I haven’t watched this week’s Mad Men yet, but I have an abiding love for the Man From U.N.C.L.E. Also, I saw a wee young David McCallum a few weeks ago in A Night to Remember, so, way to go, assistant wireless operator! Also - as I learned from a list of most-sampled songs, a while back - McCallum was a musician, whose song The Edge was sampled by Dr Dre in 2000. True Story!
Suffice to say Sally Draper wasn’t the only tween getting hot and bothered while watching The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Running from 1964-1968, the show starred David McCallum as Russian Illya Kuryakin, an international law-enforcement agent hot on the trail of justice. McCallum’s boyish good looks and luxurious, on-trend hair often got him called the ‘blonde Beatle’, and his face adorned bedroom walls all across America.
Bonus fun fact! U.N.C.L.E.’s good guys worked tirelessly to defeat an evil superentity known as THRUSH, but in the original plan for the series, the enemy organization’s name was to be WASP. If ever there was a child who needed a WASP fighter in her life, it’s our Sally, right?
Footnote by Angela Serratore
