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EPISODE GUIDE
SEASON 1 (7 JAN - 30 DEC 1961) HENDRY

1. Hot Snow

gs: Philip Stone (Dr Richard Treddling) Katherine Woodville (Peggy) Gordon Quigley (Spicer) Murray Melvin (Charlie) Charles Wade (Johnson) Alister Williamson (Detective Sergeant Wilson) Moira Richmond (Stella) Astor Sklair (Sergeant Rogers) June Monkhouse (Mrs. Simpson) Robert James (Robbie Vance) Ian Hendry (Dr. David Keel) Patrick Macnee (John Steed) Ingrid Hafner (Carol Wilson)

Following the death of his fiancee Peggy at the hands of heroin smugglers, Dr David Keel vows to track down the killers and avenge his lost love. He is aided in his quest by a mysterious stranger, John Steed.

b: 07-Jan-1961

w: Ray Rigby s: Patrick Brown d: Don Leaver

NOTE: All known copies of this episode of the Avengers have been destroyed. The only episode left from the first series is The Frighteners.

In this episode Doctor David Keel's fiancee Peggy is murdered, which sparks his desire to combat crime.
In series one, Doctor David Keel is the main character and Steed is his sidekick. The show also has a more realistic (but much less fun!) feel to it. The makers of The Avengers wanted Steed to carry a gun. Patrick Macnee refused because he had seen so many friends die in World War II and never wanted to touch a gun again. When asked what he thought Steed should carry, Macnee replied, 'An umbrella'. So Steed carries an umbrella with a concealed sword in it and it is left to his sidekicks to deal with guns. Patrick Macnee later married Catherine Woodville, who played Peggy, in 1965.

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2. Brought to Book

gs: Lionel Burns (Prentice) Clifford Elkin (Pretty Boy) Charles Morgan (Nick Mason) Godfrey Quigley (Spicer) Philip Stone (Dr. Treddling) Joyce Wong Chong (Lila) Alister Williamson (Detective Sergeant Wilson) Michael Collins (Detective Sergeant) Ian Hendry (Dr. David Keel) Patrick Macnee (John Steed) Ingrid Hafner (Carol Wilson)

Steed has infiltrated a gang, led by Mason, which is implicated in Peggy's murder. Steed asks Keel to establish contact with a rival gang, and the doctor discovers that Vance's hitman, Spicer, has been sent to kill Steed.

b: 14-Jan-1961 w: Brian Clemens d: Peter Hammond

NOTE: All known copies of this episode of the Avengers have been destroyed. The only episode left from the first series is The Frighteners.

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3. Square Root of Evil

gs: Heron Carvie ('5') Cynthia Bizeray (Secretary) George Murcell (Hooper) Vic Wise (Jackie Warren) Alex Scott (The Cardinal) Delphi Lawrence (Lisa) Michael Robbins (Bloom)

Steed impersonates Riordan, a forger soon to be released from prison, and gains the trust of gang-leader Hooper. Things seem to be going well until Hooper's second-in-command, known as the Cardinal, announces that Riordan's girlfriend is outside waiting to see him.

b: 21-Jan-1961 w: Richard Harris d: Don Leaver

NOTE: All known copies of this episode of the Avengers have been destroyed. The only episode left from the first series is The Frighteners.

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4. Nightmare

gs: Gordon Boyd (Williams) Helen Lindsay (Faith Braintree) Michael Logan (Commander Reece) Robert Bruce (Dr. Brown) Redmond Bailey (Dr. Jones) Robert Sansom (Dr. Miller)

Keel receives a 'phone call from one of his patients, and ends up assuming the identity of her missing husband, a scientist engaged in secret research. Shot in the chest, Keel needs a minor operation - but the anaesthetist has tampered with the oxygen.

b: 28-Jan-1961 w: Terence Feely d: Peter Hammond

NOTE: All known copies of this episode of the Avengers have been destroyed. The only episode left from the first series is The Frighteners.

