The Avengers: Trojan Horse (1964)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 8 February 1964
Episode Running Times: 50 mins
Format: black and white
Sound: mono

SCRIPT
Script: Malcolm Hulke

DIRECTION
Director: Laurence Bourne

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Richard Harrison

CAST
Patrick Macnee (John Steed)
Honor Blackman (Cathy Gale)
Basil Dignam (Major Ronald Pantling)
T.P. McKenna (Tony Heuston)
Derek Newark (Johnson)
Arthur Pentelow (George Meadows)
Geoffrey Whitehead (Rt. Hon. Lucien Ffordsham)
Lucinda Curtis (Ann Meadows)
John Lowe (Lynton Smith)
James Donnelly (Kirby)
Marjorie Keys (tote girl)

PLOT SUMMARY

Steed and Cathy investigate a stable where a betting syndicate is also running an assassination service using special binoculars that fire poison darts. Cathy goes undercover as a bookie's assistant while Steed arrives at the races to keep watch on a champion horse...

1964
January
30: UK - production ends

February
8: UK - television broadcast (on ITV in London area)

1991
March
Day Unknown: USA - television broadcast

KEYWORDS

secret agents; horses; horse racing; binoculars; poison darts