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SERIES 3 - THE CATHY
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1. Brief for Murder |
September
28, 1963 |
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"Must be something in your psychic
makeup, the way you antagonize complete strangers." |
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- John Steed |
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Thanks to the clever briefing of the Lakin
brothers a man charged with treason is found not guilty. Mrs Gale
believes that Steed is implicated, and contacts the newspapers. Steed
threatens her: either withdraw her allegations or pay the
consequences. Soon Steed is on trial for Gale's murder. |
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Director: Peter Hammond, Writer: Brian Clemens |
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Guest starring: John Laurie, Helen
Lindsay, Harold Scott, Alec Ross |
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2.
The Undertakers |
October
5, 1963 |
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"Where are my jellied bumblebees?" |
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- John Steed |
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All the occupants of a rest home, Adelphi
Park, are multi-millionaires. And most of them are refusing to see
anyone, including Professor Renter who was due to fly to America with
Steed to show off his latest invention. His wife is unable or
unwilling to help and, curiously, the neighbour, Madden, another
millionaire, is missing. |
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Director: Bill Bain, Writer: Malcolm Hulke |
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Guest starring: Lee Patterson, Lally
Bowers, Patrick Holt, Mandy Miller |
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3.
Man with Two Shadows |
October
12, 1963 |
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"Good morning Cathy, what's for breakfast?" |
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- John Steed |
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"Cook it and see!" |
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- Catherine Gale |
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Agent Borowski has been brainwashed by the
enemy, but between moments of multiple-personality disorder he tells
Steed that three 'doubles' have been created. Steed tracks down one
likely replacement to a holiday camp, but then discovers that he,
himself, is about to be replaced. |
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Director: Don Leaver, Writer: James
Mitchell (VI) |
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Guest starring: Geoffrey Palmer, Terence
Lodge, Paul Whitsun-Jones |
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4.
The Nutshell |
October
19, 1963 |
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The Director of Operations (Disco) of the
Nutshell, a subterranean World War III bunker, tells Steed and Cathy
that Big Ben, a file giving details of all their double agents, has
been copied. Security cameras point to a young girl, but she is later
found dead. Evidence implicates Steed, and Disco orders that he be apprehended. |
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Director: Raymond Menmuir, Writer: Philip Chambers |
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Guest starring: Charles 'Bud' Tingwell,
John Cater, Patricia Haines |
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5.
Death of a Batman |
October
26, 1963 |
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"Hey where does he have his hand? Oh.
An officer and a gentleman!" |
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- John Steed |
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At the reading of the will of Wrightson,
Steed's former batman, the man's family are shocked to discover his
estate is worth a fortune. Steed and Cathy set out to find out where
a twenty pounds per week draughtsman acquired such a huge amount of
money, and whether it was legal. |
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Director: Kim Mills, Writer: Roger Marshall |
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Guest starring: André Morell, David
Burke, Katy Greenwood |
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6.
November Five |
October
26, 1963 |
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Cathy Runs For Office
Steed Manages Her Campaign |
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Michael Dyter, the newly elected MP for
South-East Anglia is shot shortly after making his acceptance speech
in which he had threatened to expose a major scandal involving the
government. Steed knows that the subject of this was the recent theft
of a nuclear warhead near London. So was Dyter killed to keep him
quiet, and if so, by whom? |
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Director: Bill Bain, Writer: Eric Paice |
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Guest starring: Ruth Dunning, Gary Hope,
David Davies, Ric Hutton |
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7.
The Gilded Cage |
November
9, 1963 |
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"The bowler? Custom made,
Hemmingsford St James, beautifully bound, not a penny under 10
guineas. The umbrella, Bolton and Sons, 63 model, slightly weighted
handle, perfect balance just right for a man of his height. And the
suit? It's a dream. Cut by an artist. Possibly Drift Bros.,
definitely Sable Rose. 65 guineas 75." |
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Steed's trap for criminal mastermind J.P.
