• title card: white all caps text reading ‘THE GILDED CAGE’ superimposed on a neatly stacked pallet of gold ingots
  • Cathy stands between Manley, on the right, and Westwood, confused that they have just arrested her for the murder of Spagge
  • Rev Benham speaks earnestly to Cathy in her prison cell; she faces away from us and is mostly off-screen
  • Cathy, on the left, wearing her leather flying suit, explains her heist plan to the gang, using a floor plan of the vault
  • Close-up of Cathy wearing a gas mask as the heist begins
  • Steed feigns surprise when Cathy tells him there’s a reward of 10% of the haul for Fleming’s capture

Series 3 — Episode 7
The Gilded Cage

by Roger Marshall
Designed by Robert Macgowan
Directed by Bill Bain

Read the dialogue sheets (PDF 320KB)

Production No 3614, VTR unknown
Production completed: October 25 1963. First transmission: November 9 1963.

Crew

written by Roger Marshall regularThe ProfessionalsThe Sweeney
Honor Blackman’s wardrobe designed by Frederick Starke regular
story editor Richard Bates regular
THE AVENGERS theme composed and played by Johnny Dankworth regular
designed by Robert Macgowan regular
producer John Bryce regular
Directed by Bill Bain regularCallan
an ABC Production
Credits Legend:
Credited
Credited but not listed in press
Credited in press but not on screen
Credited in paperwork only
Uncredited / unattributed role
Crew: 90% opacity
® : illustrated from other sources

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