"Mission to Montreal" | |
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The Avengers episode | |
Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 5 |
Directed by | Don Leaver |
Written by | Lester Powell |
Featured music | John Dankworth (theme) |
Production code | 3500 [1] |
Original air date | 27 October 1962 |
Guest appearances | |
"Mission to Montreal" is the fifth episode of the second series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers , starring Patrick Macnee. It was first broadcast by ABC on 27 October 1962. The episode was directed by Don Leaver and written by Lester Powell. [2]
Steed and Dr. King are assigned a mission to recover a microfilm containing the stolen plans of a missile early warning system. Shipboard, they meet knives and a drunken film star. [3]
Mission to Montreal is introduces Dr. Martin King (Jon Rolloason), a thinly disguised reworked character of Dr. David Keel, marking the first of three appearances in the series. The other Keel episodes held over and rewritten for series 2 are The Sell-Out and Dead on Course.
Daniel Patrick Macnee was a British-American actor, best known for his breakthrough role as secret agent John Steed in the television series The Avengers (1961–1969). Starting out as the assistant to David Keel, he became the lead when Hendry left after the first series, and was subsequently partnered with a succession of female assistants. He later reprised the role in The New Avengers (1976–1977).
The Avengers is a British espionage television series, created in 1961, that ran for 161 episodes until 1969. It initially focused on David Keel, aided by John Steed. Ian Hendry left after the first series; Steed then became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish, and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel, and Tara King. Dresses and suits for the series were made by Pierre Cardin.
Major The Hon. John Wickham Gascoyne Beresford Steed usually known as John Steed, is a fictional character and the central protagonist on the 1960s British spy series The Avengers and its 1970s sequel The New Avengers, played by Patrick Macnee in both; by Donald Monat in the South-African radio series adaptation of The Avengers; by Ralph Fiennes in the 1998 film of the same name and by Julian Wadham in various audio adventures from Big Finish Productions.
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