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Mrs Peel
John Steed, Esq.
The Fashions
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An escaping prisoner evades his guards, making off with the
shotgun of one of them. climbing over a wall, he finds a
deserted country house and enters, only to be confronted by a
charging lion...
Mrs Peel drops round to Steed's flat as he's developing some
holiday snaps, but she won't stay to see them, she's off to
look at a legacy recently bequeathed her. Steed discovers the
impression of the key on the photos and suspects a trap, a
quick 'phone call confirms that her solicitor knows nothing of
any Uncle Jack. He calls a friend for help...
Mrs Peel is joined by a suspicious Scout Master called
Withers, who leaves her at the house. Entering, she finds
evidence of the forgery of her solicitor's signature, and then
discovers the house has turned into a maze of twisting
passages, all alike.(1)
Being a seasoned adventurer, she marks a strange machine with
lipstick, only to discover that it is to the passages as Rome
is to all roads. Getting desperate, she tries running through
the passages but to no avail. Eventually she finds herself
back in the room she started in, or another copy of it, and
discovers the mechanism for moving the rooms. That achieved,
she descends a stairway to the control room, only to find an
exhibition of her life, dedicated to the late Emma
Peel.
Years ago she had sacked an automation expert, sure his plans
would result in society's collapse - this house is his
revenge, a huge machine designed to ensnare her, then drive
her mad to the point of suicide.
She encounters the escaped prisoner, now a gibbering wreck,
and a wayward shotgun blast from him reveals the location of
the control room. Making a makeshift bomb with the key to the
house and gunpowder from a shotgun shell, packed down with a
hairpin, she destroys the machine and is released, Steed
having arrived just after the nick of time.
The Avengers leave on a tandem bicycle.
Production date: 9-18/1/66 |
Drinks coffee brandy |
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| Transmission dates: | ||||
| UK | 5/3/66 | USA | 16/5/66 | |
| Germany | 31/12/98 | (Das Häuschen im Grünen) | ||
| France | 6/7/91 | (L'héritage diabolique) | ||
| Italy | 17/11/80 | (Benvenuti a casa del povero Jack) | ||
| Spain | --- | (La casa que jack construyó) | ||
| Holland | 20/8/68 | (Het huis van oom Jack) | ||
