* Leo G. Carroll, who plays the head of UNCLE in Man and Girl, played the head of the top-secret spy

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Years ago the UNCLE project came very close to being made with George Clooney starring for Steven Soderbergh, before Clooney's bout with back and neck therapy made it difficult for him to undertake an action role
* The original title for the series was Ian Fleming s Solo. The show began life as the brainchild of Fleming, riding the huge crest of James Bond s popularity following the release of Dr. No in 1962.
* Fleming s original concept focused on two agents named Napoleon Solo and April Dancer. Dancer wound up not being introduced until late into the second season, played by Mary Ann Mobley. The following September, Dancer, now played by Stefanie Powers, got her own spin-off, The Girl From UNCLE.
hotel houston * Leo G. Carroll, who plays the head of UNCLE in Man and Girl, played the head of the top-secret spy organization in North By Northwest. His character, Waverly, is one of the many components of Alan Moore s graphic novel espionage epic The League of Extraordniary Gentlemen: Black Dossier.
* The United Network Command hotel houston for Law Enforcement s evil counterpart was called WASP in the pilot but later became THRUSH an acronym never explained in the series. (A series of UNCLE novels, however, posited that THRUSH stood for Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity.)
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