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The Vulcan Affair: Directed by Don Medford. With Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll, Pat Crowley. In the pilot episode, UNCLE agent Napoleon Solo is assigned to foil an assassination plot by Thrush.
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- Action, Adventure, Crime
- Don Medford
- 1964-09-22
This first episode features Napoleon Solo as the eponymous Man from U.N.C.L.E., as the series concept was to focus upon this individual agent as the hero. Robert Vaughn was cast in this role to give the character an urbane, sophisticated style similar to Cary Grant's role in Notorious.
The criminal organization's target is a delegation from the newly independent African nation, Western Natumba. The plot is under the supervision of Andrew Vulcan, a U.S. industrialist secretly working for Thrush. Solo recruits an old flame of Vulcan's as part of his plan.
THRUSH are thwarted in their attempt to assassinate U.N.C.L.E. chief Alexander Waverly. Napoleon Solo is assigned to protect a visiting African leader whose life is under threat from Andrew Vulcan. A housewife is recruited to help him.
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Solo goes to India to investigate the death of a fellow U.N.C.L.E. agent in an airline crash, and discovers that a cult of Thuggees headed by a maharajah (Murray Matheson) is causing the crashes in order to loot the passengers.
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The Vulcan Affair is the first episode of the First 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.
