Help needed: Rec episodes for mfu newbie

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Hi! I've watched this community for a while but just joined now for need some help.
I mean, I have a favor to ask.
Would you kindly help me to choose 5 or 6 episodes/movies as a starter for a fandom newbie?

After the release of the movie (I mean, Guy Ritchie's one), a friend of mine asked if she want to try to start watch the old tv series, which episodes do I recommend as a starter? (Because she knows that I was a die-hard fan of the tv series.)
But it's been a while since last time I watched the series, my memory is kind of blur and I can't decide which episodes/movies are ones to hook her.

All tv episodes and movies sit on my shelf. I can let her watch any of them.

Apologize if I'm asking the same old question. In that case, would you let me know the url of the rec-list or thread or...something, anything?

I posted this to mfu_canteen, also.

Comments

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I guess I liked Kingsman because I watched the movie with no expectations and simply took delight in the sublet references and hints at UNCLE and other spy shows.

I knew the new movie was going to be AU, but I supposed I still went in with hopeful expectations that it would be like our beloved UNCLE. Having watched the DVD now several times, I enjoyed the movie more after the fact.
(though I was still annoyed at the characterizations of Napoleon and Illya. I felt they were so off the mark)

Really if you changed their names to Bill and Bob...the movie would have still been the same. They just weren't Solo and Kuryakin. Guy Ritchie should have thrown a bone to the original fans, since the UNCLE fandom is still so alive and active even after 50 years.

I remember seeing MFU when I was just a kid and fell in love with Illya...my first crush (like so many other girls in the 1960s). sigh.

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>(though I was still annoyed at the characterizations of Napoleon and Illya. I felt they were so off the mark)

I'm feeling like, since I'm back to the original fandom, and gonna rediscover them, I might be change my mind, forget the first impression and dislike the movie later! you'll see!

>Really if you changed their names to Bill and Bob...

I think I can understand what you're saying.
There was always this rumor of the revival movie but it never happened before, right? And I imagined if it really gonna happen, it could be with another names...maybe Illya isn't even from Russia. Well, from Islam (or anywhere else), maybe?
Then they announced the cast and 60s setting. I was surprised!

>I remember seeing MFU when I was just a kid and fell in love with Illya...my first crush (like so many other girls in the 1960s). sigh.

Yes, same here. Illya was my first crash. (Though I wanted to be him, instead of his girlfriend...)