The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) The Neptune Affair (1964) User Reviews

Weak one

[gordonl56 · 7/10 · 14 November 2014]

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. – The Neptune Affair - 1964

This is the eleventh episode of 1964 to 1968 spy series, THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. The series ran for a total of 105 episodes. The first season was filmed in B/W with the remainder shot in colour. Robert Vaughn plays agent Napoleon Solo while David McCallum plays Illya Kuryakin. Leo G Carroll plays Mister Waverly, the boss of the secret agency known as U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law & Enforcement) Their main enemy is THRUSH, an organization out to take over the planet.

This one has Vaughn and McCallum trying to stop a war between the Soviets and the USA. Someone has been launching rockets from the western States that are landing in the USSR. These are not a-bombs, but rockets containing a toxin that is destroying all of the wheat production in the country.

UNCLE soon narrows down the launch site to an oil platform off California. Agent Vaughn is sent in under cover as a Kansas wheat farmer on a sailing trip. He soon discovers all sorts of odd behaviour going on with the locals.

He soon pokes his nose in where it does not belong and is grabbed up. It seems there is a group of scientists who want to start ww3. The silly people figure there are too many people on the planet and they need to be culled.

With the help of local, Marta Kristen, Agent Vaughn soon has the rocket launch platform blown all to hell and back.

Henry Jones and John Banner play the main scientists with a screw loose. Miss Kristen some will recall as the elder daughter on the 1960's sci-fi series, LOST IN SPACE. John Banner of course played Sgt Schultz on the long running HOGAN'S HEROES.

All in all, not what one would call a superior episode of the series.

Worst post-dubbing ever!

[LCShackley · 20 April 2006]

The "Neptune" episode contains some of the worst dialog dubbing I've seen in a long time. There must have been a legal or other problem with a particular word in the dialog. In acts 3 & 4, the word "hydro" is inserted several times INSTEAD of some other word ("freon," perhaps, judging by the lips). Robert Vaughan's corrected dialog sounds OK although it's obvious his lips aren't matching the word. But in John Banner's case, a TOTALLY DIFFERENT voice was thrown in just for one word in the sentence. You have to see it to believe how completely awful it is! (And it happens again later.) I wish someone could explain why this was done, and done so badly. (2010 NOTE: The "Man from UNCLE" handbook explains that the word WAS "freon," and the producers discovered that the name was owned by the company that made it. They couldn't get all the actors back for a post-dub session, so they had one actor dub them all.)

Here's why the word was dubbed...

[rivershore · 20 November 2006]

The original word in the script was "freon". After the episode was in the can, this trademarked word had to be changed.

Apparently there is a minimum of ten lines required here, so I'll just repeat myself. The original word in the script was "freon". After the episode was in the can, this trademarked word had to be changed. Apparently there is a minimum of ten lines required here, so I'll just repeat myself. The original word in the script was "freon". After the episode was in the can, this trademarked word had to be changed. Apparently there is a minimum of ten lines required here, so I'll just repeat myself. The original word in the script was "freon". After the episode was in the can, this trademarked word had to be changed. Apparently there is a minimum of ten lines required here, so I'll just repeat myself. The original word in the script was "freon". After the episode was in the can, this trademarked word had to be changed. Apparently there is a minimum of ten lines required here, so I'll just repeat myself.