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5. Crescent Moon

gs: Patience Collier (Senora Mendoza) Harold Kasket (Bartello) Bandana Das Gupta (Carmelite Mendoza) Nicholas Amer (Luis Alvarez) Jack Rodney (Fernandez) Roger Delgado (Vasco) George Roderick (Policeman)

A young girl, Carmelite Mendoza, has been kidnapped from a Caribbean island, but Steed suspects a political motive. His suspicions are confirmed when Vasco, the Mendoza family retainer, is observed killing the original kidnapper and abducting the girl himself.

b: 04-Feb-1961 w: Geoffrey Bellman and John Whitney d: John Knight

NOTE: All known copies of this episode of the Avengers have been destroyed. The only episode left from the first series is The Frighteners.

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6. Girl on the Trapeze

gs: Delena Kidd (Vera) Naja Regin (Anna Danilov) Kenneth J Warren (Zibbo) Howard Goorney (Superintendent Lewis) Edwin Richfield (Stefan)

Keel, reviving a young woman who has jumped into the Thames, is led to the Radeck State Circus, where the trapeze girl is guarded, her face covered by bandages because of an accident. The 'trapeze girl'proves to be the daughter of a defecting scientist, who will be used to force her father to return home. When Keel discovers this, he and Carol are captured by Zibbo the Clown, who will shoot Carol if the police investigation is not called off.

b: 11-Feb-1961 w: Dennis Spooner d: Don Leaver

NOTE: All known copies of this episode of the Avengers have been destroyed. The only episode left from the first series is The Frighteners.
Steed(Patrick Macnee) does not appear in this episode. This episode was broadcast live.
A film print of this episode was recently found in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

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7. Diamond Cut Diamond

gs: Sandra Dorne (Fiona Charles) Hamlyn Benson (Dr. Collard) Joy Webster (Stella Creighton)

Steed, attempting to break a gang of international diamond smugglers, is living in a bungalow near Heathrow Airport which was once owned by a suicide whom One-Ten suspects of involvement. Steed awakens one morning somewhat the worse for drink, when a phone call advises him to check the morning paper; the police are tracking a hit-and-run driver. Steed checks his car. It is damaged, and the front is covered with dried blood.

b: 18-Feb-1961 w: Max Marquis d: Peter Hammond

NOTE: All known copies of this episode of the Avengers have been destroyed. The only episode left from the first series is The Frighteners.

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8. The Radioactive Man

gs: George Pravda (Marko Ogrin) Christine Pollon (Mary Somers) Gerald Sim (Dr. Graham)

Dr Keel is asked to help in the search for a man who has picked up a radioactive isotope, not knowing that it will quickly kill him and harm anyone else he comes into contact with. But Marko, fearing that the police want to find him because of his forged passport, has already gone into hiding.

b: 25-Feb-1961 w: Fred Edge d: Robert Tronson

NOTE: All known copies of this episode of the Avengers have been destroyed. The only episode left from the first series is The Frighteners.

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9. Ashes of Roses

gs: Olga Lowe (Olive Beronne) Mark Eden (Jacques Beronne) Peter Zander (Johnny Mendelssohn) Hedi Erich (Denise) Ingrid Hafner (Carol Wilson)

Steed, investigating a number of probable arson cases, is led to the hairdressing salon of Olive and Jacques Beronne. He asks Keel to let Carol investigate the salon, but after she enters, there is an explosion from within

b: 04-Mar-1961 w: Peter Ling and Sheilagh Ward d: Don Leaver

NOTE: All known copies of this episode of the Avengers have been destroyed. The only episode left from the first series is The Frighteners.

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10. Hunt the Man Down

gs: Maurice Good (Paul Stacey) Melissa Stribling (Stella Preston) Susan Castle (Nurse Wyatt)

Frank Preston is released from prison and is intent on reclaiming the hidden proceeds of his robbery. So is Steed, who has been ordered to follow the man. So are a couple of thugs, who kidnap Carol. So is Preston's scheming wife, eager to get her hands on the one hundred thousand pounds hidden somewhere in the sewers.

b: 18-Mar-1961 w: Richard Harris d: Peter Hammond

NOTE: All known copies of this episode of the Avengers have been destroyed. The only episode left from the first series is The Frighteners.

