Episode no. Season 1Episode 12 Produced by Leonard White Episode number 12 Next episode One for the Mortuary | Directed by Don Leaver Production code 1-12 Season number 1 Air date 15 April 1961 | |
Original air date 15 April 1961 (1961-04-15) Previous episode Please Don't Feed the Animals | ||
Dance with Death is the twelfth episode of the first series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Ian Hendry and Patrick Macnee and guest starring Caroline Blakiston, Angela Douglas and Geoffrey Palmer. It originally aired on ABC on 15 April 1961. The episode is considered to be lost. The episode was directed by Don Leaver, designed by James Goddard, and written by Peter Ling and Sheilah Ward.
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Plot
Dr. Keel saves a dancing instructor from dying from gas asphyxiation. The woman is later discovered strangled with Keel's scarf and he is framed for the murder. Steed suspects the pianist at the woman's dancing school who is accused of numerous murders to be responsible. The killer's trademark is to kill his victims by tossing a radio into the bathtub and electrocuting them. Keel is vindicated by Steed and arrive in the nick of time to stop the killer who has married a young woman and is about to murder her and steal her large cache of diamonds.
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Production
Production for the episode was completed on 13 April 1961.