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"The Hidden Tiger"
The Avengers episode
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Episode no.Season 5
Episode 8
Directed by Sidney Hayers
Written by Philip Levene (teleplay)
Featured music Laurie Johnson
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"The Hidden Tiger" is the eighth episode of the fifth series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers , starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg, and guest starring Ronnie Barker, Lyndon Brook, Gabrielle Drake, and John Phillips. [1] It was first broadcast in the Southern and Tyne Tees regions of the ITV network on Wednesday 1 March 1967. ABC Weekend Television, who commissioned the show for ITV, broadcast it in its own regions three days later on Saturday 4 March. [2] The episode was directed by Sidney Hayers, and written by Philip Levene. [3]

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Plot

Housecats are suddenly turning into ravaging beasts and mauling their owners fatally. Steed and Emma set out to investigate P.U.R.R.R. where the cats come from.

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References

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