The Avengers: The Mauritius Penny (1962)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 10 November 1962
Episode Running Times: 50 mins
Format: black and white
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Producer: Leonard White

SCRIPT
Script: Malcolm Hulke, Terrance Dicks
Story Editor: John Bryce

DIRECTION
Director: Richmond Harding

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Phillip Harrison

CAST
Patrick Macnee (John Steed)
Honor Blackman (Cathy Gale)
Alfred Burke (Brown)
David Langton (Gerald Shelly)
Richard Vernon (Lord Matterley)
Sylvia Langova (Sheila Gray)
Edward Jewesbury (Maitland)
Harry Shacklock (Peckham)
Alan Rolfe (Goodchild)
Philip Guard (Inspector Burke)
Grace Arnold (Charlady)
Edward Higgins (PC Andrews)
Delia Corrie (Miss Power)
Raymond Hodge (Porter)
Edwin Brown (lorry driver)
Anthony Blackshaw (lorry driver's mate)
Theodore Wilhelm (foreign delegate)
Anthony Rogers (boy)

PLOT SUMMARY

When an extremely rare stamp turns up on a common catalogue list, it sets off alarm bells, which then become louder when the man who discovered it turns up dead. Steed and Cathy's investigations lead them to infiltrate an extremist political group that is planning to overthrow several key European governments.

1962
October
18: UK - production ends

November
10: UK - television broadcast (on ITV (London region))

1991
February
Day Unknown: USA - television broadcast (A&E Cable)

KEYWORDS

secret agents; stamps; philatelists