"Dead on Course"

The Avengers episode

Episode no.

Season 2
Episode 14

Directed by

Richmond Harding

Written by

Eric Paice

Produced by

Leonard White

Featured music

John Dankworth (theme)

Production code

3501^[1]

Original air date

29 December 1962

Guest appearances

Jon Rollason
John McLaren
Liam Gaffney
Donal Donnelly
Peggy Marshall
Elizabeth Murray

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"Dead on Course" is the fourteenth episode of the second season of the 1960s British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee. It was first broadcast by ABC on 29 December 1962. The episode was directed by Richmond Harding and written by Eric Paice.^[2]

Plot

Canadian aircraft crash off course, near an Irish convent. But what happened to the crew?^[3]

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Jon Rollason as Dr. Martin King
John McLaren as Freedman
Liam Gaffney as Michael Joyce
Donal Donnelly as Vincent O'Brien
Peggy Marshall as Mother Superior
Elisabeth Murray as Deidre O'Connor/Slade
Janet Hargreaves as Sister Isobel
Nigel Arkwright as Mr. Hughes
Bruce Boa as Bob Austin Slade
Margo Jenkins as Margot
Trevor Reid as Pilot
Edward Kelsey as Gerry
Denis Cleary as Ambulance Man
Wilfred Grove as Male Nun

References

External links

The Avengers

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"