• title card: white all caps text reading ‘FACES BY BRIAN CLEMENS & DENNIS SPOONER’ superimposed on a man wearing blue swimmers diving into a swimming pool, his head obscured by the splash of entry
  • Gambit points his pump-action shotgun aloft, horrifying Steed as he rapidly downs the clay pigeon, Steed’s gun is pointed at the ground
  • Gambit is dishevelled and dirty in his guise of an Irish vagrant
  • Mullins shows another vagrant, this one resembling Steed, into his quarters
  • Purdey, in the guise of the fast talking streetwalker, Lolita, pulls out her pistol; she wears a hot pink dress and fur coat, and is chewing gum
  • Steed holds up the pocket watch that saved his life, the face smashed and marked by the bullet

The New Avengers, Series 1 — Episode 9
Faces

by Brian Clemens and Dennis Spooner
Directed by James Hill

Production details

Produced:July, 1976

Regional broadcasts

BroadcasterDateTime
Thames Television14/12/19768:00pm
ATV Midlands17/12/19768:00pm
Granada Television17/12/19768:00pm
Anglia Television14/12/19768:00pm
Border Television17/12/19768:00pm
Channel Television17/12/19768:00pm
Grampian Television17/12/19768:00pm
Southern Television17/12/19768:00pm
Scottish Television17/12/19768:00pm
Tyne Tees Television17/12/19768:00pm
Ulster Television17/12/19768:00pm
Westward Television17/12/19768:00pm
Harlech Television6/03/19777:25pm
Yorkshire Television17/12/19768:00pm

TV Times listing

TV Times listing for December 14 1976, 8pm (London edition)
Sydney Morning Herald listing for 27 April 1977, 8.30pm
The Age listing for 27 April 1977, 8.30pm

8.0 The New Avengers
Patrick Macnee
Joanna Lumley
Gareth Hunt
in
Faces

By Brian Clemens, Dennis Spooner

Double trouble for The New Avengers. What do you do when the man waiting to kill you — is you? Who can Purdey trust? Is Purdey really Purdey?

Steed Patrick Macnee
Purdey Joanna Lumley
Gambit Gareth Hunt
Prator David De Keyser
Mullins Edward Pentherbridge
Clifford Neil Hallett
Wendy Annabel Leventon
Bilston David Webb
Sheila Jill Melford
Craig Richard Leech
Torrance Donald Hewlett
Attendant Robert Putt
Tramp J. G. Devlin
Peters Michael Sheard

Director James Hill; Producers Albert Fennell, Brian Clemens

International broadcasts

ABN2 Sydney, Australia27/04/19778:30pm
ABV2 Melbourne, Australia27/04/19778:30pm
ABC New York, USA13/10/197811:30pm
TF1 France12/02/19779:30pm
Suisse Romande, Switzerland12/04/19778:20pm
French titleVisages
ZDF Germany23/02/19789:45pm
German titleDoppelgänger
KRO Netherlands9/12/19768:25pm
Dutch titleGezichten
Italy6/07/197810:05pm
Italian titleI sosia
Spain6/09/817:40pm
Spanish titleLos dobles
Netherlands: Limburgsch Dagblad listing & summary for December 9 1976, 8.25pm
France: Gazette de Lausanne listing for February 12 1977, 9.30pm
Switzerland: Journal de Jura episode summary
Germany: Hamburg Abendblatt listing for February 23 1978, 9.45pm
Italy: Stampa Sera episode summary for July 6 1978
USA: Chicago Tribune listing for October 13 1978, 10.30pm
USA: Toledo Blade listing for October 13 1978, 11.30pm
Spain: ABC Madrid listing for September 6 1981, 7.40pm
Netherlands: Leidse Courant summary and photos for December 9 1976, 8.25pm
France: L’Impartial listing & summary for February 12 1977, 9.30pm
Switzerland: L’Impartial listing & summary with photo from Sleeper, April 12 1977
Italy: Radiocorriere listing & summary for July 6 1978, 10.05pm
USA: Chicago Tribune highlights for October 13 1978, 10.30pm

Continuity and trivia

Gambit masquerades as Terry Walton of Dublin to infiltrate the homeless shelter.

The Transport

Marque Colour Number Plate
Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II 1960 black 6237 TU
Rover P5B 3.5 Litre Coupé 1968 black ?
Daimler limousine 1976 black MYR 392P
Austin Maxi Mk II 1976 black ?
Purdey’s MGB Mk III 1976 drophead roadster sandglow MOC 232P

Who’s Killing Whom?

Victim Killer Method
Craig Mullins bow and arrow
Clifford Mullins bow and arrow
The False Clifford (natural causes) heart atack
Bilston Mullins bow and arrow
Mullins Purdey falls on an arrow
Steed The False Steed silenced pistol (or so we think…)
Gambit The False Gambit (or so Purdey thinks…)
Click a name to see the face

The Fashions

Gambit’s fashions
  1. navy pinstripe suit, pale blue shirt, purple tie with white spot
  2. light brown checked single-breasted 3-piece suit with flared trousers, pale yellow shirt, brown tie
  3. navy pinstripe suit, navy tie, pale blue shirt with navy pinstripes
  4. same as light brown checked single-breasted 3-piece suit with flared trousers above
  5. old green velvet suit, collarless v-neck grey shirt, dirty grey scarf
  6. same as light brown checked single-breasted 3-piece suit with flared trousers above
Purdey’s fashions
  1. knitted shortsleeved grey dress with red/green/white pattern across sleeves, yoke & waist; cord belt
  2. pink striped crochet pinafore dress with matching cardigan, white open neck blouse
  3. black leotard and tights, tan rollneck, rainbow striped legwarmers
  4. red, white, green floral print dress
  5. gathered-neck lilac dress with false cape
  6. Salvation Army uniform
  7. hot pink Fifties dress, silver belt, curly copper wig, brown fur coat
  8. gathered-neck lilac dress with false cape (same as above) intitally with a blonde wig
Steed’s fashions
  1. tweed jacket, single vent, slanted, flap-covered pockets, green waistcoat, cream riding trousers, blue shirt, brown patterned tie,brown Chelsea boots
  2. navy single-breasted 3-piece suit, white shirt, dark purple tie, black chelsea boots, black bowler & umbrella
  3. khaki/brown jacket with dark felt collar, pale cream shirt, brown patterned tie, cream trousers, brown CB
  4. brown sports coat, felt collar, pale khaki chinos, brown CB, blue shirt, brown tie with white spot
  5. same as khaki/brown jacket with dark felt collar above
  6. navy single-breasted 3-piece suit, white shirt, purple tie with white spot
  7. brown sports coat, felt collar, pale khaki chinos, brown CB, blue shirt, brown tie with white spot
  8. dirty navy suit and hat, puce scarf, blue shirt
  9. navy suit above tidied up, without coat, red braces
  10. blue single-breasted suit, white shirt, blue tie with white spot, wide skirt on jacket, wide lapels

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