The Big Thinker

Episode aired Feb 11, 1991
52m

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Honor Blackman, David Garth, and Walter Hudd in The Avengers (1961)

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A powerful computer used to target incoming missiles continually breaks down. When one of scientists who developed the machine is found dead inside it, Steed and Cathy are asked to investiga... Read allA powerful computer used to target incoming missiles continually breaks down. When one of scientists who developed the machine is found dead inside it, Steed and Cathy are asked to investigate.A powerful computer used to target incoming missiles continually breaks down. When one of scientists who developed the machine is found dead inside it, Steed and Cathy are asked to investigate.

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Honor Blackman and Anthony Booth in The Avengers (1961)

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Dr. Clemens: Now tell me, what is your interest in computers, and Plato in particular?
Catherine Gale: Plato?
Dr. Clemens: Well, that is what we call him.
Catherine Gale: Oh, the computers in this building?
Dr. Clemens: Plato is this building, Mrs. Gale. The whole building.

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The Big Thinker

Cathy Gale takes the lead here. She poses as an anthropologist who learning about a new British supercomputer called Plato. However one of the scientists on the project is killed. There is concern about the loud cocky project leader Dr James Kearns (Anthony Booth) who likes to play poker too much with shady types and makes himself vulnerable to malign influences.

Cathy Gale accompanies Kearns as he mounts up loses in his poker games. She also discovers that another scientist is killed and then both her and Kearns are locked with the temperature getting colder and colder.

Steed does show up with his handy umbrella for one important scene but this Gayle who once again shows off her martial arts skill.

It is a bit of a mystery thriller, a case of who is the saboteur. The scene where they are supposedly freezing to death did not have the most convincing acting.

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