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Esprit de Corps (The Avengers)

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Episode no.
  
Season 3 Episode 25

Written by
  
Eric Paice

Production code
  
3-25

Directed by
  
Don Leaver

Produced by
  
John Bryce

Featured music
  
Laurie Johnson John Dankworth (theme)

Esprit de Corps is the twenty-fifth episode of the third series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman. It originally aired on ABC on 14 March 1964. The episode was directed by Don Leaver and written by Eric Paice.

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Plot

Steed and Cathy investigate the murder of a soldier and uncover a plot to stage a coup d'état against the British government. The regal Mrs Gale meets a strangler who's not a true gentleman.

Cast

  • Patrick Macnee as John Steed
  • Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
  • Duncan Macrae as Brigadier General Sir Ian Stuart-Bollinger
  • Joyce Heron as Lady Dorothy Stuart-Bollinger
  • Roy Kinnear as Private Jessop
  • John Thaw as Captain Trench
  • Pearl Catlin as Mrs. Angela Craig
  • Doug Robinson as Sergeant Marsh
  • Hugh Morton as Admiral, Harry
  • Anthony Blackshaw as Private Hamish Asquith

    • References

    Esprit de Corps (The Avengers) Wikipedia
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