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11. Please Don't Feed the Animals

gs: Tenniel Evans (Felgate) Carole Boyer (Christine) Harry Ross (Kollakis) Alastair Hunter (Renton-Stephens) Catherine Ellison (Yvonne) Genevieve Lyons (Sarah) Mark Baker (Barman) Richard Neller (Evans) Charles Bird (Harrigan)

Steed trails a blackmailed civil servant to Brinkley House, a private zoo, only to observe the man throwing a package of money into the reptile pit. The package soon vanishes. The man is then ordered to steal a top secret file.

b: 01-Apr-1961 w: Dennis Spooner d: Dennis Vance

NOTE: All known copies of this episode of the Avengers have been destroyed. The only episode left from the first series is The Frighteners.

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12. Dance with Death

gs: David Sutton (Trevor Price) Angela Douglas (Beth Wilkinson) Ewan Roberts (Major Caswell) Pauline Shepherd (Valerie Marne) Diana King (Mars. Marne) Norman Chappell (Porter)

Dr. Keel resuscitates Elaine Bateman, the owner of a ballroom dancing school who has narrowly survived a murder attempt by gassing. When he returns to the school after dropping his scarf, he is arrested. His scarf has been used to strangle the woman.

b: 15-Apr-1961 w: Peter Ling and Sheilagh Ward d: Don Leaver

NOTE: All known copies of this episode of the Avengers have been destroyed. The only episode left from the first series is The Frighteners.

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13. One for the Mortuary

gs: Peter Madden (Benson) Ronald Wilson (Scott) Dennis Edwards (Pallaine) Malou Pantera (Yvette Declair) Frank Gatliff (Dubois) Irene Bradshaw (Maid) Toke Townley (Bernard Bourg)

When Keel attends a health conference in Geneva he is unaware that he is carrying, in microdot form, a vital new medical formula - unaware, that is, until he is arrested for murder.

b: 29-Apr-1961 w: Brian Clemens d: Peter Hammond

NOTE: All known copies of this episode of the Avengers have been destroyed. The only episode left from the first series is The Frighteners.

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14. The Springers

gs: David Webb (Pheney) Charles Farrell (Straker) Brian Murphy (Haslam) Arthur Howard (Mr Groves) Margo Andrew (Caroline Evans) Donald Morley (Neame)

Steed is trying to track down the organisers of a group who offer to spring any convict - even the dangerous ones - from prison if they're paid the right money. Keel impersonates a prisoner, and the trail seems to lead to a girl's finishing school.

b: 13-May-1961 w: John Whitney and Geoffrey Bellman d: Don Leaver

NOTE: All known copies of this episode of the Avengers have been destroyed. The only episode left from the first series is The Frighteners.

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15. The Frighteners

gs: Willoughby Goddard (The Deacon) Philip Gilbert (Jeremy de Willoughby) David Andrews (Nigel) Stratford Johns (Sir Thomas Waller) Dawn Beret (Marilyn Waller) Doris Hare (Mrs. Briggs) Godfrey Jones (Nature Boy) Neil Wilson (Beppi) Eric Elliot (Butler) Ann Taylor (Secretary) Ralph Tovey (Waiter) Benn Simons (Inspector Foster) Eleanor Darling (uncredited) Benny Nightingale (uncredited) Victor Charrington (uncredited) Frank Peters (uncredited) Chuck Wood (Uncredited)

To stop his daughter seeing suspected conman Jeremy de Willoughby, Sir Thomas Waller has hired arch-criminal the Deacon to 'put the frighteners on'. Steed is on the trail of the Deacon and, with the aid of Dr. Keel, stops two thugs from seriously wounding de Willoughby. They set a trap for the Deacon and the lovers.

b: 27-May-1961 w: Berkely Mather d: Peter Hammond

NOTE: This is the only episode left of the first season of The Avengers. In this series, Doctor David Keel is the main character and Steed is his sidekick. The show also has a more realistic (but much less fun!) feel to it.

