I had one of those guns , they came with a silencer if I remember correctly and my cousin stole mine, gutted, our next door neighbour was a wizard with a wood turner lathe and he made me a replacement Ilya Kuryakin was so much cooler than Napoleon Solo
David McCallum was a very cool guy in a series that wanted to be cool but in reality was a bit of a joke. McCallum was nearing the coolness of McQueen.
1. RIP Ashley Pitt. 2 If the invisible man falls in a forest, and nobody is there to hear it, does he make a sound ??
I don't recall the guns but we definitely had the car - 'The Thrush Buster' as Corgi called it please log in to view this image Pressing silver button on the top moved Napoleon and Ilya in and out of the car firing their guns in turn if I remember correctly. Me and my brother loved the show and I too I was Ilya, when we played UNCLE, he was something of a hero to me in the 60s and I enjoyed the series again in later life and particularly the films which have a spoof like Matt Helm feel to them in my opinion, there was even one made in 1983 'The Return of the Man of from Uncle featured both David and Robert Vaughan in their original roles and even features a guest appearance by George Lazenby as James Bond! Stephanie Powers played the Girl from Uncle April Dancer! I liked David McCallum in Colditz and a little known English Film Mosquito Squadron which borrowed flying scenes from 633 Squadron but was a decent late 60s wartime romp.
I was Robin...and Cato. The older sibling is always Batman and The Green Hornet...and always wins at Subbuteo, Risk, etc. As for The Girl From Uncle, that should have been no problem at all. My mother was "****ing nuts" and dressed me and my brother in girls clothes. Not dresses or skirts, but white socks with embroidered flowers and coats that did up the wrong way and were strange colours for a couple of young lads. I would regularly 'lose things', but my brother was genuinely terrified of her (as was my dad) and would do anything she screamed at him. From time to time, she was sectioned and our dad bought us boys' clothes...that she would then bleach or boil so that they wouldn't fit an Action Man. The happiest days of your life.....
cos he flicked the kick, and you didn't know ?? "Risk" God, that was a tedious board game (as an observer - never played it) .
The gun and Kuryakin possibly the two coolest things in my life at the time, Thrush Buster ???? Was that a fore runner of Canesten cream ?
TMFU tried to be a cool American Bond-esque show, but in truth was closer to the Get Smart parody! But as a 7-9 year old that mattered not a jot!
I thought 'Risk' was one the greatest board games ever right up there with this one please log in to view this image
There's a lot of anger, mental illness and alcoholism in my family. At the time it was just how life was. It seems incredible looking back at it from today's perspective, but life was very different in those days. We had great grandparents and uncles who stepped in when necessary. Schools and Social Serhices were ****ing useless. I became a survivor and laughed as much as I could manage and lived life in my love of football and .punk and then Mrs B and the girls. I've put it all behind me now. There are things that I don't want to think or talk about, but unlike my siblings they don't haunt me. They're just history. It created an incredible bond between us kids. We never let any grown up divide us. We were and are there for each other, no matter how bad things become. So it produced something that I wouldn't change.
< burn the witch !!! > "right up there with this one" Methinks the KISS concept (in the case of board games, close to "snakes and ladders" ) gives you great games. So on that basis : please log in to view this image and please log in to view this image
Francis Lee: Former Manchester City, England, Bolton and Derby striker dies aged 79 - BBC Sport RIP Francis Lee, probably the original diver! Well known for going down and getting up scoring from the spot, but one of those players from my youth who was certainly a character.
