The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American spy fiction television series produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television and first broadcast on NBC in 1964, following secret agents, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for a secret international counterespionage and law-enforcement agency called U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law and Enforcement).
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. was one of the big hit television series of the '60s, and one of the earlier and influential TV media fandom series, thanks in a large part to the appeal of Illya Kuryakin, and his partner Napoleon Solo, with fangirls and fanboys of all ages. The program led the spy-fiction craze on television, and by 1966 there were nearly a dozen imitators. 
Several episodes were successfully released to theaters as B movies or double features. There was also a spin-off series, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., novel and comic book series, and merchandising.
==Canon Overview==
	
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. was part cold war spy thriller, part idealistic world history, and part campy escapist entertainment. U.N.C.L.E., the United Network Command for Law Enforcement, was a multi-national organization implied to be under United Nations control; its primary purpose was to deal with THRUSH, essentially an Illuminati-style organization that was breaking out of the whole 'power behind the throne' role and going straight for the the throne itself, frequently using convoluted 'Bond Villain' plots. An innocent bystander was always drawn into the plot somehow, while the heroes—two U.N.C.L.E. agents named Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin—dealt with the threat. 
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. was a spin-off of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. that lasted one season. 
The Fifteen Years Later Affair was a 1983 TV reunion movie.
A feature film based on the series and set in the 1960s, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015 film), was released in August 2015.
Other spin-offs included numerous books, comics, and magazines.
===Characters===
A brief overview of the main characters. For more information, see the The Man from U.N.C.L.E. on Wikipedia and The Fans from U.N.C.L.E..
*Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn): lead Enforcement agent, American who served in the Korean War.
*Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum): Napoleon's partner, Russian.
*Alexander Waverly (Leo G. Carroll): Section One, Number One of U.N.C.L.E.
*April Dancer (Stefanie Powers): the Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
*Mark Slate (Noel Harrison): April's partner
==Fandom History==
When the show first aired in the 1960s, it was a hit and very popular with teenagers:
Considerable evidence exists to support the claim that The Man From UNCLE pre-dated Star Trek as the first media fandom. Many science fiction writers and fans who embraced Star Trek had begun as Man From UNCLE fans. Many episodes were written by established science fiction authors, among them Harlan Ellison who worked on continuity and polishing in the same manner as Dorothy Fontana later did for Star Trek. Science fiction novelists were also hired to write novelizations, among them Buck CoulsonIn Yandro #168 (February 1968), Buck Coulson wrote: " I will not be answering much mail — perhaps not any mail — in the next 2 months or so. I will be writing for money. Thomas Stratton, the two headed author known to veteran YANDRO and EISFA readers, has sold a "Man From U.N.C.L.E." novel to Ace Books, Since one of Stratton's heads is mine (the other belongs to Gene DeWeese), I'll be busy, particularly since Ace wants it by mid-April if we can write it that fast.", the husband of Juanita Coulson.C.W. Walker discusses this in depth in her 2001 Ph.D. thesis A Dialogic Approach to Creativity in Mass Communication and in her book Work/Text: Investigating the Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Hampton, 2013). 
There were other links to Star Trek. James Doohan was in "The Shark Affair" (October 13, 1964). William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy appeared together in "The Project Strigas Affair" (Nov. 24, 1964). Numerous Star Trek guest stars appeared in other episodes. Some episodes were directed by Trek directors Marc Daniels, Jud Taylor, and Vincent McEveety. Like Star Trek, the show portrayed American and Russian heroes working together, but in the present.
However, because MFU did not go into continuous reruns the way Star Trek did, the fandom ebbed and flowed depending on the syndication. There was a big resurgence in the early 1990s when TNT began broadcasting it again, and fans could once again get clean VCR copies to pass around to interested parties. In 2007 the series was released on DVD, and while this did not spark a fandom renaissance, the accessibility allows for a low but steady influx of new fans, as well as older fans revisiting their childhood crushes. 
