• title card: white all caps text reading ‘CAT AMONGST THE PIGEONS BY DENNIS SPOONER’ superimposed on Merton falling backwards over a cliff
  • Turner examines the wreckage of Rydercroft’s plane
  • Steed arrives at Bridlington’s hut which is dotted with signs forbidding cats and singing
  • Zarcadi sits in his feather-decorated wicker chair, his hand outstretched in dismissal of Turner, a sneer on his face
  • Steed leans out of his Range Rover to speak to Gambit - they’ve both arrive at tthe same time with the same cargo
  • Zarcadi lies at the base of a tree, dead; his hawk flies down to his side

The New Avengers, Series 1 — Episode 5
Cat Amongst the Pigeons

by Dennis Spooner
Directed by John Hough

The Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Mike Gambit Gareth Hunt regularDoctor WhoSpace 1999
Purdey Joanna Lumley regular007Doctor WhoPink Panther
Zarcardi Vladek Sheybal 007CallanThe ChampionsDanger ManThe SaintUFO
Turner Matthew Long regularThe ProfessionalsThe Sweeney
Rydercroft Basil Dignam regularAdam AdamantCarry On..The ChampionsDanger ManThe PrisonerRandall and HopkirkThe SaintThe SweeneyUFOJason KingDepartment S
Waterlow Peter Copley regularDoctor WhoDanger ManCallanDepartment SThe SaintThe Champions
Lewington Hugh Walters regularCallanDoctor WhoJason King
Bridlington Gordon Rollings regularCarry On..Pink Panther
Hudson Joe Black
W. Foster Patrick Connor regularDad’s ArmyDanger Man
Tomkins Kevin Stoney regularDoctor WhoDanger ManThe PrisonerBlake’s 7The SaintSpace 1999
Merton Andrew Bradford Blake’s 7007The ProfessionalsIndiana Jones
Controller Brian Jackson regularCarry On..Danger ManPink Panther
Aircraft examiner Byron Sotiris
Aircraft examiner unknown
Ambulance Officer unknown
Ambulance Officer Tony O’Leary regular007Doctor WhoThe SaintThe ChampionsCarry On..
Nurse unknown
Removalist George Hilsdon regularThe SaintDanger ManDoctor Who
Removalist Martin Terry The PrisonerStar Wars
Crash investigator unknown
Crash investigator unknown
Crash investigator unknown

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