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The Best Episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2

Every episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2!

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Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the auspices of the U.N. Their immediate superior is Mr. Waverly. Together they operate out of a secret base beneath the streets

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 1 - The Alexander the Greater Affair (1)
    7.3/10(138 votes)

    #1 - The Alexander the Greater Affair (1)

    S2:E1

    Alexander a megalomaniac industrialist, plans to conquer the world like his namesake, Alexander the Great by breaking each of the ten commandments along the way. he has his henchman Parvix steal the army's ""will gas"" to help him do so, and Solo investigates. Solo encounters Tracey Alexander, Alexander's ex-wife, who wants to tag along with Solo to get the money Alexander owes her. The trail leads Solo, Illya, and Tracey to a posh party at Alexander's, where Solo defeats him in a human chess game; to a tomb, where Alexander and his aide Dr. Kavon leave Solo tied under a descending scimitar while Illya and Tracey are hanging over a bottomless pit with a candle burning their rope; To Alexander's farm in Virginia, where Illya is nearly cut in two by various farm implements.

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  2. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 2 - The Alexander the Greater Affair (2)
    7.3/10(131 votes)

    #2 - The Alexander the Greater Affair (2)

    S2:E2

    Alexander a megalomaniac industrialist, plans to conquer the world like his namesake, Alexander the Great by breaking each of the ten commandments along the way. he has his henchman Parvix steal the army's ""will gas"" to help him do so, and Solo investigates. Solo encounters Tracey Alexander, Alexander's ex-wife, who wants to tag along with Solo to get the money Alexander owes her. The trail leads Solo, Illya, and Tracey to a posh party at Alexander's, where Solo defeats him in a human chess game; to a tomb, where Alexander and his aide Dr. Kavon leave Solo tied under a descending scimitar while Illya and Tracey are hanging over a bottomless pit with a candle burning their rope; To Alexander's farm in Virginia, where Illya is nearly cut in two by various farm implements.

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  3. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 3 - The Ultimate Computer Affair
    7.5/10(133 votes)

    #3 - The Ultimate Computer Affair

    S2:E3

    Illya Kuryakin infiltrates a South American prison camp where Thrush are storing the 'Ultimate Computer'.

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  4. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 4 - The Foxes and Hounds Affair
    8.2/10(152 votes)

    #4 - The Foxes and Hounds Affair

    S2:E4

    U.N.C.L.E. and Thrush agents compete to gain possession of a mind-reading device created by a magician who has been murdered by Thrush.

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  5. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 5 - The Discotheque Affair
    7.4/10(130 votes)

    #5 - The Discotheque Affair

    S2:E5

    Napoleon Solo is given the job of searching for Thrush security records.

    Director:Tom Gries

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  6. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 6 - The Re-Collector's Affair
    7.6/10(125 votes)

    #6 - The Re-Collector's Affair

    S2:E6

    The 'Re-collectors' claim to be trying to locate works of art stolen by the Nazi's but all is not as it appears.

    Director:Alvin Ganzer

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  8. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 7 - The Arabian Affair
    7.1/10(118 votes)

    #7 - The Arabian Affair

    S2:E7

    Illya goes to find Thrush's vaporizing machine, but is captured by Sophie, the headstrong daughter of the local tribal chief, Sulador. in New York Solo convinces retiring THRUSH agent David Lewin that THRUSH intends to kill him, and elicits his help. Lewin and Solo are taken to the base in the desert, just as Illya leads the band of nomads, whose confidence he has gained, in an attack on the base.

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  9. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 8 - The Tigers are Coming Affair
    6.4/10(114 votes)

    #8 - The Tigers are Coming Affair

    S2:E8

    Solo and Illya go to India to help Suzanne de Serre, a French botanist trying to find out why the jungle is dying and local natives are disappearing. Prince Panat and Drusilla Davina, along with Colonel Quillon, are systematically using a chemical to destroy the jungle and kidnapping natives to work in the jewel mines for the prince.

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  10. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 9 - The Deadly Toys Affair
    7.1/10(128 votes)

    #9 - The Deadly Toys Affair

    S2:E9

    THRUSH is so eager to get their hands on a boy genius that they murder the boy's father. But then they have to deal with the boy's madcap aunt.

