Series 6 — Episode 25
Get-A-Way!
Teleplay by Philip Levene
Directed by Don Sharp
Production No E.66.6.29 / E.67.9.27
Production completed: February 28 1968. First UK transmission: December 27 1968. First transmission (USA): April 24 1968.
Regional broadcasts
Broadcaster | Date | Time |
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Thames Television | 14/05/1969 | 8.00pm |
ATV Midlands | 24/01/1969 | 7.30pm |
Granada Television | 27/07/1969 | 8.25pm |
Anglia Television | 18/06/1969 | 8.00pm |
Border Television | 5/01/1969 | 8.10pm |
Channel Television | 24/01/1969 | 7.30pm |
Grampian Television | 14/05/1969 | 8.00pm |
Southern Television | 16/04/1969 | 8.00pm |
Scottish Television | ||
Tyne Tees Television | 28/12/1968 | 7.05pm |
Ulster Television | 24/01/1969 | 7.30pm |
Westward Television | 24/01/1969 | 7.30pm |
Harlech Television | 24/01/1969 | 7.30pm |
Yorkshire Television | 27/12/1968 | 7.35pm |
TV listings for 24th January 1969 in the Midlands area were for Killer but it was replaced. As Get-A-Way! is the only episode not accounted for in the Midlands area, it is likely it was shown on that date unless a different programme was shown instead.
TV Times listing



8.0 The Avengers
Patrick Macnee
Linda Thorson in
Get-A-Way
By Philip Levene
Rostov, one of three tightly-guarded Russian agents, held by the British army in a monastery, suddenly makes his escape. Although pursued to the East wing, from which there is no way out, the Russian appears to vanish without trace.
When two other agents, Lubin and Ezdorf, escape in similarly puzzling fashion, Steed and Tara are called in.
It soon becomes apparent that the Russians each have a target — a parallel British agent who must be killed.
Ezdorf’s target is … John Steed!
John Steed | Patrick Macnee |
Tara King | Linda Thorson |
Colonel James | Andrew Keir |
Ezdorf | Peter Bowles |
Dodge | Peter Bayliss |
Paul Ryder | Neil Hallett |
George Neville | Terence Longdon |
Baxter | William Wilde |
Price | Michael Culver |
Lt. Edwards | Michael Elwyn |
Peters | John Hussey |
Magnus | Barry Linehan |
Lubin | Robert Russell |
Rostov | Vincent Harding |
Bryant | James Belchamber |
Designer Robert Jones; Director Don Sharp; Producers Albert Fennell, Brian Clemens




International broadcasts
Broadcaster | Date | Time |
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ABN2 Sydney, Australia | 2/05/1969 | 8.00pm |
ABQ2 Brisbane, Australia | 23/05/1969 | 8.00pm |
ABV2 Melbourne, Australia | 22/04/1969 | 8.30pm |
ABS2 Adelaide, Australia | 24/04/1969 | 8.00pm |
ABC New York, USA | 24/04/1968 | 7.30pm |
ORTF2 France | 15/11/1969 | 10.00pm |
Suisse Romande, Switzerland | 6/05/1969 | 8.20pm |
French title | Les évadés du monastère | |
ZDF Germany | ||
German title | Der Chamäleon-Faktor | |
KRO Netherlands | 17/03/1970 | 9.10pm |
Dutch title | Een glassje wodka | |
TTI Italy | 1982 C5 | |
Italian title | Evasione impossibile | |
Spain | 17/11/1969 | 11.00pm |
Spanish title | Desaparición |
Get-A-Way! was originally scheduled for February 25 1969 in Melbourne, Australia, but replaced by Killer. The Age at the time printed their full-week television listings on Thursdays and these episodes were shown the following Tuesday, so it had been rescheduled before Monday afternoon for ABC Publicity to inform the press before the type was set for the next day’s newspapers. Get-A-Way! would eventually screen in that city on April 22 1969.
The Adelaide listing does not name the episode but this seems most likely given the order in other regions and those episode broadcasts known for Adelaide.
Get-A-Way! and The Curious Case of the Countless Clues are reported in different newspapers for the 6th and 20th May 1969 — although Gazette de Lausanne reports the mysterious Un succès mérité for the 6th. It looked at first to be a regional variation but La Liberté may have solved the problem and shows that Trop d’indices was pre-empted. They had corrected the listing to announce Les évadés du monastère in place of Trop d’indices but left a photo of Linda on the page labelled as being from Trop d’indices — and two weeks later has a photo from Get-A-Way! with a summary for The Curious Case of the Countless Clues… Given that the vast majority of Swiss newspaper have Get-A-Way! followed by The Curious Case of the Countless Clues, I have gone with that consensus.












Continuity & Trivia
- 4:25–4:30 — Get-A-Way! is the only episode with fully animated opening titles, the “Get-A-Way!” getting away, stage left.
- 10:00–10:10 — while Col. James and Steed are investigating the dead-end hallway, you can just see the shadow of the boom microphone on the tapestry at bottom right.
- 14:25–14:30 — one of the monks touches the tapestry at the very point where Lubin is supposed to be standing still, camouflaged.
- 18:03 — Why do Lubin’s paint footprints go to a wall?
- 26:02 — Bryant is reading “Wild Ways of the Animal World” by Ross E. Hutchins.
- 27:04 — Burdett Mews
- 28:13 — Princess Mews
- 29:26 — This is the first use of Steed’s yellow Rolls-Royce (in production terms); it had appeared earlier in the broadcast run.
- 34:50–35:03 — There’s a hair caught on the camera lends at top right in the CUs of Tara.
- 36:20 (37:37) — Why does Price decide not to enter Ezdorf’s cell when he’s just seen him taking his clothes off, after getting in the bath? He thinks about it, then decides to do nothing.
- 39:26–31 — During the mid shot of Price there is a triangular object stuck to top left of camera
- Passim. — Why do Lubin and the other agents only destroy page 25, when page 26 is a big giveaway advertisement for Lizard Vodka that could have blown the whole scheme?
- Passim. — We must assume the liquid affects hair and skin the same way it affects cloth — in fact Ezdorf wets his hair — as none of the men wear hoods.
- Running time : 49′17″
The Transport
Marque | Colour | Number |
---|---|---|
Humber FV 1601 Military truck | forest green | 704 BLO |
AC 428 Frua Drophead Convertible Coupé 1965 Prototype (CF1) | maroon | LPH 800D |
Austin A60 10 cwt van 1965 | blue, white and gold livery | MMK 751C |
Rolls-Royce 40/50 h.p. ‘Silver Ghost’ 1923 H.J.Mulliner tourer (chassis number 46LK) | pale lemon | KK 4976 |
Hillman Super Minx Mk 3 | pale grey | ? |
Who’s Killing Whom?
Victim | Killer | Method |
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George Neville | Rostov | revolver |
Paul Ryder | Lubin | revolver |
Cedric Bryant | Lubin | revolver |
Lubin (?) | Tara | thrown out upstairs window |
