"Double Danger" sounds like a winner among the first season's regrettable lost episodes, as Steed orchestrates the prison escape of convicted diamond smuggler Ted Mace (Howard Daley), only to then have Mace kidnapped by Al Brady (Peter Reynolds, first of two) and Bert Mills (Ron Pember, first of two). Brady and Mills are working for the very jeweler they were stolen from, Leonard Bruton (Kevin Brennan, first of two), but as they drive off Mace is shot and needs urgent medical assistance. Enter David Keel, lured by a false tale of glass cuts by Lola Carrington (Vanda Hudson), finding his patient near death on a houseboat. He manages to get a note to his nurse Carol (Ingrid Hafner), who then puts Steed on Keel's trail, rescuing him before the villains can kill the doctor, who was issued a clue in Mace's dying confession: "it was John Bartholomew's plot..." It seems that Bruton was working with Mace to steal his own uncut gems, searching in vain for their whereabouts ever since. Brady confronts Bruton and assures himself of the entire haul by shooting his employer dead, before heading off to the home of the mysterious John Bartholomew. A busy and brisk storyline, also featuring Charles Hodgson (first of two) and Robert Mill (first of two).
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