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The Best Episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3

Every episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3!

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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 3 Episode 1 - The Her Master's Voice Affair
    7.5/10(107 votes)

    #1 - The Her Master's Voice Affair

    S3:E1

    Solo investigates a girl's school for the daughters of VIP's, including Miki Matsu, who has valuable secret information from her father, a Japanese diplomat. THRUSH agent Jason Sutro has gained the cooperation of the headmistress, Hester Partridge. The assistant dean, Verity Burgoyne, and all of the girl students have been brainwashed by Sutro to go into a trance upon hearing a recording of Brahm's Lullaby, and are ordered to kill Solo.

    Director:Barry Shear
    Writer:Berne Giler

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  2. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3 Episode 2 - The Sort of Do-It-Yourself Dreadful Affair
    6.9/10(105 votes)

    #2 - The Sort of Do-It-Yourself Dreadful Affair

    S3:E2

    Solo is nearly killed by a superhuman, robotlike girl, Margo Hayward, one of an army of such devices invented by Dr. Pertwee for THRUSH. Illya joins up with Margo's ex-roommate, Andy Francis, and finds the laboratory, where a roomful of robots attack them.

    Director:E. Darrell Hallenbeck
    Writer:Harlan Ellison

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  3. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3 Episode 3 - The Galatea Affair
    7.7/10(97 votes)

    #3 - The Galatea Affair

    S3:E3

    In spoof of ""My Fair Lady,"" Solo is recuperating from a fall into a Venice canal, Illya teams with Mark Slate to uncover Baroness Bibi de Chasseur, a THRUSH money courier who has contact with the treasurer of THRUSH. They recruit a barroom entertainer, Rosy Shlagenheimer, an exact double, to impersonate her. The switch is made, but in the confusion the Baroness makes another switch and poses as Rosy, then finds herself falling in love with Slate.

    Director:E. Darrell Hallenbeck
    Writer:Jackson Gillis

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  4. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3 Episode 4 - The Super-Colossal Affair
    6.2/10(93 votes)

    #4 - The Super-Colossal Affair

    S3:E4

    Frank Cariago, the U.S. head of a crime syndicate, is under pressure from Uncle Giuliano. Cariago decides to buy a movie production directed by Sheldon Veblan so his girlfriend, Ginger Laveer can have the starring role. But the picture is a disguised plan to drop a bomb on the family's biggest rival-Las Vegas.

    Director:Barry Shear
    Writer:Stanford Sherman

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  5. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3 Episode 5 - The Monks of St. Thomas Affair
    6.6/10(90 votes)

    #5 - The Monks of St. Thomas Affair

    S3:E5

    THRUSH agent Abbot Simon takes over the monastery at St. Thomas to use the mountain location to aim a new laser gun at a long distance target the Louvre in Paris. Solo visits the area and meets Andrea Fouchet, and together they try to stop Simon before he destroys the world's greatest art treasures.

    Director:Alex March
    Writer:Sheldon Stark

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  6. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3 Episode 6 - The Pop Art Affair
    6.6/10(88 votes)

    #6 - The Pop Art Affair

    S3:E6

    A dissatisfied THRUSH collaborator tips U.N.C.L.E. off to a new deadly hiccup gas. A pendant he wears leads Illya to Greenwich Village and an art gallery run by Mark Ole, a THRUSH agent. Starving artist Sylvia Harrison joins Illya, who is nearly suffocated at the hands of a foam producing machine.

    Director:George Waggner
    Writers:Al Ramrus, John Herman Shaner

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  7. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3 Episode 7 - The Thor Affair
    7.0/10(81 votes)

    #7 - The Thor Affair

    S3:E7

    Solo and Illya are assigned to protect Dr. Fazie Nahdi, a Gandhi like peace advocate, during a conference. Nellie Canford, a high school teacher, becomes linked to their efforts when her dental work begins receiving radio transmissions. Mahdi stays at the home of Brutus Thor, who is actually a THRUSH leader who is trying to kill him and Illya is trapped in a room full of toys that begin firing real bullets.

