The Ultimate Computer Affair is the third episode of the Second Season of 'the Man from U.N.C.L.E.' and stars Robert Vaughn as chief enforcement agent Napoleon Solo and David McCallum as his partner, agent Illya Kuryakin.
Synopsis[]
THRUSH have developed a computer capable of recording all the organisations operations. Illya must go undercover in a penal colony to find and destroy the machine, then Solo must pose as a prisons inspector to get Illya out.[1]
Plot[]
Illya Kuryakin gets himself deliberately arrested and taken to a labour colony which is the location of a THRUSH super computer. Napoleon Solo enlists the help of (and pretends to marry) the female prison camp inspector to help Illya. Illya thinks he has blow up the actual thing, but he has to let Napoleon help him when Napoleon finds out that the real one was actually upstairs at a dinner party, being shown to other THRUSH representatives. Eventually all three of them blow up the computer and also escape.
Trivia[]
- Previous titles for the episode were 'The Ultimate Affair' and 'The Calculated Risk Affair'.[2]
Cast[]
- Robert Vaughn as Napoleon Solo
- David McCallum as Illya Kuryakin
- Leo G. Carroll as Alexander Waverly
- Charlie Ruggles as Governor Callahan
- Roger G. Carmel as Captain Cervantes
- Judy Carne as Salty Oliver
- Judy Loomis as Flora
- Susan Wedell as Dora
- Maurine Dawson as Sarah
- Paul Fierro as Feodore
- Ronald Trujillo as Houseboy
- Irving Steinberg as Del Floria
Crew[]
- Director: Joseph Sargent
- Writer: Peter Allen Fields
- Producer: David Victor
- Executive producer: Norman Felton
- Format developer: Sam Rolfe
- Production executive: Mort Abrahams
- Music score: Lalo Schifrin
- U.N.C.L.E. Theme: Jerry Goldsmith
- Director of photography: Fred Koenekamp
- Art direction: George W. Davis
- Art direction: Merrill Pye
- Supervising film editor: John Dunning, A.C.E.
- Film editor: William B. Gulick
- Assistant director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck
- Set decoration: Henry Grace
- Set decoration: Charles S. Thompson
- Assistant to producer: George M. Lehr
- Music supervisor: Frank E. Anderson
- Recording supervisor: Franklin Milton
- ↑ Wikipedia, 'List of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episodes': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Man_from_U.N.C.L.E._episodes
- ↑ The Fans from U.N.C.L.E., 'Episode Guide: Season Two': https://www.manfromuncle.org/episode2.htm