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

Episode 9 - The Correct Way To Kill

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
(0-10)		 Joseph This episode is too early for this season and way ahead of the Third Season of its original incarnation. Charles Crichton does try hard though, and our attention is kept all the way through. However, Gough is not as good as Mitchell was. Olga is very good fun. Shame we could not have had more of the 'decadent bourgeois capitalism' spent on location filming, though. This should have been made in 1965.
Piers A worthy effort which doesn't quite make it to the top. Great dialogue and performances, but the story isn't quite daft enough to make a truly great Avengers episode.

A couple of dapper city gents meet a foreign agent and dispatch him coldly, if politely.
Mrs Peel's is summoned by a doctored newspaper headline - Steed needs her to help him discover who's killing enemy agents.
When Ivan, the enemy's top man tries to kill Steed, thinking he was behind it, they team up to discover the third party. Steed pairs up with Olga and Emma goes with Ivan to investigate who is the real killer of the agents. Both sides are being double-crossed by Nutski, Olga's employer, who has set up a private army masquerading as a school for gentlemen. Following crates of umbrella and bowlers, Olga and Steed catch up to the gang, but are discovered. Emma to the rescue with her trusty foil, and a fencing bout finds Emma and Olga the victors, Nutski impaled on a sword.
Emma finds Steed wearing a Cossack hat the next morning at breakfast, the souvenir of a date with Olga.

The Cars
Marque/Model Colour Number Plate
Citroën ID 19 ('57-61 model)
{left hand drive}		 yellow 70 BLX
Austin A60 van dark blue 197 GLK
Mini dark blue KLM 820C?
Who's Killing Whom?
Victim Killer Method

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Boris Groski Algy & Percy V* pistols
Stanislaw Arkadi Algy & Percy V* ?
Zorick Algy & Percy V* dagger
Ivan Pepitoparoff Algy & Percy V* ?
Dr Merryweather Algy & Percy? V* Stabbed with umbrella
J.Nathan Winters Algy & Percy? V* Stabbed with umbrella
Algernon Wynche (Algy) V* Emma Sword
Mr Percival (Percy) V* Olga Sword
Nutski V* Emma Sword thrown at him.
The Fashions
Emma's Fashions Steed's Fashions
  1. plaid jacket and white skivvy with yellow hat (in style of the pink hat in The Winged Avenger)
  2. pale grey shoes, orange dress, navy jacket, black gloves, orange/brown scarf
  3. lavender pant suit & dark plum skivvy, white boots
  4. orange catsuit with black trim, orange boots
  5. white fencing gear
  6. red coat with white trim, white skirt
  1. tan trousers, brown bowler & jacket (single-breasted) copper tie & hanky, white shirt
  2. grey pinstripe single-breasted 3 piece suit, bowler & umbrella, black shoes, dark grey cravat, stud tie pin
  3. dark grey pinstripe single-breasted 2 vents suit, brown cravat with gold specks, black bowler, grey umbrella
  4. .. & grey double-breasted overcoat & bowler & umbrella & gloves
  5. navy single-breasted suit, 3 piece 3 button, & cravat as above
  6. above & black bowler, cravat replaced with a blue tie with white dots
  7. grey double-breasted suit, velvet collar, pale grey cravat, white shirt , Russian fur hat
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