The Avengers : The Murder Market

Episode Rating

Subject	0-5	Subject	Subject	Subject
Direction		Music	Humour	Intros/tags
Villains		Plot	Emma	Sets/Props
Overall (0-10)	Cargill's Lovejoy is fantastic, and Macnee and Rigg ad lib fluidly. Great stuff!

The Cars

Marque/Model/Type	Number Plate
Rolls Royce Phantom III Hearse	BLX 20

Who's Killing Whom?

Victim	Killer	Method	click a name to see the face
Jonathan Stone	Barbara Wakefield ^V*	shot
J.G. Henshaw	Barbara Wakefield ^V*	drowned/electrocuted? in bath

continuity and trivia

	The photo of Jonathan Stone that Steed shows to Mrs Peel is obviously one of Edward Underdown's stock portfolio shots - the exact same shot turns up in a Dangerman episode," "The Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove". During the cake tasting, Dinsford liberally plies Steed with champagne - all over his arm, in fact! An episode of Adam Adamant entitled Death by Appointment Only, also written by Tony Williamson, provoked an angry letter from The Avengers producer Julian Wintle to the BBC, claiming that it had the same plot. Williamson contended that it was different, thus: the episode centred around an escort agency rather than a match-maker's the agency wasn't a "Murder Inc.", but was instead killing victims for their own ends. Otherwise, Wintle was right and the plots were very similar... Strangely, Colin Vancao appeared in both episodes as an extra in identical rôles (and it is through Adam Adamant that I have managed to identify him as he was uncredited in The Assassination Bureau and Season 3's Esprit De Corps).

The photo of Jonathan Stone that Steed shows to Mrs Peel is obviously one of Edward Underdown's stock portfolio shots - the exact same shot turns up in a Dangerman episode," "The Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove".

During the cake tasting, Dinsford liberally plies Steed with champagne - all over his arm, in fact!

An episode of Adam Adamant entitled Death by Appointment Only, also written by Tony Williamson, provoked an angry letter from The Avengers producer Julian Wintle to the BBC, claiming that it had the same plot.
Williamson contended that it was different, thus:

the episode centred around an escort agency rather than a match-maker's
the agency wasn't a "Murder Inc.", but was instead killing victims for their own ends.

Otherwise, Wintle was right and the plots were very similar...
Strangely, Colin Vancao appeared in both episodes as an extra in identical rôles (and it is through Adam Adamant that I have managed to identify him as he was uncredited in The Assassination Bureau and Season 3's Esprit De Corps).

The Episode Guide to Season 4 (1965-6) of The Avengers

Episode 7 - The Murder Market