• title card: white all caps text reading ‘ANGELS OF DEATH BY TERENCE FEELY AND BRIAN CLEMENS’ superimposed on the guards leaping out of the way as the lorry smashes through the border post
  • Pelbright dances in the darkened disco, surrounded by beautiful young women
  • Purdey gazes with resignation at the green-screened ICL terminal she’s having to programme to get some information, Gambit sits at another terminal across the table near the mainframe
  • Close-up of the inside of yyy’s box of shotgun shells, showing the black and white maze map which has been glued there
  • The exhausted Manderson is carried away by the beautiful Tammy and Wendy, Reresby looks like he’d enjoy it too
  • The New Avengers anticipate Star Wars : Purdey and Steed face each other as the walls close in, they press their hands against the opposing walls, past each others’ shoulders

The New Avengers, Series 2 — Episode 2
Angels of Death

by Terence Feely and Brian Clemens
irected by Ernest Day

Production details

Produced:April, 1977

Regional broadcasts

BroadcasterDateTime
Thames Television15/09/19778:00pm
ATV Midlands16/09/19778:00pm
Granada Television15/09/19778:00pm
Anglia Television15/09/19778:00pm
Border Television16/09/19778:00pm
Channel Television15/09/19778:00pm
Grampian Television16/09/19778:00pm
Southern Television15/09/19778:00pm
Scottish Television15/09/19778:00pm
Tyne Tees Television16/09/19778:00pm
Ulster Television15/09/19778:00pm
Westward Television15/09/19778:00pm
Harlech Television16/09/19778:00pm
Yorkshire Television16/09/19778:00pm

TV Times listing

TV Times listing for September 16 1977, 8pm (Yorkshire edition)
Sydney Morning Herald listing for February 20 1978, 8.30pm

8.0
The New Avengers

Patrick Macnee
Joanna Lumley
Gareth Hunt
in
Angels of Death

By Terence Feely, Brian Clemens

Take a bevy of beautiful girls, mix in some middle-aged men, a maze of death and suddenly The Avengers are facing their most difficult and bizarre case yet.

John Steed Patrick Macnee
Purdey Joanna Lumley
Mike Gambit Gareth Hunt
Manderson Terence Alexander
Tammy Caroline Munro
Reresby Michael Latimer
Pelbright Richard Gale
Jane Lindsay Duncan
Wendy Pamela Stephenson
Cindy Colonel Tomson
Sally Manderson Melissa Stribling
Simon Carter Anthony Bailey

Director Ernest Day; Producers Albert Fennell, Brian Clemens

The TV Times hilariously combines some credits, and notes that Cindy is being played by Colonel Tomson. Cindy was played by Moira Foot, and Colonel Tomson by Hedger Wallace.

International broadcasts

ABN2 Sydney, Australia20/02/19788:30pm
ABV2 Melbourne, Australia20/02/19788:30pm
ABC New York, USA29/09/197811:30pm
TF1 France21/07/19799:35pm
Suisse Romande, Switzerland
French titleLes anges de la mort
ZDF Germany
German titleEngel des Todes
KRO Netherlands31/10/19778:25pm
Dutch titleEngelen van de dood
Italy20/04/8020:30
Italian titleGli angeli della morte
Spain9/06/8111:05pm
Spanish titleLos ángeles de la muerte
Netherlands: Limburgsch Dagblad listing for October 31 1977, 8.25pm
USA: Chicago Tribune listing for September 29 1978, 10.30pm
USA: Toledo Blade listing for September 29 1978, 11.30pm
France: Feuille d’Avis de Neuchâtel L’Express summary for July 21 1979, 9.35pm
Spain: ABC Madrid listing & summary for June 9 1981, 11.05pm

Continuity and trivia

39:15 onwards - Steed has a flashback to his espionage training, but the footage is taken from Dirtier by the Dozen, Cat amongst the Pigeons and Target!.

Coldstream is another one of those remakable long-distance silenced pistol snipers... there’s no way it’s possible with the reduced muzzle velocity from the silencer.

The Transport

Marque Colour Number Plate
Leyland Marathon semi-trailer yellow and white B. TH 143
Audi claret M-538 423
Steed’s “big cat” Jaguar XJ12 5.3 Litre Coupe Automatic british racing green NWK 60P
Leyland Morris 2200 claret UPA 214M
Leyland Mini 1000 bright green POJ 852R
Volkswagen Beetle white KBH 720F
Reliant white RLD 913R
Lotus Cortina? burgundy JAR 324N
Land-Rover and gun carriage (recycled footage) khaki 29 ES 11
Triumph 2000 (recycled footage) dark green RGY 380L
Steed’s Range Rover (recylced footage) dark green TXC 922J
BMW? steel blue ERW 729K
Ford Mustang beige ERO 959K

Who’s Killing Whom?

Victim Killer Method
Martin Coldstream silenced pistol
Pelbright Reresby stress conditioning
Colonel Tomson Reresby stress conditioning
Manderson Reresby via Tammy stress conditioning
Reresby Coldstream pistol
Click a name to see the face

The Fashions

Gambit’s fashions
  1. brown suede jacket, yellow tie, yellow & white shirt
  2. mustard cord jacket with upright collar, open patch pockets, white check shirt, lt brown trousers
  3. grey worsted suit, wh pinstr shirt, maroon tie & handkerchief
  4. zippered navy windcheater velvet/velour, navy slacks, bl sh with brown stripes
Purdey’s fashions
  1. striped yellow tshirt, yellow split knee skirt, pink neckerchief
  2. nun’s clothes
  3. white dress with red kiss pattern
  4. royal blue shirt, whiteknee-length dress & scarf
  5. sky blue dress
  6. black knee dress hot pink scarf cardigan, leggings, heels
Steed’s fashions
  1. navy single-breasted suit, pale blue shirt, purple tie, red carnation/rose?
  2. French priests outfit
  3. grey suit with velvet collar, blue spot tie, red carnation
  4. grey suit, no velvet, white shirt, grey or blue tie, red carnation
  5. khaki jacket, cream shirt, navy tie with white spots, yellow waistcoat, beige trousers
  6. brown suit with velvet coll, charcoal waistcoat, brown patt tie, white shirt, beige twill, brown boots
  7. navy 3-piece, lilac shirt, purple spot tie
  8. grey check suit, gold tie, white shirt

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