Spaggs involves a brilliant plan to steal a million pounds in gold
bullion. But when two detectives arrive at Steed's flat and arrest
Cathy for Spagge's murder things don't seem to be going to plan. |
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Director: Bill Bain, Writer: Roger Marshall |
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Guest starring: Edric Connor, Norman
Chappell, Margo Cunningham |
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8.
Second Sight |
November
16, 1963 |
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The cornea grafts that will, hopefully,
restore the sight of blind millionaire Marten Halvarssen fascinate
Steed: they're rumoured to be coming from a live patient, one Hilda
Brauer. Steed suspects that all is not what it seems and so sends
Cathy to Switzerland to oversee the operation. |
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Director: Petter Hammond, Writer: Martin Woodhouse |
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Guest starring: Steven Scott, Judy Bruce,
Peter Bowles, John Carson, Ronald Adam |
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9.
The Medicine Men |
November
23, 1963 |
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Willis-Sopwoth, a top pharmaceutical firm,
is being drained by cheap imitations of its products in foreign
markets. The death of a member of staff while investigating the fraud
brings Steed and Cathy face to face with a deadly artist and a plot
to poison children. |
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Director: Kim Mills, Writer: Malcolm Hulke |
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Guest starring: Newton Blick, Harold
Innocent, Monica Stevenson |
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10.
The Grandeur That Was Rome |
November
30, 1963 |
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"What are they doing?" |
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- John Steed |
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Strange diseases are being reported in
various parts of the world, and Steed's suspicion is that somebody
has been tampering with the insecticides and fertilisers of United
Foods and Dressings. Cathy Gale is captured whilst investigating, and
will be the 'guinea pig' for a test on the new strain of bubonic plague. |
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Director: Kim Mills, Writer: Rex Edwards |
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Guest starring: John Flint, Hugh Burden,
Colette Wilde |
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The Golden Fleece |
December
7, 1963 |
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Steed and Cathy eat at a Chinese
restaurant, but, as ever, it's not just for fun: Steed suspects the
owner, Mr Lo, of gold smuggling. He also seems to be allied with Army
types who are smuggling ammunition to support ex-servicemen. |
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Director: Peter Hammond, Writer: Roger
Marshall / Phyllis Norman |
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Guest starring: Tenniel Evans, Barry
Linehan, Robert Lee, Barbara Yu Ling |
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12.
Don't Look Behind You |
December
12, 1963 |
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Invited to spend the weekend at the home
of medievel costume expert Sir Cavalier Resagne, Cathy finds herself
alone in the house, pestered by a young man who claims to be a film
director, and haunted by her past. And where is Steed? |
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Director: Peter Hammond, Writer: Brian Clemens |
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Guest starring: Maurice Good, Kenneth
Colley, Janine Gray |
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13.
Death A La Carte |
December
21, 1963 |
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Emir Abdulla Akaba is visiting London for
his annual medical, and Steed suspects an assassination attempt.
Despite Steed assumming the guise of a chef, the Emir seems to have
been poisoned while eating a meal. |
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Director: Kim Mills, Writer: John Lucarotti |
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Guest starring: Gordon Rollings, Henry
Lincoln, Paul Dawkins, Robert James |
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14.
