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The Undertakers (The Avengers)

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Episode no.
  
Season 3 Episode 2

Written by
  
Malcolm Hulke

Production code
  
3-2

Directed by
  
Bill Bain

Produced by
  
John Bryce

Featured music
  
Laurie Johnson John Dankworth (theme)

The Undertakers is the second 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 5 October 1963. The episode was directed by Bill Bain and written by Malcolm Hulke.

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Plot

Why are they coming for people who aren't dead yet? A dodgy retirement home is being used as part of a scam to avoid inheritance tax. Steed and Cathy investigate.

Cast

  • Patrick Macnee as John Steed
  • Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
  • Lee Patterson as Lomax
  • Jan Holden as Paula Madden
  • Lally Bowers as Mrs. Renter
  • Patrick Holt as Robert Madden
  • Mandy Miller as Daphne Madden
  • Howard Goorney as Green
  • Marcella Markham as Mrs. Lomax
  • Ronald Russell as Wilkinson
  • Helena McCarthy as Mrs. Baker
  • Denis Forsyth as Reeve

    • References

    The Undertakers (The Avengers) Wikipedia
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