The zine fandom successfully transitioned online in the 1990s with mailing lists. As an older fandom, much of MFU online fandom started on lists. In the late 90s, there were two primary mailing lists, Channel D for general interest, and Channel L for adult and slash conversation, both co-run by Jan Davies, Marion McChesney, and Laurel Richards. These were still active as of 2009, as well as a few others."By far the oldest U.N.C.L.E. electronic mailing list around, Channel D made its debut in 1995 with 10 or so subscribers without the benefit of any listserv software to automate the process! By March 1999, it has grown to 150+ subscribers." -- Accessed 2 June 2011 and moved to Yahoo!Groups in 1998. As of 2011 it was still active, with several hundred posts a month.The Channel_D group on Yahoo has 907 members and averaged 325 posts a month in 2010. (Accessed 2 June 2011)
In Those Children: Case Studies from the Inner-city School (1970) by Donald Clark, Arlene Goldsmith and Clementine Pugh, school children with "mental problems" were described. Among them were two teenagers, Susan Wu and Sarah Vaquero, who wrote and acted out stories based on the show, but from the perspective of THRUSH. They were described as having "built a huge network of fantasy." When they killed off a favorite character (based on the brother of one of the girls), they wore black mourning armbands to school and authorities became "concerned about their fantasy life".This may possibly have been a reaction to the murder of Honorah Rieper in 1952 by her daughter Pauline with the assistance of Juliet Hulme, Pauline's school friend. The girls were devoted friends who wrote novels, plays and poetry together and could definitely be described as media fans. For decades afterward, school and parental authorities were wary of young women forming dedicated creative friendships. It was believed they could lead to Lesbianism and insanity. This is one of the earliest descriptions of fandom in professional literature.
==Early Fanfic==
===The Gen===
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Anecdotal stories give MFU the nod for first publishing fanfiction, though no copies of those early stories have been found. Nancy Kippax said in Reminisce With Me that The Man From UNCLE had been around in the U.S. and the U.K. as long as Star Trek, but without significant fan fiction. According to her, the first stand-alone Man From UNCLE zine (a novel) was published in 1975. It was called The Blue Curtain Affair and was written by Pat Munson, the then head of UNCLE HQ, a fan club. Munson also published some of the very first MUNCLE short fiction in the UNCLE HQ newsletter. Another early gen MUNCLE zine was The M.U.N.C.L.E. Book which was published in 1977. Muncle fanfiction also appeared in multi-fandom zines such as "The Princess Royal Affair" which appeared in Warped Space #40 in 1979. However, the majority of MUNCLE fanzines were not published until 1983.
Some early fanfic trends: what was Illya's role? Was he a Soviet defector, reflecting the political climate of the time? Fanfic during the late 1970s and early 1980s also had a very noticeable lack of Napoleon Solo: sometimes he was completely absent, and if portrayed, was often as Illya's subordinate and often as a bit of a buffoon. These two fanons were perhaps due to the fact the show was not being rerun anywhere, and that fans' exposure to the characters was through the pro books. The latter trend of Illya-centric fiction may also be due to the fact that David McCallum was cast as the "Russian Beatle." He appealed to the same demographic.The decision to add a youthful Russian to the Star Trek bridge crew may have been indirectly inspired by Illya's popularity. One fan writes: "I suppose I can’t do an essay on Napoleon Solo without making at least brief mention of the fact that for a time in MFU’s fanfiction history, U.N.C.L.E. Chief of Enforcement became a sort of nonentity. About ten years ago, I did a survey of MFU fandom for an academic paper and discovered that, while Solo was a favorite of male fans, almost three-quarters of the female fans preferred Illya. In fact, for the first decade that followed the series’ cancellation, they preferred Illya so much that in most of the stories written during that period, Solo is either a supporting player or he doesn’t appear at all. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. --- Napoleon Solo: More Than Meets the Eye, posted June 7, 2006, accessed September 10, 2013; reference link. 
Another fanfic trend occurred in the late 1980s. It was at that time the fic began to change in tone. Napoleon and Illya are portrayed more often as equals, Illya as clearly Soviet, the fics themselves became grittier and more realistic regarding the world of spies and political espionage. Factors for this change in tone may have been the popularity of the televisions shows The Equalizer, The Sandbaggers, and John le Carré novels.
A fan in 1987 wrote: 
=== The Slash===
 The series had been popular with the gay underground since it began. As early as 1965, Man from UNCLE parodies started showing up in gay magazines.Drum Magazine, Vol V No. 1 (pdf), March 1965, p. 7 However, there was little connection between that community and the fanfic communities. 
The first Man from U.N.C.L.E. zine advertised in a major publication that announced it would accept slash was by Karen F in 1983. From Datazine #28's "In the Planning Stages": "The Fanzine Affair: Napoleon Solo and Kuryakin return! This is a fanzine in the making and accepting stories, artwork, non-fiction, and poetry... All themes accepted -- the title says it all." While this zine never made it off the ground, the precedent was out in the open. 
