BORN AGAIN: 1960s shows updated

The Man From UNCLE (8pm, Sky Premiere) brings agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin to the big screen. Here are some other 1960s TV series that were turned into films…

Star Trek (1979) The TV show ran from 1966 to 1969, but was adapted for the big screen ten years after its demise for The Motion Picture, which brought Kirk and co back to save Earth once again. It’s a series that just keeps giving and, 50 years after its launch, it is still going strong – the current reincarnation, Star Trek Beyond, is in cinemas now, and a new TV series comes to Netflix in 2017. The Fugitive (1993) On film, Harrison Ford (1) played Richard Kimble, the runaway doc trying to stay one step ahead of Tommy Lee Jones’s US Marshal. In the TV show, which ran for four seasons from 1963 to 1967, it was David Janssen (2) as the innocent man trying to clear his name by finding his wife’s killer.

Mission: Impossible (1996) It has recently been announced that Tom Cruise will return as Ethan Hunt for a sixth film in the spy franchise. The series was a hit, too, when it launched in 1968; from season two, Peter Graves was the head of the secret government agency. This information will self-destruct in five seconds…

The Avengers (1998) Two years before Marvel came up with its Avengers in 1963, Patrick Macnee

(3) (with Linda Thorson) was very British spy John Steed in the show that ran for eight years and chimed perfectly with the Swinging Sixties. The film starring Ralph

Fiennes and Uma Thurman (4) is less fondly remembered.