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The White Dwarf

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Episode no.
  
Season 2 Episode 21

Written by
  
Malcolm Hulke

Production code
  
2-21

Directed by
  
Richmond Harding

Produced by
  
John Bryce

Featured music
  
Laurie Johnson John Dankworth (theme)

The White Dwarf is the twenty-first episode of the second series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman. It originally aired on ABC on 17 February 1963. The episode was directed by Richmond Harding and written by Malcolm Hulke.

Contents

Plot

A leading astronomer predicts that the earth is about to be destroyed. Steed and Cathy investigate a conspiracy to silence him.

Cast

  • Patrick Macnee as John Steed
  • Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
  • George A. Cooper as Maxwell Barker
  • Philip Latham as Professor Cartwright
  • Peter Copley as Henry Barker
  • Bill Nagy as Mervin Johnson
  • Daniel Thorndike as Sir Charles
  • Constance Chapman as Miss Edwina Tregarth
  • Keith Pyott as Professor Richter
  • Paul Anil as Professor Rahim
  • John Falconer as Butler
  • Vivienne Drummond as Dr Elizabeth Fuller
  • George Roubicek as Dr Luke Richter

    • References

    The White Dwarf Wikipedia
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