Man From U.N.C.L.E.

[dogwoodblossom]

So I just finished the second disk of the first season of M.F.U. It's mostly been goofy and camp so far but the last episode on the disk was notable for several reasons. First off the plot was something legitimately scary instead of a crazy ray to fight aliens or something equally bizarre. Second they totally threatened to torture a guy for

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[greenlady2]

Hee! I watched MUNCLE when it first came out. AND of course I saw Star Trek from Day One.

MUNCLE started out campy and goofy. Then it turned into a more serious spy series. Then it turned back into campy and goofy, just before it got cancelled. I think the producers weren't sure what sort of show they wanted it to be.

[dogwoodblossom]

Glad to hear your assessment. Once I made some comment about the show being campy on Crack_Van and the reccer took a bit of umbrage and insisted that the episode that I had mentioned as campy was really very chilling if you thought about it. It was the episode with the all blond lady racing team that they're giving a potion to that brings them back from the dead. And they keep tying Napoleon to hilarious exercise equipment.

Chilling indeed. I have decided that Shatner/Nemoy episode I saw was some sort of crazy time travel thing on the Enterprise.

[greenlady2]

Oh, some fans do take their shows too seriously, really. And I know I say that as shouldn't. :-)))

But MUNCLE truly was a camp-fest. It was never a serious spy show, except for that brief period. But it was fun, and then, amazingly enough, someone created a little comedy show called Get Smart, as a parody of a parody. :-)))