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16. The Yellow Needle

gs: Andre Dakar (Sir Wilberforce Lungi) Eric Dodson (Inspector Anthony) Margaret Whiting (Jacquetta Brown) Bari Johnson (Chief Bai Shebro) Wolfe Morris (Ali)

After an unsuccessful murder attempt against Sir Wilberforce Lungi, Steed asks Keel, an old friend of the pro-Western African leader, to investigate Lungi's secretary, Jacquetta Brown. Meanwhile, Steed flies to Africa to meet Lungi's tribalist rival, Shebro.

b: 10-Jun-1961 w: Patrick Campbell d: Don Leaver

NOTE: All known copies of this episode of the Avengers have been destroyed. The only episode left from the first series is The Frighteners.

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17. Death on the Slipway

gs: Peter Arne (Kolchek) Frank Thornton (Sir William Bonner) Nyree Dawn Porter (Liz Wells) Paul Dawkins (Sam Pearson) Sean Sullivan (Fleming) Redmond Bailey (Geordie Wilson) Robert G. Bahey (Jack) Barry Keegan (Inspector Georgeson) Gary Watson (Pardoe) Patrick Connor (PC Geary) Hamilton Dyce (Sergeant Brodie) Billy Milton (Chandler)

An agent has been killed at the secret dockyard where submarines are built. Steed investigates, and finds that a foreign spy has been arranging 'accidents' for him.

b: 24-Jun-1961 w: James Mitchell d: Peter Hammond

NOTE: All known copies of this episode of the Avengers have been destroyed. The only episode left from the first series is The Frighteners.

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18. Double Danger

gs: Charles Hodgson (Mark) Charles Hodgson (Mark Crawford) Robert Mill (Harry Drew) Peter Reynolds (Al Brady) Ronald Pember (Bert Mills) Vanda Hudson (Lola Carrington) Kevin Brennan (Bruton) Gordon Phillott (Bartholomew)

Keel, called to deal with a man seriously injured by an accident, quickly discovers that the man is suffering from gunshot wounds, and that he may be implicated in a recent diamond robbery.

b: 08-Jul-1961 w: Gerald Verner , Gerald Verner d: Roger Jenkins , Roger Jenkins

NOTE: All known copies of this episode of the Avengers have been destroyed. The only episode left from the first series is The Frighteners.

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19. Toy Trap

gs: Hazel Graeme (May Murton) Tony Van Bridge (Henry Burge) Nina Marriott (Alice) Sally Smith (Bunty Seton) Anne Tirard (Mrs. McCabe) Brandon Brady (Freddie) Brian Jackson (Johnnie) Lionel Burns (Photographer) Tex Fuller (Lennie Taylor) Mitzi Rogers (Ann)

Keel is asked by the improbably named Bunty to help her find her missing friend. What is the connection between the department store where the women work and a call-girl racket?

b: 22-Jul-1961 w: Bill Strutton d: Don Leaver

NOTE: All known copies of this episode of the Avengers have been destroyed. The only episode left from the first series is The Frighteners.

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20. The Tunnel of Fear

gs: Stanley Platts (Maxie Lardner) John Salew (Jack Wickram) Murray Hayne (Harry Black) Doris Rogers (Mrs. Black) Nancy Roberts (Madame Zenobia) Miranda Connell (Claire) Douglas Rye (Billy) Morris Perry (Sergeant)

Top-secret information is finding its way into the wrong hands, and the source seems to be a south coast fairground. Steed succeeds in getting hypnotised and winds up in the ghost-train tunnel. With frightening results, of course.

b: 05-Aug-1961 w: John Kruse d: Guy Verney

NOTE: All known copies of this episode of the Avengers have been destroyed. The only episode left from the first series is The Frighteners.

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21. The Far Distant Dead

gs: Reed De Rouen (Luis Garcia) Katharine Blake (Dr. Ampara Alverez Sandoval) Francis de Wolff (Hercule Zeebrugge) Tom Adams (Rayner) Andrew Malandrinos (Godoy) Michael Mellinger (Mateos) Guy Deghy (Inspector Gauvreau)

Dr Keel, treating the victims of a cyclone struck Mexican village, uncovers a number of food-poisonings; emergency cooking oil is, in fact, hydraulic fluid.

b: 19-Aug-1961 w: John Lucarotti d: Peter Hammond

NOTE: All known copies of this episode of the Avengers have been destroyed. The only episode left from the first series is The Frighteners.

