Leo G. Carroll

Mr. Webb, a Thrush agent, and Margitta Kingsley, the wife of U.N.C.L.E. agent Robert Kingsley, plot to steal a docility gas from General Maximilian Harmon, who has kidnapped Professor David Garrow and his son Steve. Harmon and a group of scientists consider themselves the "Seven Intellectual Wonders of the World" and, with the gas and the troops, plan to take over control of the world and ensure peace.

In London U.N.C.L.E. agent Brian Morton is planning on getting married, much to Waverly's disapproval. Solo and Illya help Morton on his current mission:stopping Thrush agent Commander Krohler from stealing the plans for a new supersubmarine. Waverly tries to dissuade Laura Adams, Morton's fiancee, but to no avail. Morton and Laura are then kidnapped by Krohler, and Krohler threatens to kill Laura if Morton does not obtain the sub for him.

Oliver Barnes, a Thrush agent, unsuccessfully tries to destroy U.N.C.L.E. HQ. Meanwhile, Napoleon and Illya are assigned to protect Dr. Febray and the new molecutronic gun that he has created for the Army. Barnes steals the gun and captures Napoleon, and the agent soon realizes that Barnes has another plan to destroy headquarters.

Napoleon and agent Andreas Petros are sent to the island of Ibos, where Thrush has been spending huge amounts of money on some unknown project. Napoleon, posing as a visiting Thrush official, meets Dr. Killman, the head of the project, and Marnya, who reveals that Killman is working on an earthquake device, as the real Thrush emissary arrives.

Napoleon and Illya go to visit a Nazi war criminal in prison, Von Etske, but find that he has escaped with the aid of a special thought controlling device. His escape was observed by photographer Terry Cook. Von Erske is joining forces with Zorgon Gurnius, a fellow former Nazi, to reactivate their wartime triumvirate. Illya intercept Nexor, and finds that he is his exact double. He decides to impersonate Nexor to foil the plan.

Illya goes to U.N.C.L.E.'s secret island training academy, the Survival School, to help Jules Cutter find a Thrush infiltrator who has assassinated a trainee. Suspicion focuses on three trainees Melisa Hargrove, John Saimes, and Harry Williams, and Illya must find out who is the real double agent.

In a Latin American country, Illya and Napoleon try to help the popular national leader, Angela protect her government from the Secret Three, a revolutionary group backed by Thrush. Solo is captured by the Secret Three, but escapes after learning that Vinay, a friend of Angela's, is plotting against her. He tells her husband, General Abaca, but the general is actually the one plotting to overthrow his wife's government and have her killed.

Illya, recuperating in the hospital, is kidnapped by an old enemy, Viktor Karmak, to lure Napoleon into a trap. Napoleon follows a clue to a twelve block condemned area of Manhattan, and finds modern artist Sheila Van Tillson. Karmak appears and announces that Napoleon has until dawn to find Illya before a deadly gas kills him, while Karmak and his pet jaguar will try to hunt Napoleon down at the same time.

Thrush agent Barnaby Partridge uses his island gambling casino to brainwash VIPs into committing suicide by playing on their secret fears. U.N.C.L.E. sends Taggart Coleman to the island to help Napoleon and Illya uncover the process, and he encounters an old love interest there, Monica. But Partridge takes Illya prisoner and subjects him to the process training him to kill Napoleon.

In Portugal, Solo is taken prisoner by Pharos Mandor, a Thrush chief ready to defect if his arch rival, Thrush assassin Stepan Valandros, does not kill him first. Solo meets Mandor's girlfriend, Cathy Welling. Mandor tells Solo U.N.C.L.E. must kill Valandros or he will not defect, but his real aim is to eliminate Valandros and promote himself up the Thrush ranks.

Solo and Illya are assigned to investigate a mysterious ray from the sky that killed the inhabitants of an African village. They find expert safecracker and fugitive from justice Luther Sebastian, now a leader of a cult called the Third Way, and enlist his help in their plan to break into to the safe of Parviz Kharmusi and steal the thermal prism that powers that deadly ray. Solo runs into Annie Justin, who is looking for Sebastian, who framed her boyfriend. Azalea helps Solo escape from Annie, and takes him to Kharmusi. But Sebastian reveals he has stolen the prism for himself so he can put it into orbit and extort the world.

