#Lucia Nazarone

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Sharon Tate as Therapist on as wearing only a tight sweater and stockings and Danica d'Hondt as Lucia Nazarone wearing a black mini skirt on The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

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The Surprisingly Kickass Women of UNCLE (2/­2)

Yet more women of UNCLE, showing the men how it’s done. (Part 1 here)

Gif 1-2: The Candidate's Wife Affair (S3), Diana Hyland as Irina. There is a lesson here for THRUSH, and that lesson is that if you’re going to replace an important figure with a brainwashed double, maybe see if you can find one who isn’t a professional Judo instructor -- or your plan might just backfire.

Gif 3-4: The Girls of Nazarone Affair (S1) Danica D'Hondt as Lucia Nazarone (and Kathy Kersh and Sharon Tate as two THRUSH agents). Nazarone herself is cheating slightly, as she’s had her metabolism hyped up by a healing serum, (her assistants from the second gif are merely relying on old fashioned strength in numbers). Gif 5-6: The Project Deephole Affair (S2) Barbara Bouchet as Narcissus. Though the staging is a little clunky, what I love about that second gif is that that ankle lock move she’s doing is a recognisably legit takedown move (and actually one of my instructor’s favourites). It may not be as showy as the judo-flips that were so popular in sixties TV, but  I can say from experience that when someone gets it right, it’s like having the rug pulled from under you.

Gif 7: Hey, remember that time in The Double Affair/The Spy With My Face (S1) where Napoleon nearly escapes his THRUSH captors, only to be knocked cold by a random woman in a two-piece bathing suit who has no other role in the scene? Yep, that happened. And people say S1 was less weird than the later seasons. (FTR, she does later reappear as a masseuse called Nina, played by Donna Michelle.)

Gif 8: The Candidate's Wife Affair (again), since the episode ends with Waverly deciding that Napoleon and Illya need some remedial judo classes with Irina and her students.