• title card: white all caps text reading ‘HOSTAGE BY BRIAN CLEMENS’ superimposed on Purdey kicking her assailant backwards over her sofa
  • Steed cracking the lock of a large red safe
  • Top-down view of the interior of a telephone box in which Steed is on the phone
  • Marvin, disguised as Steed, plants Steed’s stolen gun at the scene of the murder
  • Purdey kneels on the floor with her hands tied behind her back, an apple in her mouth
  • Purdey hugs Steed, relieved to have been rescued

The New Avengers, Series 2 — Episode 7
Hostage

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
Thomas McKay William Franklyn regularDoctor WhoCallanThe Champions
Tony Spelman Simon Oates regularThe ProfessionalsDepartment SJason King
Clive Walters Michael Culver regularStar Wars007The ProfessionalsThe SweeneySpace 1999
Suzy Pilkington Anna Palk Jason King
Packer Barry Stanton CallanThe ChampionsThe ProfessionalsDoctor WhoThe SaintThe Sweeney
Vernon Richard Ireson Doctor Who
Marvin George Lane-Cooper Space 1999007Doctor Who
Symonds Dinny Powell regularDoctor WhoThe Prisoner007Blake’s 7Adam AdamantPink Panther
Ministry Guard Ron Watkins regular007The Saint
Ministry Guard John Ketteringham The Saint007The ChampionsCarry On..Star Wars
Ministry Guard Aidan Harrington regularDanger Man007The PrisonerThe SweeneyCarry On..
Postman Reg Turner Doctor WhoThe Professionals007The SweeneyDad’s ArmyBlake’s 7

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