It was “The Matterhorn Affair” from “The Man from UNCLE” TV series.
Instead of Sydney Greenstreet as “Caspar ‘The Fat Man’ Guttman,” it was (menacing-Eastern-European-at-large villain actor) Oscar Beregi as “Rodney Backstreet.”
Instead of Peter Lorre as “Joel Cairo,” it was Vito Scotti as “Beirut.”
Bill Dana played a schlep named “Marvin Klump” who ended up with the microfilm that everyone wanted. (Don’t know how Dana beat out schlep-at-large Marvin Kaplan for that plum role, though).
(And there was a brief appearance by Hal “Otis, the Mayberry town drunk” Smith as an auto dealer.)
Okay, Mjollnir, let us in on it…where are you seeing old “Man from U.N.C.L.E.” episodes? I haven’t had my illya kurayakined for simply ages!
TNT shows them sporadically between 4 and 5 AM Eastern time.
I tape 'em, and watch 'em after the fact (as I do with all TV programs that I watch).
Uke: I got illya kurayakined for the first time in a long time this weekend at a rained-out performance of Julius Caesar in Central Park. David McCallum played JC.
He’s aged pretty well, but his speech was disturbingly Cary Grantesque! My friends and I half expected him to say – in the style and tone of Grant’s “Ju-day, Ju-day, Ju-day” – “Bru-te. Bru-te. Bru-te.”