The Girl from UNCLE… Whoa...

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I got a surprise in the mail the other day from mrua7 it was the second set of discs from the series Girl from UNCLE.  I decided to sit down and see what it looked like after all of these decades.
Bad.  It was really bad.  But, it does hold some canon within its poorly written stories.  The episode I watched was The UFO Affair, wherein nothing makes sense and April Dancer wears a lot of costumes reminescent of I Dream of Jeannie.
A few things surprised me, mainly because I didn't remember them.   Stefanie Powers is wearing a fall, some of you remember those.  Not a complete wig, just the bag end of one, which creates her big flip.  It's not as though she didn't have a good head of hair either, but that was the decade of fake hair and eyelashes.
Noel Harrison's hair is lightened, whether which bleach or tint I couldn't tell.  It doesn't look as good as David McCallum's though, which is unfortunate for Mr. Harrison.
Canon highlight: Mark Slate was in the RAF.  I didn't know that, but it's handy.  Also, he's a very proper Englishman, no Cockney accent or quips.  I think that's been forgotten over the decades between then and now.
I couldn't tell that there was any thought given to the story, which is a shame because the two leads were appealing enough to carry the show had it possessed a modicum of integrity.  They really were a victim of the decade.

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[(Anonymous)]

I know quite a few people from England who use many of those terms but they're not Cockney by any means. They may have Cockney origins, but the words are use by many different people.