• title card: white all caps text reading ‘MEDIUM RARE BY DENNIS SPOONER’ superimposed on Freddy falling head first from a bridge
  • Wallace stands still, nearest us, and waits as Richards to hits him over the head, one hand on his shoulder so Wallace doesn’t move
  • Victoria holds her temples as she concentrates, trying to sense that the symbol on the card is the red star we can see
  • Top-down view of the round seance table with all the attndee’s fingers on the glass that moves around it
  • The courier runs for it with Gambit in hot pursuit
  • Steed grooms his horse as he looks over his shoulder and speaks to Gambit and Purdey

The New Avengers, Series 2 — Episode 3
Medium Rare

by Dennis Spooner
Directed by Ray Austin

The Cast

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John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Mike Gambit Gareth Hunt regularDoctor WhoSpace 1999
Purdey Joanna Lumley regular007Doctor WhoPink Panther
Graeme Henry Wallace Jon Finch (billed under ‘Guest Star’)
Elderly Man (Mr. Turner) Mervyn Johns regularDanger ManThe Saint
Richards Jeremy Wilkin regularBlake’s 7007Doctor WhoUFO
Victoria Stanton Sue Holderness
Roberts Neil Hallett regularDoctor WhoThe ProfessionalsThe SaintThe SweeneyDepartment SUFO
McBain Maurice O’Connell Doctor WhoPink PantherThe Sweeney
Dowager Lady (Marion) Diana Churchill
Model Girl (Miss Townsend) Celia Foxe
Young Man at Seance Steve Ubels
Freddy Mason Allen Weston
Old Lady Joyce Adams
Usher John Tatum regularThe SaintThe Champions
George Cowley Hugh Walters regularCallanDoctor WhoJason King
Derek Wigmore Reg Woods regularThe ProfessionalsDoctor WhoBlake’s 7
Parr Marc Boyle regularDoctor Who007The ProfessionalsStar Wars
Man in ballet audience unknown
Woman in ballet audience unknown
Man in ballet audience unknown

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