Already “boy crazy,” I fell head-over-heals for Napoleon Solo the moment I saw him. It was infatuation at first sight! He was the hero of this exciting new secret agent series.

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. was one of those shows that you never missed. If you missed it, you had just one more time to see that episode when it was repeated during the summer. There was no syndication; no video recordings. You and your television set had a date that could not be broken – same time, same station – each week. If you missed it, you REALLY missed it!

My best friend, Elaine, had a thing for Napoleon’s partner, Illya Kuryachin*. It was perfect. She and I could dream about them, talk about them, drool over their pictures in Tiger Beat and other teenie bopper magazines with no conflict. We each had our guy.

Truly my FIRST crack at writing came when I wrote my own Man From U.N.C.L.E. stories. Elaine helped me hone them. The characters we “played” in our imaginations had fictitious names but we knew they were us! What fun we had, typing it all up on Elaine’s antique manual typewriter that looked a lot like the one pictured below.

So, the  Man From U.N.C.L.E. movie comes out on August 14, 2015. I don’t know. I think I may find it a little bit disappointing. Not because it won’t be well done. I am sure it is a great movie.  But when I loved that show, though, I was a goofy preteenager.  As a grownup? It probably won’t be the same. But I sure am going to give it a try.

Enjoy!

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