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Girl on the Trapeze

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Episode no.
  
Season 1Episode 6

Produced by
  
Leonard White

Show
  
The Avengers

Episode number
  
6

Previous episode
  
Crescent Moon

Written by
  
Dennis Spooner

Directed by
  
Don Leaver

Production code
  
1-6

Season number
  
1

Air date
  
11 February 1961

Next episode
  
Diamond Cut Diamond

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Featured music
  
Laurie Johnson, John Dankworth (theme)

Original air date
  
11 February 1961 (1961-02-11)

Girl on the Trapeze is the sixth episode of the first series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Ian Hendry, Patrick Macnee and Ingrid Hafner, and guest starring Mia Karam, Howard Goorney, and Kenneth Warren. It was performed and aired live on ABC on 11 February 1961, and is one of only three Season 1 episodes which are currently known to exist, complete. The episode was directed by Don Leaver, and written by Dennis Spooner.

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Plot

Dr. Keel rescues a young girl who tries to commit suicide by jumping into the Thames River. The girl is a trapeze artist with a visiting Eastern European circus. Foreign agents are trying to use her to force her father, a defecting scientist, to return to his country home.

Cast

  • Ian Hendry as Dr. David Keel
  • Ingrid Hafner as Carol Wilson
  • Mia Karam as Anna Danilov
  • Howard Goorney as Carmelita Mendoza
  • Kenneth J. Warren as Zibbo
  • Edwin Richfield as Stefan
  • Delena Kidd as Vera Korsova
  • Ivor Salter as Police Sergeant
  • David Grey as Dr. Sterret
  • Dorothy Blythe as Box Office Clerk
  • Ian Gardiner as Policeman
  • Andy Alston as Turek

    • Production

    The episode was broadcast live on ABC on 11 February 1961.

    References

    Girl on the Trapeze Wikipedia
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