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22. Kill the King

gs: Burt Kwouk (King Tenuphon) James Goei (Prince Serrakit) Patrick Allen (General Tuke) Lisa Peake (Mei Li) Moira Redmond (Zoe Carter) Ian Colin (Major Harrrington) Carole Shelley (Ingrid Storrm) Andy Ho (U Meng) Eric Young (Suchong)

A visit to London to sign an oil treaty from a monarch whose life is under threat brings Steed and Keel into the world of dissidents and assassinations.

b: 02-Sep-1961 w: James Mitchell d: Roger Jenkins

NOTE: All known copies of this episode of the Avengers have been destroyed. The only episode left from the first series is The Frighteners.

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23. Dead of Winter

gs: John Woodvine (Harry) Blaise Wyndham (Syd) Carl Duering (Schneider) Sheila Robins (Inez) Mike Sarne (Willi) Zorenah Osborne (Margarita) Neil Hallett (Weber) Norman Chappell (Ted) Arnold Marle (Kreuzer)

The discovery of the body of Schneider, a wanted Nazi war criminal, deep-frozen in a consignment of meat at London docks brings Steed and Keel into the shadowy world of Phoenix, a new and terrifying Fascist party in Britain.

b: 09-Dec-1961 w: Eric Paice d: Don Leaver

NOTE: All known copies of this episode of the Avengers have been destroyed. The only episode left from the first series is The Frighteners.

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24. The Deadly Air

gs: Ann Bell (Barbara Anthony) Michael Hawkins (Dr. Philip Karswood) Keith Anderson (Heneger) Richard Butler (Hervert Truscott) Allan Cuthbertson (Dr. Hugh Chalk) John Stratton (Dr. Owen Craxton) Cyril Renison (Dr. Harvey) Anthony Cundell (Ken Armstrong) Geoffrey Bayldon (Professor Kilbride)

An experimental vaccine is stolen, and the subsequent test proves deadly. Steed and Keel, suspecting that the human 'guinea pig' did not die directly from the vaccine, volunteer to be the next subjects.

b: 16-Dec-1961 w: Lester Powell d: John Knight

NOTE: All known copies of this episode of the Avengers have been destroyed. The only episode left from the first series is The Frighteners.

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25. A Change of Bait

gs: Victor Platt (Archie Duncan) John Bailey (Lenuel Potts) Henry Soskin (Peter Sampson) Robert Desmond (Herb Thomson) Graham Rigby (Nat Fletcher) Gary Hope (Barker) Arthur Barrett (Andre) Norman Pitt (Bryan Stubbs) Gillian McCutcheon (Ivy) Harry Shacklock (Charlie) Michael Hunt (Steed's Helper)

An unusual and sprawling tale of heart disease, industrial unrest, and a consignment of rotten bananas.

b: 23-Dec-1961 w: Lewis Davidson d: Don Leaver

NOTE: All known copies of this episode of the Avengers have been destroyed. The only episode left from the first series is The Frighteners.

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26. Dragonsfield

gs: Sylvia Langova (Lisa Strauss) Alfred Burke (Saunders) Ronald Leigh-Hunt (Reddington) Barbara Shelly (Susan Summers) Thomas Kyffin (Jack Alford) Amanda Reeves (Secretary) Eric Dodson (One-Fifteen) Steven Scott (Boris) Michael Robbins (Landlord) Herbert Nelson (Peters) Morris Perry (Second Technician)

How has a research centre developing radiation-proof material managed to irradiate one of its scientists? Once more, Steed submits himself to scientific testing.

b: 30-Dec-1961 w: Terence Feely d: Peter Hammond

NOTE: All known copies of this episode of The Avengers have been destroyed. The only episode left from the first series is The Frighteners.

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