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Originally Posted by Mark DiSilvestro
Don't know if it's the earliest and I wouldn't call it a favorite, but it pre-dates your 'Man From U.N.C.L.E.' epsode. The 1963 grade-Z Sci-Fi flick 'They Saved Hitlers Brain', AKA 'Madmen of Mandoras', featuring Hitler's head kept alive under glass! A Mercedes Adenauer 300 limo costars as the conveyance for the title character.
Happy Motoring, Mark
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Thanks, Mark. I'm thinking, now that I've looked this little epic up, that it could have been the immediate ancestor of Dick Nelson's MfU script. I can't imagine any TV show of the period postulating that AH might have been preserved -- then as now, that's the stuff of science fiction, so a standard drama or cop show wouldn't have touched it. Any spy series before U.N.C.L.E. would have been more concerned with commie-hunting, and in any case would have skewed toward the "realistic."
Conceivably one of those SF anthology shows, like "One Step Beyond," "Twilight Zone," or "Outer Limits" might have tried it.
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