• title card: white all caps text reading ‘TARGET! BY DENNIS SPOONER’ superimposed on Talmadge suddenly collapsing in the surgery
  • Palmer lies on the pavement, falling out of the door of the red telephone box on the side of the street that stretches away from us, the villains Triumph Dolomite can be seen driving away
  • Bradshaw finds one of the darts has struck Purdey in the back
  • Klokoe hides amongst the reeds in Lopez’s conservatory
  • Gamit strikes a heroic, Seventies action figure pose as he goes through the training course
  • Purdey rests against Gambit, who holds up the brown glass bottle of the antidote

The New Avengers, Series 1 — Episode 6
Target!

by Dennis Spooner
Directed by Ray Austin

The Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Mike Gambit Gareth Hunt regularDoctor WhoSpace 1999
Purdey Joanna Lumley regular007Doctor WhoPink Panther
Draker Keith Barron regularThe ProfessionalsDoctor WhoRandall and Hopkirk
Colonel Ilenko Robert Beatty Blake’s 7Doctor WhoPink Panther
Freddy Bradshaw Roy Boyd Space 1999Blake’s 7Doctor WhoThe SaintThe Sweeney
Jones Frederick Jaeger regularDoctor WhoThe ProfessionalsThe SaintIndiana JonesThe SweeneyDepartment SJason KingCallan
George Myers Malcolm Stoddard Blake’s 7The Saint
Klokoe Deep Roy Blake’s 7Doctor WhoPink PantherStar Wars
Dr. J. Kendrick John Paul regularThe Saint
Professor Lopez Bruce Purchase Blake’s 7CallanDoctor Who
Talmadge Dennis Blanche 007Dad’s ArmyThe Sweeney
David Palmer Robert Tayman
McKay Marc Boyle regularDoctor Who007The ProfessionalsStar Wars
Susie Suzanna Macmillan
Potterton Peter Brace regularDoctor WhoDanger Man007The PrisonerStar WarsPink PantherThe Sweeney
Titherbridge John Saunders The Professionals
Morgue attendant Douglas Cooper regularRandall and HopkirkStar Wars

The morgue attendant has been credited on other websites and guides to be William Lyon Brown, but it’s actually Douglas Cooper.


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