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Mrs Peel
John Steed, Esq.
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One of Britain's early-warning radar stations has suffered a
technically impossible glitch, and the Avengers are sent to
investigate.
When they discover that the man who developed the system died
the week before, and was buried in the likely source of the
glitch, things begin to look suspicious. Even more so when
Steed spots the dead man walking around a hospital for retired
railwaymen.
Emma finds him, definitely dead this time, a while later in an
undertaker's office, and is sent to the hospital in the guise
of a nurse. The senior medical staff have hoodwinked the
hospital's benefactor into funding their plot to destroy and
invade Britain by pretending to be destroying the motor car,
which he considers to be the killer of his beloved
railways.
Mrs Peel is tied to the railway tracks, with a silent movie
soundtrack playing, and dashing Steed rescues her from the
clutches of the dastardly villains.
The Avengers depart on Sir Horace's model train, presumably
only as far as the house.
Production date: 15/3/-14/4/65 |
Drinks Whisky |
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| Transmission dates: | ||||
| UK | 9/10/65 | USA | 4/8/66 | |
| Germany | 7/2/67 | (Die Totengrüber) | ||
| France | 5/7/91 | (Les fossoyeurs) | ||
| Italy | 14/11/80 | (Servizio funebre) | ||
| Spain | --- | (Los sepultureros) | ||
| Holland | 28/12/68 | (De doodgravers) | ||
