Airdate: November 21, 1966. Writers: Robert Hill (teleplay and story), Danielle Branton and Norman Lenzer (story). Director: E Darrell Hallenbeck.
IK and guest star
With Janine. But things aren’t looking promising…
NS and guest star
With Pierrot. About to play a game of ‘let’s swap clothes’.
Illya in peril
Threatened with a red-hot poker, and not the garden variety.
Iconic moment
Illya: "If you won't, I shall leave without them."
Nurse: “You wouldn’t dare!”
Illya: "Oh, wouldn't I?"
Partner banter
Napoleon: "It's too bad they didn't put you in a cast. I could have autographed it."
Illya: "Tell me, Napoleon, why don't these things ever happen to you any more?”
Illya: "Napoleon?"
Napoleon: “Illya…how do you feel?”
Illya: “I feel fine. I’ve just had an alcohol rub and I think she’s going to powder me next.”
Napoleon: "Well, I need you, immediately."
Illya: “Napoleon! My pores are still open!”
Best code
Illya: "The rain in Spain falls softly on the Alhambra, the Alcasar, and the entire city of Toledo." Holy Toledo, Batman!
Memorable exchanges
Guard: "But the casbah is not a place for a casual stroll. At least not for a well-dressed stranger."
Napoleon: "This happens to be my oldest suit."
Nurse: “I don’t understand. No hypodermics have been ordered for you, Mr Kuryakin… Unless you, perhaps, have anaemia. How is your blood?”
Illya: “Racing.”
Pierrot: "I owe you fifty thousand francs, Pierrot La Mouche."
Napoleon: "Well, lucky at love, unlucky at cards. Same thing, really."
Pierrot: "Yes, and I'm not lucky at either of them.”
Hamid: "You were reading poetry with that double-dealing, two-timing, womanizing Napoleon Solo, an U.N.C.L.E. agent."
Ayesha: "Thank heavens I didn't let that deceptive villain go too far."
Best expressions
He seems uninterested in Janine in most shots, but not in this one.