The Episode Guide to Season 5 (1967) of The Avengers

Episode 5 - The Bird Who Knew Too Much

Episode Rating
Subject 0-5 Subject 0-5 Subject 0-5 Subject 0-5
Direction Music Humour Intro & tag
Mastermind Plot Emma Set Design
Overall
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Joseph Bring back Roy Rossotti! This may be a witless story, but it is far from a bad one. Ron Moody is brilliant, as usual, and Robin makes a refreshing change from the older thugs normally shown. The episode to show to a non-fan to introduce them to the story.
Piers One of my favourites, even if it's not quite in the top five. The characters are well played, the locations engaging and a fast-paced and thrilling storyline make for a great episode.

Steed eschews the telephone for more primitive communications means, and Emma gets an arrow in her wall.
Steed and Mrs Peel investigate the deaths of two agents, killed by Robin and Verret. Strange photographs taken in a no-flying exclusion zone of sensitive government installations lead them to Sam, a pretty model and the photographer she works for. First Steed, then Emma pose for the camera, before Mrs Peel is captured and placed in a lethal booby trap. Steed's continued preference for entering by the window saves her, and they're back on the trail. The key clue rests in the mind of Captain Crusoe, a prize parrot that has disappeared. Twitter is dispatched but Cunliffe proves to be the real culprit.
With the gang trussed up, Steed proposes they meet a bird, basted in red wine. but he has to shoot it first.

The Cars
Marque/Model Colour Number Plate
Bentley Speed Six 1926 British racing green RX 6180
punt varnished oak -
Austin 1800 maroon,white interior JYT 518D
Austin 12/4 saloon blue ... 1483
Lotus Elan S3 glacier blue SJH 499D
Vauxhall 1905
Owned by Lord Montagu and on display at Beaulieu - National Motor Museum.
yellow MV 9942
Who's Killing Whom?
Victim Killer Method

click a name to see the face
Percy Danvers Robin V* Machine-gun
Frank Elrick Robin & Verret V* Pushed off scaffold into wet cement
Mark Pearson Verret V* Pistol
The Fashions
Emma's Fashions Steed's Fashions
  1. navy and purple art nouveau shift over navy bermuda shorts
  2. tan skirt & jacket with high collar, scooped waist
  3. tan long sleeved dress (mid-thigh length) with white shoes (maybe dress of above?)
  4. (1)
  5. union jack and hat!
  6. lilac sundress with blue & white patterned jacket
  7. blue zippered catsuit with orange trim, ring at neck & waist, mid-dark blue boots
  8. white dress, ankle length, six or seven small buttons, cloth covered, at the cleavage. Over layers of diaphanous cloth - there has been the suggestion that this is a housecoat or dressing gown or robe, with the implication that very little is being worn underneath.
  9. purple short catsuit thing with white trim, white garter boots and hood/hat windscreen thing - an indescribable outfit!
  1. grey bowler & overcoat, gloves, pale blue shirt & burgundy tie
  2. grey double-breasted suit, velvet collar, 2 vents, 4 buttons, flaps on pockets & white shirt grey bowler & umbrella cover (black umbrella), navy tie white spots with grey boots
  3. above with dark green double-breasted overcoat, grey bowler worn later
  4. bronze tie, grey 3 piece single-breasted suit, 3 buttons, flaps on pockets including breast & black bowler & umbrella, beige shirt
  5. above with black bowler & umbrella
  6. charcoal double-breasted overcoat, grey bowler & umbrella, tie & trousers, white shirt
  7. above without overcoat, revealing single-breasted grey suit, four hip pockets, flapped, breast pocket, flapped
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