The Avengers: Season 4, Episode 2

The Gravediggers (4 Aug. 1966)

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Steed & Peel must find out why an early warning radar is failing. Emma joins the staff of The Sir Horace Winslip Hospital for Ailing Railwaymen while Steed has lunch with Sir Horace's aboard his private, indoor train.

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Ronald Fraser ...
Sir Horace Winslip
Paul Massie ...
Johnson
Caroline Blakiston ...
Miss Thirlwell
Victor Platt ...
Sexton
Charles Lamb ...
Fred
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Nurse Spray
Ray Austin ...
Baron
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Sager
Bryan Mosley ...
Miller
Lloyd Lamble ...
Dr. Hubert Marlow
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Steed & Peel must find out why an early warning radar is failing. Emma joins the staff of The Sir Horace Winslip Hospital for Ailing Railwaymen while Steed has lunch with Sir Horace's aboard his private, indoor train.

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Miss Thirlwell: No music in your room, no male visitors. No nail varnish, no elaborate hairdo's, regulation stockings and in by ten o'clock every night. I'm glad to have you with us, Mrs. Peel. I hope you'll be happy here.
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Watching the "Gravediggers" one can well see the way that "The Avengers" have come since their start. Done a season or two before the whole story might have been treated totally different. There is a serious approach to the plot at the beginning but as soon as the gravedigger take off with the corpse we know where we are. Many great scenes take place in a hospital, but the greatest attraction is the house and grounds of a train-crazy old fellow and his butler. This episode has everything that made "The Avengers" since Diana Rigg's appearance world famous. I'm not telling you more in case you have not seen it. But go see it!


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