YES, Howard,  that was a great line, my wife cackled over it for 10  
minutes, but better yet it was  followed by "Whats an Ilya Kuryakin?"

Though Joanna Lumley is certainly delightful enough to look at, where  
did you Brits ever get the idea she could fill Diana Rigg's leather  
suit????



On Sep 26, 2006, at 9:55 AM, Howard Winter wrote:

> Dave,
>
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:00:11 -0400, Dave Lag wrote:
>
>> Alan B. Pearce wrote:
>>>> Talking of budgets, do you remember Saphire and Steel with
>>>> Joanna Lumley and David McCallum?
>>>
>>> Do remember watching some episodes, didn't realise it was being  
>>> repeated.
>>> These days see McCallum in NCIS, giving what is a probably a  
>>> similar woody
>>> performance ...
>>
>> Shameful, picking on my childhood "Man from U.N.C.L.E." hero!
>> :)
>
> Quite - mine too!  I always identified with Ilya Kuryakin, the  
> quiet techie.  Napoleon Solo was the flashy, arrogent git!
>
> I understand that somewhere in the NCIS episodes someone asks the  
> boss "What did Ducky look like when he was young?" and got the  
> reply "Ilya
> Kuryakin!"  :-)
>
> Cheers,

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