    Director:John Brahm

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  11. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 10 - The Cherry Blossom Affair
    7.7/10(111 votes)

    #10 - The Cherry Blossom Affair

    S2:E10

    THRUSH eastern in Japan acquires a volcano-activating device, and Solo and Illya, along with Cricket Okasada, a film student, infiltrate a toy store and a karate school to find it. THRUSH leader Mr. Kutuzov oversees local THRUSH head Harada in the operation, and Solo finds himself fighting for his life against a life size sword wielding puppet.

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  12. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 11 - The Virtue Affair
    7.3/10(103 votes)

    #11 - The Virtue Affair

    S2:E11

    French fanatic Robespierre seeks to destroy France's vineyards in his quest for virtue, and Solo enlists the aid of scientist Raoul Dubois and his daughter Albert in combating the plan. Illya is captured by THRUSH agent Carl Voegler and, with a target painted on his back, is hunted through the woods by Voegler's archers.

    Director:Jud Taylor

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  13. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 12 - The Children's Day Affair
    7.6/10(118 votes)

    #12 - The Children's Day Affair

    S2:E12

    A top-level U.N.C.L.E. conference is to be held in Switzerland, but a nearby boys' school is actually a THRUSH front run by Mother Fear and Dennis Jenks that is training its students to be assassins. Solo is captured by the boys, and, when he refuses to reveal the conference location, is forced to operate the controls of two electric trains so they do not collide with each carrying a vial of deadly nerve gas. Illya and Anna Paola, a social worker who resent children, are also captured. The escape, and arrive at the conference just as the boy's choir is ready to kill Waverly and the others with THRUSH rifles from under their robes.

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  14. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 13 - The Adriatic Express Affair
    7.9/10(119 votes)

    #13 - The Adriatic Express Affair

    S2:E13

    Solo and Illya board the Adriatic Express train on New Year's Eve to intercept Madame Nemirovitch, a THRUSH agent who is carrying a chemical that is capable of stopping the reproductive process. Eva, a young girl who delivers a message to Madame Nemirovitch as the train leaves, is caught on board. Throughout the evening, the THRUSH agent and Solo and Illya engage in a battle of wits as the train speeds along its route.

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  15. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 14 - The Yukon Affair
    6.9/10(110 votes)

    #14 - The Yukon Affair

    S2:E14

    Squire G. Emory Partridge returns, having acquired in Alaska a large quantity of Quadrillenium X, a very heavy metal with high magnetic powers which THRUSH wants to use to disrupt world communications. Solo and Illya are nearly killed by the local Eskimos, but are saved by the chief's daughter, Murphy. Partridge and his niece Victoria capture them, but they escape only to end up in a tavern brawl.

    Director:Alf Kjellin
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 15 - The Very Important Zombie Affair
    6.6/10(101 votes)

    #15 - The Very Important Zombie Affair

    S2:E15

    Solo and Illya travel to the Caribbean to help Dr. Delgado, who is under a voodoo curse and in a zombielike trance thanks to the local dictator, El Supremo, and his chief of police, Captain Ramirez. The U.N.C.L.E. agents are assisted by Suzy, an American hairdresser whom El Supremo will not let leave the island. They eventually turn to voodoo queen Mama Lou to turn the tables on him.

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  17. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 16 - The Dippy Blonde Affair
    7.2/10(101 votes)

    #16 - The Dippy Blonde Affair

    S2:E16

    THRUSH agent Harry Pendleton is captured and commits ""suicide"" with a reversible chemical, but his superior, Simon Baldinado, refuses to revive him because he is attracted to Pendleton's girlfriend, Jojo Tyler, Solo gets Jojo to help U.N.C.L.E. retrieve the ion projection machine Baldinado has hidden at the mortuary front for THRUSH by feigning affection for Baldinado, who allows his personal plans for Jojo to affect his judgment.

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  18. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 17 - The Deadly Goddess Affair
    7.2/10(108 votes)

    #17 - The Deadly Goddess Affair

    S2:E17

    Solo and Illya travel to Circe to intercept a drone plane carrying a load of THRUSH cash. There, they encounter THRUSH agent Colonel Hubris, as well as two local girls who are looking for husbands.

