The Avengers: Dial a Deadly Number (1965)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 4 December 1965
Episode Running Times: 50 mins
Format: black and white
Sound: mono

SCRIPT
Script: Roger Marshall

DIRECTION
Director: Don Leaver

CAST
Patrick Macnee (John Steed)
Diana Rigg (Emma Peel)
Clifford Evans (Henry Boardman)
Jan Holden (Ruth Boardman)
Anthony Newlands (Ben Jago)
John Carson (Fitch)
Peter Bowles (John Harvey)
Gerald Sim (Frederick Yuill)
Michael Trubshawe (The General)
Norman Chappell (Macombie)
John Bailey (Warner)
Edward Cast (waiter)
Tina Packer (Suzanne - uncredited)

PLOT SUMMARY

The business world is in danger of being destabilised by a series of deaths of prominent businessmen who have all died unexpectedly of heart failure. Steed and Emma investigate and meet a man with an obsession with clocks who seems to be running things behind the scenes.

1965
January
11: UK - production begins
22: UK - production ends

December
3: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)

1966
July
21: USA - original date set for television broadcast but cancelled
24: USA - television broadcast

KEYWORDS

secret agents; bankers; businessmen; clocks