School for Traitors

"School for Traitors"
The Avengers episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 20
Directed by	Jonathan Alwyn
Written by	James Mitchell
Produced by	John Bryce
Featured music	Laurie Johnson John Dankworth (theme)
Production code	2-20
Original air date	10 February 1963 (1963-02-10)
Guest actors
Melissa Stribling Anthony Nicholls John Standing Richard Thorp Reginald Marsh

School for Traitors is the twentieth episode of the second series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Julie Stevens. It originally aired on ABC on 10 February 1963. The episode was directed by Jonathan Alwyn and written by James Mitchell.^[1]

Plot

During a spate of suicides at a university, a burglar seeks a note to Venus. Steed uncovers a sinister plot to blackmail students into espionage activities.^[2]

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Julie Stevens as Venus Smith
Melissa Stribling as Claire Summers
Anthony Nicholls as Dr. Shanklin
John Standing as Ted East
Richard Thorp as Jack Roberts
Reginald Marsh as Higby
Frank Shelley as Professor Aubyn
Frederick Farley as One Seven
Terence Woodfield as Green
Ronald Mayer as Proctor
Jane Butlin as Barmaid

References

↑ Rogers, Dave (25 April 1983). The Avengers. ITV Books in association with Michael Joseph. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
↑ "School for Traitors". The Avengers Forever!. Retrieved 20 April 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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