• 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

Production details

Produced:March, 1977

Regional broadcasts

BroadcasterDateTime
Thames Television8/09/19778:00pm
ATV Midlands9/09/19778:00pm
Granada Television8/09/19778:00pm
Anglia Television8/09/19778:00pm
Border Television9/09/19778:00pm
Channel Television8/09/19778:00pm
Grampian Television9/09/19778:00pm
Southern Television8/09/19778:00pm
Scottish Television8/09/19778:00pm
Tyne Tees Television9/09/19778:00pm
Ulster Television8/09/19778:00pm
Westward Television8/09/19778:00pm
Harlech Television9/09/19778:00pm
Yorkshire Television9/09/19778:00pm

TV Times listing

I do not have a TV Times / TV Weekly or other contemporary British listing for this episode, if you have one, please get in touch.

Sydney Morning Herald listing for January 23 1978, 8.30pm
The Age listing for January 23 1978, 8.30pm

International broadcasts

ABN2 Sydney, Australia23/01/19788:30pm
ABV2 Melbourne, Australia23/01/19788:30pm
ABC New York, USA24/11/197811:30pm
TF1 France30/06/19798:35pm
Suisse Romande, Switzerland
French titleMéfiez-vous des morts!
ZDF Germany
German titleTote Männer sind gefährlich
KRO Netherlands17/10/19778:25pm
Dutch titleGevaarlijke Lijken
Italy?/4/80
Italian titleI morti uccidono ancora
Spain26/05/8111:05pm
Spanish titleLos muertos son peligrosos
Netherlands: Limburgsch Dagblad listing for October 1977, 8.25pm
France: Feuille d’Avis de Neuchâtel L’Express listing for June 30 1979, 8.35pm
Spain: ABC Madrid listing for May 26 1981, 11.05pm
USA: Washington Post highlidhts for November 24 1978, 11.30pm

Continuity and trivia

Why are Russian guards of 1966 using British Army armalites of the Seventies?

Gambit left school at 14 to join the navy.

The Transport

Marque Colour Number Plate
Mercedes Benz sedan blue B. NP 374
Steed’s “big cat” Jaguar XJ12 5.3 Litre Coupe Automatic british racing green NWK 60P
Fiat 132 white HHX 449K
Bentley ? ?
Ford Commer ambulance white ?
Volkswagen Golf grey ?
Gambit’s Jaguar XJS red NRW 875P

Who’s Killing Whom?

Victim Killer Method
Mark Crayford John Steed pistol (10 years earlier)
Click a name to see the face

The Fashions

Gambit’s fashions
  1. cricket gear, sort of... Beige shirt, cream jumper, brown flat cap
  2. white karate pyjamas
  3. grey suit, blue shirt, grey diag str tie
  4. navy cardigan, white shirt with thin check stripe, grey trousers
Purdey’s fashions
  1. red and blue striped dress with or, yell
  2. white dress with floral pattern sh and br
  3. gold karate pyjamas
  4. white blouse, red jumper & skirt with wrap-ar scarf & teardrop blue patterns *paisley?
Steed’s fashions
  1. overcoat, blue shirt, spotted tie, flat cap, navy suit
  2. cricket gear
  3. black velvet tuxedo
  4. grey suit with velvet collar, blue spot tie

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