Open Channel D: The Man From UNCLE Affair

WHAT BOOK would Linwood Barclay take to a desert island? By DAILY MAIL REPORTER PUBLISHED: 22:00 GMT, 27 February 2020 |  UPDATED: 22:00 GMT, 27 February 2020 WHAT BOOK…first gave you the reading bug? The first books I ever really devoured were the Hardy Boys mysteries. I not only enjoyed following brothers Frank and Joe as they solved crimes, but I loved the actual collecting of their adventures. I liked to place them on my shelf, in order, the cover designs on the spines lining up so perfectly. The same was true of Tom Swift, boy inventor, and such titles as Tom Swift And His Flying Lab, Tom Swift And His Rocket Ship and Tom Swift And His Space Solartron. (See a pattern here?) After the Hardy Boys I moved on to Agatha Christie, the Nero Wolfe detective novels by Rex Stout, and television tie-in novels of my favourite shows. I wish I could tell you I was reading Hemingway at age 12, but really I had my nose in paperback adventures of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (The V...

Joyce Audrey Botterill (27 April 1939 – 3 September 2015), known professionally as Judy Carne , was an English actress best remembered for the phrase "Sock it to me!" on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In . She received training at the Pitt-Draffen Academy of Dance, before being accepted into the prestigious Bush-Davis Theatrical School for Girls in East Grinstead near London. An instructor at the school began calling her "Judy", telling her that Joyce was not a good professional name. The second part of Judy's stage name was taken from a character named Sarat Carn in the play Bonaventure by English playwright Charlotte Hastings. She made her first British television appearances on the series Danger Man (1961) and episodes of The Rag Trade (also 1961), a BBC sitcom. She moved to the US not long afterward. Her first regular role was in the sitcom Fair Exchange (1963) as an English teenager who goes to the US to live with an American family, whose daug...

Charles Sherman Ruggles (February 8, 1886 – December 23, 1970) was a comic American character actor. In a career spanning six decades, Ruggles appeared in close to 100 feature films, often in mild-mannered and comic roles. He was also the elder brother of director, producer, and silent film actor Wesley Ruggles (1889–1972). Ruggles was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1886. Despite training to be a doctor, Ruggles soon found himself on the stage, appearing in a stock production of Nathan Hale in 1905. At Los Angeles's Majestic Theatre, he played Private Jo Files in L. Frank Baum and Louis F. Gottschalk's musical The Tik-Tok Man of Oz in 1913. From 1929, Ruggles appeared in talking pictures. His first was Gentleman of the Press in which he played a comic, alcoholic newspaper reporter. Throughout the 1930s, he was teamed with comic actress Mary Boland in a string of domestic farces, notably If I Had a Million, Six of a Kind, Ruggles of Red Gap, and People Will Talk...

The Man From UNCLE Episode 32 The Ultimate Computer Affair Writer : Peter Allen Fields Director : Joseph Sargent Guests : Charles Ruggles (Governor Callaham), Roger C Carmel (Sgt Cervantes), Judy Carne (Saltu Oliver) Filmed : 16-23 June 1965 Premiere : 01 October 1965 Place : Chacua (South America) Acts titles: 1 - "Where Thrushbirds Gather" 2 - "Golf, Guv?" 3 - "How do you think I got to be the Captain?" 4 - "Tilt"  The affair : In Chacua, South America, Illya Kuryakin (disguised as a bandit) attacks a man and is arrested. The attacked is Feodore, UNCLE agent who opens the channel D to warn that Illya was arrested according to plan. At UNCLE Headquarters in New York, Napoleon Solo receives the Chacua dossier, with its maximum security prison. In Chacua, Sergeant Cervantes conspires with governor Callahan. Alexander Waverly send Napoleon to Chacua to sabotage the powerhouse of criminal colony and free Illya to destroy the computer. Solo...