LOST EPISODE - episode summary from The Avengers Dissolute website:
Frank Preston leaves jail to collect his stashed robbery money, but thugs are waiting to beat him up for the location of the loot. Steed intervenes and takes him to Keel, but the gang now assume that Keel knows the location and kidnap Carol to make him talk. Realising that the thugs are in league with Stella, his wife, Preston forces Keel to take him to the money. However, before Preston can enjoy it or the thugs can sieze it, Steed arrives with the police to arrest them all.
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Hunt the Man Down (click the link to get all the information and pictures)
HUNT THE MAN DOWN
BY RICHARD HARRIS
Production completed: 12 March 1961. First transmission: 18 March 1961
This episode summary is written from the published synopses and other previously published material as this episode is now lost except for a set of night location photographs. The final filmed production may have been different and I have made a few assumptions, marked with footnotes, to try to explain gaps and plot holes.
Frank Preston (Nicholas Selby) is released from prison after serving time for a robbery which had netted more than £100,000. The proceeds were never recovered so he is tailed by Steed, who is hoping he'll lead him to the money.
Preston drives to his old stomping grounds and enters a narrow street near St Paul's cathedral to reconnoitre the area of the hiding place but he's surprised by East End gangster Stacey (Maurice Good) and his goon Rocky (Gerry Duggan), who also want to discover the location of the loot. Preston makes a run for it down an alleyway, pressing himself against a wall to try to evade their gaze, but they catch him and beat him, trying to get him to talk. Steed bursts in upon them and sends the thugs packing then helps the injured Preston to his car.
Steed brings Preston to Dr Keel's surgery where he is tended to by Carol and the doctor. He asks to see his wife as they dress his wounds and put a bandage on his right arm. Dr Keel gives him morphine for the pain and Preston falls unconscious. Steed fills Keel in on the case then goes to fetch Preston's wife, Stella (Melissa Stribling). When they return, Stella hears Preston semi-consciously mumbling, "That's where we hid it", as she enters but pretends to have heard nothing when Carol and Keel look round. Dr Keel has decided that Preston needs more treatment than he can provide so he has called for an ambulance and Stella accompanies Preston in the ambulance when it arrives to take him away.
The next day Carol is grabbed off the street outside the surgery by Stacey and Rocky and driven to Preston's house where Stella is waiting for them. She had left her no-good husband for Stacey while Preston was inside and wants to steal his ill-gotten gains. They think Dr Keel knows where the money is hidden from what she overheard so Stacey rings the surgery, threatening to kill Carol unless Dr Keel tells them where it is. Keel assures them he doesn't know anything but they won't have a bar of it, warning him Carol has little time left. Dr Keel rings Steed about this and he promises to use his department to find the gangsters.
Before Steed can act, Preston has regained consciousness at the hospital. He asks Nurse Wyatt (Susan Castle) to fetch him a cup of tea and when she's gone he grabs his clothes and escapes out a side door. Preston managed to make his way back home but as he approaches the house he stops. Through the window he can see Stella and Stacey kissing and hears them discussing what to do with their captive, Carol. Crestfallen, he turns and staggers away, making his way back to the doctor's surgery in Chelsea. He's bleeding badly now and needs further treatment, weakly waving a gun at the doctor to get him to help. Hearing that Carol is at Preston's house, Keel is only too eager to help and tells him the gun is not needed so they make a plan to retrieve the money and capture the gang at the same time. When Stacey calls back, Dr Keel tells him to meet them near where they first set upon Preston the previous night.
Preston's arm is still throbbing with pain so Dr Keel drives them to the street that night, pulling up at a small church tower. Beside it, Preston indicates the manhole cover in the pavement and instructs Keel to open it, and they descend into the gloom and stench of the London sewers. Stacey and Rocky turn up later, dragging an unwilling Carol with them. They stop when they spot Preston's distinctive Ford Zephyr convertible parked by the church and, noticing the open manhole, they too descend into the funk of the subterranean tunnels. Preston has located his cash box deep underground but when he hears Stacey calling him through the tunnels they decide to run further into the gloom to escape. Preston realises he's made an error of judgement and won't be able to evade his pursuers as he weakens and they are eventually cornered by the crooks. Keel takes on Rocky and they trade blows while sinking into the sludge until the doctor lands a lucky blow and Rocky sinks slowly under. Stacey grits his teeth and raises his pistol but the blast of a police whistle pierces the air and Steed enters, leading a troop of bobbies who round up Stacey and Rocky, Stella having spilled the beans on their movements.