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  19. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 18 - The Birds and the Bees Affair
    7.4/10(106 votes)

    #18 - The Birds and the Bees Affair

    S2:E18

    THRUSH has developed with the aid of Dr. Elias Swan, a strain of minute, deadly bees. THRUSH agent Mr. Mozart captures Illya and Tavia Sandor and uses a high-frequency sound machine that threatens to shatter their eardrums to force Illya to take him to U.N.C.L.E. headquarters so he can release the bees. Illya does so, but Mozart is intercepted, and in a battle on a rooftop Mozart is shot and the bees get loose.

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  20. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 19 - The Waverly Ring Affair
    8.1/10(112 votes)

    #19 - The Waverly Ring Affair

    S2:E19

    When secret ""File 40"" documents turn up outside headquarters, Waverly assigns Solo and Illya to find out if George Donnell is a double agent. Carla Drosten is too anxious to accuse Donnell and Solo must use special ""Waverly rings"" to try and expose the real double agent.

    Director:John Brahm

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  21. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 20 - The Bridge of Lions Affair (1)
    7.6/10(110 votes)

    #20 - The Bridge of Lions Affair (1)

    S2:E20

    Illya investigates the mysterious disappearance of cats in Soho, and he and Solo discover that a salon run by Madame De Sala is a front for her plan to develop a rejuvenation process, which De Sala plans to use on the now elderly target of her romantic desires, Sir Norman Swickert. Assisted by Joanna Sweet, a nurse, they end up in the bottom of a wine press. Meanwhile, THRUSH agent Jordin plots to obtain the process for THRUSH.

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  22. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 21 - The Bridge of Lions Affair (2)
    7.3/10(104 votes)

    #21 - The Bridge of Lions Affair (2)

    S2:E21

    Illya investigates the mysterious disappearance of cats in Soho, and he and Solo discover that a salon run by Madame De Sala is a front for her plan to develop a rejuvenation process, which De Sala plans to use on the now elderly target of her romantic desires, Sir Norman Swickert. Assisted by Joanna Sweet, a nurse, they end up in the bottom of a wine press. Meanwhile, THRUSH agent Jordin plots to obtain the process for THRUSH.

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  23. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 22 - The Foreign Legion Affair
    6.7/10(111 votes)

    #22 - The Foreign Legion Affair

    S2:E22

    Illya parachutes out of a plane carrying THRUSH code documents, but lands in the desert at an abandoned Foreign Legion post run by Captain Basil Calhoun (Howard Da Silva). Illya is accompanied by a stewardess, Barbara (Danielle DeMetz) while Solo races to find them before THRUSH does.

    Director:John Brahm

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  24. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 23 - The Moonglow Affair
    7.5/10(108 votes)

    #23 - The Moonglow Affair

    S2:E23

    While investigating a THRUSH plot to sabotage space shots, Solo and Illya are incapacitated by a quartzite radiation projector. Waverly assigns new trainee April Dancer along with over the age of retirement agent Mark Slateto find the antidote and destroy the plan. April infiltrates the cosmetics company of THRUSH agent Arthur Caresse as a model, but she is uncovered by Caresse's sister Jean.

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  25. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 24 - The Nowhere Affair
    6.9/10(93 votes)

    #24 - The Nowhere Affair

    S2:E24

    Solo, while searching for a secret map in Nevada, swallows an amnesia capsule just before being captured. THRUSH agents Arum Tertunian and Longolius try to revive his memory with a seductive female agent, Mara, while Illya races to find him before he starts to remember.

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  26. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 2 Episode 25 - The King of Diamonds Affair
    7.5/10(97 votes)

    #25 - The King of Diamonds Affair

    S2:E25

    Solo and Illya discover that the world diamond market is being affected by a gang of English criminals headed by Blodgett, who smuggle diamonds inside pudding sold unwittingly by Victoria Poque. They enlist the aid of a master diamond thief, Rafael Delgado. Solo and Victoria end up in Brazil, with Solo tied to the front of a cannon and about to be executed.

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"The Alexander the Greater Affair (1)" is the best rated episode of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." season 2. It scored 7.3/10 based on 138 votes. Directed by Joseph Sargent and written by Dean Hargrove, it aired on 9/17/1965. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Alexander the Greater Affair (2)".