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| Direction |   |
Music |   |
Humour | |
Intro & tag |  + |
| Mastermind | |
Plot | + |
Emma | |
Set Design | |
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Joseph | The Avengers episode. If I was put on a desert island with only ... one cassette, this would be it. It has everything that an episode requires: a bizarre plot, an inexplicable death, a wonderful eccentric, great interplay between the leads, and just an inexplicable feel good factor about it. | |
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| Piers | My absolute favourite Avengers episode. Elegant, ludicrous, eccentric and just plain joyous. Great clothes, inspired guest performances and an attention to detail make this the episode par excellence. | |
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Redecorations are interrupted by Steed's message, hidden under
the wallpaper.
The Avengers have to track down a vicious cat on the rampage,
killing people and animals near an experimental farm. Ronnie
Barker plays Cheshire, the innocent proprietor of PURRR,
excellently - patting his own head and lapping milk in my
favourite scene. One by one, the members of the board of PURRR
are being killed by cats - the killers are ordinary cats that
are being driven wild by brain-wave modulators implanted in
their collars. Steed signs up Emma as his beautiful bronze
tabby, and Mrs Peel responds by joining her missing Little
John, who's very grumpy before his first glass of champagne in
the morning.
Dr Manx and Angora, from PURRR, plan to unleash every domestic
cat on England, using radio waves to make them primeval
beasts. Steed is tied to a chair, surrounded by cats, but Emma
arrives in time to free him and disable the transmitter.
Seeing a now placid cat in his van, Manx panics and dies in a
car accident.
Mission accomplished, Mrs Peel can return to her redecorating
- but Steed puts his foot in it.
| Marque/Model | Colour | Number Plate |
|---|---|---|
| Landrover SWB soft-top (covered, spare on bonnet) | dark green | OPC 104D |
| Mini Moke milk truck | blue | LYP 794D |
| Mini Moke milk truck | blue | LYP 792D |
| Mini Moke milk truck | blue | LLU 253D |
| Mini Moke milk truck | blue | AJD 12C |
| Bentley Speed Six 1926 | British racing green | RX 6180 |
| Austin Princess Vanden Plas Hearse | black | - |
| Lotus Elan S3 | glacier blue | SJH 499D |
| Commer 30cwt van | royal blue, PURRR written in white on the side | 396 EUW |
| Victim | Killer | Method |
click a name to see the face |
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| Williams | Harper's cat | cat | ||
| Sir David Harper | Harper's cat | cat | ||
| George Erskine | cat | cat | ||
| Major Nesbitt | cat | cat | ||
| Walter Bellamy | cat | cat | ||
| Samuel Jones | Jones' cat | cat | ||
| Dr Manx V* | himself V* | crashes van into a tree | ||
| An unusual episode in which no-one is murdered directly; all the deaths (bar the last) being caused by cute, fluffy, enraged moggies. | ||||
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