    Director:Sherman Marks
    Writers:Stanley Ralph Ross, Don Richman

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  8. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3 Episode 8 - The Candidate's Wife Affair
    7.2/10(80 votes)

    #8 - The Candidate's Wife Affair

    S3:E8

    Solo and Illya protect Miranda Bryant, the wife of a presidential candidate, from a THRUSH plot to kidnap her, not realizing that she has already been kidnapped and replaced with a double Irina, an unwitting dupe of THRUSH. When they do catch on, the candidate, Senator Bryant and his aide Fairbanks, agree to play along but Fairbanks is the one behind the plot to put a THRUSH agent in the White House.

    Director:George Waggner
    Writer:Robert Hill

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  9. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3 Episode 9 - The Come With Me to the Casbah Affair
    6.1/10(81 votes)

    #9 - The Come With Me to the Casbah Affair

    S3:E9

    Solo and Illya go to Algiers to obtain a rare old book containing a THRUSH code from Pierrot La Mouche who has stolen it from his boss, Colonel Hamid. But La Mouche has a high price he wants U.N.C.L.E. to help him obtain Janine whom he is in love with.

    Director:E. Darrell Hallenbeck
    Writer:Robert Hill

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  10. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3 Episode 10 - The Off Broadway Affair
    7.3/10(87 votes)

    #10 - The Off Broadway Affair

    S3:E10

    An off-broadway actress is murdered during a phone call to U.N.C.L.E., and Solo and Illya investigate a connection between the show and a sudden malfunction in U.N.C.L.E.'s communications. The understudy, Janet Jarrod, takes over the lead role, and Illya joins the cast to find the jamming device.

    Director:Sherman Marks
    Writer:Jerry McNeely

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  11. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3 Episode 11 - The Concrete Overcoat Affair (1)
    7.6/10(100 votes)

    #11 - The Concrete Overcoat Affair (1)

    S3:E11

    While in Italy investigating a THRUSH plan to divert the Gulf Stream with heavy water, Solo finds himself eluding THRUSH guards, and ends up hiding under the bed of Pia Monteri. Solo escapes a shotgun wedding, the family feels Pia's honor has been compromised, and the girl's American uncles retired Prohibition-era gangsters ""Fingers"" Stilletto, Enzo ""Pretty"" Stilletto, and Federico ""Feet"" Stilletto are called. At the island headquarters of Louis Strago, Illya is tortured by Strago's sadistic female assistant, Miss Diketon. Solo joins forces with the Stilletto brothers to try and rescue him.

    Director:Joseph Sargent
    Writer:Peter Allan Fields

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  12. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3 Episode 12 - The Concrete Overcoat Affair (2)
    7.9/10(96 votes)

    #12 - The Concrete Overcoat Affair (2)

    S3:E12

    While in Italy investigating a THRUSH plan to divert the Gulf Stream with heavy water, Solo finds himself eluding THRUSH guards, and ends up hiding under the bed of Pia Monteri. Solo escapes a shotgun wedding, the family feels Pia's honor has been compromised, and the girl's American uncles retired Prohibition-era gangsters ""Fingers"" Stilletto, Enzo ""Pretty"" Stilletto, and Federico ""Feet"" Stilletto are called. At the island headquarters of Louis Strago, Illya is tortured by Strago's sadistic female assistant, Miss Diketon. Solo joins forces with the Stilletto brothers to try and rescue him.

    Director:Joseph Sargent
    Writer:Peter Allan Fields

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  13. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3 Episode 13 - The Abominable Snowman Affair
    5.2/10(84 votes)

    #13 - The Abominable Snowman Affair

    S3:E13

    Illya goes to the Himalayan country of Chupat to protect the high lama, but is shot by ""Calamity"" Rogers, an American rodeo star. Solo is sent to find Illya, and learns that the prime minister has kidnapped the real successor to the throne and intends to install his own son instead. An entranced girl, Amra Palli tries to kill Solo after being brainwashed by the prime minister.

