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

Episode 9 - The Hour that Never Was


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"The Hour That Never Was"
by Roger Marshall

Steed has been invited back to RAF Hamelin, scene of some of his wartime antics, when the camp is being closed down and the staff posted worldwide.

Just outside the camp a dog hurtles across the road and Steed crashes his beloved Bentley into a tree. Proceeding on foot, he and Emma enter an eerily deserted camp, almost Marie Celeste like - drinks on the table, music playing, electric razor still on.

They witness a milkman being shot, but don't see the killer, but are then affected by ultrasonic sound waves. When they stop, Mrs Peel has vanished and Steed is shortly afterwards knocked out by a boom gate.

Coming to in his car, he sees it's still the same time as when he left. Has he dreamt it all? It certainly seems to be the case when he reaches the camp and finds the party in full swing and Mrs Peel sending apologies, but Mrs Peel's watch and a dead tramp alert him to the truth and he's quickly rescuing Mrs Peel from the dentist's chair and quashing the villains who'd hoped to put a sleeper in every overseas British post around the world.

The Avengers depart on the back of a milk float, and then realise neither of them are driving it.


Production date: 5-20/7/65
Drinks
punch, brandy
beer, white wine
sherry, beer
port, punch
Transmission dates:
UK 27/11/65 USA 25/4/66
Germany 10/12/98 (Die Fehlende Stunde)
France 11/7/67 (L'heure perdue)
Italy 30/11/80 (Il tempo si è fermato)
Spain --- (La hora que nunca existió)
Holland 7/3/67 (Het verdwenen uur)

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