The Grandeur That Was Rome

"The Grandeur That Was Rome"
The Avengers episode
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 10
Directed by	Kim Mills
Written by	Rex Edwards
Produced by	John Bryce
Featured music	Laurie Johnson John Dankworth (theme)
Production code	3-10
Original air date	30 November 1963 (1963-11-30)
Guest actors
Hugh Burden Colette Wilde John Flint Ian Shand Raymond Adamson

The Grandeur That Was Rome is the tenth 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 30 November 1963. The episode was directed by Kim Mills and written by Rex Edwards.^[1]

Plot

A meglomaniac food manufacturer who is obsessed with ancient Rome, is deliberately tainting his company's grain with ergot. Steed and Cathy are brought in to investigate.^[2]

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
Hugh Burden as Sir Bruno Luca
Colette Wilde as Octavia
John Flint as Marcus Dodds
Ian Shand as Eastow
Raymond Adamson as Lucius
Kenneth Keeling as Appleton
Colin Rix as Sergeant Barnes

References

↑ Rogers, Dave (25 April 1983). The Avengers. ITV Books in association with Michael Joseph. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
↑ "The Grandeur That Was Rome". The Avengers Forever!. Retrieved 14 May 2012.

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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"

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