The Gravediggers (The Avengers)

"The Gravediggers"
The Avengers episode
Villain ties Mrs Peel to track
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 2
Directed by	Quentin Lawrence
Written by	Malcolm Hulke
Produced by	Brian Clemens Julian Wintle
Featured music	Laurie Johnson
Production code	4-2
Original air date	7 October 1965 (1965-10-07)
Guest actors
Ronald Fraser Paul Massie Caroline Blakiston Victor Platt Charles Lamb Wanda Ventham

The Gravediggers is the second episode of the fourth series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg. It was first aired on ABC on 7 October 1965. The episode was directed by Quentin Lawrence, and written by Malcolm Hulke.^[1]

Plot

Steed and Emma visit a railway buff to investigate a deathly plot to sabotage the country's early warning radar defence systems.^[2]

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Diana Rigg as Emma Peel
Ronald Fraser as Sir Horace Winslip
Paul Massie as Johnson
Caroline Blakiston as Miss Thirlwell
Victor Platt as Sexton
Charles Lamb as Fred
Wanda Ventham as Nurse Spray
Ray Austin as Baron
Steven Berkoff as Sager
Bryan Mosley as Miller
Lloyd Lamble as Dr. Hubert Marlow
Aubrey Richards as Dr. Palmer (uncredited)

References

↑ Rogers, Dave (25 April 1983). The Avengers. ITV Books in association with Michael Joseph. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
↑ "The Avengers Forever:The Gravediggers". The Avengers Forever!. Retrieved 6 April 2013.

External links

The Gravediggers at the Internet Movie Database

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

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, October 22, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.