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Mrs Peel
John Steed, Esq.
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Executives from all manner of mid-sized companies are being
killed, ten at the last count when he's blown up by his
secretary.
In every case, the secretary has stepped in as head of the
firm, the accounting system too complex for anyone else to be
able to make head or tail of. Steed and Emma investigate, but
can find no link between the firms. Steed visits Joshua Rudge,
chartered accountant to some of the men but learns nothing.
Mrs Peel investigates the perfume used by one of the latest
killers, still lingering in the car where the man was slain.
It's identified immediately by its inventor, J.J. Hooter, but
his secretary claims the paperwork was sent to the warehouse
that morning. Returning in the afternoon, Mrs Peel finds
Hooter dead and the secretary refusing to help, unwittingly
revealing the plot to her.
Mrs Peel gains employment in one of the firms recently taken
over by the secretary, and follows her to a keep-fit class in
the suburbs while Steed employs one of the other girls - found
ensconced in Rudge's chambers - using the ruse of a
£4,000,000 business run by himself alone.
Mrs Peel is inducted into the group after having voiced a
preference for being her own boss and discovers the apparent
leader is a puppet - seemingly controlled by a woman hiding
behind the curtains. She is uncovered as a spy by Hooter's
secretary, Gladys. Meanwhile, Steed is battling his secretary,
Sara, and another of the group, Liz, who had blown her boss
up. Defeating them with a tickling, he rushes to the studio
and finds Rudge, but knocks over a radio transmitter and
alerts the gang.
Entering the studio, he reveals the leader of the female power
group to be the timid Henry, trying to get his revenge on the
businessmen who ruined his dead wife. Mrs Peel disposes of the
gang while Steed deals with Henry.
The Avengers practice their ventriloquism, sitting in a moving caravan
Production date: 1-15/2/66 |
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Drinks distilled water |
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| UK | 19/3/66 | USA | 13/6/66 | |
| Germany | 14/1/99 | (Mordet die Männer!) | ||
| France | 23/5/67 | (Comment réussir... un assassinat) | ||
| Italy | 12/11/80 | (Scuola di danza per delitto) | ||
| Spain | --- | (como trunfar ... en el crimen) | ||
| Holland | 25/6/68 | (Moord in de zakenwereld) | ||
