Brief for Murder

Brief for Murder is the first 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 28 September 1963. The episode was directed by Peter Hammond and written by Brian Clemens.^[1]

Plot

Steed and Cathy set a trap to catch two corrupt lawyers.^[2]

Cast

• Patrick Macnee as John Steed
• Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
• John Laurie as Jasper Lakin
• Harold Scott as Miles Lakin
• Helen Lindsay as Barbara Kingston
• Alec Ross as Ronald Henry Wescott
• June Thody as Dicey Hunt
• Anthony Baird as Wilson
• Alice Fraser as Miss Elizabeth Prinn
• Fred Ferris as Inspector Marsh
• Michael Goldie as Bart
• Robert S. Young as Judge Thomas H. Hardesty
• Pamela Wardel as Maisie
• Walter Swash as Foreman of the Jury

References

External links

• Brief for Murder at the Internet Movie Database
• Episode overview on The Avengers Forever! website

The Avengers Characters John Steed Cathy Gale Emma Peel Tara King Mike Gambit Purdey Mother Episodes Series 1 "Hot Snow" "Crescent Moon" "Girl on the Trapeze" "Dance with Death" "The Frighteners" Series 2 "Mr. Teddy Bear" "Propellant 23" "The Decapod" "Bullseye" "Mission to Montreal" "The Removal Men" "The Mauritius Penny" "Death of a Great Dane" "The Sell Out" "Death on the Rocks" "Traitor in Zebra" "The Big Thinker" "Death Dispatch" "Dead on Course" "Intercrime" "Immortal Clay" "Box of Tricks" "Warlock" "The Golden Eggs" "School for Traitors" "The White Dwarf" "Man in the Mirror" "Conspiracy of Silence" "A Chorus of Frogs" "Six Hands Across a Table" "Killer Whale" Series 3 "Brief for Murder" "The Undertakers" "Man with Two Shadows" "The Nutshell" "Death of a Batman" "November Five" "The Gilded Cage" "Second Sight" "The Medicine Men" "The Grandeur That Was Rome" "The Golden Fleece" "Don't Look Behind You" "Death a la Carte" "Dressed to Kill" "The White Elephant" "The Little Wonders" "The Wringer" "Mandrake" "The Secrets Broker" "Trojan Horse" "Build a Better Mousetrap" "The Outside-In Man" "The Charmers" "Concerto" "Esprit de Corps" "Lobster Quadrille" Series 4 "The Town of No Return" "The Gravediggers" "The Cybernauts" "A Surfeit of H2O" "The Hour That Never Was" "A Touch of Brimstone" "What the Butler Saw" Series 5 "Death's Door" Related List of cast members The New Avengers Film Category:The Avengers