Dressed to Kill |
December
28, 1963 |
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"So much for the homme fatale." |
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- Catherine Gale |
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An incoming missile attack, which is
detected by all but one of the country's early warning stations,
proves to be a false alarm. Steed finds himself attending an
exclusive New Year's Eve fancy-dress party on a train. The train
terminates at a remote, deserted station, and a guest is killed with
an arrow. |
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Director: Bill Bain, Writer: Brian Clemens |
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Guest starring: Alexander Davion, Anneke
Wills, John Junkin |
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Everyone is dressed in fancy costumes to
celebrate New Year's Eve, and Honor Blackman as Cathy addresses
Anneke Wills wearing a pussy cat outfit as "Pussy"; a year
later Sean Connery's James Bond was calling Honor "Pussy"
in her classic role as Pussy Galore in Ian Fleming's Goldfinger (1964). |
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The White Elephant |
January
4, 1964 |
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The disappearance of an albino elephant
from Noah Marshall's zoo seems to be linked to Steed's investigation
of ivory dust in a gun shop. Steed sets out to rescue Cathy from the
tiger's cage, find Snowy and investigate the ivory smugglers. |
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Director: Laurence Bourne, Writer: John Lucarotti |
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Guest starring: Godfrey Quigley, Edwin
Richfield, Judy Parfitt |
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At the 8:40 mark into the episode, when
Steed is talking to Cathy Gale, there is a fly walking back and and
forth across the camera lens. The fly continues to walk back and
forth to 9:37 mark when it flies away. |
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16.
The
Little Wonders |
January
11, 1964 |
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"You're very knowledgeable you know,
Misses Gail." |
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- John
Steed |
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Bibliotek are a criminal organisation who
are fronted as a church. A coming 'Bible Class' will decide who runs
Bibliotek. It could be Steed... |
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Director: Laurence Bourne, Writer: Eric Paice |
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Guest starring: Kenneth J. Warren, David
Bauer, Lois Maxwell |
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The only episode to feature a kiss between
John Steed and Catherine Gale. |
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Guest star Lois Maxwell is best know in
The Neat Stuff Universe as "Miss Moneypenny" in 14 Bond
movies. She is second only to Desmond Llewelyn for the number of
appearances in "James Bond" movies. She appeared in 14
while he appeared in 17. Maxwell is another connection between the
Bond films and the Avengers. Avengers' stars Patrick Macnee (A View
To A Kill, 1985), Honor Blackman (Goldfinger, 1964), Diana Rigg (On
Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1969) and Joanna Lumley (On Her
Majesty's Secret Service, 1969) have made appearances in Bond films. |
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17.
The Wringer |
January
18, 1964 |
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Six agents have died on an escape route
through Hungary and Austria. Anderson, a friend of Steed's, has also
gone missing. Steed finds his friend but is then accused of being a
traitor and taken to a brainwashing unit in Scotland run by the Wringer. |
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Director: Don Leaver, Writer: Martin Woodhouse |
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Guest starring: Peter Sallis, Paul
Whitsun-Jones, Barry Letts |
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18.
Mandrake |
January
25, 1964 |
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After attending the funeral of an old
friend in a lonely Cornish village cemetery, Steed discovers a plot
to poison millionaires. |
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Director: Bill Bain, Writer: Roger Marshall |
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Guest starring: John Le Mesurier, Annette
Andre, George Benson, Madge Ryan |
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Honor Blackman and Jackie Pallo, a
wrestler, have a fight scene in a graveyard. In one take, Blackman
inadvertently kicked Pallo in the face much too hard, and pushed him
into an open grave, where he lay actually unconscious for several
minutes. The incident garnered plenty of publicity in the British press. |
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19.
The Secrets Broker |
February
1, 1964 |
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One of Steed's colleagues has been
murdered, and the subsequent investigation takes Cathy to a
top-secret research establishment and Steed to a wine merchants. |
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Director: Jonathan Alwyn, Writer: Ludovic Peters |
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Guest starring: Avice Landone, Jack May,
Ronald Allen, John Stone |
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20.
Trojan Horse |
February
8, 1964 |
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Jockeys and stable hands are being trained
in the use of firearms and poisons, so Steed delves deep in the murky
world of horse racing. |
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Director: Laurence Bourne, Writer: Malcolm Hulke |
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Guest starring: T.P. McKenna, Basil
Dignam, Derek Newark |
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21.
Build a Better Mousetrap |
February
15, 1964 |
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What does Cathy joining a motorcycle gang,
two elderly ladies who own a watermill and claim to be witches, and
all of the clocks stopping at a local atomic research station have in
common? They're all present in Brian Clemen's first great step into
the bizarre. |
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Director: Peter Hammond, Writer: Brian Clemens |
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Guest starring: Athene Seyler, Nora
Nicholson, Harold Goodwin |
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22.
