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The White Elephant

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Episode no.
  
Season 3 Episode 15

Written by
  
John Lucarotti

Production code
  
3-15

Directed by
  
Laurence Bourne

Produced by
  
John Bryce

Featured music
  
Laurie Johnson John Dankworth (theme)

The White Elephant is the fifteenth 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 4 January 1964. The episode was written by John Lucarotti.

Contents

Plot

Following the theft of Snowy, a rare albino elephant, Steed and Cathy are brought in to investigate illegal ivory smuggling.

Cast

  • Patrick Macnee as John Steed
  • Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
  • Godfrey Quigley as Noah Marshall
  • Edwin Richfield as Professor Thaddeus Lawrence
  • Scott Forbes as Lew Conniston
  • Bruno Barnabe as Fitch
  • Judy Parfitt as Brenda Paterson
  • Rowena Gregory as Madge Jordan
  • Toke Townley as Joseph Gourlay
  • Martin Friend as George
  • References

    The White Elephant Wikipedia