Girl on the Trapeze

"Girl on the Trapeze"
The Avengers episode
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 6
Directed by	Don Leaver
Written by	Dennis Spooner
Produced by	Leonard White
Featured music	John Dankworth (theme)
Production code	3370[1]
Original air date	11 February 1961 (1961-02-11)
Guest appearances
Kenneth Warren Mia Karam Howard Goorney
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"Girl on the Trapeze" is the sixth episode of the first series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Ian Hendry and Ingrid Hafner, and guest starring Mia Karam, Howard Goorney, and Kenneth J. Warren. It was performed and aired live on ABC on 11 February 1961, and is one of only three series 1 episodes which are currently^[when?] known to exist, complete. The episode was directed by Don Leaver, and written by Dennis Spooner.^[2][3]

It is notable as being one of only a handful of Avengers episodes in which the character of John Steed, played by Patrick Macnee (and who, at this point in the series' history, was a supporting character to Hendry's David Keel, not the lead), does not appear.

Plot

Dr. Keel rescues a young woman who tries to commit suicide by jumping into the River Thames. The woman is a trapeze artist with a visiting Central European circus. Foreign agents are trying to use her to force her father, a scientist who defected to Britain, to return to his country home.

Cast

• Ian Hendry as Dr. David Keel
• Ingrid Hafner as Carol Wilson
• Mia Karam as Anna Danilov
• Howard Goorney as Supt. Lewis
• Kenneth J. Warren as Zibbo
• Edwin Richfield as Stefan
• Delena Kidd as Vera Korsova
• Ivor Salter as Police Sergeant
• David Grey as Dr. Sterret
• Dorothy Blythe as Box Office Clerk
• Ian Gardiner as Policeman
• Andy Alston as Turek

Production

The episode was broadcast live on ABC on 11 February 1961.^[4]

References

External links

• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0516844/
• Episode overview on The Avengers Forever! website

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Characters

• John Steed
• Cathy Gale
• Emma Peel
• Tara King
• Mike Gambit
• Purdey
• Mother

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" "A Surfeit of H2O" "The Hour That Never Was" "A Touch of Brimstone" "What the Butler Saw"
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" "The Superlative Seven" "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station" "Death's Door"
Series 6	"The Forget-Me-Knot" "Have Guns — Will Haggle" "The Morning After"

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