The Significant Props
of Season 5 (1967-8)

The Avengers
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The £50,000 Breakfast

Still to come: Dummy

X-rays
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A bit obscured by the episode titles, but you can fairly clearly see the white spots of the diamonds on the prints.

Pet cemetery
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The Happy Valley Pet Cemetary, visiting hours 7AM - 10PM Monday to Friday, 7AM - 5PM Saturdays.

diamonds
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Tossed across the morning papers (note the Financial Times on the top), this collection of brilliants is about to be greatly undervalued by Steed.

film of Litoff
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Not the best of resources dug up by the Ministry this time, footage going back fifty years or more to try to find glimpses of the reclusive Litoff.

duelling bowlers
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Steed and Glover exchange pleasantries about their favourite milliner - not the first time that the show notes how servants are more likely to know about clothes than their masters, Steed had been taken for a butler in the past.

Steed's kitchen
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A rare glimpse into the big man's cooking quarters.

Litoff office
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These ugly curtains and sofas appear next season as part of Tara's apartment. They should have been burnt instead. The backdrop of Big Ben is rather obviously fake - Steed's comment about it moving might have been an allusion to it toppling over.

tie shop
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Modish and modern, selling all manner of ties from the conservative public school/club lookalikes to the vile Italian silk tie Emma buys Steed.

toys
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The shop's crammed to bursting with dummies, marionettes, puppets, masks and all manner of accoutrement for aspiring artiste. Add to that the rubber dog bone left behind in the kitchen, silent witness to the ferociousness of the attack on Mrs Rhodes.

tie
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I don't wonder that Steed didn't fancy this tie very much.

Dead Man's Treasure

You Have Just Been Murdered

television
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Both sides of the camera seen here, first Needle appearing on Unwin's telly, then the studio it was filmed in, with "Needle TV" written on things.

party
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More a set than a prop, but never mind. Unwin's hired somewhere swanky to hold his little shindig, but would happily move the whole thing to Paris or the south of France if Mrs Peel wanted him too. Money doesn't buy him everything though, and Steed and Emma walk away from him together.

business cards
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Variations on an ominous theme - hand over the dough or get rubbed out, as they'd say in the old-time gangster flicks.

art works
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Jarvis has put his considerable wealth towards buying art works, which decorate his home and office. Here you can see a couple behind his murderer, Skelton.

Jarvis doesn't part with his hard-earned, so Skelton does the dirty and kills him in cold blood.

A rarity this, the use of fake blood in an Avengers episode. In fact, the only other time I can recall seeing someone crush a blood capsule is Kirby in Epic (yes, I know there's blood seen elsewhere but they tend not to start bleeding on screen, they're usually already bleeding - look at Danvers in Dead Man's Treasure).

Ominous warning to encourage the tight-fisted rich to part with their ill-gotten gains (at least, in Rathbone's case). I have to say, I'd probably shell out if I started getting things like this.

Unwin's suitcase, supposedly packed with money, but actually packed with a bomb, is being carried by Mrs Peel, Steed's bug still attached to the outside of it. It's a trifle damp after being sloshed around the lake as Mrs Peel and Morgan fought.

Steed, encouraged by the sickly sweet smell of money, brings out his savings, hoping that he too is a millionaire, but he's one short! He only has 999,999 and, as he says, "who's ever heard of a 999,999-ernaire?"

Mrs Peel comes to Steed's rescue with a shiny 1947 ha'penny which pushes him over the line into being a millionaire (in halfpennies).
Who'd have though she had a coin pocket just there?

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The Significant Props
of Season 5 (1967-8)

The Avengers
Page 7