U.N.C.L.E

01/01/2026

Happy New Year from everyone at the U.N.C.L.E

Wishing you all the best for 2026 & the destruction of T.H.R.U.S.H

12/29/2025

We hope you all had a great Christmas 🎄

09/20/2025

The silver pen that converts into a communication device is one of the most memorable spy gadgets of any TV espionage show.

The Pen Communicator, as it is called, was used regularly by the stars of both the “Man From U.N.C.L.E” and “Girl From U.N.C.L.E.” series. U.N.C.L.E. agents would remove the pen’s end piece, flip it around and reconnect it, exposing a gold microphone grid. They would then extract a hidden antenna from the other end, which, when turned, would activate the unit.

The phrase “Open Channel D” would put Section II agents Napoleon Solo & Illya Kuryakin into direct contact with U.N.C.L.E. headquarters in New York City.

Alternate voice-activated channels would connect them with each other, or with other field agents. Additional functions include amnesia inducer & an electronic scanner.

This series was well ahead of its time with all the technology hidden behind the taylor’s shop to stop the infamous T.H.R.U.S.H. from ruling the world!

09/20/2025

With thanks to Greg sending us this photo, Japan has the coolest stuff!

09/20/2025

Big thanks to

Paul Angelo, Kathy Norton, Mike Schaller, Mark C***s, Ralph White

for all of your support! Congrats for being top fans on a streak 🔥!

07/21/2025

THE FILM THAT WASN’T.

One of the most ambitious story lines was devised in the late 1970s as an attempt at a feature film.

Robert Short & Danny Biederman pitched what they called The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: The Feature Film.

The Short-Biederman tale involved an all-out assault by Thrush, the villainous organization of the 1964-68 series, against U.N.C.L.E.
Short & Biederman also intended that Robert Vaughn & David McCallum reprise their roles as Napoleon Solo & Illya Kuryakin.

What’s more, according to a 17-page outline dated April 1979, Thrush “has gained a solid grasp on the world’s economy by having bought controlling interest in numerous multi-national corporations.”

A more elaborate 74-page treatment was later written but the outline provides an idea what this version of U.N.C.L.E. would have been like.

What follows are a few examples:

— We witness the destruction of U.N.C.L.E.’s New York headquarters.

— The “innocent” character is Brandy Burns, an advice columnist for The New York Times. (For a movie made in 1979-80, the New York Daily News or New York Post would have been closer to real life.)

— The femme fatale is Serena, played by Senta Berger in The Double Affair of the original series or The Spy With My Face, the movie version based on that episode.

— Alexander Waverly, the U.N.C.L.E. chief of the original show isn’t seen but we’re told by the end of the 17-page outline is still alive. LEO G. CARROLL, who played Waverly in the original series had died in 1972.

— Dr. Egret, a Thrush master of disguise who appeared in two first-season episodes, makes an appearance late in the story.

— The Thrush Ultimate Computer, only seen in one second-season episode (where it was blown up), plays a prominent role in the story.

— Late in the story we’re told that Thrush’s ruling council consists of “major world figures known to have died during the past several decades. As it turns out, each death had been a phony, staged to provide the individuals a means of exiting one position of power and enter another.”

No specific examples are given, but had a movie been given the go ahead in 1979-80, the possibilities are endless. John F. Kennedy (died 1963)? Robert F. Kennedy (died 1968)? Joseph Stalin (died 1953)? Mao Zedong (died 1976)? Nikita Khrushchev (died 1971)?

In the end, it was not to be.

The Short-Biederman project kicked round until the spring of 1982, according to CRAIG HENDERSON’S U.N.C.L.E. TIMELINE ON THE FOR YOUR EYES ONLY WEBSITE. Sometimes it was pitched as a made-for-television movie as an alternate for a feature film. Henderson’s U.N.C.L.E. timeline says in 1981 Short & Biederman lined up Laura Antonelli to play Serena, Jane Seymour as the innocent and Klaus Kinski as the villain.

A 1983 TV movie, The Return of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. was made instead & was broadcast in April 1983. Vaughn and McCallum reprised the Solo & Kuryakin roles @ Robert Short was technical adviser.

04/23/2025

So book time ladies & gentlemen as reading to the mind is what exercise is to the body.

I sure we had many fans that read the books & or watched the tv series / films as well.

How are your collections?

03/09/2025

01/28/2025

So … thoughts on this for those who’ve seen it?

12/31/2024

Happy New Year from us here at U.N.C.L.E to all of you out there. Here’s to 2025.

12/24/2024

A very Merry Christmas from everyone here at U.N.C.L.E to you & yours for 2024.

12/21/2024

So it’s time for the Jingle Bell Affair 🎄