The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

(United States | NBC | 1966 – 1967)

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Series Background

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. was a one-season spin-off from the enormously successful spy drama The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and like many other such attempts to make lightning strike twice, it failed.

Plans for the series were laid in early 1966, and an episode from Season 2 of the parent series, The Moonglow Affair, subsequently introduced U.N.C.L.E. agents April Dancer and Mark Slate, on this occasion played by Mary Ann Mobley and Norman Fell respectively.

Although popular, changes were to to be made before the full series was to reach the air, with Mobley and Fell being replaced by Stefanie Powers and Noel Harrison. Unusually, the spin-off series would also feature the familiar face of Leo G Carroll, who would now be playing U.N.C.L.E. chief Alexander Waverley in both series — a similar situation would arise a decade later with Richard Anderson playing Oscar Goldman in both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman.

Unfortunately, the lighter tone of the The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. proved unpopular, and the series was cancelled after just a single season, although not before Noel Harrison had made a guest appearance in the Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode The Galatea Affair, with Robert Vaughn repaying the complement and assisting Stefanie Powers in The Mother Muffin Affair.
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.: The Birds of a Feather Affair

by
Michael Avallone
Cover image: The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., The Birds of a Feather Affair, Signet (1966)
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Publisher Signet
Publication Date 1966
Original Price UNKNOWN
ISBN N/A
Book Number 1

The Birds of a Feather Affair is an original novel.

Back Cover Blurb
EVERYONE knows those men from U.N.C.L.E. —
NAPOLEON SOLO,
ILLYA KURYAKIN.
Now meet
APRIL DANCER,
THE GIRL FROM
U.N.C.L.E.

She moves with trained-to-kill reflexes, clicks with an IBM brain. She's cool, ingenious, and sexy as all get-out. She's a pro from the top of her beautiful head to the tip of her chemically painted toenails. She's Mr. Waverly's right-hand girl and her heart belongs to U.N.C.L.E.

Watch her infiltrate the ranks of THRUSH as she tries to reach kidnapped Mark Slate, an U.N.C.L.E. agent who's being held for ransom that's too high to pay. See her in action — 5 ft. 5 ins...108 lbs. of dynamite... U.N.C.L.E.'s newest weapon...APRIL DANCER
Other Editions
Flag of Japan Click for cover image (The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.: The Birds of a Feather Affair)
Japan | Paperback | Hayakawa Pocket | 1967
Translated by Makoto Sawa.
Flag of Norway Click for cover image Piken fra U.N.C.L.E.: Livet en Innsatsen
Norway | Paperback | 1967 | 1
Translated by Bjørn J Starheim.
Flag of UK Click for cover image The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.: The Birds of a Feather Affair
UK | Paperback | Souvenir Press/Four Square | 1967 | 3/6 | No 2
Although released first in the United States, The Birds of a Feather Affair was released second in the UK after The Global Globules Affair.
She moves with trained-to-kill reflexes, clicks with an IBM brain. She's cool, ingenious...and sexy. She's a pro from the top of her beautiful head to the tip of her painted toenails. She's Mr. Waverly's right-hand girl and her heart belongs to U.N.C.L.E.
Watch her infiltrate the ranks of THRUSH as she tries to reach kidnapped Mark Slate, an U.N.C.L.E. agent who's being held for ransom that's too high to pay. See her in action — 5 ft. 5 ins...108 lbs. of dynamite... U.N.C.L.E.'s newest weapon...APRIL DANCER
Notes
  • The Birds of a Feather Affair was the first of two original novels based on The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. to be written by Michael Avallone and released in the United States. Avallone also wrote the opening book in the series of Man from U.N.C.L.E novels from Ace Books.
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.: The Blazing Affair

by
Michael Avallone
Cover image: The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., The Blazing Affair, Signet (1966)
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Publication Date 1966
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ISBN N/A
Book Number 2

The Blazing Affair is an original novel.

Back Cover Blurb
MR. WAVERLY'S
FAVORITE GIRL
sets things aflame in
THE BLAZING AFFAIR

The intrepid Girl from U.N.C.L.E. downs three machete-swinging Mau-Maus without even chipping her manicure. Escapes from a ghastly trap in a South African diamond mine looking sexier than ever. But that's April. Cool, gorgeous, and delightfully deadly.

Here she teams with U.N.C.L.E. agent Mark Slate as they travel from Budapest to Johannesburg on the trail of TORCH — a world organization dedicated to a super-race, a Fourth Reich...an organization so fantastically evil it puts THRUSH to shame!
Other Editions
Flag of Japan Click for cover image(The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.: The Blazing Affair)
Japan | Paperback | Hayakawa Pocket | 1967
Translated by Tetsuro Kawamura.
Flag of Norway Click for cover image Piken fra U.N.C.L.E.: I en Brennbar Affære
Norway | Paperback | 1967 | 2
Translated by Anton Fredriksen.
Notes
  • The Blazing Affair was the only one of the five published novels based on The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. not to be released in the UK.
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.: The Global Globules Affair

by
Simon Latter
Cover image: The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., The Global Globules Affair, Souvenir Press/Four Square (1967)
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Publisher Souvenir Press/Four Square
Publication Date 1967
Original Price UNKNOWN
ISBN 3/6
Book Number 1

The Global Globules Affair is an original novel.

