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The Episode Guide to Series 5B (1967) of The Avengers

Episode 23 - Murdersville

Episode Rating
Subject 0-5 Subject 0-5 Subject 0-5 Subject 0-5
Direction 5 stars Music 4 stars Humour 3 stars Intro & tag 4 stars
Mastermind
3½ stars
Plot 3 stars Emma 5 stars Set Design 4 stars
Overall
(0-10)
Second only to The Hidden Tiger, as far as I'm concerned. There's really nothing to fault with this episode, one of the strongest pieces of television drama ever recorded. 9 stars

The sleepy hamlet of Little Storping In-The-Swuff has its calm disrupted by a man coming out of the pub and gunning another man down. The villagers, however, carry on regardless.
Mrs Peel goes to the village with Croft, an old school friend who has quit the Army and retired to the country. His butler has disappeared, leaving all his objets d'art smashed around his house. Croft disappears, and Emma finds his butler's body, and is then knocked out by an unseen assailant.
When she recovers, she is told she had a car accident, but she notices Paul's watch on the wrist of one of the men in her car. She discovers she has stumbled upon a village of murderers when she finds bodies at the doctor's house, but is captured. After a dunking Emma is forced to ring her 'husband', John, and manages to pass on a message to Steed unbeknownst to the villagers. He turns up in time to rescue her from the local museum and Mrs Peel craftily pelts the villagers into submission.
Mrs Peel has found her knight in shining armour when Steed becomes trapped in the helmet she has just escaped from.

The Cars
Marque/Model Colour Number Plate
Citroën DS19 Estate black AYR 141B
Lotus Elan S3 glacier blue SJH 499D
Vanden Plas 4-litre black HOF 800D
MGB light blue 556 FYP
Ford Corsair white ABH 276B
Wolseley 6/99 police car black 649 CLC
Helicopter grey G-AVEE
Humber Super Snipe mid grey -
Who's Killing Whom?
Victim Killer Method

click a name to see the face
Martin Wilson Pistol
Unknown victim (off screen) Sunglasses-wearing assassin Shotgun
Forbes Hubert & Mickle V* Sickle
Samuel Morgan Frederick Williams Silenced Pistol
Major Paul Croft Hubert & Mickle? V* ?
Unknown man Trilby-wearing assassin Tommy gun
Unknown man Unknown killers Body thrown from passing car (Humber Sceptre, maybe), but probably already dead.
Dr Haymes V* Emma Spear
The Fashions
Emma's Fashions Steed's Fashions
  1. purple catsuit with blue trim, putting on a helmet with visor in the final fight scene.
  2. white/silver silk dress with concentric circles motif, with a helmet at the beginning of the scene.
  1. brown jacket, twill pants, tan shirt & handkerchief, green tie
  2. grey single-breasted flaps on the hip pockets suit, white shirt , electric blue tie, grey bowler & umbrella
  3. black dinner suit & bow tie, ruffled grey/blue shirt ...plus helmet
© Piers Johnson 1993-2011