The Man from Uncle: "The Deadly Toys Affair"

Managed to record this tonight.

When I watched this episode as a kid, I was highly ticked at the paucity of follow-up model airplane stuff after it's beginning teaser...

Off to Switzerland to rescue Professor Whatever and his slightly dorky, genius son from an expansive, secret school run by T.H.R.U.S.H.  The Professor arrives during a vaguely described model airplane activity out on the school's huge lawn.




T.H.R.U.S.H. decides to take out the Professor...all the better to more easily manipulate Genius Boy.  Rather than use a handy, perfect vantage point for a rifle shot, T.H.R.U.S.H. takes the more subtle tack of using a bomb-laden Wen Mac Pea Shooter, converted to radio or some other control.  This to fool Boy Genius into thinking his father's demise was caused by a typical model airplane accident.










Ilya arrives on his Bonnie just in time to interrupt the clueless Wen Mac Assassin, but gets knocked aside just long enough for the villain to launch the apparently pre-programmed model.










After a pass to rather easily terrify the the crowd below, the Pea Shooter singles out the Professor (who's apparently forgotten all about his dorky son), as he obligingly runs for cover into a nearby tent.






The Wen Mac control liner flys precisely through the tent's door, exploding itself and presumably taking out the Professor.



I'd comment on the rest, but it gets a little silly from here....

P.S. ALTHOUGH,  Angela Lansbury DOES manage to save the day by flying everyone away in a stolen Bell Ranger...



Ah, the Sixty's....