The Big Thinker

"The Big Thinker"
The Avengers episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 12
Directed by	Kim Mills
Written by	Martin Woodhouse
Produced by	Leonard White
Featured music	Laurie Johnson John Dankworth (theme)
Production code	2-12
Original air date	15 December 1962 (1962-12-15)
Guest actors
Antony Booth Walter Hudd David Garth Tenniel Evans Allan McClelland

The Big Thinker is the twelfth 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 15 December 1962. The episode was directed by Kim Mills and written by Martin Woodhouse.^[1]

Plot

A new cryogenic missile defence system computer, Plato, springs a deadly leak. Sabotage? Murder? Steed investigates while Cathy plays cards with sharks.^[2]

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
Antony Booth as Dr. James Kearns
Walter Hudd as Dr. Clemens
David Garth as Dr. Farrow
Tenniel Evans as Dr. Hurst
Allan McClelland as Nicky Broster
Penelope Lee as Clarissa
Marina Martin as Janet Lingfield
Ray Browne as Blakelock
Clive Baxter as Nino

References

↑ Rogers, Dave (25 April 1983). The Avengers. ITV Books in association with Michael Joseph. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
↑ "The Big Thinker". The Avengers Forever!. Retrieved 28 April 2012.

External links

The Avengers

Characters

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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