"The Secrets Broker"

The Avengers episode

Episode no.

Season 3
Episode 19

Directed by

Jonathan Alwyn

Written by

Ludovic Peters

Produced by

John Bryce

Featured music

John Dankworth (theme)

Production code

3613^[1]

Original air date

1 February 1964

Guest appearances

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"The Secrets Broker" is the nineteenth 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 1 February 1964. The episode was directed by Jonathan Alwyn and written by Ludovic Peters.^[2]

Plot

Spirits order a murder, leading to blackmail and a wine shop that is being used as a front for espionage activities.^[3]

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
Avice Landone as Mrs. May Wilson
Jack May as Waller
Ronald Allen as Allan Paignton
John Stone as Frederick Paignton
Patricia English as Marion Howard
John Ringham as Cliff Howard
Brian Hankins as Jim Carey
Jennifer Wood as Julia Wilson
Valentino Musetti as Bruno

References

External links

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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"