    Director:Otto Lang
    Writer:Krishna Shah

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  14. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3 Episode 14 - The My Friend, the Gorilla Affair
    3.9/10(113 votes)

    #14 - The My Friend, the Gorilla Affair

    S3:E14

    In Africa, Professor Kenton has developed a superman formula which he has been using on the natives, hoping to build an army with which to conquer all of Africa. Premier Khufu resists the use of the drug on his people. Illya meets up with Harry Blackburn, a shady safari guide, and Marsha Woodhugh, who is searching for her lost sister, a Tarzan like woman named ""Girl"" who has captured Solo.

    Director:Alexander Singer
    Writer:Don Richman

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  15. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3 Episode 15 - The Jingle Bells Affair
    5.4/10(93 votes)

    #15 - The Jingle Bells Affair

    S3:E15

    Solo and Illya must protect Premier Georgi Koz, a Khrushchev like European leader, on a visit to New York, Priscilla Worth is befriended by Loz and she takes him to a school for Santa Clauses run by Francis X. O'Reilly where just one of a series of assassination attempts against him must be thwarted by the two U.N.C.L.E. agents.

    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:William Jerome Fay

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  16. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3 Episode 16 - The Take Me to Your Leader Affair
    6.9/10(92 votes)

    #16 - The Take Me to Your Leader Affair

    S3:E16

    Scientist Adrian Cool spots a UFO approaching earth on his radar. His daughter, Coco is kidnapped, and Illya follows and he's captured also. Simon Sparrow, a power-mad millionaire, has faked the approaching UFO to secure power for himself as the representative on earth of the ""aliens"". Sparrow captures Solo and puts him in an experimental wind tunnel to kill him, but he is saved by Corinne. Coco develops a crush on Illya; while they are trying to stop Sparrow, they end up aboard his ""UFO"".

    Director:George Waggner
    Writer:Berne Giler

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  17. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3 Episode 17 - The Suburbia Affair
    7.1/10(93 votes)

    #17 - The Suburbia Affair

    S3:E17

    Dr. Rutter, after inventing antimatter, hides out in Suburbia under the name Willoughby because he fears his creation will be used destructively. Solo and Illya take a house there to find him. But THRUSH agent Miss Witherspoon also wants to find Rutter, and when Rutter sends his neighbor Betsy after some rare medicine from the pharmacist, Fletcher, the chase is literally on the find Rutter first.

    Director:Charles F. Haas
    Writers:Stanford Sherman, Sheridan Gibney

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  18. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3 Episode 18 - The Deadly Smorgasbord Affair
    6.8/10(84 votes)

    #18 - The Deadly Smorgasbord Affair

    S3:E18

    Solo goes to Sweden to obtain a new suspended animation device from Dr. A.C. Nilson, but the device and its inventor are taken by THRUSH. The doctor's daughter Neila helps Solo find him, and the doctor's assistant, Inga Anderson also feigns cooperation but is actually working for THRUSH agent Heinrich Beckmann. Beckmann uses the device to invade U.N.C.L.E.'s Scandinavian headquarters, and only Solo has a chance to stop him.

    Director:Barry Shear
    Writer:Stanley Ralph Ross

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  19. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3 Episode 19 - The Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Rum Affair
    6.2/10(84 votes)

    #19 - The Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Rum Affair

    S3:E19

    Investigating the shipment of a tidal-wave machine by THRUSH, Illya ends up aboard a merchant vessel run by Captain Morton. Morton is obsessed with his past disgrace in a court martial, and the crew is on the verge of a mutiny, which Illya leads just as THRUSH arrives to take possession of the device.

