The Moonglow Affair

"The Moonglow Affair"
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 23
Directed by	Joseph Sargent
Written by	Dean Hargrove
Produced by	David Victor
Featured music	Gerald Fried
Editing by	Henry Berman
Original air date	February 25, 1966
Running time	50 min
Guest actors
Mary Ann Mobley as April Dancer Norman Fell as Mark Slate Kevin McCarthy as Arthur Caresse Mary Carver as Jean Caresse

"The Moonglow Affair" is the 52nd episode of the NBC television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. This episode served as the pilot for the spin-off series The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

Plot

While investigating a T.H.R.U.S.H. plot to sabotage space shots, Solo and Illya are incapacitated by a quartzite radiation projector. Waverly assigns new trainee April Dancer, along with agent Mark Slate (who is past the age of retirement for enforcement agents), to find the antidote and destroy the plan. April infiltrates the cosmetics company of T.H.R.U.S.H. agent Arthur Caresse as a model, but she is uncovered by Caresse's sister Jean.

Notes

• The characters of April Dancer and Mark Slate, who are played by Mary Ann Mobley and Norman Fell in this episode, are played by Stefanie Powers and Noel Harrison in The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
• In the episode, "Moonglow" is the name of a Caresse cosmetic product, a lipstick that glows in the dark.^[1]

References

1. Captured image from the episode at Framecaplib.com

External links

• "The Moonglow Affair" at the Internet Movie Database
• "The Moonglow Affair" at TV.com