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==Home media== [[MGM/UA Home Video]] released eight volumes, featuring two episodes each, on home video on September 25, 1991.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=October 5, 1991|title=Say 'U.N.C.L.E.': MGM/UA Bowing Tapes|last=Bessman|first=Jim|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/90s/1991/BB-1991-10-05.pdf|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|page=75|access-date=February 16, 2024}}</ref> In November 2007, after coming to an agreement with [[Warner Bros. Home Entertainment]], [[Time Life]] released a 41 DVD set (region 1) for direct order, with sales through stores scheduled for fall 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=7563|title=The Man from U.N.C.L.E. DVD news: Complete Series set coming from Time Life!|publisher=TVShowsOnDVD.com|access-date=2011-03-05|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070911223247/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=7563|archive-date=2007-09-11}}</ref> An earlier release by [[Anchor Bay Entertainment|Anchor Bay]], allegedly set for 2006, was apparently scuttled because of a dispute over the rights to the series with Warner Home Video.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=5482|title=The Man from U.N.C.L.E. DVD news: The Rights to the Series Affair|publisher=TVShowsOnDVD.com|access-date=2011-03-05|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313175640/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=5482|archive-date=2007-03-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=7190|title=The Man from U.N.C.L.E. DVD news: Man from U.N.C.L.E. Star Talks Extras, 2007 Release|publisher=TVShowsOnDVD.com|access-date=2011-03-05|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070911223327/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=7190|archive-date=2007-09-11}}</ref> On October 21, 2008, the Time-Life set was released to retail outlets in Region 1 (North America) in a special all-seasons box set contained within a small briefcase. The complete-series set consists of 41 DVDs, including two discs of special features included exclusively with the box set. Included in the set was the ''Solo'' pilot episode, as well as one of the films, ''One Spy Too Many''. [[Paramount Pictures]] and [[CBS Home Entertainment]] released ''[[Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'' to DVD in Region 1 on March 3, 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Man-UNCLE-Return-of-TMFU/10959|title=The Man from U.N.C.L.E. DVD news: Announcement for The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.|publisher=TVShowsOnDVD.com|date=2007-05-25|access-date=2011-03-05|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525105532/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Man-UNCLE-Return-of-TMFU/10959|archive-date=2011-05-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Man-UNCLE-Return-of-TMFU/10971|title=The Man from U.N.C.L.E. DVD news: Box Art & Extras for The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.|publisher=TVShowsOnDVD.com|date=2007-05-25|access-date=2011-03-05|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525105859/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Man-UNCLE-Return-of-TMFU/10971|archive-date=2011-05-25}}</ref> On August 23, 2011, [[Warner Archive Collection]] released ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 8-Movie Collection'' on DVD via its "manufacture on demand" service.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Man-UNCLE-8-Movies-Collection/15840|title=The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Warner Archive to Release the '8 Movies Collection' on DVD Tomorrow|publisher=TVShowsOnDVD.com|access-date=2011-08-23|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110914091624/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Man-UNCLE-8-Movies-Collection/15840|archive-date=2011-09-14}}</ref> On November 4, 2014, Warner Home Video released the complete series set on DVD in Region 1 in a new repackaged version.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Man-UNCLE-The-Complete-Series/20324|title=The Man from U.N.C.L.E. DVD news: Re-Release for The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - The Complete Series - TVShowsOnDVD.com|work=tvshowsondvd.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141101221322/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Man-UNCLE-The-Complete-Series/20324|archive-date=2014-11-01}}</ref> On August 4, 2015, Warner Home Video released an individual release of season 1 on DVD in Region 1.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Man-UNCLE-Season-1/21113|title=The Man from U.N.C.L.E. DVD news: Press Release for The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - The Complete Season 1 - TVShowsOnDVD.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208205437/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Man-UNCLE-Season-1/21113|archive-date=2015-12-08}}</ref> Season 2 was released on February 2, 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Man-UNCLE-Season-2/21687|title=The Man from U.N.C.L.E. DVD news: Press Release for Season 2|publisher=TVShowsOnDVD.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151202083226/http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Man-UNCLE-Season-2/21687|archive-date=2015-12-02}}</ref> In Region 2, [[Warner Bros.]] released the complete series set on DVD in the UK.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Man-U-N-C-L-E-complete-TV-region/dp/B00FIPDWS4|title=The Man From U.N.C.L.E. complete TV series region 2: Amazon.co.uk: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Leo G Carroll: DVD & Blu-ray|work=amazon.co.uk}}</ref> It also released a separate film collection on September 8, 2003.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Man-U-N-C-L-E-DVD-Robert-Vaughn/dp/B00337PPX4|title=The Man From U.N.C.L.E. [DVD] [2009]|work=amazon.co.uk|date=20 July 2009 }}</ref> The DVD contains five of the eight films, missing the following: ''To Trap a Spy'' (1964), ''The Spy in the Green Hat'' (1966) and ''One of Our Spies is Missing'' (1966). On March 26, 2012, [[Fabulous Films]] released ''[[Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'' on Region 2 DVD.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Return-Man-U-N-C-L-E-Robert-Vaughn/dp/B006UHJ8KU|title=Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. [DVD]|work=amazon.co.uk|date=17 April 2019 }}</ref> ===Merchandise=== Licensed merchandise included Gilbert action figures, [[Aurora Plastics Corporation|Aurora]] plastic model kits, lunch boxes, and [[toy gun]]s.<ref>Paquette, Brian & Howley, Paul ''The Toys From U.N.C.L.E.: Memorabilia and Collectors Guide'' Entertainment Publishing; First edition. (January 1, 1990)</ref> An example of this, the Louis Marx "Target Gun Set", a dart-gun shooting-game released in the form of a quasi-playset, is built around the setting of U.N.C.L.E. headquarters in New York City. Art on the cardboard stand displays both the U.N.C.L.E. and THRUSH logos, and a half-dozen soft plastic figures per "side" were provided, including Solo, Kuryakin and Waverly. The game measures {{convert|57|x|18|in|cm}}; the figures, at {{convert|6|in|cm}}, represent one of the few attempts Marx made at supplementing its 6-inch figure line. The U.N.C.L.E. figures are cast in blue, except for a single (unnamed) figure in tan; THRUSH agents are cast in gray. Marx was released an arcade game licensed under ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.''<ref>{{cite journal|title=Open Channel 'D' with the Marx U.N.C.L.E. Gun|journal=Playset Magazine|date=September–October 2004|issue=17|page=19}}</ref> [[Corgi Toys]] produced a [[die-cast toy]] model of the "Thrushbuster", an [[Oldsmobile 88]], with figures of '[[Napoleon Solo]]' and '[[Illya Kuryakin]]' which popped in and out of the car windows firing guns by pressing down on a model periscope protruding through the roof.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://corgitoys.free.fr/English/CORGI_497_MAN_FROM_UNCLE.htm |title=CORGI 497 MAN FROM UNCLE THRUSHBUSTER 1966-1969 |access-date=23 April 2018}}</ref>
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