The Nutshell (The Avengers)

"The Nutshell"
The Avengers episode
Screen title
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 4
Directed by	Raymond Menmuir
Written by	Philip Chambers
Produced by	John Bryce
Featured music	Laurie Johnson John Dankworth (theme)
Production code	3-4
Original air date	19 October 1963 (1963-10-19)
Guest actors
Bud Tingwell John Cater Patricia Haines Christine Shaw Edina Ronay Ian Clark

The Nutshell is the fourth episode of the third series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman. It originally aired on ABC on 19 October 1963. The episode was directed by Raymond Menmuir and written by Philip Chambers.^[1]

Plot

Steed and Cathy investigate espionage by a pretty burglar in "The Nutshell", codename for a top-secret underground nuclear shelter.^[2] They are not telling each other everything, and somewhere a traitor lurks.

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
Bud Tingwell as Mike Venner
John Cater as Disco
Patricia Haines as Laura
Christine Shaw as Susan
Edina Ronay as Elin Strindberg
Ian Clark as Anderson
Ray Browne as Alex
Jan Conrad as Jason Avon
Edwin Brown as Military Policeman, Bill

References

↑ Rogers, Dave (25 April 1983). The Avengers. ITV Books in association with Michael Joseph. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
↑ "The Nutshell". The Avengers Forever!. Retrieved 10 May 2012.

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"

Category:The Avengers

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