Round Table Meets Deadly Toys Affair

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

I watched this one the other night in spite of better judgement and how late it was.  What I noticed this time around was the impossible time constraints that were ignored as our guys criss-crossed the country and the world.
I know it happens, probably a lot, but in this episode they start out in New York, jet to California and land in the Mojave Dessert.
And I'd just like to say a big Thank You to whoever kept putting Illya in those jumpsuits.
 Illya then goes to Somewhere in Switzerland (I think), then back to New York.


We know he is in New York again because he's on the same flight as Napoleon as he heads for Europe, per Waverly's explanation.


In the period of time between IK returning to New York and then leaving again, he manages to score a gig as a hairdresser to Joanna Lydecker


So, how much time is involved here?  Are these affairs much longer in preparation and execution than we have thought?  I know it was weekly television and things had to come off quickly, but do we translate things into more Real Life timelines when we watch them, write about them?
Also, why did Illya have to drag Joanna into the trees to kiss her?  Was the big kissin taboo still in effect?

Oh, and does anyone else think that watching IK do this little trick one of the sexiest scenes in television?  I had to ask.

Comments

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

I think in regards to IK and that kiss; they were keeping it a mystery, giving only a brief glimpse to set the female Illya fans heart a flutter.

And IK's little 'trick'...oh yeah, among the other moves he has.

Now thinking on it some more, the traveling back and forth under the time constraints of a single episode...I don't think viewers had the concept of how long or short a duration it was to travel as the average person didn't hop on a plane like we do today. So them being on two different continents or more within one episode was just taken at face value.

I'm sure the average viewer didn't really know or care how long it took to get from point A to point B, as long as they were entertained and got to enjoy the boys as they jet setter hither and thither.

Things were always kept so vague too on the show as it was always "Somewhere in the Alps" (or where ever._

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

You're right of course, about the mindset of the 60's. Everything was impressive and wonderful back then, and as has been pointed out often, no one envisioned a day when the episodes would be examined frame by frame.

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

That's a very good point about plane flight being a bit like star gates to us. Perhaps advert breaks helped. For one thing, if it had occurred to me back then, and I don't think it did, I could have taken the break as showing passage of time.

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

The commercial breaks serving as a segue in space and time is a good point. Funny, at the time I'm sure we didn't think about it too much.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing the people didn't travel back in the 60's like we do today. the fact they were in Greece one minute and New York the next segment just the miracle of 'television' which was still so new. My parents had only gotten color TV to that was a phenomenon in and of itself.

[selyndaep.livejournal.com]

I agree with mrua7 as to blithely accepting the passage of time during the episode. Even now, I still find that I suspend reality to engross myself into the episode as I did as a child. Somehow it makes it more 'real' and yeah, I still enjoy the little forays into the 'other reality' of Man from UNCLE. Another time *sigh*
Now as to the jumpsuits--oh YEAH! (drools a bit)
I expect the kissing thing was because of the fan girls although I wonder if his still being married to Jill at the time had any bearing on it.

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

I expect the kissing thing was because of the fan girls although I wonder if his still being married to Jill at the time had any bearing on it.''
I imagine both of those considerations were in play. DMc strikes me as a man who would have felt self-conscious of kissing and love-making onscreen. I find that another reason to like him, of course ;)

[rosywonder.livejournal.com]

Of course I didn't have the commercial breaks to lull me into a false sense of timetravel confusion ...
I don't think he minded the kissing at all. It was just the rather prudish producers insisting on a severe rationing of illya kissing time. Being of a hair fanatical mind, this episode always makes we wonder how on earth he was going to cope with any hairdressing beyond a bit of combing. Bearing in mind all the flying, when did he get the training in? Sigh, suppose thats the wonder of UNCLE......