The first fanzine to actually publish MUNCLE slash was possibly Mobile Ghettos in 1985. "E.D. Productions were the first people to actually publish UNCLE slash material. There is quite an underground of N/I, some of it much better that was actually published, but this could be true to the fact that E.D. Productions simply didn't know how to get in touch with the proper sources." from Datazine #37 
Some fans feel that fannish debates and discussion of the time was less concerned with slash, and more focused on whether or not Illya was a Soviet defector or not, a topic made all the more relevant by current events of the time. 
===Circuit Stories and Preservation===
Like Pros fandom, there was an underground circuit of fan fiction, copied and exchanged from person to person. Some of that fanfiction involved slash which was not universally accepted with media fandom for many years: "Slash was very much underground for many years. Even when it moved from circuit stories to zines, you couldn't find them all that easily. They were distributed more or less "under the table", and you had to know whom to ask. That was changing even before the Internet became a major locus for fandom, but echoes of the "underground" status persisted for a long time, simply because there were a lot of fans who had been there and remembered it." comment in Slash as the Dark Side of Fan Fiction dated August 20th, 2009; reference link.
Unlike the Pros fandom which has expended considerable effort to preserve and archive their circuit stories, little is known about the MUNCLE circuit, even among dedicated fans.At least one big MFU Collection with a pink cover consisting of 400 pages of unpublished gen and slash stories was discussed as late as 2002. No titles or dates were given but the publisher was Nowayjose Press. The zine was listed as being available at the time of "publication" for $22.50. Morgan Dawn's personal notes accessed September 7. 2013.
A few Man from U.N.C.L.E. zines have been kept in print all these years; others are available used at conventions. SithDragon (sithdrgn on lj) tried to set up a MFU traveling zine library, and collected zines from fans, but nothing apparently came of it.Status of Lending Library dated June 9th, 2008; reference link.
===Relationship with TPTB===
When MUNCLE fandom finally did begin publishing their stand alone zines in the early 1980s, they enjoyed a very positive relationship with Norm Felton, one of TPTB on the series: "When I was publishing "U is for UNCLE" Norm Felton had copies of every issue and would send back letters to me about them, wanting to discuss this or that plot action. Sigh, the good old days....... He used to give me pointers and he also had a very sly sense of humor. It made Napoleon make more sense to me." Why is it okay to charge money for fan art and not fan fic? dated September 26th, 2012; reference link.
That easy relationship changed when, in 2005, Lionheart Distribution received two C&D notices from Warner Brothers for selling MUNCLE fanzines, among other Warner TV shows. Lyrebird ("Unfortunately, [some MUNCLE fanzines] aren't being distributed any more because Warner Bros has sent out Cease and Desist letters to LionHeart Distribution (April 2005)") 
==Slash and Gen Fandoms==
Like many of the early TV fandoms, slash and gen fandoms have co-existed - but not always peacefully. Slash is disparaged by many fans, who believe it distorts the characters.Slash as the Dark Side of Fan Fiction dated August 20th, 2009; reference link. See also Why I Write Gen dated May 21st, 2005; reference link: "Frankly, I found it all very tiresome because I don't think artists should have to defend or even explain their work, just as I think audiences have no right to demand a certain kind of work." Slash Controversies has more on these complex aspects of fandom.
The slash "aha moment' varies among fans - some fans saw it immediately, others felt it did not happen until after the first season.Slashers - what was 'the moment' for you dated July 12th, 2009]; reference link.
Even when fans were open to idea of slash, the actual introduction to the genre did not always go well:
A fan in 1994 wrote: 
Still, the overall perception of slash within MUNCLE fandom has been one of relative acceptance, interspersed with periods of agitation:
A fan in 2015 wrote: 
==Fic Trends==
Slash MFU is a very OTP fandom, with Napoleon/Illya the dominant pairing. Gen case-story MFU is more common than Het MFU, which is usually BOTW, or occasionally crossed over with The Girl from Uncle. 
There is also a small trend of futurefic fusion of MFU with with NCIS and/or Hustle. The premise is usually that Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard from NCIS is actually, secretly an older Illya Kuryakin (both characters are played by David McCallum), and/or that Albert Stroller from Hustle is actually an older Napoleon Solo (both characters are played by Robert Vaughn).
