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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. #14: The King of Diamonds Affair / The Moonglow Affair [VHS]

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The King of Diamonds Affair and The Moonglow Affair are both second season episodes. The King of Diamonds has Ricardo Montalban back again after he played in the Dove affair in the first season. He plays a diamond thief with the help of a mafiya type gang to steal diamonds and transporting them in plum pudding. I love the Illya and Napoleon banter and Illya gets to do a lot. The Moonglow affair doesn't have much of Illya and Napoleon since they are stopped by a THRUSH ray projecter. Rookie April Dancer (Mary Ann Mobley) with the help of a veteran Mark Slate (Norman Fell) are assigned to stop THRUSH and retrieve the ray projecter to save Illya and Napoleon. This episode is the Girl from UNCLE pilot and the only episode with Mary Ann Mobley and Norman Fell to play April Dancer and Mark Slate.

Ricardo Montalban brought in for a second appearance in an episode dealing with a band of renegades carrying dark glasses and umbrellas and led by a fat man belongs more with Batman. The second is a pilot for a spinoff series which should never have been made! A girl agent joining a beauty contest to find a mind-destroying machine is definitely campy. No wonder this series eventually went into oblivion, its spinoff dying merely months before.