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Title: GIRL FROM U.N.C.L.E. Coming to DVD
Post by: ClaudeNorth on August 24, 2011, 04:54:15 PM

Members of The Legion will be happy to learn that WB Archives is releasing The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. on DVD:  http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Girl-UNCLE-The-Complete-Series/15835 (http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Girl-UNCLE-The-Complete-Series/15835)

Title: Re: GIRL FROM U.N.C.L.E. Coming to DVD
Post by: Julia99 on August 24, 2011, 08:25:23 PM

Yeah! (although I think the show stinks).  Grayson is always good.

Title: Re: GIRL FROM U.N.C.L.E. Coming to DVD
Post by: Uncle Roger on August 24, 2011, 11:55:23 PM

Loved this show, campier than Batman! Especially love the episode where April Dancer and Stan Freeberg are popped out of  a giant toaster! And of course who could forget Boris Karloff cross dressed as Mother Muffin?

Title: Re: GIRL FROM U.N.C.L.E. Coming to DVD
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on August 25, 2011, 12:50:41 AM

I loved the show, too. When I was a kid and it was on in syndication, who knows how many times I watched it all the way through and over again and over again? It definitely made me a fan of Stephanie Powers. And Grayson being in it is just icing on the cake. Though other than the Grayson ep that's up on YouTube and the clips that were included in PBS' recent Pioneers Of Television series (yes, PBS considers it a pioneering show), I haven't seen the show in more than 40 years, so I'll be curious to see if I still see in it today what I saw back in the late '60s...

Title: Re: GIRL FROM U.N.C.L.E. Coming to DVD
Post by: Gothick on August 26, 2011, 08:12:45 PM

I had the chance to see syndie prints of nearly all the GFU episodes last year, and I'd say the series is good fun, though very uneven.  Some of the stories are so outrageously campy that even I wind up shaking my head.  Margaret Leighton's episode which includes a matter transmitter device I believe (a favorite Sixties conceit) and the show with Peggy Lee and Noel Harrison trading burlesque-style double-entendres while Powers is duking it out in the desert opposite Ruth Roman are both classics of their kind (and a very strange "kind" it is). Karloff is superb as Mother Muffin--they brought in Robert Vaughn's Napoleon Solo character for that one. 

Oh, Yvonne de Carlo is in a particularly bizarre episode, too.  Fun stuff.

G.

Title: Re: GIRL FROM U.N.C.L.E. Coming to DVD
Post by: Uncle Roger on August 27, 2011, 04:28:07 PM

Open channel D!