Round Table - Sorry I'm Late...

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

The Girls from Nazarone Affair is one of my favorites.  It has the style and atmosphere that made Season 1 so irresistible, and it has shots like this:


Arguably one of the most appealing photographs within the series is this table side discussion between our heroes.  Illya, with drink in hand contemplates what his partner is telling him regarding the ominous activities of Dr. Egret and her blonde assassins. Each of them will meet with some type of danger, and as I watched the episode this past week, I wondered if the writers turned Kuryakin into the physically agile, human monkey that he sometimes is? Or did David McCallum's natural athleticism inspire scenes like him being thrown to the bottom of a well and climbing straight up and out of it?
Would they have ever put him on a stationary bicycle to peddle his way to exhaustion, as they did Napoleon?  And again, once Solo and the innocent are tied to rafts and left to die it is Illya who dives (with very good form, by the way), into the pool and saves them both.
Someone may know definitively how it all came about, but I'm still wondering if it was a natural evolution or just what seemed right to those in charge of scripting such things.
Anyone?

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[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

For an action series it figures the people in charge would need to take advantage of the athletic abilities of one or both actors. David's size, or lack of it, made him seem even more agile and bouyant. It amazes me how he can jump up on something and land with his feet tucked beneath him... I find it endearing.