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The Secrets Broker

  • Episode aired Mar 28, 1991
  • TV-14
  • 52m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
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Patrick Macnee in The Avengers (1961)
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An agent is killed at a wine shop and Steed realises that one of two brothers ,Frederick Paignton, who works in the shop, has been blackmailed by his boss into the murder. In the shop's cell... Read allAn agent is killed at a wine shop and Steed realises that one of two brothers ,Frederick Paignton, who works in the shop, has been blackmailed by his boss into the murder. In the shop's cellar there is a darkroom, used to develop military secrets on microfilm. Frederick's brother... Read allAn agent is killed at a wine shop and Steed realises that one of two brothers ,Frederick Paignton, who works in the shop, has been blackmailed by his boss into the murder. In the shop's cellar there is a darkroom, used to develop military secrets on microfilm. Frederick's brother Allan's fiancee Marion, meanwhile, is being forced to shut down the security system at th... Read all

  • Director
    • Jonathan Alwyn
  • Writer
    • Ludovic Peters
  • Stars
    • Patrick Macnee
    • Honor Blackman
    • Avice Landone
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.4/10
    102
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Jonathan Alwyn
    • Writer
      • Ludovic Peters
    • Stars
      • Patrick Macnee
      • Honor Blackman
      • Avice Landone
    • 3User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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    Patrick Macnee
    Patrick Macnee
    • John Steed
    Honor Blackman
    Honor Blackman
    • Catherine Gale
    Avice Landone
    Avice Landone
    • Mrs. Wilson
    • (as Avice Landon)
    Jack May
    Jack May
    • Waller
    Ronald Allen
    Ronald Allen
    • Allan Paignton
    John Stone
    • Frederick Paignton
    Patricia English
    • Marion Howard
    John Ringham
    John Ringham
    • Cliff Howard
    Brian Hankins
    • Jim Carey
    Jennifer Wood
    Jennifer Wood
    • Julia Wilson
    Valentino Musetti
    • Bruno
    Billy John
    • Man at Seance
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Jonathan Alwyn
    • Writer
      • Ludovic Peters
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    • Trivia
      Honor Blackman and Ronald Allen had previously appeared in A Night to Remember (1958).
    • Goofs
      In the very last scene, the camera moves in a little too close to the table Steed and Gale are standing behind and bumps into it, making the screen wobble for a moment.
    • Quotes

      John Steed: What we've got to do, is to keep it on the secret list. We've got a week to do it in, 'cause it's going to the Pacific for testing.

      Catherine Gale: They've only got a week, too, so I suppose they're bound to try something.

      John Steed: They'll try all sorts of things, most of them dirty. There are no more gentlemen in this game.

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    7/10
    Patricia English again a standout
    "The Secrets Broker" is a pleasant surprise, with Patricia English, so good in "Mission to Montreal," again providing the standout performance, as Marion Howard, blackmailed by a phony medium (Avice Landon) and a shady wine merchant (Jack May) into trying to deliver her husband's designs for a secret underwater tracking device. The villains are able to effect their plans because Marion has been dallying with another man (Ronald Allen), whose brother (John Stone, "The Joker," "The Rotters") is an unwilling pawn in the game of murder and deception. Valentino Musetti, previously seen in "Death A La Carte," again plays a henchman/bodyguard, with John Ringman, later seen in "A Sense of History," playing the doomed husband. It's certainly unusual to see a passionate affair depicted on the show, even if it is an extramarital one, and American-born Patricia English would be back for one more episode, "Never, Never Say Die." In her only AVENGERS appearance, Avice Landon may be best remembered by horror fans as Mistress Isobel Banham in 1970's "The Blood on Satan's Claw," one of the last undisputed classics of Britain's 20 year Golden Age signified by Hammer, Amicus, Tigon, Planet, and Tyburn.
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    • Release date
      • March 28, 1991 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Production companies
      • ABC Weekend Television
      • Associated British Corporation
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    • Runtime
      52 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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