ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

gridoon2018 A lot of people seem to pan this TV series for being too campy; I don't have as much of a problem with that as with the fact that it's not as much fun as it could have been. The two leads, Stefanie Powers and Noel Harrison, are likable enough, Leo G. Carroll provides dependably gruff support, there are lots of famous guest stars, and the production is colorful. However, the direction is usually pedestrian, the pacing sluggish, the scripts talky, the globe-trotting unconvincing, and the title misleading, since about 95% of the action is handled by Mark Slate and not by April Dancer; on the rare occasion she has a fight, she almost always loses. It's not a terrible show, it has some 1960s nostalgia value, but it is rather disappointing. ** out of 4 for the series as a whole, a couple of episodes might get an extra half-star.

ShadeGrenade Such was the popularity of 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' in 1965 that a spin-off was planned. An episode of the second series - 'The Moonglow Affair' - saw Solo and Kuryakin temporarily written out, and their places taken by agents 'April Dancer' and 'Mark Slate', played by Mary Ann Mobley and Norman Fell respectfully. It did well, and a series was commissioned - but with two important changes. The lead roles were recast; in came a young Stefanie Powers as 'Dancer' and British actor Noel Harrison ( son of Rex ) as 'Slate'. Leo G.Carroll, of course, played 'Mr.Waverly'.I did not see this when it first went out, but viewed it recently. It is enjoyably daft hokum, with plots involving such unlikely ideas as a dog's fleas used to carry a microdot, a Kali statue coming to life and throwing daggers, the entrance to the lost city of Atlantis turning out to be in some caves in the Caribbean, an island colony of shipwrecked survivors, a health spa that makes its customers youthful, and Boris Karloff ( in drag ) as the head of a gang of killers who wear flat caps and speak bad Cockney. This hailed from the same era as 'The Monkees' and 'Batman', and it shows.Powers is beautiful and glamorous, though it is a pity that 'April' was not given more to do in the action department. In the last episode I saw ( 'The U.N.C.L.E. Samurai Affair' ), she was attacked by a frogman, and after putting up token resistance, went to hide while Slate dealt with him. She should have chucked him over her shoulder the way Mrs.Peel did in 'The Avengers'. It does seem bizarre to call a show 'The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.' and then depict its main character as a helpless bimbo heavily reliant on a male sidekick. Another mistake was the reuse of Jerry Goldsmith's 'Man From U.N.C.L.E.' theme, here given a trendy new arrangement.I warmed more to Harrison's 'Slate'. Obviously intended to be the show's answer to David McCallum, he is rather good as a foppish hero in the 'Jason King' mold. But whose idea was it to cast a teenage boy ( 'Randy Kirby' ) as an U.N.C.L.E. agent? Robert Vaughn played 'Solo' in 'The Mother Muffin Affair', at exactly the same time Harrison was guesting on the parent show. In the U.K., 'Girl' was shown in rotation with 'Man', but in the U.S.A., they were screened more or less together. Viewers found two 'U.N.C.L.E.' shows a week a bit much to take, and 'Girl' was dropped after a single season.Less comedy and more action ( for April ) would have been beneficial for the show. Sam Rolfe's superb first season of 'Man' should have been the blueprint for 'Girl'.Best episode - 'The Atlantis Affair' ( written by 'I am Legend' author Richard Matheson ) Worst episode - 'The Paradise Lost Affair'.

nimbleweevil Even by the standards of the 1960s, "The Girl from U.N.C.L.E" is synonymous to me with "bad spin off." "The Man from U.N.C.L.E", a fun and intelligent '60s spy show, did not deserve this kind of treatment. Is it any wonder, after viewing it, that the famous female spy of this decade was Emma Peel from The Avengers and not April Dancer?The lead character, played reasonably well by Stephanie Powers, is April, the first female spy from agency U.N.C.L.E. This sounds typical and fun, if a bit cheesy, but the problem is that April is the Nancy Drew of television characters. Almost every episode ends with April being rescued from evil people by her male partner, Mark Slate. This not only begins to get boring after a while, but it makes April an unsympathetic ditz. Even worse, the plot line of quite a few episodes revolves around April ALMOST GETTING MARRIED to a BAD GUY!!! Of course, the heroic, manly Mark Slate will come by to rescue her at the last minute from this TERRIBLE FATE!!!!Sure, there is such a thing as a good spin off. This isn't it. Leave this one to collect dust in the corner, and watch the original series.

Nick Zbu This show was born from the potential from it's parent show, The Man From UNCLE, in a fantastic episode called "The Moonglow Affair." However, due to some mysterious fluke the producers changed the actors in the lead. This was a fatal flaw: not due to the actors, but their chemistry was very far off.The plots of "Girl" were troubled and not very interesting. Even the supposed 'best' episode, "The Mother Muffin Affair," (starring Boris Karloff in drag), is at best a meddling excuse for a show. Such a disappointment.If "Girl" can prove anything, it's that sometimes even the best of intentions can bear no fruit. A real shame, too.