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The Avengers

Season 3, 1963-4 - Episode 2



prologue © Canal+

epilogue © Canal+

Brief For Murder

by Brian Clemens
Designed by James Goddard
Directed by Peter Hammond

Murders

Victim Killer Method
Catherine Gale John Steed Shot (faked)
click a name to see the face

Minutiæ

A lot of the early segues and establishing shots in the episode are very clearly pans over stills - the shots of the Old Bailey, the sequence of Steed going to the Lakin's with Wescott, and so on.

Realising the trap set for them, Miles telephones Bart in a panic, hoping to destroy evidence before it's too late and tells him:
"In the bottom desk of the drawer is a bunch of keys..."

© Piers Johnson 2004-9