Episode 8 - The Hidden Tiger

Episode Rating

Redecorations are interrupted by Steed's message, hidden under the wallpaper.
The Avengers have to track down a vicious cat on the rampage, killing people and animals near an experimental farm. Ronnie Barker plays Cheshire, the innocent proprietor of PURRR, excellently - patting his own head and lapping milk in my favourite scene. One by one, the members of the board of PURRR are being killed by cats - the killers are ordinary cats that are being driven wild by brain-wave modulators implanted in their collars. Steed signs up Emma as his beautiful bronze tabby, and Mrs Peel responds by joining her missing Little John, who's very grumpy before his first glass of champagne in the morning.
Dr Manx and Angora, from PURRR, plan to unleash every domestic cat on England, using radio waves to make them primeval beasts. Steed is tied to a chair, surrounded by cats, but Emma arrives in time to free him and disable the transmitter. Seeing a now placid cat in his van, Manx panics and dies in a car accident.
Mission accomplished, Mrs Peel can return to her redecorating - but Steed puts his foot in it.

The Cars

Who's Killing Whom?

Victim	Killer	Method	click a name to see the face
Williams	Harper's cat	cat
Sir David Harper	Harper's cat	cat
George Erskine	cat	cat
Major Nesbitt	cat	cat
Walter Bellamy	cat	cat
Samuel Jones	Jones' cat	cat
Dr Manx V*	himself V*	crashes van into a tree
An unusual episode in which no-one is murdered directly; all the deaths (bar the last) being caused by cute, fluffy, enraged moggies.

The Fashions