The Avengers: You'll Catch Your Death (1969)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 2 February 1969
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PRODUCTION
Executive in Charge of Production: Gordon L.T. Scott
Producers: Albert Fennell, Brian Clemens
Production Controller: Jack Greenwood

SCRIPT
Script: Jeremy Burnham
Script Editor: Terry Nation
Consultant to the Series: Julian Wintle
Story Consultant: Philip Levene

DIRECTION
Director: Paul Dickson

MUSIC
Music: Laurie Johnson
Additional Music: Howard Blake

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Robert Jones

CAST
Patrick Macnee (John Steed)
Linda Thorson (Tara King)
Ronald Culver (Colonel Timothy)
Valentine Dyall (butler)
Fulton Mackay (Glover)
Sylvia Kay (matron)
Patrick Newell (mother)
Dudley Sutton (Dexter)
Peter Bourne (Preece)
Charles Lloyd Pack (Fawcett)
Henry McGee (Maidwell)
Hamilton Dyce (Camrose)
Bruno Barnabe (Farrar)
Fiona Hartford (Janice)
Geoffrey Chater (Seaton)
Jennifer Clulow (Georgina)
Emma Cochrane (Melanie)
Willoughby Gray (Padley)
Andrew Laurence (Herrick)
Douglas Blackwell (postman)

PLOT SUMMARY

Ear-nose-throat specialists are dying in mysterious circumstances, their bodies found next to a single, empty envelope. Steed's investigations reveal that a nursing school has recently ordered 10,000 envelopes - but no writing paper...

1968
May
24: UK - production ends

October
7: USA - television broadcast (in New York)
16: USA - television broadcast (in London)

KEYWORDS

secret agents, nurses, nursing schools, doctors