The Avengers : Series 5 : The Living Dead :summary

Subject	0-5	Subject	0-5	Subject	0-5	Subject	0-5
Direction	3 stars	Music	3½ stars	Humour	3 stars	Intro & tag	3 stars
Mastermind	2½ stars	Plot	3 stars	Emma	3½ stars	Set Design	2½ stars
Overall (0-10)	A great deal of promise becomes mired in a flawed plot and a lacklustre script. Maybe it's just Mandy that annoys me.					6 stars

Steed's been tampering with the traffic lights in order to tell Mrs Peel she's needed.
The ghost of Rupert, 15th Duke of Benedict, has arisen from his coffin and haunts the local church. Kermit the Hermit swears he didn't see anything by the time they arrive, but he's been got at by Masgard, the gamekeeper of the new Duke, who doesn't seem to know any old English customs. It transpires the old Duke had escaped from a vast underground city that has been built below a local mine shaft. A foreign army is gathering there, awaiting a nuclear holocaust of Britain. Emma rescues Steed from the execution squad, and the Avengers escape with Rupert and his remaining companions, leaving the villains trapped below.
Mechanic Emma, in a scene from a Modern Pygmalion, tells Steed he has "ghosts in the engine" of his Bentley.

The Cars

Marque/Model	Colour	Number Plate
Lotus Elan S3	glacier blue	SJH 499D
Bentley Speed Six 1926	British racing green	RX 6180
Landrover SWB soft-top	dark green, no tarp.	JWR 87
bicycles	black	-
Lansing Bagnell electric trolley	orange	-
Willy's Jeeps	red, black trim	-

Who's Killing Whom?

Victim	Killer	Method	click a name to see the face
Spencer	Masgard? ^V*	Sword
Kermit the Hermit	Masgard? ^V*	Rifle
Unknown miner	Olliphant and his firing squad ^V*	Rifles
Olliphant ^V*	Emma	Machine-gun
Firing Squad ^V*	Emma	Machine-gun
Firing Squad ^V*	Emma	Machine-gun
Firing Squad ^V*	Emma	Machine-gun
Firing Squad ^V*	Emma	Machine-gun
Firing Squad ^V*	Emma	Machine-gun
Firing Squad ^V*	Emma	Machine-gun
Firing Squad ^V*	Emma	Machine-gun
Firing Squad ^V*	Emma	Machine-gun

The Fashions

Emma's Fashions	Steed's Fashions
white skivvy & blue cardigan green a-line coat & trousers, yellow skivvy red quilted jacket, or maybe a kind of tweed??, pink sleeveless sundress blue catsuit with orange trim white overalls	navy pinstripe suit, single-breasted, red tie, grey bowler grey 3 piece single-breasted 3 button suit flaps on pockets, red tie, black bowler & umbrella grey/brown/green sports coat with brass buttons, 2 vents, 1 button on pockets (2 hip, breast), 2 buttons on cuffs, 3 buttons (dark grey tie, khaki shirt grey/check trousers) suit of (2) [?] with bronze tie, white shirt , black bowler, umbrella & shoes brown overcoat with velvet collar, brown bowler, red tie, diamond tiepin white shirt

Emma's Fashions

Steed's Fashions

navy pinstripe suit, single-breasted, red tie, grey bowler
grey 3 piece single-breasted 3 button suit flaps on pockets, red tie, black bowler & umbrella
grey/brown/green sports coat with brass buttons, 2 vents, 1 button on pockets (2 hip, breast), 2 buttons on cuffs, 3 buttons (dark grey tie, khaki shirt grey/check trousers)
suit of (2) [?] with bronze tie, white shirt , black bowler, umbrella & shoes
brown overcoat with velvet collar, brown bowler, red tie, diamond tiepin white shirt

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The Cars

Who's Killing Whom?

The Fashions