November 2021
Oddly i have never heard of this series before, as i have been aware of The Man From Uncle all my life, but as it stars Robert Vaughn and fresh from seeing the excellent Randall and Hopkirk Deceased series, i thought i would buy the series on dvd and give it a go.
It had the capacity to be a decent enough series but the series suffered in a big way, that is the episode running time is too short at 25 minutes. All the others shows had episodes that were twice as long, with these being so short there was very little time to get to know the characters or inject much humour.
Another thing i found was there didn't seem to be an initial episode showing who these heroes were and how they got together, they just seem to randomly solve a case here or there.
Still, its not bad and i wouldn't put anyone off watching them but it falls short of shows like The Avengers, Randall and Hopkirk and The Saint.
6ish out of 10.
Oddly i have never heard of this series before, as i have been aware of The Man From Uncle all my life, but as it stars Robert Vaughn and fresh from seeing the excellent Randall and Hopkirk Deceased series, i thought i would buy the series on dvd and give it a go.
It had the capacity to be a decent enough series but the series suffered in a big way, that is the episode running time is too short at 25 minutes. All the others shows had episodes that were twice as long, with these being so short there was very little time to get to know the characters or inject much humour.
Another thing i found was there didn't seem to be an initial episode showing who these heroes were and how they got together, they just seem to randomly solve a case here or there.
Still, its not bad and i wouldn't put anyone off watching them but it falls short of shows like The Avengers, Randall and Hopkirk and The Saint.
6ish out of 10.