It Was 50 Years Ago...

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

Here's an article about the end of UNCLE, on the Spy Commander blog.  It's an interesting read about the last episode that aired 50 years ago this month. Thanks to mrua7 for finding it.
https://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2018/01/11/50th-anniversary-of-the-end-of-u-n-c-l-e-and-60s-spymania/

Comments

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

Now I must watch Candidate's Wife.
The trend in the 60's, as I recall even as a kid, was to keep hammering on the idea that the enemy was still the Nazis, all of them resurfacing in thinly veiled disguises as post war zealots.
To their credit, the writers gave us Strigas and Terbuf in the first season; still veiled but at least identifiable as portrayals of the Cold War. And The Deadly Games Affair was not a comic portrayal of the previously mentioned zealots, and perhaps reflected what some remnant did indeed hope for.

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

Thrush brainwashes the wife of a candidate. He's Republican because the Republicans had their convention in San Francisco around that time.

His campaign manager reminds me of Bannon.

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

Terbuf was modeled on Yugoslavia.

Strigas has lots of Soviet material. Illya's undercover identity looks exactly like Leon Trotsky, an inside joke.

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

I appreciated the mood, as do most people, of the S1 portrayals. Of course there's Gurnius, which puts us back at stopping the New Nazis. Perhaps the Seven Wonders of the World was a look into the New Age folk ;)
In all seriousness, the grasp of technology and political futurism is interesting from our current POV.