    Director:E. Darrell Hallenbeck
    Writer:Norman Hudis

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  20. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3 Episode 20 - The Napoleon's Tomb Affair
    5.7/10(86 votes)

    #20 - The Napoleon's Tomb Affair

    S3:E20

    President Nasasos Tunik visits Paris. His assistant, Malanez, is determined to persuade the president that the French are his enemy, and arranges for various embarrassing and insulting incidents to occur. Solo and Illya are assigned to see that the visit goes smoothly, but Tunik falls in love with Candyce, and Malanez plans to disgrace Tunik by framing him in a plot to steal the body of Napoleon from his tomb.

    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:James Whiton

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  21. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3 Episode 21 - The It's All Greek to Me Affair
    5.5/10(78 votes)

    #21 - The It's All Greek to Me Affair

    S3:E21

    In Greece, Illya tries to recover stolen U.N.C.L.E. documents, but they fall into the hands of Stavros, a Greek bandit, who has ambushed Illya, thinking he is his daughter Kira's convict husband, Manolakas returning from prison. Kita is in love with Nico instead, and Solo and Illya must resolve the love triangle in order to retrieve the documents.

    Director:George Waggner
    Writer:Robert Hill

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  22. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3 Episode 22 - The Hula Doll Affair
    6.7/10(92 votes)

    #22 - The Hula Doll Affair

    S3:E22

    Brothers Simon and Peter Sweet both rival THRUSH leaders vying for promotion, do not realize that the toy hula doll they possess has an extremely powerful new U.N.C.L.E. explosive inside that is activated by heat. As the outside temperature rises, Illya and Solo try to recover it with the help of Wendy Thyme. Solo poses as a representative of THRUSH Central, but Mama Sweet a real member of THRUSH Central appears on the scene.

    Director:Eddie Saeta
    Writer:Stanford Sherman

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  23. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3 Episode 23 - The Pieces of Fate Affair
    7.2/10(86 votes)

    #23 - The Pieces of Fate Affair

    S3:E23

    Jacqueline Midcult writes a best selling novel, The Pieces of Fate, which U.N.C.L.E. recognizes as being based on a series of missing THRUSH diaries. She loses her memory during a THRUSH attempt to kill her, and THRUSH agents Ellipsis Zark and Jody Moore, a book critic, plot to kidnap her and find out where she found the diaries. Solo and Illya take Jacqueline to a small town where her Uncle Charly and Aunt Jessie live, to try and revive her memory, but Zark and Moore follow and they all converge on the attic where the diaries are hidden at the same time.

    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Harlan Ellison

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  24. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3 Episode 24 - The Matterhorn Affair
    4.9/10(83 votes)

    #24 - The Matterhorn Affair

    S3:E24

    A dying man carrying a partial film with the secret of Project Quasimodo, a miniature atomic bomb, gives only one clue to finding the rest of the film: the name of Marvin Klump, inept car salesman. THRUSH agents Rodney Backstreet and Beirut capture Klump. Solo and Illya, with the aid of Klump's sister Heather, follow them first to the Alps, them back to the U.S.,where the answer to the puzzle lies in a cemetery.

    Director:Bill Finnegan
    Writer:David Giler

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  25. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Season 3 Episode 25 - The Hot Number Affair
    6.2/10(101 votes)

    #25 - The Hot Number Affair

    S3:E25

    A THRUSH code is hidden in a dress pattern, and Solo and Illya go to the garment district and encounter the design shop of two down on their luck designers and their model Ramona and the cutter who has a crush on her, Jerry. THRUSH also tries to retrieve the garment, but Ramona keeps forgetting where she left it.

    Director:George Waggner
    Writers:Joseph C. Cavella, Carol Cavella

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"The Her Master's Voice Affair" is the best rated episode of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." season 3. It scored 7.5/10 based on 107 votes. Directed by Barry Shear and written by Berne Giler, it aired on 9/16/1966. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "The Sort of Do-It-Yourself Dreadful Affair".