As I keep saying, this stuff isn't mine and may very well be
pulled for breach of copyright. You can, of course, go looking on YouTube, or
its foreign variants, for copies. I'm sure you know how.
I am still stuck in the early 60s here (well, there was so much
class) and I have reached an import from the U.S.A. - More dots to follow in
the guise of U.N.C.L.E. This was possibly the start of the TV spy craze following on from Bond in the movies.
As you
can tell from the colours above (or lack thereof), this is from the first TV series shown in the 60s
version. Later series were broadcast in colour. I am not really a movie buff so can't compare this to the new edition released in 2015. I have never seen an episode of the Girl from U.N.C.L.E. either.
The show starred Robert Vaughn and David McCallum (before he became Dr. "Ducky" Mallard in NCIS).
And for that tenuous link watch the following to the end. It is only 40 seconds.
Believe it or not, there were over a hundred episodes of this series produced.
This is one of the few imports that I saw. Other stuff from then (Munsters, Westerns, Land of the Giants, etc.) I did not really see so am not really in any position to pass comment. Even with the advent of the 'net, I have not gone looking for that old stuff. You need to remember that back when I was a youngster TV only had 2,3 or 4 channels (1 of those had odd stuff on it (BBC2) and 2 of the remaining pretty much duplicated each other (STV and Grampian). No video recorders, no downloads, no streams - you watched it now or waited forever for a repeat. As it was "back in the day", I didn't follow this up reading any of the books that came out on the back on the TV shows.
Short and sweet, that's it for now. Comments, as always, are welcome.
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