Dressed to Kill (The Avengers)

"Dressed to Kill" is the fourteenth 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 28 December 1963. The episode was directed by Bill Bain and written by Brian Clemens.^[2]

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Plot

A false alarm triggers all but one of the nation's nuclear attack early warning systems. Steed and Cathy go undercover to investigate and are invited to a fancy dress party on a train. One of the party guests turns out to be a killer.^[3] The plot was reused in a later episode, The Superlative Seven.

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
Leonard Rossiter as Robin Hood, William J. Cavendish
Alexander Davion as Napoleon, Frederick Preston
Richard Leech as Policeman, Jack Roberts
John Junkin as Sheriff, Kenneth Johnson
Anneke Wills as Pussy Cat, Jane Wentworth
Anthea Windham as Highwaywoman, Dorothy Wilson
Leon Eagles as Newman
Frank Maher as Barman

References

^ Johnson, Piers. "Dressed to Kill". The Avengers. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
^ Rogers, Dave (25 April 1983). The Avengers. ITV Books in association with Michael Joseph. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
^ "Dressed to Kill". The Avengers Forever!. Retrieved 14 May 2012.

External links

The Avengers

Characters

Episodes

Series 1	"Hot Snow" "Crescent Moon" "Girl on the Trapeze" "Dance with Death" "The Frighteners" "Tunnel of Fear"
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	"From Venus with Love" "The Fear Merchants" "Escape in Time" "The See-Through Man" "The Bird Who Knew Too Much" "The Winged Avenger" "The Living Dead" "The Hidden Tiger" "The Correct Way to Kill" "The Superlative Seven" "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station" "Death's Door"
Series 6	"The Forget-Me-Knot" "Have Guns — Will Haggle" "The Morning After"

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