User Reviews

April Dancer is on her way to a Greek island to meet Mark Slate. April is with a dog whos fleas contain the antidote to a THRUSH developed drug which makes people move in slow motion. A man named Fromage sits next to April and rightly suspecting he is working for THRUSH, she contacts Mark and attaching a parachute to the dog and throws it from the plane for Mark to catch. However, THRUSH agents are waiting for Mark and he is captured briefly but the dog escapes. Later Mark and April meet and using a dog whistle April attracts the dog. However, it escapes again and when April gives chase, she is karate chopped on the neck by THRUSH agents, causing April Dancer to faint and she is kidnapped and driven away in a waiting car. When she regains consciousness, April is in the wine cellar of Zakinthios, who leads the mission for THRUSH. He questions April about the whereabouts of the dog but, refusing to talk and not knowing the dog's whereabouts, April is overpowered by Zakinthios's men and faints again. She wakes up tied to a swing over a pool of piranhas but April escapes in the nick of time and manages to retrieve the dog yet again. Finally Mark defeats Zakinthios in a fight. April and Mark eventually hand the dog over to the authorities to enable them to make the antidote.

I thought this was an excellent start to the series, with plenty of action and some amusing interludes, such as when April judo throws Mark across her room when he enters without knocking. However, the main problem with the episode, apart from the rather wild story line, was the fight at the end. As this was the Girl from UNCLE, surely it should have been April Dancer who defeated the villain at the end and not Mark Slate. However, having seen this episode again recently, April Dancer was certainly a beautiful secret agent!