Solo and Illya are assigned to investigate a mysterious ray from the sky that killed the inhabitants of an African village. They find expert safecracker and fugitive from justice Luther Sebastian, now a leader of a cult called the Third Way, and enlist his help in their plan to break into to the safe of Parviz Kharmusi and steal the thermal prism that powers that deadly ray. Solo runs into Annie Justin, who is looking for Sebastian, who framed her boyfriend. Azalea helps Solo escape from Annie, and takes him to Kharmusi. But Sebastian reveals he has stolen the prism for himself so he can put it into orbit and extort the world.

Solo and Illya are asked by Adam Tenza to protect his millionaire industrialist father Mark Tenza from assassination by Thrush, much to the resentment of the elder Tenza. When Tenza is killed by a bomb, Solo and Illya must find out where J Tenza's other son, James is, to protect him also. But Adam Tenza is actually planning to kill J, in order to hand his father's empire over to Thrush.

A dying UNCLE agent warns Napoleon and Illya that a group of supermen is being bred by Thrush. The duo discovers a school set up by the enemy organization in Mexico, who has already produced seven emotionless killer students. As a graduating exercise, one is chosen to eliminate the U.N.C.L.E. agents after they follow the boy to Austria.

Visiting Berlin headquarters in preparation for a high level U.N.C.L.E. conference, "Summit Five," Solo finds agent Heinz Newman mysteriously murdered. Illya goes to Berlin, as does Harry Beldon, one of Waverly's counterparts in Section 1. Beldon suspects that either Solo or Gerald Struthers committed the murder, while Illya suspects Beldon's secretary Helga Deniken, but Beldon himself turns out to be the traitor, and he plans to kill Waverly at the conference.

Napoleon and Illya are responsible for the security during Waverly's upcoming address to his alma mater, but the campus is seething with protest. Illya joins the demonstrators, and meets Minerva Swight, the daughter of the dean. The head of the board of regents, Jonathan Trumbull, is a Thrush agent, and he hires campus agitator Gregory Haymish to try and kill Solo and Illya, while Trumbull's Thrush superior, Number 24, undergoes plastic surgery so he can impersonate the dean during the ceremony and kill Waverly himself.

After escaping Thrush's traip, Solo, Illya, and Sandy go to the Alps to find Yvonne, who is breaking off an unhappy relationship with Karl Von Kesser. But after decoding the message in Japan, Solo, Illya, and Sandy are captured by Randolph and taken to Thrush Central for execution.

Solo and Illya visit the laboratory of Dr. True, who has discovered how to extract gold from seawater. But Dr. True dies from a poison given him by Thrush agent Randolph, and Randolph also kills his wife Amanda. The gold extraction formula was distributed in portions by True to his daughters, in inscriptions on a photo of himself. Solo and Illya meet Sandy True, who accompanies them to Rome, to find her half sister Margo, now unhappily married to the destitute Baron de Fanzini to London, to find the next sister Imogen, who has been arrested by a Constable for indecent exposure and finally the Alps, to find Yvonne, who is breaking off an unhappy relationship with Karl Von Kesser. But after decoding the message in Japan, Solo, Illya, and Sandy are captured by Randolph and taken to Thrush central for execution.

Solo and Illya find that Thrush agent Colonel Picks has developed exploding apples, which will be used to trigger a nuclear stockpile. Nina Lillette, a pretty hillbilly girl, latches onto them for excitement. Illya joins a picking crew at the farm, but he is buried alive in a tunnel with the volatile apples.

In Rome, American tourist Darlene Sims becomes the unwitting carrier of a perfume atomizer with a secret formula. Thrush uses a suave ladies man, Cesare Guardia, to charm Darlene, but he falls in love with her in the process.

A Thrush coded five-year report is hidden in a dress pattern, and Napoleon and Illya go to the garment district and encounter the design shop of two down-on-their-luck wholesalers and their model Ramona and the cutter who has a crush on her, Jerry. Thrush also tries to retrieve the garment, but Ramona keeps forgetting where she left it.