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Mrs Peel
John Steed, Esq.
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All over England, leading botanists are going missing from
their research stations.
When the latest is a personal friend of Mrs Peel, the Avengers
step in to investigate. All clues point towards Surrey Green,
a small village near the house of Sir Lyle Peterson. Steed
discovers all the missing botanists are working for him,
seemingly of their own volition, but the household and staff
are acting strangely. Mrs Peel discovers that Sir Lyle has
been buying inordinate amounts of fertiliser and polyethylene.
Sir Lyle has also purchased oil rigs for two sites, but
cancelled the second.
They investigate the second site and discover a crashed
spacecraft, its astronaut still inside, and a large
space-borne seedpod attached. Dr Sheldon, a leading botanist
who did not heed Peterson' summonses examines it and declares
it a creeper with brain tissue and a digestive tract requiring
chemicals only found in human on Earth.
They rush to Surrey Green with extremely potent herbicide,
only to find the village deserted and the house besieged by an
enormous plant. Hearing aids are proof against the plant's
hypnotic influence, so donning some they enter the house,
giving one to Peterson when he tries to attack them.
Mrs Peel loses hers in a tussle with the plant and attacks
Steed, but a clash of heads leaves her unconscious. Steed puts
her jacket around a mannequin and douses it with the weed
killer, and the beast is defeated.
The Avengers depart on the back of a haycart.
Production date: 31/5-11/6/65 |
Drinks brandy stout stout |
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| Transmission dates: | ||||
| UK | 11/12/65 | USA | 25/8/66 | |
| Germany | 25/3/99 | (Mörderischer Löwenzahn) | ||
| France | 12/7/91 | (La mangeuse d'hommes du Surrey) | ||
| Spain | --- | (El canibal de Surrey Green) | ||
| Holland | 30/11/68 | (De mensetende plant) | ||
