Episode no. Season 1Episode 20 Production code 1-20 Season number 1 Air date 5 August 1961 Next episode The Far Distant Dead | Directed by Don Leaver Episode number 20 Previous episode Toy Trap Produced by Leonard White | |
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Original air date 5 August 1961 (1961-08-05) | ||
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Tunnel of Fear is the twentieth episode of the first series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Ian Hendry, Patrick Macnee and Ingrid Hafner, and guest starring Stanley Platts, John Salew and Murray Hayne. It was recorded on 405-line monochrome videotape on 3 August 1961 and broadcast by the ABC on 5 August 1961. It is one of the three known complete season 1 episodes to have survived being purged from the ABC archives. The episode was directed by Don Leaver and written by John Kruse.
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Plot
Top secret information is leaking into Europe from a funfair somewhere in Southend, and Harry Black, a recent escapee from prison, is rumoured to have worked there. Closer examination reveals that the ghost train is more scary than it looks and the owner of the funfair, Jack Wickram, is arranging the kidnappings. Fortunately, trick cigarettes allow Steed to bluff the enemy into submission and Harry Black is proved innocent as he was hypnotised and framed.
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Recovery
On October 3, 2016, it was announced that a pristine condition 16mm film telerecording of the episode had been recovered from a private collector and was later screened in London on November 12