After the 2015 film was released we see a separation between the original series and the new spin off. The fandom is still active in the original series side, although there has been a huge influx of fic and art for the 2015 film side as well. As a mention, there has been a small trend of crossovers with Doctor Who .
==Conventions==
There have been few fan run Muncle conventions - most Muncle fans attended larger multi-media conventions such as MediaWest and Zebracon.
A small fan-run convention takes place in the UK every year. The Arundel Affair was first held in 1997 with the latest gathering taking place in 2010.
In 2006 fans planned to hold a small US convention in October in Washington DC called The Thirty-Eight Years Later Affair. It is unclear if the event took place however a website was set up, initial programming was developed and a hotel was reserved.
==Fanworks==
===Fanfiction===
For a list of fanfiction see: Category:Man from U.N.C.L.E. Fanfiction
*Brief Candle by Suzan Lovett (appeared in the zine We Have Each Other 1) (Slash) (1996)
*The Arctic Nights Affair by Rosemary C. (appeared in We Have Each Other II) (Slash) (1997)
*The Fake Affair Affair by Linda White (appeared in Classified Affairs 3 (1997)
*Standing Stones by Kate Drummond (appeared in the zine Relative Secrecy 3) (1999)
*The Shadow of the Hawke by Chajka (1999)
*The Mirror, Mirror Affair by Nix (2003 or before)
*The Answer to My Friend Affair by Joel Davis (2003)
*The Children's Night Affair by T. Gabrielle (2004 or before)
*Room Temperature by Nyssa (2004 or earlier)
*The Black Dragon River Affair by Jill Thomasson (2006)
*Necessary Lies by C.W.W. Walker (2007)
*Kolya's Son (appeared in the zine Relative Secrecy 5)
*The Grand Illusion Affair by Jill Thomasson (2000s)
*The Friend in Need Affair by Jill Thomasson (2000s)
*The Wail of the Banshee Affair by Jill Thomasson (2011)
*The Fear in the Night Affair by Jill Thomasson (2012)
=== Zines===
For a list of fanzines see: Category:Man from U.N.C.L.E. Zines or List of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Fanzines
*The Curse of the Round Robin, author unknown, slash (1989)
*Perestroika by Elizabeth Urich. Slash zine (with a gorgeous cover). An example of MPDJK: Napoleon goes to Russia to visit Illya's "grave", only to find Illya is very much alive, and in need of rescue.The MPDJK in this story happens at the very beginning and is not much dwelt on, causing some fans to be extremely disappointed when buying the zine. (Like me for example.) -- comment added to Fanlore on August 14, 2015 by Franzeska
*City of Byzantium by Eros. An overwrought but beautiful first time novel with fantasy elements.
*The Kuryakin File. Thirty-six issues, gen and het stories that put Illya front and center.
*The Nowhere Man Affair by Paulie. A gen novel, winner of several fannish writing awards. Illya is captured, tortured, and his memory wiped, then dumped in New Orleans during Mardi Gras where he's taken in by a group of hippies who soon realize there's more to him than meets the eye. Meanwhile, Napoleon is searching for his lost partner, refusing to believe Illya may be dead.
*The St. Crispin's Day Society by C.W. Walker. Beautifully written, but rather crisp, or even dry, set of gen/het stories. Believed by many to be a fandom-reset after an era of more floridly written MFU. 
*Rose Tint My World. The first "romantic" slash anthology zine focusing on Illya/Napoleon, from Bodacious Press.
*Sex, Lies and U.N.C.L.E. by Ann Higgins. Slash.
*The Perfect Affair by Hesphestian. Slash.
*White Nights by Alexi Tesla. Slash.
*Against the Wind. Het/Gen.
*The Solo Files. Non-fiction gen.
*The Man from UNCLE Fandom Directory. Resource zine (1990)
*The Vaughn Guard. Newsletter following actor Robert Vaughan
===Vids ===
For a list of fanvids see: Category:Man from U.N.C.L.E. Vids
*Poor, Poor Pitiful Me (Illya) by Katharine Scarritt on Media Cannibals/Tape5
*You're So Vain (Napoleon Solo vid) (appeared on the Central Consortium 2000 songtape
*Winds of Change by DeeJay
*The U.N.C.L.E. Knights Affair by Spiritedshadow
*The Steve McQueen Affair by dreamybluemeany
*The Dr Kuryakin or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Illya Affair by dreamybluemeany
*The Pride Affair by Spiritedshadow
*The Blackest Velvet Affair
*Music To Watch Girls By
*Waterloo
*It's Not Unusual by Vysila
*Charmed Life by tomfooltook28
*Glances by Serenaar
*Grow Old With You by Pavlowsdog
*I Can't Speak French by Athenamsp
*The Shadow Government by dearratboy
===Fanart===
Art by Suzan Lovett is here and here. Much of it was used in print zines.
