• title card: white all caps text reading ‘THE GLADIATORS WRITTEN BY BRIAN CLEMENS’ superimposed on a close-up of Nada’s red handkerchief falling to the ground
  • George Cuvalo is sent flying into the vegetable stand outside the grocery store
  • Nada instructs his troops in punching through sheets of metal
  • Inside the greenhouse, Nada prepares to deflect submachinegun bullets with his bare hands
  • Purdey and Steed raise their hands in surrender
  • Gambit easily defeats Nada with a chop to the neck

The New Avengers, Series 2 — Episode 11
The Gladiators

by Brian Clemens
Directed by Claude Fournier

The Cast

John Steed Patrick Macnee regular007
Mike Gambit Gareth Hunt regularDoctor WhoSpace 1999
Purdey Joanna Lumley regular007Doctor WhoPink Panther
Colonel Karl Sminksy Louis Zorich
Chuck Peters Neil Vipond
Tom O’Hara Bill Starr
‘Boris’ Tarnokoff Peter Boretski
Barnoff Yanci Bukovec
Cresta Jan Muzynski
Hartley Michael Donaghue
Huge Man (Jed) George Chuvalo
Rogers Dwayne McLean regular
Ivan Lesnotoff Patrick Sinclair
Nada Doug Lennox
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Vain Mercenary unknown
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Shopkeeper Kay Hawtrey
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* Tarnokoff is also named in the episode as “Ayisnevitch Tolstoy Tchaikovsky Pushkin Turnokoff”.


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