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A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).
- Created by:
- Sydney Newman
- Cast:
- Patrick Macnee, Linda Thorson
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Network:
- ITV1
Episode guide
Seasons
Season 2
Episodes
E01
Episode 1
★ 4.5Mr Teddy Bear
1962-09-29 · 51mA man is murdered whilst being interviewed on live television. one-Ten is sure that it is the work of the ruthless assassin Mr Teddy Bear, and he asks Cathy Gale to trap the man - by arranging for him to murder Steed.
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E02
Episode 2
★ 6.0Propellant 23
1962-10-06 · 52mAt Marseilles airport, Steed and Cathy find the courier they were due to meet dead. His sample of new liquid rocket fuel has been taken. Facing an array of enemy agents, the duo must recover the flask of Propellant 23.
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E03
Episode 3
★ 8.0The Decapod
1962-10-13 · 51mBorb, the president of the Balkan Republic, is visiting London to sign a military deal. His private secretary is killed by a masked wrestler, the Decapod. Steed is assigned to augment the president's bodyguards, but the wrestler continues to kill those close to Borb.
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E04
Episode 4
★ 7.0Bullseye
1962-10-20 · 50mShareholders in Anderson's, a small-arms manufacturers, are being killed one by one whilst a tycoon plans a take-over. Rifles and other weapons, possibly manufactured by Anderson's, are being smuggled into Africa. Cathy Gale joins the board with a 20 per cent share in order to investigate.
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E05
Episode 5
★ 4.7Mission to Montreal
1962-10-27 · 53mA film star's stand-in is murdered, and microfilm of North American early warning systems has been stolen. The film star, despite an aversion to travelling by sea, proceeds to Montreal on a luxury liner. In an attempt to find the mocrofilm Dr King is assigned as her personal doctor, and Steed goes under cover as a steward.
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E06
Episode 6
The Removal Men
1962-11-03 · 52mSteed is trying to infiltrate a group of assassins currently based in the South of France. He robs the leader of some jewellery in order to impress him, then waits for them in the local club. It just so happens that Venus Smith is singing there.
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E07
Episode 7
★ 7.0The Mauritius Penny
1962-11-10 · 51mThe owner of a stamp shop is murdered when excitedly talking on the phone to a contact about the rare Mauritius Penny that has turned up on a list. Cathy Gale applies for a job in the shop, and she and Steed witness another murder in an auction room.
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E08
Episode 8
★ 7.0Death of a Great Dane
1962-11-17 · 53mA man involved in a car crash is found to have fifty thousand pounds worth of diamonds in his stomach. Steed investigates the man's joke shop, Big Laugh, and then the offices of multi-millionaire Litoff. The burial of one of Litoff's Great Danes is not quite what it seems.
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E09
Episode 9
★ 5.0The Sell-Out
1962-11-24 · 51mSteed's department is guarding M. Roland, A UN negotiator in London for important talks, but cannot prevent an assassination attempt. Indeed, it seems that one of Steed's colleagues is selling secrets - and Steed finds that even he is under suspicion.
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E10
Episode 10
★ 7.0Death on the Rocks
1962-12-01 · 52mIllegal diamonds are swamping the market. The wife of a diamond merchant is murdered. Time for Steed and Gathy Gale to feign marriage.
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E11
Episode 11
★ 7.0Traitor in Zebra
1962-12-08 · 51mSecrets are finding their way from HMS Zebra, a naval base, to the enemy, rendering the Navy's missile-tracking equipment useless. Steed and Mrs. Gale investigate, and find their attention drawn to the local sweet shop.
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E12
Episode 12
The Big Thinker
1962-12-15 · 51mPlato, the most advanced computer in the world, which could be used to target intercepting missiles, keeps breaking down. The body of a professor on the team is found within.
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E13
Episode 13
★ 6.5Death Dispatch
1962-12-22 · 49mA British courier is attacked in Jamaica, and he protects the contents of his diplomatic bag at the expense of his life. But why? The case only contains mundane documents.
