6th grade.
United Network Command for Law AND Enforcement........
I like it... never knew what the acronym stood for.....
The THRUSH acronym is not offical....it never was used on the show or movies it was actually made up by one of the writers of an UNCLE novel
@@startrekker8803 it's ok, I'm not an official watcher.... given all the lying by politicians and their spammers, what's one more lie....
@@startrekker8803
THRUSH = Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undersirables and the Subjugation of Humanity .
Alternative Title WASP = Worldwide Authority for the Subjugation of People .
The Dagger Affair 1965 , By David McDaniel . Is The Origin of The THRUSH Meaning .
Without NCIS, no body would know who David McCallum is!
That’s what you believe my man; many of us remember him from the Outer Limits and the Man from Uncle.
@@gerardosalazar161 so do l . But without NCIS ? He was also on Matlock and Murder She Wrote !
David McCallum is a worthless pig because I had a nightmare that he was in a morgue with a dead body
10 minutes of commercials per hour, those were the days!
I loved my Napoleon Solo toy gun and Man from UNCLE badge.
Colin I remember having the badge, Dodge Car with the transfers and you pressed the button on the top both of them appeared shooting and the gun was a Luger if I mind.
Amazing job guys!!🥰😎🏁
I loved this show
They also briefly produced The Girl From Uncle... I haven't seen it in a ling time but i liked it.
Only 29 Episodes of The Girl From
U . N . C . L . E . Were Produced , The Original Title being The Girl From
A . U . N . T . I . E . The Acronym For
Associated Unified Nations Taskforce for International Enforcement .
IMO, to be fair, McCallum's acting in that role was rather bloodless. What sold him was that he didn't comb his hair straight back and they called it Beatle bangs.
In fact The Avengers pre-dated The man From U.N.C.L.E. by three years.
As a young kid, I believed that David McCallum really was Russian.
Episode 9 of the 1st season, the Project Strigas Affair has both William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy in it, though they are not depicted as being together!
Fun video with many memories. Among the TV spy explosion you left out the sublime The Wild, Wild West which of course was an 1870's knock off. Enjoy your channel !
I loved this show very, it gave a sense of justice to the people. 🤗
David McCallum is a worthless pig because I had a nightmare that he was in a morgue with a dead body
I hated that Solo could hail any random can in town and the driver would always be a spy trying to kill him.
Love the show. I was 13 when it first aired.
I read that Solo had the number 11 badge because the actress playing the receptionist gave him the wrong one and nobody noticed. For continuity reasons they stayed with it through out the series.
*Same thing happened to 'Lost in Space' when the scripts turned to 'rubbish' and the character of the 'Bloop' creature appeared as 'Penny's Pet'*
( *Even Bill Mumy thought it was ridiculous and he actually was a kid!* )
*That first season was fascinating...then everything became a 'live-action cartoon'*
@D Sullivan *I would have been around 12 myself then, but even so...the show just went right into "Mad Magazine' territory and I was disgusted by the scripts over how childish they were*
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*To be fair, many of the 'kid shows' just went off the rails with 'rubber monsters' on 'Star Trek' and that sort of crap...but why drive a good show right off a cliff with absurd scripts?*
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( *I was a big 'Dark Shadows' fan...and the ending to that series was a shocker and kind-of disappointing and yet finding out "It was all a dream within a dream" was a 'first of it's kind'* )
I read that Angela Cartwright was badly bitten on the hand by that thing, probably the reason they got rid of "Debbie" 🐵🙊🙉🙈
@@gerrynightingale9045 One of the medical shows was like that-I didn't watch it so I forget the name-it stated that the story was just a dream by a kid with autism. I liked "Star Trek".
an all time favorite series. tied with original Star Trek. there were competing toy attaché cases between 007 and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. for two consecutive Christmas seasons. the U.N.C.L.E pistol with accessories still has a cult following to this day with various replicas having their own fan base and websites. there's even a thriving market for Walther P-38 automatics, replete with silencer, attachable stock, and flash hider barrel extension
I still have the gun, but I've lost the attachments. Bummer. Probably worth a lot of money now.
I adored David McCallum. I loved his Illya Kuryakin. I even have his #2 badge! I cried when McCallum died. 📺 The series was a must-see every week. I even played as Illya with my brother playing Solo. I was heartbroken as a kid when it was cancelled.
🎥 As for the 2015 movie…I loved the Cavell Hammer Man From U.N.C.L.E….a lot. Movie goers have to remember that this was a different take on the characters. I love the fact that it gave them backgrounds, their personal histories. It was both serious and funny in the appropriate places. Critics can go somewhere that I’m not allowed to say. If you don’t like how it was done, that’s fine, but it should not be compared to the original U.N.C.L.E. series and should be taken in its own. Everyone’s performances were wonderful. I particularly liked Hammer’s Illya. 😁
I remember watching the episodes, and the reunion movie. I also liked the Girl from Uncle
The Girl From U . N . C . L . E .
Staring Stefanie Powers as April Dancer , The Original Title Was The Girl From
A . U . N . T . I . E . The Acronym For
Associated Unified Nations Taskforce for International Enforcement .
@@lalkayy.9541 Stefanie was greater in "Hart to Hart". Not as silly.
I think it's fantastic that David McCallum was on this show back in the mid 1960's (when I watched it), and that he is STILL on TV action dramas all these years later on NCIS. What an amazingly long career! Kudos to him. I can't think of anyone else with that kind of record of longevity.
Very accurate and well presented.
