The Decapod

"The Decapod"
The Avengers episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 3
Directed by	Don Leaver
Written by	Eric Paice
Produced by	Leonard White
Featured music	Laurie Johnson John Dankworth (theme)
Production code	2-3
Original air date	13 October 1962 (1962-10-13)
Guest actors
Paul Stassino Philip Madoc Wolfe Morris Lynn Furlong Raymond Adamson Harvey Ashby

"The Decapod" is the third 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 13 October 1962. The episode was directed by Don Leaver and written by Eric Paice.^[1]

Plot

Steed is brought in to protect the President of a Balkan Republic from a masked assassin.^[2] He sends Venus on a phony tour, with real wrestlers.

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Julie Stevens as Venus Smith
Paul Stassino as Yakob Borb
Philip Madoc as Stepan
Wolfe Morris as Ito
Lynn Furlong as Edna Ramsden
Raymond Adamson as Harry Ramsden
Harvey Ashby as Guard's Officer
Pamela Conway as Girl In Shower
Stanley M. Ayers as Ring Announcer
Doug Robinson as Bodyguard Georgi
Valentino Musetti as Bodyguard Sarkoff
Valerie Stanton as Cigarette Girl

References

↑ Rogers, Dave (25 April 1983). The Avengers. ITV Books in association with Michael Joseph. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
↑ "The Decapod". The Avengers Forever!. Retrieved 3 May 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"

Category:The Avengers

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