Espionage

• Title: The Avengers – Mission to Montreal
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to the adventures of British spy John Steed (Patrick Macnee) and his various partners. The first of three episodes from the show’s Second Season to co-star Jon Rollason as Dr. Martin King, “Mission to Mars” takes both King and Steed to the high seas to watch a hysterical actress (Patricia English) having fled her last picture after her body double was killed. King proves more than capable, but the episode does lack the strong female foil for Steed (although we do get Gillian Muir in a very small role as the Doctor’s nurse).

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• Title: The Avengers – Bullseye
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to the adventures of British spy John Steed (Patrick Macnee) and his various partners. After Steed procures a large amount of stock in her name, Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman) shows up as a new minority shareholder at a British arms manufacturer suspected of gunrunning. The apparent suicide by a member of the board draws Steed’s attention, but that will be far from the last board member not to make it out alive.

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• Title: The Avengers – The Decapod
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to the adventures of British spy John Steed (Patrick Macnee) and his various partners. “The Decapod” is the first episode to introduce Julie Stevens as nightclub singer Venus Smith who Steed recruits, and tricks, into helping him on his latest case (which is certainly a bizarre hour of television). Although the situation does highlight Steed as a scoundrel willing to use whatever, or whoever, is at his disposal to get the job done, I’m not sure the logic of his plan holds up (even if it is ultimately successful).

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• Title: The Avengers – Propellant 23
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to the adventures of British spy John Steed (Patrick Macnee) and his various partners. Steed recruits Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman) for what should be a simply handoff at the airport but becomes much more complicated when their contact freaks out on the plane and dies almost immediately after being brought into the terminal.

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