Heather McNabb, Wanda Mae Kim and Sarah Johnson in Print - Articles by Date

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So I made this post about all the old news articles I'd tracked down about the early UNCLE girls – mostly just to say, damn, these nearly-forgotten bit characters actually got a lot of press back in the day, and here's a rough timeline to back that up. But when I came back to update it with some new links (turns out the archive I was using keeps adding new material), I'd slightly overrun the post limit (the post isn't that long, the table just takes a lot of css, which evidently counts). So, here's a new post for the updated table.

Links marked with a ▼ are shortcuts to where I've reproduced those articles in the other post. All other links go direct to the newspaper.com article page (though you'll only be able to see a thumbnail and OCR text without an account) – or you can just hover over the link to see a quote.

Links are organised by date – to put things in context, I've included a list of what episodes were in production and what was airing as all this news came out. Coloured text identifies each actress named and each episode they appeared in.

For example, you can see that news about Grace Lee's casting started coming out about the same time as they were shooting her first (and only) episode, whereas news about Leigh Chapman didn't start to appear until her first episode was about to air. Less than a month after the first news items (I can find) which mention Grace Lee's hiring for a continuing role, press releases were already starting to appear with Linda Ho's name taking the place of hers. Photos of Vaughn with both Lee and Heatherly nonetheless continued appearing in the press long after Lee had been replaced by Linda Ho, and often continued to carry captions suggesting both girls still had 'continuing roles' in the series. Occasional photos of Heatherly went right on appearing even after she, too, was gone, and Leigh Chapman seemed to have taken her place (a few such references even turned up in later years). Editors often didn't bother to check whether the captions supplied with the publicity photos were still accurate.

Basically, you could get a really skewed idea of who was still appearing in the show if you believed everything you read. The original UNCLE girls seriously were promoted a lot more widely than you might think.

			In Production			Airing		News Item – About
	May							27th Column – Film news, mentions hiring of May Heatherly
								▼ 29th, Article ✶ – Hiring of May Heatherly, bulls
								▼ 31st, Copy of ✶
	Jun		Iowa-Scuba					7th – Mention of Heatherly's casting
			Brain-Killer
			Neptune
			Shark
	Jul		King of Knaves					▼ 5th, Article – Hiring of Grace Lee
			Green Opal					7th – Mention of Grace Lee casting
			Deadly Games					15th – Mention of Grace Lee casting
	Aug		Quadripartite					▼ 8th Column – UNCLE, photo Heatherly, mentions Linda Ho
			Giuoco Piano					8th Column – TV News, mentions hiring of Lee & Heatherly
			Dove					8th TV Week Cover Story – UNCLE hype, photo of Heatherly
			Double					30th TV Mag Cover, pg2 – Vaughn with Heatherly & Lee
	Sep		Love		22nd	Vulcan		6th – TV Guide Cover Photo
			Project Strigas		29th	Iowa-Scuba		12th Article – UNCLE, mentions Heatherly & Lee
								▼ 18th – Article with mention of Heatherly and Linda Ho
								20th – TV listing, mentions Heatherly & Lee
								20th, 29th – Photos of Vaughn with Heatherly & Lee
								22nd – Photo Heatherly & Vaughn
	Oct		Finny Foot		6th	Quadripartite		6th – Heatherly listed for Quadripartite
			Yellow Scarf		13th	Shark		4th – Photo of Heatherly & Vaughn, 10th – Photo Heatherly,
			Terbuf		20th	Deadly Games		▼ 17th, Article ◊ – Heatherly & bulls
					27th	Green Opal		18th – Article, photo Vaughn with Heatherly & Lee
								▼ 24th Feature Article – UNCLE, mentions Heatherly
								25th TV Week Cover – Vaughn with Heatherly & Lee
								25rd, 30th ★ – Photos Heatherly TV listing
	Nov		Fiddlesticks					▼ 1st, Copy of ◊ & Photo – Heatherly & bulls
					10th	Giuoco Piano		▼ 1st Article – Mentions UNCLE, photo of Heatherly & Lee
					17th	Double		▼ 15th – Article with photo of Heatherly, mentions Linda Ho
					24th	Project Strigas		8th, 15th, 19th, 22nd, 26th, 29th – Photos of Heatherly
								29th – Photo Vaughn with Heatherly
	Dec		Deadly Decoy		1st	Finny Foot		▼ 4th, Copy of ◊ – Article about Heatherly & bulls
			Secret Sceptre		8th	Neptune
			Mad Tea Party		15th	Dove
			Bow-Wow		22nd	King of Knaves
					29th	Terbuf
	Jan		Four Steps		5th			10th – Photo, Vaughn w Heatherly & Lee
			See Paris And Die		11th	Deadly Decoy		16th, Copy of ★ – Heatherly appearing in UNCLE
			Hong Kong Shilling		18th	Fiddlesticks		23rd, Photo – Heatherly, caption about UNCLE
					25th	Yellow Scarf
	Feb		Never-Never		1st	Mad Tea Party		▼ 6th, Article – Hiring of Leigh Chapman
			Girls of Nazarone		8th	Secret Sceptre		12th, Photo – Chapman, caption about hiring for UNCLE
			Gazebo-Maze		15th	Bow-Wow		20th, Photo – Chapman, caption about acting & writing
					22nd	Four Steps
	Mar		Odd Man		1st	See Paris And Die		6th, Photo – Chapman, short caption about UNCLE
					8th	Brain-Killer		▼ 7th, Article+Photo † – Chapman writing/acting & UNCLE
					15th	Hong Kong Shilling		13th, Copy of † – Chapman
					22nd	Never-Never		14rd – Article about Vaughn in UNCLE, photo of Heatherly
					29th	Love
	Apr				5th	Gazebo-Maze		11th, Photo ‡ – Chapman, short caption
					12th	Girls of Nazarone		12th, Copy of ‡ – Chapman
					19th	Odd Man		▼ 16th, Article+Photo – Chapman, UNCLE, acting & writing
	May							9th, 28th – Photo, Heatherly in TV listings
								30th, Feature Photo – Chapman, UNCLE, acting & writing
	June							6th, Photo – Heatherly, caption about UNCLE
								6th, Photo – Chapman, caption about UNCLE
	July							▼ 4th - Independence Day
								▼ 4th, Extended Article+Photo – Chapman, writing & acting
								31th – Photo Heatherly TV listing

Comments

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Thanks for posting, great details!