Lobster Quadrille

"Lobster Quadrille"
The Avengers episode
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 26
Directed by	Kim Mills
Written by	Richard Lucas
Produced by	John Bryce
Featured music	Laurie Johnson John Dankworth (theme)
Production code	3-26
Original air date	21 March 1964 (1964-03-21)
Guest actors
Leslie Sands Burt Kwouk Gary Watson Jennie Linden Norman Scace Corin Redgrave

Lobster Quadrille is the twenty-sixth 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 21 March 1964. The episode was directed by Kim Mills and written by Richard Lucas.^[1]

Plot

Steed and Cathy investigate an illegal drug smuggling operation.^[2]

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
Leslie Sands as Captain Slim
Burt Kwouk as Mason
Gary Watson as Max Bush
Jennie Linden as Katie Miles
Norman Scace as Dr. Stannage
Corin Redgrave as Quentin Slim
Valentino Musetti as Jackson

Episode notes

This is Honor Blackman's last episode and the final appearance of Cathy Gale. Blackman's forthcoming appearance in the Bond film Goldfinger, is alluded when Cathy remarks to Steed she is going 'Pussyfooting'.

This is the final episode in the series to be recorded on videotape. From series 4-6 and continuing into The New Avengers, The Avengers would be recorded on film.

Lobster Quadrille would be the last time the original Avengers theme would be used. Originally composed by Johnny Dankworth, Laurie Johnson would compose a new theme tune for series 4 and onwards. Johnson would remain as primary composer for the sequel series, The New Avengers.

References

↑ Rogers, Dave (25 April 1983). The Avengers. ITV Books in association with Michael Joseph. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
↑ "Lobster Quadrille". The Avengers Forever!. Retrieved 19 May 2012.

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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"

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