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==Archives==
MUNCLE fanfiction was slow to embrace online posting. In 1998, when U.N.C.L.E. File 40 was launched, there were three known stories posted online, mainly at private websites. U.N.C.L.E. File 40 helped change that by bringing zine writers and online readers together and eventually, over time, more online fic began to be added. The Channel-F mailing list was created in 2000 to capture some of this online fan fiction as it was being posted.
*U.N.C.L.E. File 40
*Chrome and Gunmetal archive - automated slash fic
*The Raven's Lair - slash & gen
*The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Fiction Archive - slash, het & gen
*Man from UNCLE Slash Fiction (slash index page)
*Stories by Jean Graham
Man From U.N.C.L.E. sections can be found in these multi-fandom archives:
*Archive of Our Own - slash, het & gen
* Wonderful World of MakeBelieve - slash & gen, and challenge fiction
== Mailing Lists==
===Yahoo! Groups===
*Channel D (discussion, etc.) (founded 1995)
*Channel F Channel F(fiction)
*Channel J Channel J (artists) (founded after Dec 1998)
*Channel-L Channel-L (slash)(mostly inactive) (founded after Dec 1998)
*Channel M Channel M (McCallum/Illya) (founded after Dec 1998)
*Channel V Channel V (Vaughn/Napoleon) (founded after Dec 1998)
*Channel-W Channel-W (gen and slash writers, one of the earliest yahoo mailing lists) (founded after Dec 1998)
*MFUfic MFUfic (slash and gen fic) "A mailing list, designed to assist writers in both the slash (over 18 please) and gen genre. Welcome to the Man from Uncle fan fiction mailing list. MFUfic has been specifically designed to assist and encourage authors to establish a plausible canon universe. We cater to all mediums from Slash (over 18 please) Gen, and Smarm. From filk, to essays, from serials to short pwp's, from AU to canon stories, all are welcome." (Founded: Apr 4, 1999)
*MFU slash MFU slash "Welcome to MFUSlash! We provide a forum for discussing slash fan fiction based on the 60's TV Spy show, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. if you are not interested in Slash fiction or are under the age of consent in your area, please don't ask to join." (Founded: Feb 5, 2002)
===Other ===
*Man From UNCLE Chat and Fic Man From UNCLE Chat and Fic "Napoleon and Illya may have gone off the air, but they are still loved by a group of die-hard fans. This list is for discussion and fanfiction regarding this wonderful, cult show."
==Journal Communities==
MFU also has an active presence on livejournal. The slash community muncle was founded by Sithdragn in Sept 2002 and welcomes all fans and any fanning about the show, whether slash-focused or not. "We are a slash community, but we chat about anything MFU. If that sounds acceptable, please join us, regardless of your fiction preferences." -- from the profile (Accessed 2 June 2011) It also hosts the annual Down the Chimney Affair holiday gift exchange, starting in 2004 based on other fandoms' exchanges "Secret santas abound in several fandoms. I thought I'd see if there was interest in holding a [info]muncle secret santa." It's that most wonderful time of the year, Sithdragn, posted 21 Oct 2011 (Accessed 2 June 2011), and becoming an anonymous exchange in 2005 in the spirit of a spy fandom."This year there will be a new twist in revealing authors and artists -- we're being even more secretive. It's a spy thing, y'know." Sithdragn, Down the Chimney Affair 2, posted 28 Aug 2005 (Accessed 2 June 2011) 2005 also marked the exclusion of het in the exchange due to the difficulty of finding matching recipients; since then the exchange has been limited to gen & slash. "Only gen and slash entries this year. It's nothing to do with an anti-het agenda, but last year's entries were too difficult to match up with the extremely limited het audience in this community." Sithdragn, Down the Chimney Affair 2, posted 28 Aug 2005 (Accessed 2 June 2011) The 8th DTC Exchange happened in Dec 2011 with 22 participants.Down the Chimney Affair 8 - The Big Reveal, posted 1 Jan 2012 (Accessed 11 January 2012)
