The Mauritius Penny

"The Mauritius Penny"
The Avengers episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 7
Directed by	Richmond Harding
Written by	Malcolm Hulke Terrance Dicks
Produced by	Leonard White
Featured music	Laurie Johnson John Dankworth (theme)
Production code	2-7
Original air date	10 November 1962 (1962-11-10)
Guest actors
Alfred Burke David Langton Richard Vernon Sylva Langova Edward Jewesbury Harry Shacklock

The Mauritius Penny is the seventh 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 10 November 1962. The episode was directed by Richmond Harding and written by Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks.^[1]

Plot

A philatelist is murdered after discovering an extremely rare and valuable stamp on sale. Steed and Cathy investigate and encounter a naughty dentist.^[2]

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
Alfred Burke as Brown
David Langton as Gerald Shelley
Richard Vernon as Lord Matterley
Sylva Langova as Sheila Gray
Edward Jewesbury as Maitland
Harry Shacklock as Percy Peckham
Philip Guard as Peter Goodchild
Alan Rolfe as Inspector Burke
Grace Arnold as Elsie, Charlady
Edward Higgins as P.C. Andrews
Delia Corrie as Miss Power
Raymond Hodge as Auction Porter
Edwin Brown as Lorry Driver
Anthony Blackshaw as Lorry Driver's Mate
Theodore Wilhelm as Foreign Delegate

References

↑ Rogers, Dave (25 April 1983). The Avengers. ITV Books in association with Michael Joseph. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
↑ "The Mauritius Penny". 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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