Shame about that last season. There was one episode (possibly a 2-parter?) that was made into a feature: I recall that episode as being pretty elaborate for a tv show with fairly costly sets and action scenes, more so than the average episode. It was impressive, making it more a shame the series wasn't allowed to continue. (Wish I could remember more about that 4th season episode). The 3rd season was a real misfire. It lost me as a viewer too (well, I was already weaning myself off of tv at the time, so it's more of a disappointment in retrospect for all the fans.)
Remember when Sonny & Cher Guest Starred in an Episode? I thought they were pretty Awful in that one.
@@loanaoftheshellpeople5627 Was that one part of the general goofy 3rd season?
No, just a well-done and more elaborate than usual 4th season episode. I believe more money was put into it as the producers were thinking about all the success they had been experiencing releasing expanded episodes of the series as theatrical films.
McCallum was great in the series as well as two classic outer limits episodes. Never saw his other series like saphire and steel and ncis. Did see invisible man though.
These days you'll find Mr. McCallum once again playing a fellow who works for an agency whose head is played by an actor named Carroll. Only this time it's McCallum who's the older of the two.
David McCallum is a worthless pig because I had a nightmare that he was in a morgue with a dead body
Sapphire and Steel is strange. I canonot describe it. Science fiction? Sort of. Horror? Sort of. The viewer learns next to nothing about Sapphire or Steel. Other than the appear when strange things going on. Maybe assisted by Silver or Lead but we know nothing of their origins or their motives. Steel is especially cold, uncarrying about the humans inolved. Litterly cold as in one episode he reduces his temperature to Absolute Zero. Sapphire has access to records of person's past, present and future. Which they are not above altering even causing the person's death instead of the recorded future if they deem it necessary to complete the mission. Time itself is the enemy. And it ends on a cliffhanger because though the script called for Silver to rescue them "Its called Sapphire and Steel, not Sapphire and Steel and Silver". So left for next episode to fix. But the stars declined to return.
Ironically, the series that TMFU tried to emulate to it's detriment, Batman, was cancelled the same season. Batman ended up having a shorter run than UNCLE.
Batman was going to switch networks (that used to happen). But the Batcave set already destroyed and they did not want to pay to rebuild it.
Mc Callum made the show! Don't know how it would have survived a Solo effort??? Lol
At some point, the words a studio executive wanted to change X come up. They are almost always wrong. The success of Batman seems to have influenced most tv shows of the mid-60s
It was actually the Wild Wild West that started the trend. Batman was going to be a serious show that starred Mike Henry until the WWW changed the producers' minds, It also inspired Lost In Space to become a comedy.after that show's first season.
Loved the original U.N.C.L.E. No interest in watching the remake - in fact, the only production I have ever seen with Henry Cavill was when he appeared in an episode of Midsomer Murders. RIP Robert Vaughn and David McCallum - you are and always will be Napoleon and Illya. x
I had the biggest crush on David McCallum back in the day … still do!
In an early episode of NCIS Tony wonders what Ducky's real name is, Gibbs says, "Illya Kuryakin?"
I heard this series was a big hit in Japan, too, especially Illya.
No mention of the Spinoff The Girl From U.N.C.L.E., Starring Stephanie Powers as Secret Agent April Dancer?
The Girl From U . N . C . L . E .
Staring Stefanie Powers as April Dancer , The Original Title Being The Girl From
A . U . N . T . I . E . The Acronym For
Associated Unified Nations Taskforce for International Enforcement .
The other spys that defined cool were John Steed and Emma Peel.
I wish these guys would do their research. UNCLE'S last season was on Monday night, up againt Rat Patrol and Lucy. Batguy was on Thursday.
Batman aired twice a week. Part 1 on Wed and part 2 on Thurs.
@@darkwood777 In Batman's last season (1967-68), it was cut back to once a week, with no cliffhangers.
I love how they are all shooting P08s and P38s.
Nooooooo!!! Say it isn't so , he was my favorite character, I remember that show during that Ira in the early 60's, I thought he was pretty Damm cool. Can't imagine him knot being on the show, he was the only reason I watch that show
Wasn’t the Wild, Wild West like a spy/agent type series.
I watched seasons 1 & 2 recently and it wasn't a bad show. I could see humor seeping into it in the 2nd season some. It does change a show and not always for the better when changes like this are made. Something similar happened with the Adventures of Superman from the 1950s. It was an adventure show in the first season. But into the second season, it started to change more into a children's show which imo hurt it.
The first season of Superman was the best but the executives were worried that it was scaring children away, One show that started out dramatic but improved when it became a comedy was Lost In Space,
I think that in the 3rd season they even changed the theme music to SOUND like BATMAN.
Thank God , it didn't work!( the firing!)
Loved this show, literally from Day One.
You should hate this show because I had a nightmare that David McCallum was in a morgue with a dead body
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He sounds so much like Ringo
FWIW I think as kids we had the best TV shows in the 60’s and 70’s. The 80’s were ok as well.
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He was in a lot of cult shows such as The Invisible Man and Sapphire and Steel.
David McCallum is a filthy pig because I had a nightmare that he was in a morgue with a dead body
"Sapphire and Steel have been assigned"
by whom and why was never revealed
I believe this came from the third season, but the scene where David McCallum was towing I think a mobile home (with passengers inside it falling about with every sharp turn), with an ice creme truck, while playing ice cream truck music, while villains were shooting at him in pursuing cars, just had me laughing my butt off.
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