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

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. was a popular American television series that ran on NBC from September 22 1964 to January 15 1968 for 104 episodes. The series, though fictional, achieved such notability as to have artifacts (props, costumes and documents, and a video clip) from the show included in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library's exhibit on spies and counterspies.

Original Novels

Two dozen original novels were based upon Man from U.N.C.L.E. and published between 1965 and 1967. Freed from the limitations of network television, these novels were generally grittier and more violent than the televised episodes and were very successful.

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• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (a.k.a. The Thousand Coffins Affair) - Michael Avallone
• The Doomsday Affair - Harry Whittington
• The Copenhagen Affair - John Oram
• The Dagger Affair - David McDaniel
• The Mad Scientist Affair - John T. Phillifent
• The Vampire Affair - McDaniel
• The Radioactive Camel Affair - Peter Leslie
• The Monster Wheel Affair - McDaniel
• The Diving Dames Affair - Leslie
• The Assassination Affair - J. Hunter Holly
• The Invisibility Affair - Buck Coulson and Gene DeWeese (writing as "Thomas Stratton")
• The Mind Twisters Affair - "Stratton"
• The Rainbow Affair - McDaniel
• The Cross of Gold Affair - Ron Ellik and Fredric Langley (writing as "Fredric Davies")
• The Utopia Affair - McDaniel
• The Splintered Sunglasses Affair - Leslie
• The Hollow Crown Affair - McDaniel
• The Unfair Fare Affair - Leslie
• The Power Cube Affair - Phillifent
• The Corfu Affair - Phillifent
• The Thinking Machine Affair - Joel Bernard
• The Stone Cold Dead in the Market Affair - Oram
• The Finger in the Sky Affair - Leslie.

Another volume, The Final Affair by David McDaniel, was completed but not published. Copies of the manuscript have circulated among fans for decades. Written after the series was cancelled, it was intended to provide a definitive conclusion to Solo's adventures. Another book, The Catacombs and Dogma Affair, has been mentioned in some sources, but it isn't listed as one of the official UNCLE novels (it's possible it might be one of the above volumes, retitled). Volumes 10-15 and 17 of the series were only published in the United States.

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Whitman Books also published three hardcover novels aimed at young readers and based upon the series. The first two books break the naming convention "The .... Affair" used by all other U.N.C.L.E. fiction and episodes:

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• The Affair of the Gunrunners' Gold - Keith Brandon
• The Affair of the Gentle Saboteur - Brandon
• The Calcutta Affair - George Elrick

A children's storybook entitled The Coin of El Diablo Affair was also published.

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The aforementioned digest magazine based upon Man from U.N.C.L.E. and often featured original novellas that were not published anywhere else.

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