Box of Tricks (The Avengers)

"Box of Tricks"
The Avengers episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 17
Directed by	Kim Mills
Written by	Peter Ling Edward Rhodes
Produced by	John Bryce
Featured music	Laurie Johnson John Dankworth (theme)
Production code	2-17
Original air date	20 January 1963 (1963-01-20)
Guest actors
Jane Barratt Maurice Hedley Edgar Wreford Ian Curry April Olrich

Box of Tricks is the seventeenth 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 20 January 1963. The episode was directed by Kim Mills and written by Peter Ling and Edward Rhodes.^[1]

Plot

Death of a nightclub magician's assistant leads through a crippled general and his quack, to employment opportunities and secret documents.^[2]

Cast

• Patrick Macnee as John Steed
• Julie Stevens as Venus Smith
• Jane Barratt as Kathleen Sutherland
• Maurice Hedley as General Sutherland
• Edgar Wreford as Dr. Gallam
• Ian Curry as Gerry Weston
• April Olrich as Denise
• Dallas Cavell as Manager
• Jacqueline Jones as Henriette
• Robert Hartley as Nena the Barman
• Royston Tickner as Maitre D'
• Gail Starforth as Maid
• Lynn Taylor as Valerie

References

External links

• Box of Tricks at the Internet Movie Database
• Episode overview on The Avengers Forever! website

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