November Five

November Five is the 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 2 November 1963. The episode was directed by Bill Bain and written by Eric Paice.^[1]

Plot

Newly elected Member of Parliament, Michael Dyter, fakes his own death only to reappear later in possession of a nuclear bomb which he threatens to detonate on 5 November, in London. Steed and Cathy go into politics, during a race against time to hunt him down.^[2]

Cast

• Patrick Macnee as John Steed
• Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
• Ruth Dunning as Mrs. Ellen Dove
• David Davies as Arthur Dove
• Ric Hutton as Mark St. John
• David Langton as Major Gavin Swinburne
• Iris Russell as Fiona
• Gary Hope as Michael Osborne Dyter
• Joe Robinson as Max
• Aimée Delamain as 1st Lady
• John Murray Scott as Returning Officer
• Frank Maher as Farmer

References

External links

• November Five 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 Father 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