U.N.C.L.E. and Thrush. 
I should of, or would of been surprised, but I am not surprised at all nowadays that a person of that character would be in the rank they put him in, I know people in our defence force at the top who are the lowest of the low that have been proven cunning cowards beyond what I ever thought possible.
I could name names and inform what they have did and all, I would flat refuse to have them filthy grubs have any leadership over me.
Don’t be surprised that the biggest rat bags are at the head of leadership of anything.
I would not piss on them if they were on fire.
Yes, because that would not be PC nowadays as no one can have the right to offend such a person as no one has the right to say what’s right of wrong, that’s only the right of the PC trend being pushed at the time.
I don’t regard anyone who supports PC as a man, but only just a boy, a foolish deluded brainwashed boy at that, who does not understand that PC is what the communist and Nazi’s used to feed there madness.
I went to vote and this socialist started spinning the line that they were against dictatorship :o they don’t understand that such rubbish only leads to dictatorship, he even said they were against Capitalism and freedom of speech. :smack: he is a communist or a Dr Smith !
CONTROL was obviously a US government agency; UNCLE, it was implied, was a branch of the UN.
Organizations like KAOS, THRUSH, and SPECTRE were free-lance criminal organizations, though it was usually pretty obvious where they did most of their recruiting.
I think that was one of the very first episodes. James Doohan (aka “Scotty”) was in it too. In the teaser (I’m pretty sure) he picks up the phone and says (in his normal voice) “Get me the President!”
A nuclear pile? Why the hell did they have a rocket with such a thing?!? 
Going way back (1950), it was “sinister forces” in the US that were keeping rocket ship Luna from being launched in Destination: Moon.
Can you say “McCarthy,” boys and girls? I knew you could! 
Yes, Smith became a dolt once the espionage/sabotage issue was neutralized, and the writers didn’t know what else to do with him.
The Robinsons should have just shoved him out an airlock and been done with it.
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Eh. Farscape was better, anyway.
Certainly funnier.
Definitely weirder.
Yes, James Doohan was an advisor to the President. The episode also had Michael Ansara (who was the shipwrecked sailor in the movie) and Everett Sloane (Mr Bernstein in “Citizen Kane”, also co wrote “Andy Griffith” theme song) as the two Russian scientists.
And do you what what country put up an Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe and was ruled by a dictator who murdered millions of people?
IIRC, pretty much the only reason the show made it into the color episodes was because it had become “The Dr. Smith & The Robot Show.” Of course, this is what pretty much everyone will expect. (Remember that Dr. Smith wasn’t even in the pilot.)
I remember it differently:
Future Dr. Smith gets wounded, and, in a callback to an earlier scene where the spiders eat their wounded, ends up being eaten by his spawn. Future Will almost fell into the rolling rocks, but he was held up by his father’s dog tags long enough to be pulled out.
There was another remake, of sorts; an animated hour-long Saturday morning movie, with a considerable number of changes to the characters, that I am guessing was a failed pilot.
A “nuclear pile” was the term for nuclear reactors. Even the USS Enterprise had nuclear reactors. :dubious:
CBS famously passed up on Star Trek when it was offered to them, stating, “we already have a space show,” i.e. Lost In Space. Ironically, CBS now owns Star Trek, due to acquiring Paramount Television from Viacom.
Dr Smith his rank was ? before he was abducted.
How would you react ? out there lost in space, feeding on the crumbs, no wonder he was in such a pickle with the threat of being shoved out of an air lock or meet some cruel fate by such hostile people and at his age and all, oh the pain the pain, he was destitute and in slaved to all them manual tasks that were an insult to a person of his intelligence.
He had a transistor and was calling to the god of the wind, do you read me he said.
He may even of been working for the USA Government, there is nothing to say he was a Communist. but only a person with the mind that knew how devious others could be, that it even frightened himself.
Camp ? the Military life.
This is what I think of when I see/hear the term “nuclear pile”:
I saw the original nuclear pile at the University of Chicago back in the 1960s. I believe it’s been moved since then.
Not to be pedantic, but the reactors on the Enterprise operated on the principle of matter/anti-matter annihilation, not nuclear fission or fusion.
Huh?
In other words, the benefits of indulging in espionage and sabotage.
I think carnivorousplant was referring to this nuclear “wessel”. 