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E14
Episode 14
★ 6.5Dead on Course
1962-12-29 · 51mA plane crashes in Ireland in suspicious circumstances, and the bodies are taken to the nearby St. Mary's Convent . Steed calls in Dr. King to check up on the circumstances of death, while he samples Irish hospitality and bad deeds at Shamrock Airport.
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E15
Episode 15
★ 7.0Intercrime
1963-01-05 · 48mSteed wants Mrs. Gale to impersonate Hilda Stern, a recently arrested assassin about to be used by the trans-national crime syndicate Intercrime. Things go swimmingly, until the real Hilda Stern breaks out of Holloway and confronts the imposter.
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E16
Episode 16
★ 7.0Immortal Clay
1963-01-12 · 51mMarling Ceramics, run by Cathy's friends, Richard and Allan Marling, claim to be on the verge of creating an unbreakable china. However, when Steed arrives to investigate, a body is discovered in a tank of clay.
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E17
Episode 17
★ 7.0Box of Tricks
1963-01-19 · 51mClassified information is finding its way into the wrong hands and Steed feels sure that this has something to do with the death of the magician's assistant at the club where Venus Smith is working. Steed investigates the lethal vanishing cabinet.
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E18
Episode 18
★ 7.0Warlock
1963-01-26 · 50mSteed is entrusted with the safe-keeping of a new fuel formula when its inventor is found in a coma. The scientist had been involved in a black magic circle which leads Steed and Cathy into the world of hexes and magic powers.
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E19
Episode 19
★ 8.0The Golden Eggs
1963-02-02 · 50mA burglar steals two gold-plated eggs from Dr Ashe, not knowing that they contain a deadly virus. The man quickly falls ill, but refuses to indicate where the case containing the eggs is buried.
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E20
Episode 20
★ 7.0School for Traitors
1963-02-09 · 51mSteed, investigating the suicide of a University tutor, discovers that the man seems to have shot himself with a gun with a silencer attached. Venus is sent a tub of acid 'face-cream', and there is another mysterious suicide.
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E21
Episode 21
★ 7.0The White Dwarf
1963-02-16 · 51mAstonomer Professor Richter believes that the sun's stellar companion, a white dwarf, is returning to the solar system. If it does, that's the end of everything. So why on Earth would anybody want to murder him now?
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E22
Episode 22
The Man in the Mirror
1963-02-23 · 50mVenus has her camera and films stolen whilst taking pictures in a fun fair. One film is missed, however, and when developed a face can be seen in the Hall of Mirrors - that of Trevelyan, the cypher clerk who has committed suicide. But Venus's photograph was taken after the man's death.
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E23
Episode 23
★ 7.0Conspiracy of Silence
1963-03-02 · 51mThe Mafia aren't about to let Steed get in the way of their lucrative drug-smuggling operation between Britain and North America, and arrange for him to be assassinated. Steed survives, and tracks his intended killer to a circus, where some of the clowns prove to be anything but figures of fun.
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E24
Episode 24
★ 7.0A Chorus of Frogs
1963-03-09 · 48mA holiday for Steed in Greece is, of course, no straightforward affair. A deep-sea diver dies in mysterious circumstances, whilst bathyscope experiments are taking place on the yacht where Venus is singing.
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E25
Episode 25
★ 7.0Six Hands Across a Table
1963-03-16 · 50mWhat should have been a quiet weekend at the home of an old friend soon turns into a thick web of treachery and scheming, which throws Cathy into the world of shipbuilding, cross-company romance, mysterious 'accidents' and misguided nationalism.
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E26
Episode 26
★ 8.0Killer Whale
1963-03-23 · 48mCathy is managing the boxer Joey Frazer, but Pancho Driver's gym, where the man is training, is, Steed suspects, the centre for shipments of illegal ambergris.
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Patrick Macnee
John Steed
Linda Thorson
Tara King