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old habits die hard...i.e. skirt chaser.....Steed did love the ladies...

no argument here..in terms of material..well written and snappy dialogue ...what's not to like...would have loved to seen this done
later..on film..the Gale tenure, is indeed special..and set the stage for later years of the series

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The brothers view this episode... one of the worst in the series in my opinion, but let's see what they think!

Although I gave this a 10/10 marking originally, rewatching it tonight revealed some technical glitches like the waste bin going flying when John Le Mesurier tried to break the poison bottle on the side of it. But perhaps this is not surprising with...

I've noticed a few of these threads..comment about using these video fans....so which one seems to be preferred ? Marie...or the ' brothers ' ???

in terms of their reviews, etc

Haha! Maybe. Perhaps they meant she washes his brain free of the interference that had been fed into it. Or something,

SURE, a whole other spin on ' brain washing '....

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I thought it was nice to have a military villain with a more altruistic motive for once, better than the narcissist nihilists in The Danger Makers who just don't strike me as believable even in the heightened fantasy world of Avengerland. Not all...

Interesting observations, but it stands out as a captivating episode in my memory.

Notable for being the episode where Steed and Cathy kiss for the first and only time...

Some good casting in this, Kenneth J Warren is always good value and here gets to use his Australian background to adopt a broad accent and insert slang into...

My personal favourite of all time. Brooding with atmosphere and excellently directed by Peter Hammond. A brooding mix of haunted house and a truly unpleasant villain... Maurice Good proves that the most menacing villains are those who are calm,...

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There are some nice bits in the script that got changed in the broadcast version, either due to ad libs or rehearsed cuts for timing reasons. Like when Steed says he got the alias Stone-Martin from a bird (on screen) but in the script he said he...

The lads watch and discuss this episode.

Time to undertake another episode viewing!

One of the earliest doppelganger episodes. I quite enjoyed it on a recent rewatch.

A new year, a new season...

The lads cover Brief For Murder ... which proves to be a big hit.

This is great, I had most of this in my TX spreadsheet but missed bits of the info.

Ah! If this is of use for plugging gaps, I'll see what else I have lying around if it would be of interest...

All the best :)

Andrew

So I rewatched it last night.

As I said, you really have to concentrate!!! Every scene throws out some new information and there's another twist and someone keeping a secret. I do think a bit of clarity at the end might have helped as we're not...

A real treat of an episode.

Good amount of Steed/Cathy tension, bizarre could-only-be-The-Avengers plot, well paced and good build up - feels like less than fifty minutes and good guest actors/characters.

But above all it's like a later Avengers...

I was reading up about Albert Pierrepoint, Britain's public executioner who executed John Christie (of 10 Rillington Place infamy), along with around 200 other people, very interesting man. I think there's a Patrick McGoohan film sort-of based on...

This one was at the bottom of the pile for this year, so I thought I'd watch this one next. I may only have seen this a couple of times as I could only recall vague plot lines before watching, so it was nice to approach something unfamiliar.

This...

Alexander Davion was another actor that never returned to the series and he had the look of a great enemy spy against Steed! I know he was with John Gregson soon after but there were other opportunities surely?
JB

I like this episode despite the far-fetched and clichéed plot. Cathy just happening to be the heir they were looking for, and them wanting to install her instead of Bollinger's adoptive son makes no sense. Fine performances all round though.