Esprit de Corps (The Avengers)

"Esprit de Corps"

The Avengers episode

Episode no.

Season 3
Episode 25

Directed by

Don Leaver

Written by

Eric Paice

Produced by

John Bryce

Featured music

John Dankworth (theme)

Production code

3624^[1]

Original air date

14 March 1964

Guest appearances

Episode chronology

← Previous
"Concerto"

Next →
"Lobster Quadrille"

List of episodes

"Esprit de Corps" is the twenty-fifth episode of the third series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman. It was first broadcast by ABC on 14 March 1964. The episode was directed by Don Leaver and written by Eric Paice.^[2]

YouTube Encyclopedic

1/1
Views:
142 349

Transcription

Plot

Steed and Cathy investigate the murder of a soldier and uncover a plot to stage a coup d'état against the British government.^[3] The regal Mrs Gale meets a strangler who's not a true gentleman.

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
Duncan Macrae as Brigadier General Sir Ian Stuart-Bollinger
Joyce Heron as Lady Dorothy Stuart-Bollinger
Roy Kinnear as Private Jessop
John Thaw as Captain Trench
Pearl Catlin as Mrs. Angela Craig
Doug Robinson as Sergeant Marsh
Hugh Morton as Admiral, Harry
Anthony Blackshaw as Private Hamish Asquith
James Falkland as Signaller
George Alexander as Piper
George Macrae as Highland Dancer
Tony Lambden as Drummer

References

^ Johnson, Piers. "Esprit de Corps". The Avengers. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
^ Rogers, Dave (25 April 1983). The Avengers. ITV Books in association with Michael Joseph. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
^ "Esprit de Corps". The Avengers Forever!. Retrieved 19 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"

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia