Product Details

• Actors: Leslie Nielsen
• Directors: Eddie Saeta, James Goldstone, Theodore J. Flicker, Alex March, Don Medford
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM (Warner)
• VHS Release Date: September 1, 1998
• Run Time: 104 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630218164X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #297,190 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Last Episode: "The Seven Wonders Of The World Affair", March 30, 2001

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Charlie Peterson (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Man From U.N.C.L.E., Volume 8, The Seven Wonders of the World Affair (Parts 1 & 2) (UNCLE) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

In one of history's great letdowns, "The Man From UNCLE" series ended with this two-part depressant. It seemed as though the entire crew and cast of UNCLE simply gave up before this episode was even filmed.

First, the plot is ridiculous: a former UNCLE agent decides to create a cultish sect, headquarter it in the Himalayas, and, together with six other intellectual "wonders of the world", blanket the planet with a docility gas, through which these seven can control the actions of everyone. Why did UNCLE even bother getting involved? Because the villain slips through the plot holes, thereby coming very close to pulling off his dastardly plan.

Horrible acting abounds, especially from the auxiliary cast. There isn't enough material in the story to justify a two-part episode. The teaser to "Part I" is enough to drive one into the bathroom. Through nauseating use of the wide-angle lens, the wife of the wayward UNCLE agent rescues a THRUSH agent hopelessly trapped in the upper level of a mansion. Not only do the wife and THRUSH agent escape, but Solo and Kuryakin's car is destroyed by a remote-controlled, window-mounted missile launcher in the mansion. Please.

Because this is the final UNCLE episode, "Seven Wonders" falls into the fourth season of the series, during which drastic facelifts were applied to the series. In the hands of Season Four producer Anthony Spinner, UNCLE, which had previously enjoyed wacky antics akin to "Get Smart". Spinner wanted no part of this, and threw UNCLE in the cold storage room to harden it up for the fourth and suicidally-final season. Humor was basically excommunicated for the season, and it kicks off right away with "The Summit-Five Affair" (a man's brain is destroyed during the teaser). By the time "Seven Wonders" rolled around, this formula was well-absorbed into the UNCLE schema. Plot and dialogue, therefore, really don't matter in these episodes. The morbid music, combined with desolate scenes of a weary, bombed-out Solo staggering through the Himalayas, only to be apprehended by THRUSH and sentenced to death; and the final scene, during which (here come the spoilers....oops, too late) the coffin of the wayward UNCLE agent is loaded onto a plane, thus ending the episode, and, sadly, the series.

"Seven Wonders" is an important UNCLE episode, if for no other reason than because it is the last one, but it leaves a sour, depressed, disheartened taste in the mouth. Buy at your own risk.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars So-So UNCLE episode, June 22, 2006

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A Tricky Kid "I dig music" (here) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Man From U.N.C.L.E., Volume 8, The Seven Wonders of the World Affair (Parts 1 & 2) (UNCLE) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Its allright. And i dont know what that other reviewer is talking about. Solo obviously doesnt die at the end, and if you dont take my word for it then go check out the UNCLE reunion 15 years after affair episode. Anyways, simple episode with an allright plot and some pretty good action, again though there is no real closure of the series, It was the last episode but thats just because it was cancelled, so this isnt really a finale or anything.

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars 7 wonders--terrible directing, July 25, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Man From U.N.C.L.E., Volume 8, The Seven Wonders of the World Affair (Parts 1 & 2) (UNCLE) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The director of the fourth UNCLE season wanted the show to return to a serious vein after the much-too-silly third season. He went too far in the other direction, however, and ruined it completely. There is no banter between the stars whatsoever. The camera angles are absolutely ridiculous. The scenes are agonizingly drawn out to fill the two hours. UNCLE was pure gold in the beginning, and hugely popular. The network should have known that if it ain't broke, don't fix it.