• title card: white all caps text reading ‘THE EAGLE’S NEST BY BRIAN CLEMENS’ superimposed on a freeze frame of Stannard leaping off the cliff, arms and legs outstretched
  • Ralph in close-up, pointing his Luger pistol at us
  • Purdey backs against a tree as Main and Barker pass through the trees beyond her
  • Gerda and Gambit get up close and personal
  • Trasker, now in full Gestapo uniform, aims his submachinegun
  • The Neww Avengers whistle the Colonel Bogey March as they leave the monastery

The New Avengers, Series 1 — Episode 1
The Eagle’s Nest

by Brian Clemens
Directed by Desmond Davis

Production Crew

Music Composed by Laurie Johnson regularThe ProfessionalsJason King
Produced by Albert Fennell regularThe Professionals
and Brian Clemens regularDanger ManThe ChampionsThe ProfessionalsAdam Adamant
By Brian Clemens regularDanger ManThe ChampionsThe ProfessionalsAdam Adamant
Copyright The Avengers (Film & TV) Enterprises Ltd. regular
Copyright date MCMLXXVI All Rights Reserved
Directed by Desmond Davis
Production Supervisor Ron Fry regularDoctor WhoSpace 1999
Unit Manager Robert Fennell regular
Assistant Director Ron Purdie regularThe Professionals
Continuity Renée Glynne regular007 (billed as Renee Glynn)
Casting Director Maggie Cartier regular007The ProfessionalsIndiana Jones
Production Designed by Syd Cain regular007
Art Director Robert Bell regularUFO
Set Dresser Simon Wakefield regular007
Construction Manager Leon Davis regular007
Wardrobe Supervisor Jackie Cummins regularDoctor Who007The ProfessionalsPink Panther
Joanna Lumley’s Costumes Designed by Catherine Buckley regular
Lighting Cameraman Mike Reed regular007The Saint (Mike Reed B.S.C.)
Camera Operator Jimmy Devis regular007Carry On..The Professionals
Make-up Neville Smallwood regular007
Make-up Alan Boyle regularThe Professionals
Hairdressing Helene Bevan regularThe ProfessionalsSpace 1999
Hairdressing Joyce James regularPink Panther
Second Unit Lighting Cameraman Jimmy Allen regular (Jimmy Allen B.S.C.)
Second Unit Camera Operator Malcolm Vinson regular007The ProfessionalsThe SaintCarry On..
Second Unit Assistant Director Nicholas Gillot regularThe ProfessionalsThe Sweeney
Second Unit Continuity Pat Rambaut regular
Editor Ralph Sheldon regular
Sound Recordist Dennis Whitlock regularThe ChampionsThe SaintRandall and HopkirkDepartment SJason King (billed as Denis Whitlock)
Sound Recordist Ken Barker regular007Carry On..Pink PantherUFO
Dubbing Editor Peter Lennard regularThe ProfessionalsRandall and HopkirkDepartment S
Dubbing Editor Bob Dearberg regularThe ProfessionalsThe Prisoner
Post-production Co-ordinator Paul Clay regularThe Professionals
A Production Of The Avengers (Film & TV) Enterprises Ltd. regular
For TV Productions & I.D.T.V. Paris regular
Processed by Rank Film Laboratories regular
Filmed on Location and at Pinewood Studios, England

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