Time-Life has released the The Man From U.N.C.L.E: The Complete Series in a special silver attaché case. This contains 41 DVDs covering all 105 episodes, and nearly ten hours of bonus material. The case measures 11½ x 8 x 4 inches and neatly holds all four season boxes and the two "Debriefing" bonus materials. For you die-hard fans this is way cool. Sorry though that it is not metal but only cardboard, but sitting on the shelf it looks great and gets a lot of interest from those who see it.
You can read more of the history from my preview from a couple of months ago, but The Man from U.N.C.L.E. was an American television series that ran on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968, generating 105 episodes. This release contains all those episodes plus much, much more.
Each season is housed in a spine-bound DVD case. Each comes with an episode guide that contains the episode number, episode title, and original air date. The booklets also contain information on the season and tidbits on the making of The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Season one is all filmed in black and white while the remaining seasons switched to color. The quality of both the audio and video is very clear and they definitely took their time with the reproduction. I have seen some of the earlier VHS reproductions and this is the clearest version of the show to date.
With some DVD sets, you get very little in the way of bonus material, or when you do, it is all of these people around the set and not the stars. Here you get plenty of both Robert Vaughan and David McCallum; Leo G. Carroll died in 1972. Remarkably Carroll was 78 years old when the series started.
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