Back at the surgery, Steed congratulates the doctor on a job well done and wonders why the place looks different...
Hunt the Man Down (click the link to get all the information and pictures)
HUNT THE MAN DOWN
BY RICHARD HARRIS
Production completed: 12 March 1961. First transmission: 18 March 1961
This episode summary is written from the published synopses and other previously published material as this episode is now lost except for a set of night location photographs. The final filmed production may have been different and I have made a few assumptions, marked with footnotes, to try to explain gaps and plot holes.
Frank Preston (Nicholas Selby) is released from prison after serving time for a robbery which had netted more than £100,000. The proceeds were never recovered so he is tailed by Steed, who is hoping he'll lead him to the money.
Preston drives to his old stomping grounds and enters a narrow street near St Paul's cathedral to reconnoitre the area of the hiding place but he's surprised by East End gangster Stacey (Maurice Good) and his goon Rocky (Gerry Duggan), who also want to discover the location of the loot. Preston makes a run for it down an alleyway, pressing himself against a wall to try to evade their gaze, but they catch him and beat him, trying to get him to talk. Steed bursts in upon them and sends the thugs packing then helps the injured Preston to his car.
Steed brings Preston to Dr Keel's surgery where he is tended to by Carol and the doctor. He asks to see his wife as they dress his wounds and put a bandage on his right arm. Dr Keel gives him morphine for the pain and Preston falls unconscious. Steed fills Keel in on the case then goes to fetch Preston's wife, Stella (Melissa Stribling). When they return, Stella hears Preston semi-consciously mumbling, "That's where we hid it", as she enters but pretends to have heard nothing when Carol and Keel look round. Dr Keel has decided that Preston needs more treatment than he can provide so he has called for an ambulance and Stella accompanies Preston in the ambulance when it arrives to take him away.
The next day Carol is grabbed off the street outside the surgery by Stacey and Rocky and driven to Preston's house where Stella is waiting for them. She had left her no-good husband for Stacey while Preston was inside and wants to steal his ill-gotten gains. They think Dr Keel knows where the money is hidden from what she overheard so Stacey rings the surgery, threatening to kill Carol unless Dr Keel tells them where it is. Keel assures them he doesn't know anything but they won't have a bar of it, warning him Carol has little time left. Dr Keel rings Steed about this and he promises to use his department to find the gangsters.
Before Steed can act, Preston has regained consciousness at the hospital. He asks Nurse Wyatt (Susan Castle) to fetch him a cup of tea and when she's gone he grabs his clothes and escapes out a side door. Preston managed to make his way back home but as he approaches the house he stops. Through the window he can see Stella and Stacey kissing and hears them discussing what to do with their captive, Carol. Crestfallen, he turns and staggers away, making his way back to the doctor's surgery in Chelsea. He's bleeding badly now and needs further treatment, weakly waving a gun at the doctor to get him to help. Hearing that Carol is at Preston's house, Keel is only too eager to help and tells him the gun is not needed so they make a plan to retrieve the money and capture the gang at the same time. When Stacey calls back, Dr Keel tells him to meet them near where they first set upon Preston the previous night.
Preston's arm is still throbbing with pain so Dr Keel drives them to the street that night, pulling up at a small church tower. Beside it, Preston indicates the manhole cover in the pavement and instructs Keel to open it, and they descend into the gloom and stench of the London sewers. Stacey and Rocky turn up later, dragging an unwilling Carol with them. They stop when they spot Preston's distinctive Ford Zephyr convertible parked by the church and, noticing the open manhole, they too descend into the funk of the subterranean tunnels. Preston has located his cash box deep underground but when he hears Stacey calling him through the tunnels they decide to run further into the gloom to escape. Preston realises he's made an error of judgement and won't be able to evade his pursuers as he weakens and they are eventually cornered by the crooks. Keel takes on Rocky and they trade blows while sinking into the sludge until the doctor lands a lucky blow and Rocky sinks slowly under. Stacey grits his teeth and raises his pistol but the blast of a police whistle pierces the air and Steed enters, leading a troop of bobbies who round up Stacey and Rocky, Stella having spilled the beans on their movements.
Back at the surgery, Steed congratulates the doctor on a job well done and wonders why the place looks different...
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