School for Traitors

"School for Traitors"
The Avengers episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 20
Directed by	Jonathan Alwyn
Written by	James Mitchell
Produced by	John Bryce
Featured music	Laurie Johnson John Dankworth (theme)
Production code	2-20
Original air date	10 February 1963 (1963-02-10)
Guest appearance(s)
Melissa Stribling Anthony Nicholls John Standing Richard Thorp Reginald Marsh

School for Traitors is the twentieth 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 10 February 1963. The episode was directed by Jonathan Alwyn and written by James Mitchell.^[1]

Plot

During a spate of suicides at a university, a burglar seeks a note to Venus. Steed uncovers a sinister plot to blackmail students into espionage activities.^[2]

Music

Julie Stevens sings Put On a Happy Face with lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse from Bye Bye Birdie, and Yellow Bird by Alan and Marilyn Bergman

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Julie Stevens as Venus Smith
Melissa Stribling as Claire Summers
Anthony Nicholls as Dr. Shanklin
John Standing as Ted East
Richard Thorp as Jack Roberts
Reginald Marsh as Higby
Frank Shelley as Professor Aubyn
Frederick Farley as One Seven
Terence Woodfield as Green
Ronald Mayer as Proctor
Jane Butlin as Barmaid

References

↑ Rogers, Dave (25 April 1983). The Avengers. ITV Books in association with Michael Joseph. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
↑ "School for Traitors". The Avengers Forever!. Retrieved 20 April 2012.

External links

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Characters

Episodes

Series 1	"Hot Snow" "Crescent Moon" "Girl on the Trapeze" "Dance with Death" "The Frighteners" "Tunnel of Fear"
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" "Death at Bargain Prices" "Castle De'Ath" "The Master Minds" "The Murder Market" "A Surfeit of H2O" "The Hour That Never Was" "Dial a Deadly Number" "Man-Eater of Surrey Green" "Two's A Crowd" "Too Many Christmas Trees" "Silent Dust" "Room Without a View" "Small Game for Big Hunters" "The Girl from AUNTIE" "The Thirteenth Hole" "Quick, Quick Slow Death" "The Danger Makers" "A Touch of Brimstone" "What the Butler Saw" "The House That Jack Built" "A Sense of History" "How to Succeed... at Murder" "Honey for the Prince"
Series 5	"From Venus with Love" "The Fear Merchants" "Escape in Time" "The See-Through Man" "The Bird Who Knew Too Much" "The Winged Avenger" "The Living Dead" "The Hidden Tiger" "The Correct Way to Kill" "Never, Never Say Die" "Epic" "The Superlative Seven" "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station" "Something Nasty in the Nursery" "The Joker" "Return of the Cybernauts" "Death's Door" "The £50,000 Breakfast" "Dead Man's Treasure" "You Have Just Been Murdered" "The Positive-Negative Man" "Murdersville" "Mission... Highly Improbable"
Series 6	"The Forget-Me-Knot" "Game" "Super-Secret Cypher Snatch" "You'll Catch Your Death" "Split!" "Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40?" "False Witness" "All Done With Mirrors" "Legacy of Death" "Noon Doomsday" "Look - (Stop Me If You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellers..." "Have Guns — Will Haggle" "They Keep Killing Steed" "The Interrogators" "The Rotters" "Invasion of the Earthmen" "Killer" "The Morning After" "The Curious Case of the Countless Clues" "Wish You Were Here" "Love All" "Stay Tuned" "Take Me To Your Leader" "Fog" "Who Was That Man I Saw You With?" "Homicide and Old Lace" "Thingumajig" "My Wildest Dream" "Requiem" "Take-Over" "Pandora" "Get-a-Way" "Bizarre"

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