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Man with Two Shadows

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Episode no.
  
Season 3 Episode 3

Written by
  
James Mitchell

Production code
  
3-3

Directed by
  
Don Leaver

Produced by
  
John Bryce

Featured music
  
Laurie Johnson John Dankworth (theme)

Man with Two Shadows is the third 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 12 October 1963. The episode was directed by Don Leaver and written by James Mitchell.

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Plot

An agent who has been given multiple personalities reveals a plot to assassinate key government scientists and officials and replace them with doppelgangers. Cathy has to identify the real Steed and eliminate his imposter.

Cast

  • Patrick Macnee as John Steed
  • Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
  • Daniel Moynihan as Bill Gordon
  • Paul Whitsun-Jones as Charles
  • Philip Anthony as Cummings
  • Gwendolyn Watts as Julie
  • Geoffrey Palmer as Dr. Terence
  • Anne Godfrey as Miss Quist
  • George Little as Sigi
  • Doug Robinson as Rudi Engel
  • Terence Lodge as Peter Borowski

    • References

    Man with Two Shadows Wikipedia
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