Back Cover Blurb
April Dancer — U.N.C.L.E.'s beautiful and ultra-efficient agent — lands right in the middle of a THRUSH plot to throw the world's monetary system into chaos in this new adventure. With her sidekick, Mark Slate, she must unravel a tangled web of intrigue and cunning.
What is the significance of the tin dresses in Carnaby Street?
Who is the evil Dr. Karel Karadin?
What is he planning with the terrible chemical known as K.S.R.6?
Can the U.N.C.L.E. agents, in a race against the clock, save the world from a catastrophe which would lead to complete THRUSH domination?
Other Editions
Flag of France Click for cover image Des Agents Très Spéciaux: L'Affaire des Globules
  France | Paperback | Presses de la Cité | 1968 | N°18
This was the only Girl from U.N.C.L.E. book to be published in France, and was released as N°18 in the Télé-Mystère range by Presses de la Cité, who also published translations of fourteen of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. novels. The U.N.C.L.E. books were all released under the overall series title Des Agents Très Spéciaux.
Flag of Spain Click for cover image La Chica del C.I.P.O.L.: El Asunto de los Glóbulos Globales / El Asunto de Los Botes Dorados de Taradata
  Spain | Paperback | Plaza & Janés | 1969 | N°53
An omnibus edition of The Global Globules Affair and The Golden Boats of Taradata Affair, translated by Eduardo Mallorquí and Isabel Ulsamer. The book was released as part of the Colección Alcotán Intriga-Espionaje range, which eventually ran to seventy-three volumes in total, published between 1966 and 1972. Three Man from U.N.C.L.E. volumes had previously been published as part of the same range, again containing two novels in each one.
Notes
  • Although The Global Globules Affair was the third Girl from U.N.C.L.E novel to be published, it was the first to be released in the UK, and one of three which would be exclusively available in the country. This wasn't an unusual situation for tie-in books in the 1960s and the United States also missed out on a number of UK novels based on the likes of The Invaders and Land of the Giants.
  • The Global Globules Affair was the first of two Girl from U.N.C.L.E. novels to be penned by Simon Latter. Unlike the the two other authors who contributed to the range, Latter would not get the opportunity to write a book based on the parent series.
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.: The Golden Boats of Taradata Affair

by
Simon Latter
Cover image: The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., The Golden Boats of Taradata Affair, Souvenir Press/Four Square (1967)
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Publication Date 1967
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ISBN 3/6
Book Number 3

The Golden Boats of Taradata Affair is an original novel.

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Flag of Spain Click for cover image La Chica del C.I.P.O.L.: El Asunto de los Glóbulos Globales / El Asunto de Los Botes Dorados de Taradata
  Spain | Paperback | Plaza & Janés | 1969 | N°53
An omnibus edition of The Global Globules Affair and The Golden Boats of Taradata Affair, translated by Eduardo Mallorquí and Isabel Ulsamer. This was the last of four volumes published in Spain, the previous three having been pairings of Man from U.N.C.L.E. books. All four were released as part of the Colección Alcotán Intriga-Espionaje range, which eventually ran to seventy-three volumes in total, published between 1966 and 1972.
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.: The Cornish Pixie Affair

by
Peter Leslie
Cover image: The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., The Cornish Pixie Affair, Souvenir Press/Four Square (1967)
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Publisher Souvenir Press/Four Square
Publication Date 1967
Original Price UNKNOWN
ISBN 3/6
Book Number 4

The Cornish Pixie Affair is an original novel.

Back Cover Blurb
Who's ever heard of pixies made of black porphery?

April Dancer — U.N.C.L.E's devastating ace agent — hadn't. But when she's assigned to work with a bizarre circus troupe in Cornwall she finds that porphery pixies are very much in demand.

And then that these perplexing pixies are mixed up with the murder of an U.N.C.L.E. agent — the girl April had been sent to replace. And in whose job April finds herself the target of the most terrifying THRUSH plot yet...
Notes
  • During the 1960s, Peter Leslie also wrote, or co-wrote, books based on a number of other series including The Avengers, Danger Man and The Invaders, not to mention five of the twenty-three original novels based on The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

    Cover image: The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Radioactive Camel Affair, Ace Books (1966) Cover image: The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Diving Dames Affair, Ace Books (1967) Cover image: The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Splintered Sunglasses Affair, Ace Books (1968) Cover image: The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Unfair Fare Affair, Souvenir Press/Four Square (1968) Cover image: The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Finger in the Sky Affair, Souvenir Press/Four Square (1968)