Episode 10 - Never, Never Say Die

Subject	0-5	Subject	0-5	Subject	0-5	Subject	0-5
Direction		Music		Humour		Intro & tag
Mastermind		Plot		Emma		Set Design
Overall (0-10)	Joseph	This story may have continuity errors galore and it does drag in places, but it is well filmed, has great performances from Arnold Ridley and Christopher Lee, and stands up to scrutiny after the tenth time of watching, not something many other episodes can do.
	Piers	An engaging and thrilling episode, even if it becomes all too apparent what's going on long before the denouément. Lee is superb as the humourously-named Dr. Frank N. Stone (Lee having played Frankenstein for Hammer Films prior to this rôle).

Steed interrupts a rerun of "The Cybernauts", because he needs Mrs Peel's help with a corpse that will not die.
The body keeps on walking off and destroying radios. Professor Frank N. Stone of the Neoteric Research Unit is a dead ringer for the body, and Steed's suspicions are aroused. Mrs Peel and the local doctor are abducted and trapped within Stone's laboratory - but Steed detects the fake doctor and rushes to the rescue. The replicant of the Professor is discovered to be the genuine article by his three-day growth, and the Avengers attempt to fight their way out. Dr James uses Steed's transistor radio to disable the replicants, and the Avengers discover doubles of themselves, Steed's being marked REJECT.
The Avengers return to their television - and discover you would never be able to tell a plastic politician from a real one.

Victim	Killer	Method	click a name to see the face
Private ??	Professor Stone	Beaten and hurled into trees
George Eccles	Professor F.N. Stone V*	Beaten & strangled