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The Undertakers (The Avengers)

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Episode no.
  
Season 3Episode 2

Written by
  
Malcolm Hulke

Production code
  
3-2

Directed by
  
Bill Bain

Produced by
  
John Bryce

Featured music
  
Laurie JohnsonJohn 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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