Review of The Little John Doe Affair

-This is probably my favorite episode of "The Girl From UNCLE" because for once, we get to see Stefanie Powers' April Dancer be more in charge and not be rescued by sidekick Mark Slate (who in this episode is sidelined in the hospital with a broken leg and being ministered to by nurse Thordis Brandt). April is sent to protect a "free-lance gangster" who is about to tell-all about how the global syndicate operates and he's being targeted by hit man Wally Cox. The episode treats its action scenes seriously while saving the humor for the moments of Cox as hit man calling home and showing us that this club-footed henchman is the epitome of the respectable church-going suburban family man with wife and beautiful kids. Meantime, there's a nice underplayed romance between April and Pernell Roberts as the gangster she's protecting that also works in the episode as well. Many episodes of GFU and MFU by this point tended to go out of whack in terms of too much silliness but this episode struck the right balance of humor and action and that makes it one of the best.