Word: thrushes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intrigues wash cleaner in To Trap a Spy and The Spy with My Face. Originally designed for home use, these television retreads are expanded versions of two episodes from MGM's The Man from U.N.C.L.E. series (the seams still show). In Face, Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) seduces Thrush Agent Senta Berger somewhat more explicitly than he could before, when he had to take time out for commercials. In Trap, Luciana Paluzzi adds sex appeal until gunfire spoils her game, but the story really concerns an ordinary housewife (Patricia Crowley) who helps Solo foil an assassination plot. A kind...
Though the surreal James Bond would probably stand up and jeer at such criticism, he might agree with pundits who reason that, in an anxiety-ridden age, it is more fun to laugh at Spectre, Thrush, and ZOWIE than to ponder the threats posed by Mao Tse-tung. The Bondsmen seem far too giddy a crew to inflict any permanent injury on young or old, male or female. As art, the spy spoofs have little value, and they lack even true satirical purpose, or what Critic G. K. Chesterton in A Defence of Nonsense called "a kind of exuberant capering...
...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Thrush orders a bunch of Thrushlet juvenile delinquents to murder Mr. Waverly...
Friday, November 19 THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). 'The Cherry Blossom Affair." A Japanese film producer helps Solo and Illya search for a new Thrush device that is designed to frighten countries prone to volcanic eruptions. Color...
Friday, November 12 THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Napoleon and Illya help a madcap actress who is trying to keep her brilliant 14-year-old nephew from being kidnaped by THRUSH agents. Color...