"Man from U.N.C.L.E."

The best part of the whole interviewing process was that almost immediately after asking Nancy the question of what her first significant TV memory was, she had a definite answer. This really surprised me, especially since it took me a while to come up with mine for our first assignment. Nancy explained that when she was 6 or 7, she clearly remembered her entire family sitting down every week to watch the show The Man From U.N.C.L.E.. Being one of the youngest of the siblings, she remembered seeing her older brothers and sisters glued to the TV set and eventually joined in to see what the big deal was. She could remember her parents making sure that everyone behaved and was quiet while the show was on. Being only 6 or 7 at the time, Nancy and her younger sister would only be allowed to watch half of the show each Friday night at 10 before they went to bed. I told her that she was lucky enough to stay up that late being that young and that she must have had cool parents. From those thirty minutes she was allowed to watch each week, she admitted that it was The Man From U.N.C.L.E. that gave her the special introduction into the world of TV which would eventually turn her into a TV addict. It was tough for her to remember specific details of the show, but I felt that she did a stellar job in proving the significance of this show to her. The descriptions of her whole family watching the show each week created a vivid picture in my head. I guess it's just the result of two totally different generations, but growing up there were never instances in which my family made it a weekly event to watch a show together.

In summing up what she knew about the show, Nancy told me that it was very much like a 007 movie. The only other specific thing she could point out was that her mother had a crush on one of the characters on the program, which I found out to be David McCallum. In researching The Man From U.N.C.L.E. myself, I found a show that sounded pretty cool. The Man From U.N.C.L.E. was on NBC from 1964 to 1968(105 episodes), the show was sixty minutes in length, and its genre was classified as action/adventure. The cast consisted of Robert Vaughn as Napoleon Solo, David McCallum as Illya Kuryakin, Leo G. Carroll as Alexander Waverly and Barbara Moore as Lisa Rogers, with Vaughn and McCallum being the main stars of the show. A general description of the plot indicated that the

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