"The Sell Out"

The Avengers episode

Episode no.

Season 2
Episode 9

Directed by

Don Leaver

Written by

Brandon Brady
Anthony Terpiloff

Produced by

Leonard White

Featured music

John Dankworth (theme)

Production code

3502^[1]

Original air date

24 November 1962

Guest appearances

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"The Sell Out" is the ninth episode of the second series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee. It was first broadcast by ABC on 24 November 1962. The episode was directed by Don Leaver and written by Brandon Brady and Anthony Terpiloff.^[2]

Plot

Steed, though under suspicion himself, leads an operation to flush out a traitor plotting to assassinate a foreign dignitary.^[3] Dr. King initially refuses to be involved, but comes to Steed's aid.

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Jon Rollason as Dr. Martin King
Frank Gatliff as Mark Harvey
Carleton Hobbs as Monsieur Roland
Arthur Hewlett as One Twelve
Gillian Muir as Judy
Anne Godley as Lillian Harvey
Michael Mellinger as Fraser
Richard Klee as Workman
Storm Durr as Gunman
Cyril Renison as Customer
Anthony Blackshaw as Policeman
Ray Browne as Price

References

External links

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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"