Other communities include mfuwss, the MFU Writers Survival School, founded in 2005 to support MFU authors; like muncle, it has a slash/gen bent."One more thing: We like to think of ourselves as a slash but gen-friendly community, which means anything goes, really. We’re not exactly into het fic, though. So if that’s what floats your boat, please don’t post your story here but just ask for beta help and we’ll find you someone." from the mfuwss profile (Accessed 2 June 2011) network_command, founded in Jan 2008, is explicitly open to all genres and ratings, with no preferences stated. Both artwork and stories are accepted."We welcome stories and artwork of all types, in all genres and of all ratings, and we particularly encourage experimental work. However, we recognise that readers often have certain preferences, so please state clearly in your header whether your story or artwork contains a pairing (or pairings); and if it is sexually explicit, please say so, so that the easily squicked (like moi) don't have a heart attack!" profile, posted by azdak (last accessed 2 June 2011) mfu_canteen was spun off of mfuwss in May 2009"After taking up way too much of mfuwss's community, it was thought that it would be nice to have a place just for silliness and discussions that aren't necessarily in line with other groups here." The Back to the Work Week silly question, spikesgirl58, posted 1 June 2009 (Accessed 2 June 2011); founded by spikesgirl58, it is devoted to all variety of MFU-focused discussions, from the serious to the ridiculous. Daily questions from the mods, as well as contributions from other members, keeps the comm lively (if not always on topic!); themes include Slash Thursdays and Sunday recipe exchanges. 
mfu-yumdaily, "A Daily Dose of U.N.C.L.E." was created as a site to share pictures. A wide variety of pictures is posted each day, some with a high drool factor."It really is all about the pictures here, and the squee, of course! (and some drool) Post your pictures of Illya, Napoleon, David, Robert, anything Man from Uncle related or related to the fine actors who played our favourite spies." Quoted from the profile (Accessed 6 June 2011) The newest community, mfu-delflorias,"your single-stop shop for all your rec needs," is designed so that readers can share recommendations of their favorite stories, videos and art."It was suggested that perhaps we needed a community just for recs. It would be a place to come to for reviews, to write them yourself, and to talk about the stories, vids and art that you love. From the profile (Accessed 6 June 2011)
mfuficfind "I Know I Read It Somewhere..." was started by Periwinkle as a resource for fans who were trying to locate an author or a story."This site is primarily dedicated to helping people look for 'Man From UNCLE' stories that they read in the past and want to read again but can't find the link. Or, for people who heard about a good MFU story and want to locate it. You can also ask for help finding movies, videos, episodes, or whatever else you can think of." profile by Periwinkle(Accessed 12 June 2011) 
The groups are summarized four times a week in mfu_weekly, "A Man From U.N.C.L.E. round-up" which consolidates posts from all the other groups into one site."This group is meant to be a place where you can find a listing of recent postings in the other LJ Man From UNCLE communities. We try to include whatever we are aware of." from the profile, written by Periwinkle. profile (Accessed 6 June 2011)
*network_command ("the one stop UNCLE shop for all your fic and fannish needs.")
*muncle (slash community)
*thrushies (crack)
*mfuwss - MFU Writers Survival School (fanfic advice and discussion, drabble challenges)
*mfu_canteen (general discussion)
*mfuficfind (fic-finding comm)
*mfu_shortstorie (daily short fanfics to read)
*mfu_weekly (newsletter comm)
*Del Floria's (link) (fiction, videos, art recs)
==Fansites==
*The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Fanfiction by Kate D.
*The Fans from U.N.C.L.E.- canon and fandom overview
*Partner Mine (offline, archived) - Napoleon/Illya slanted site with ep recaps and fic
*The Network - website for the longest running UNCLE newsletter and the annual Arundel Affair, a fan run convention held in the UK.
==External Sources/Further Reading==
*U.N.C.L.E. in Retrospect: Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Life, I Learned from U.N.C.L.E. by C.W. Walker
*The Squee Heard Round the World by C.W. Walker, September 22, 2012
*, by rallamajoop (2016)
*, by rallamajoop (2016)
*, by rallamajoop (2016)
*Writing U.N.C.L.E.: The Three-Corner Structure, an essay by C. W. Walker
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Man from U.N.C.L.E.