Six Hands Across a Table

Six Hands Across a Table is the twenty-fifth episode of the second series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman. It originally aired on ABC on 16 March 1963. The episode was directed by Richmond Harding and written by Reed R. de Rouen.^[1]

Plot

Cathy becomes romantically involved with shipyard owner Oliver Waldner, blissfully unaware that he is masterminding a dastardly plan to gain control of most of Britain’s shipbuilding industry. After she nearly dies in an apparent accident, Steed sets out to prove that Waldner has murdered a business rival.^[2]

Cast

• Patrick Macnee as John Steed
• Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
• Guy Doleman as Oliver Waldner
• Campbell Singer as George Stanley
• Philip Madoc as Julian Seabrook
• Edward de Souza as Brian Collier
• John Wentworth as Sir Charles Reniston
• Sylvia Bidmead as Rosalind Waldner
• Frank Sieman as Bert Barnes
• Stephen Hancock as Draughtsman
• Freda Bamford as Lady Reniston
• Gillian Barclay as Miss Francis
• Ilona Rodgers as Receptionist
• Ian Cunningham as Butler, Thomas

References

External links

• Six Hands Across a Table 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