• title card: white all caps text reading ‘DEAD MEN ARE DANGEROUS BY BRIAN CLEMENS’ superimposed on Crayford falling backwards, arms flung out after being shot by Steed. A solider approaches in the woods behind him
  • A purple floral wreath bearing the ribbon ‘JOHN STEED R.I.P.’
  • Hara holds his gloved right hand up to his face, fingers spread and covering his right eye
  • Penny and Gambit lie on the staffroom floor, going through the school records together
  • A view through Hara’s rifle scope of Steed, the crosshairs lined up on his necktie
  • Crayford, in profile, gasps for breath as the ten-year old bullet finally kills him before he can kill Steed

The New Avengers, Series 2 — Episode 1
Dead Men are Dangerous

by Brian Clemens
Directed by Sidney Hayers

The Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Mike Gambit Gareth Hunt regularDoctor WhoSpace 1999
Purdey Joanna Lumley regular007Doctor WhoPink Panther
Mark Crayford Clive Revill Star WarsJason King
‘Pin Man’ Perry Richard Murdoch The Professionals
Penny Redfern Gabrielle Drake regularThe ProfessionalsThe SaintThe ChampionsUFO
Hara Terry Taplin
Dr. George Culver Michael Turner regularDoctor Who
Sandy Trevor Adams The Professionals
Headmaster Roger Avon Dad’s ArmyDanger ManDoctor WhoDepartment S
Russian Doctor Gabor Vernon 007The ProfessionalsDad’s ArmyJason King
1st Guard Charlie Price regular007Danger ManThe PrisonerPink PantherCarry On..
2nd Guard unknown
Barman unknown
Nurse unknown
Orderly unknown
Nurse unknown
Man in wheelchair unknown

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