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	Laurie Johnson, John Dankworth (theme)
Production code	1-6
Original air date	11 February 1961 (1961-02-11)
Guest actors
Kenneth Warren Mia Karam Howard Goorney

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, Patrick Macnee and Ingrid Hafner, and guest starring Mia Karam, Howard Goorney, and Kenneth Warren. It was performed and aired live on ABC on 11 February 1961, and is one of only two Season 1 episodes which are currently known to exist, complete. The episode was directed by Don Leaver, and written by Dennis Spooner.^[1] ^[2]

Plot

Dr. Keel rescues a young girl who tries to commit suicide by jumping into the Thames River. The girl is a trapeze artist with a visiting Eastern European circus. Foreign agents are trying to use her to force her father, a defecting scientist, 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 Carmelita Mendoza
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.^[3]

References

↑ "The Avengers : Series 1 : Girl On The Trapeze". dissolute.com.au.
↑ "Girl on the Trapeze". BFI.
↑ "Girl on the Trapeze". The Avengers Forever!. Retrieved 4 March 2013.

External links

The Avengers

Characters

Episodes

Series 1	"Hot Snow" "Crescent Moon" "Girl on the Trapeze" "Dance with Death" "The Frighteners"

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	"Death's Door"

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