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Jan 28, 2008 - 9:49 PM
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Eric Paddon
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Thanks, Zap!
In honor of today's release of S4 of "Emergency" on DVD, the next UNCLE Yum spotlight is on Julie London, who graced Pt. 2 of Season 4's "The Prince Of Darkness Affair" as the estranged wife of lead villain, Bradford Dillman.
This guest shot played off Julie's well-known reputation as a sirenic songstress of the 50s and 60s, even though she doesn't sing in the episode. It's a pity she didn't get more of these kinds of guest spots and that a lot of people unfamiliar with her sultry singing persona only know her for wearing a nurse's uniform for six years on "Emergency" (though she always looked great even in that).
Solo tries to get info from her regarding her husband's whereabouts, but she has other ideas.
 
But when Solo proves resistant, she makes sure to place a phone call to hubby, filling him in.
Later, an angry Solo returns and at gunpoint demands that she reveal more.
After he leaves, she attempts to phone hubby again, but Solo has other ideas and has him disconnected.
Great as her presence is in this episode, she remains sadly underutilized. A year later she got her best guest starring role that played off her singing image in the S4 "Big Valley" episode "They Called Her Delilah."
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You don't need ours or anyone else's blessings, pal (but thanx for the thoughtful gesture, anywho).
We're just tickled pink to see you luxuriating in a thread whose most ideological and quietly controversial aspect is that it's a sheer joy to read (and, especially, see) ... 
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Jan 31, 2008 - 4:42 PM
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Eric Paddon
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Well the nice thing about it, is that it enables me to have some fun while going through the four year run of the series in the random fashion, rather than going in order one season at a time. I had never seen much UNCLE before getting the set, but knew all about its place in TV history and once I saw the long roster of female guests that frankly surpassed the output for any other show from this era, I knew the show deserved its own thread in the tradition of other fine threads at the board. Especially since you won't find good caps/images of these women as they appeared on UNCLE anywhere else.
In the future....expect to see such names as Joan Collins, Abbe Lane, Janet Leigh, Lee Meriwether, Madlyn Rhue, Barbara Feldon, Mary Ann Mobley and many more get their turn in the spotlight as well! (though special requests from the membership will always be given first priority) 
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Jan 31, 2008 - 9:50 PM
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Eric Paddon
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Next spotlight, is from one of the better S3 episodes "The Galatea Affair" and features in a dual role, Joan Collins.
Joan's days as a Fox starlet were over by this point, and she was making the shift to TV guest spots as her chief source of earnings. She had already done her memorable Trek episode as Edith Keeler by this point, and a year later would make an equal impact as the Siren on "Batman." (two very different roles there!)
In this episode, she plays a role that is typical Joan, that of a European countess whose husband is a THRUSH operative.
And also an atypical role, that of a gumchewing American stripper, who UNCLE attempts to substitute for the countess as a way of finding out the THRUSH operation.
For this episode, Noel Harrison crossed over from "The Girl From UNCLE" as Mark Slate (just as Robert Vaughn would cross-over to Girl that same time for the dreadful "Mother Muffin Affair" episode), and this allows for an all-too obvious in-joke of Professor Higgins' own son attempting a similar makeover of a crude guttersnipe into a lady....but with no success.
In fact, halfway through the episodes, a switch is pulled when Joan/Countess is substituted for Joan/Stripper, so we get scenes of Joan as Countess pretending to be Stripper pretending to be Countess!
Joan/Countess then finds herself romancing Slate, even as he remains ignorant of the switch.
Things get dicier when Joan/Countess sees that her hubby is more deeply tied to THRUSH than she ever realized.
But all is resolved by episode's end, with THRUSH beaten, both Joans saved, and Joan/Countess (now free from hubby) about to go off for a date with....Solo, who is now out of the hospital from his teaser sequence mishap that kept him out of the story! (much to the disgust of Ilya and Slate who must finish their paperwork).
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Terrific thread, Eric! "The Galatea Affair" is a particular favorite ep. of mine.
Here's hoping for a Danielle (CASBAH) DeMetz photo gallery soon. =grins in anticipation=
Mark
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Thanks! And I think we can oblige that request in the near future.
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Season 3's "Come With Me To The Casbah Affair" gives us double-barrelled Yum action! 
In this heavily comedic tale of an implausibly cast Pat Harrington as a French speaking Algerian holed up in the Casbah with a THRUSH codebook that baddie Jacques Aubuchon wants back, just as UNCLE wants to get it, we have Danielle de Metz as Harrington's bistro-owning girlfriend Janine, whom Harrington wants to provide for with the ransom money from sale of the codebook to UNCLE.
And also getting front credit billing is Aubuchon's belly-dancing moll Ayesha, Abbe Lane.
Janine is not too enamored of Harrington at first, not believing he can get a million dollars for the THRUSH codebook (kept in a book of 14th century poetry).
And an earlier brawl between Ilya and THRUSH that leaves her bistro a shambles leaves her less inclined to help when Ilya comes back later.
But THRUSH attempts on their lives changes her mind, and she and Ilya spend a chaste night together hiding out (only to end up imprisoned by THRUSH the next day).
By episode's end, the codebook is seemingly lost and Harrington doesn't have his million, but she's come to realize how much he cares.
Abbe, meanwhile is making a name for herself as "the most famous belly-dancer in North Africa!"
But when Aubuchon is in desperate need of getting the codebook back to stay good with THRUSH, she's willing to help her "effendi."
She arrives determined to get the book from Harrington....not realizing that Solo has switched places (only in S3 could this kind of "disguise" be attempted!)
After the climactic shoot-out leaves Aubuchon and his Peter Lorre-like assistant dead, and the codebook seemingly lost, Abbe comes to present the book to Mr. Waverly, who'll reward her only if the undeciphered message Aubuchon received and UNCLE intercepted proves to be of value. Alas, it was merely a message from THRUSH Central telling Aubuchon he'd been fired. Abbe shrugs, "Win some, lose some," and resumes her belly-dancing.
A silly episode in the overall S3 tradition, but more fun in a "Spock's Brain" like way than some other S3 episodes (and Danielle and Abbe both help make that possible!)
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