Editing The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (section)

===Theatrical releases of episodes===
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''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'' rated so highly in America and the UK that MGM and the producers decided to film extra footage (often more adult to evoke Bond films) for two of the first season episodes and release them to theaters after they had aired on TV. The episodes with the extra footage that made it to theaters were the original pilot, "The Vulcan Affair", retitled ''[[To Trap a Spy]]'' and "The Double Affair" retitled as ''[[The Spy with My Face]]''. Both had added sex and violence, new sub-plots and guest stars not in the original TV episodes. They were released in early 1966 as an ''U.N.C.L.E.'' double-feature program first run in neighborhood theaters, bypassing the customary downtown movie palaces which were still thriving in the mid-1960s and where new films usually played for weeks or months before coming to outlying screens.

A selling point to seeing these films theatrically was that they were being shown in color, at a time when most people had only black-and-white TVs (and indeed the two first-season episodes that were expanded to feature length, while filmed in color, had only been broadcast in black-and-white). The words "in color" featured prominently on the trailers, TV spots, and posters for the film releases. The episodes used to make U.N.C.L.E. films were not included in the packages of television episodes screened outside the United States.<ref name="Heitland"/>{{Page needed|date=April 2017}}

Subsequent two-part episodes, beginning with the second season premiere, "Alexander the Greater Affair", retitled ''One Spy Too Many'' for its theatrical release, were developed into one complete feature film with only occasional extra sexy and violent footage added to them, sometimes as just inserts. In the case of ''One Spy Too Many,'' a subplot featuring [[Yvonne Craig]] as an U.N.C.L.E. operative carrying on a flirtatious relationship with Solo was also added to the film; Craig does not appear in the television episodes.

The later films were not released in America, only overseas, but the first few did well in American theaters and remain one of the rare examples of a television show released in paid theatrical engagements. With the exception of the two-part episode "The Five Daughters Affair", shown as part of [[Granada Plus]]'s run of the series, the episodes which became films have never aired on British television.

The films in the series:
* ''[[To Trap a Spy]]'' (1964)
* ''[[The Spy with My Face]]'' (1965)
* ''[[One Spy Too Many]]'' (1966)
* ''[[One of Our Spies Is Missing]]'' (1966)
* ''[[The Spy in the Green Hat]]'' (1966)
* ''[[The Karate Killers]]'' (1967)
* ''[[The Helicopter Spies]]'' (1968)
* ''[[How to Steal the World]]'' (1968)