"The Nutshell"

The Avengers episode

Screen title

Episode no.

Season 3
Episode 4

Directed by

Raymond Menmuir

Written by

Philip Chambers

Produced by

John Bryce

Featured music

John Dankworth (theme)

Production code

3602^[1]

Original air date

19 October 1963

Guest appearances

Bud Tingwell
John Cater
Patricia Haines
Christine Shaw
Edina Ronay
Ian Clark

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"The Nutshell" is the fourth 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 19 October 1963. The episode was directed by Raymond Menmuir.^[2]

Plot

Steed and Cathy investigate espionage by a pretty burglar in "The Nutshell", codename for a top-secret underground nuclear shelter.^[3] They are not telling each other everything, and somewhere a traitor lurks.

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
Bud Tingwell as Mick Venner
John Cater as Disco
Patricia Haines as Laura
Christine Shaw as Susan Campbell
Edina Ronay as Elin Strindberg
Ian Clark as Anderson
Ray Browne as Alex
Jan Conrad as Jason Avon
Edwin Brown as Military Policeman, Bill

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"