The Outside-In Man |
February
22, 1964 |
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Arabian revolutionary Sharp is visiting
Britain and Steed is put in charge of security. He thinks it is
ironic that they are now protecting a man they were trying to kill
five years before. Two agents were thought to have died during the
violent bloodshed in Abarain but now one of them is very much alive. |
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Director: Jonathan Alwyn, Writer: Phillip Chambers |
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Guest starring: Ronald Radd, James
Maxwell, William Devlin |
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"The Outside-In Man" features
the only appearance of Quilpie (Ronald Radd, previously seen in
"Bullseye"), one of the numerous superiors dispatching
orders to Steed during the era before Mrs. Peel and prior to the
final season introduction of Patrick Newell's Mother. Quilpie
Operates behind an actual butcher shop and Steed always places his
orders to go! |
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The Charmers |
February
29, 1964 |
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The opposition believe Steed is
responsible for the death of their agent Vinkel. Steed, however, had
nothing to do with the murder and, as a show of good faith, agrees to
a swap of partners with Keller in a bid to find the real killer. |
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Director: Bill Bain, Writer: Brian Clemens |
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Guest starring: Warren Mitchell, Fenella
Fielding, Brian Oulton |
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Some of the Steed/Gale episodes were
remade with Steed/Peel: episode series 3, episode 23, "The
Charmers" was remade into series 5, episode 9, "The Correct
Way to Kill" and series 3, episode 12, "Don't Look Behind
You" was remade into series 5, episode 15, "The Joker". |
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24.
Concerto |
March
7, 1964 |
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Soviet-British trade talks are coinciding
with the first London concert of the brilliant young pianist, Stefan
Veliko. A young girl accuses Veliko of assault, and is then murdered.
If someone wants to disrupt the talks by incriminating the pianist,
they seem to be going about it in the right way. |
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Director: Kim Mills, Writer: Malcolm Hulke
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Guest starring: Nigel Stock, Sandor
Elès, Dorinda Stevens |
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Nigel Stock has to be twice prompted to
give the line "Did you get any information from the friend of
the dead girl?", first by Patrick Macnee ("Now, the dead
girl...") and then by an audible off-screen member of the
production crew. |
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25.
Esprit de Corps |
March
14, 1964 |
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The mysterious death of Corporal Craig of
the Highland Guards sends both Steed and Cathy undercover into the
army ranks. There, Steed finds himself under court-martial and Cathy
becomes second in line to the throne. |
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Director: Don Leaver, Writer: Eric Paice |
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Guest starring: John Thaw, Roy Kinnear,
Duncan Macrae, Pearl Catlin, Anthony Blackshaw |
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26.
Lobster Quadrille |
March
21, 1964 |
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"Good bye Steed!" |
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When an agent investigating radioactivity
levels in shellfish is killed in a beach hut fire, Steed and Cathy
get involved in the heady worlds of nightclubbing, chess and lobster fishermen. |
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Director: Kim Mills, Writer: Richard Lucas |
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Guest star: Burt Kwouk, Jennie Linden,
Corin Redgrave |
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At the end of the Lobster Quadrille
episode Cathy plans to take a holiday in the Bahamas, so Steed gives
her a swimming costume, suggesting she investigate some trouble out
there while "pussy footing" along the shores; she tells him
firmly "Good bye". Honor Blackman went on, of course, to
appear as Pussy Galore in Goldfinger (which guest star Kwouk also
appears in). After Cathy leaves Steed calls someone on the telephone,
“I’ve been busy”, he says, (he obviously hasn’t
spoken to her in a while). Is it Mrs Peel on the other end of the
line? In addition to being the last episode starring Honor Blackman
as Dr. Catherine 'Cathy' Gale, this was also the last episode to be
recorded on videotape. |
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