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The Wringer

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Episode no.
  
Season 3 Episode 17

Written by
  
Martin Woodhouse

Production code
  
3-17

Directed by
  
Don Leaver

Produced by
  
John Bryce

Featured music
  
Laurie Johnson John Dankworth (theme)

The Wringer is the seventeenth 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 18 January 1964. The episode was directed by Don Leaver and written by Martin Woodhouse.

Contents

Plot

Five British agents are eliminated in rapid succession on an Austrian "pipeline" escape route. Steed goes to investigate and finds himself wrongfully accused of betraying them.

Cast

  • Patrick Macnee as John Steed
  • Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
  • Peter Sallis as Hal Anderson
  • Paul Whitsun-Jones as Charles
  • Barry Letts as Oliver
  • Gerald Sim as Lovell
  • Terence Lodge as The Wringer
  • Neil Robinson as Bethune
  • Douglas Cummings as Murdo

    • References

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