This episode mixes Bridey Murphy with Count Dracula. Solo takes care of a girl from the Ozarks with E.S.P while Kuryakin finds himself a prisoner of Transyvanian Count Zark, who plans to disrupt air travel using trained bats to clog airport radar. Martin Landau, who plays Count Zark, had already perfected his Bela Lugosi role long before Ed Wood. Solo gets updates on what Kuryakin is doing from Clemancy. Kuryakin takes quite a bit of abuse from Zark's Frankenstein-like henchman. Watch for an in-joke as Solo and Clemancy watch the movie "One Spy Too Many," which was a compilation of the "The Alexander the Greater Affair." This episode is more fun than logical.
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Martin Landau steals the show
gordonl5622 January 2015
Warning: Spoilers
THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. – The Bat Cave Affair - 1966
This is the 57th episode of 1964 to 1968 spy series, THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. The series ran for a total of 105 episodes. The first season was filmed in black and with the remainder shot in colour. Robert Vaughn plays agent Napoleon Solo while David McCallum, plays Illya Kuryakin, Leo G Carroll plays Mister Waverly, the boss of the secret agency known as U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law & Enforcement) Their main enemy is THRUSH, an organization out to take over the planet.
UNCLE agent David McCallum gets involved with a crazy THRUSH type, Martin Landau, who is asking for a billion dollars. He says he can close down air traffic around the world. At the same time, Agent Robert Vaughn is the Ozarks checking on a woman who has esp. The woman, Joan Freeman passes all the tests UNCLE can throw at her. It looks like she truly has the second sight.
Freeman warns UNCLE that Agent McCallum is in danger from the evil Count Zark. (Martin Landau) Vaughn flies to Europe with Freeman to rescue McCallum. There are the normal captures and escapes needed before THRUSH's plan is foiled. It seems that Landau has been training millions of bats to fly into aircraft lanes to disrupt radar. Yes bats!
This one plays out more like an episode of GET SMART than anything to take seriously. But Landau is a hoot has he does a Bela Lugosi take with his character. Landau would win an Oscar playing Lugosi in 1994's ED WOOD.
This is the 57th episode of 1964 to 1968 spy series, THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. The series ran for a total of 105 episodes. The first season was filmed in black and with the remainder shot in colour. Robert Vaughn plays agent Napoleon Solo while David McCallum, plays Illya Kuryakin, Leo G Carroll plays Mister Waverly, the boss of the secret agency known as U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law & Enforcement) Their main enemy is THRUSH, an organization out to take over the planet.
UNCLE agent David McCallum gets involved with a crazy THRUSH type, Martin Landau, who is asking for a billion dollars. He says he can close down air traffic around the world. At the same time, Agent Robert Vaughn is the Ozarks checking on a woman who has esp. The woman, Joan Freeman passes all the tests UNCLE can throw at her. It looks like she truly has the second sight.
Freeman warns UNCLE that Agent McCallum is in danger from the evil Count Zark. (Martin Landau) Vaughn flies to Europe with Freeman to rescue McCallum. There are the normal captures and escapes needed before THRUSH's plan is foiled. It seems that Landau has been training millions of bats to fly into aircraft lanes to disrupt radar. Yes bats!
This one plays out more like an episode of GET SMART than anything to take seriously. But Landau is a hoot has he does a Bela Lugosi take with his character. Landau would win an Oscar playing Lugosi in 1994's ED WOOD.
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