The director was Don Medford with Maurice Vaccarino assisting and Henry Berman editing. The producer was Norman Felton who had conceived the original idea for the show and then developed it in consultation with the creator of James Bond — Ian Fleming. Sam Rolfe was given the job of writing the detailed background for the series and wrote the script for this episode. The score was composed by Jerry Goldsmith including the catchy theme tune which was performed by The Gallants. Casting This first episode features Napoleon Solo as the eponymous Man from U.N.C.L.E., as the series concept was to focus upon this individual agent as the hero. Robert Vaughn was cast in this role to give the character an urbane, sophisticated style similar to Cary Grant's role in Notorious. The Russian agent, Illya Kuryakin, only has four lines in this episode as the role had yet to attract the attention which it subsequently achieved due to the casting of David McCallum, who was a great favorite of female fans. The other main regular character appearing is the leader of U.N.C.L.E., Alexander Waverly. He was played by Leo G. Carroll who was cast because he had played a similar avuncular role in North by Northwest. This was, however, a late change. In the pilot, the leadership role was Mr. Allison, played by Will Kuluva. He was removed from the show after an NBC executive ordered that the character whose name started with "K" should go. He had meant Kuryakin, but it was Kuluva who went and the role was reshot with Carroll in the part. The standard front for U.N.C.L.E. in New York was a tailor's shop. In this first episode, the part of the tailor, Del Floria, was played by Mario Siletti. Each episode was expected to include an innocent character caught up in the action, as Cary Grant was in North by Northwest. Patricia Crowley filled this role in this episode as housewife Elaine May Bender Donaldson. She had previously played opposite Robert Vaughn as his wife in The Lieutenant and was cast by Norman Felton. Janice Rule was originally considered, but was rejected due to both Vaughn and Rule preferring to be photographed from the left side. The other major guest star was Fritz Weaver, who played the villain Andrew Vulcan. The episode features William Marshall, Ivan Dixon and Rupert Crosse as three diplomats from a newly