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The Correct Way to Kill

9th episode of the 5th season of The Avengers

"The Correct Way to Kill"

The Avengers episode

Episode no.

Season 5
Episode 9

Directed by

Charles Crichton

Written by

Brian Clemens (teleplay)

Produced by

Albert Fennell, Brian Clemens, Julian Wintle

Featured music

Laurie Johnson

Original air dates

8 March 1967 (1967-03-08) (Southern Television)
11 March 1967 (ABC Weekend TV)

Guest appearances

Anna Quayle
Michael Gough
Philip Madoc
Terence Alexander

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"The Correct Way to Kill" is the ninth episode of the fifth series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg, and guest starring Anna Quayle, Michael Gough, Philip Madoc, and Terence Alexander.^[1] It was first broadcast in the Southern and Tyne Tees regions of the ITV network on Wednesday 8 March 1967. ABC Weekend Television, who commissioned the show for ITV, broadcast it in its own regions three days later on Saturday 11 March.^[2] The episode was directed by Charles Crichton, and written by Brian Clemens.

Plot

Soviet agents are being hunted down and killed by sharp dressed villains prompting Steed and Emma to team up with Soviet agents Olga and Nutski.

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Diana Rigg as Emma Peel
Anna Quayle as Olga
Michael Gough as Nutski
Philip Madoc as Ivan
Terence Alexander as Ponsonby
Peter Barkworth as Percy
Graham Armitage as Algy
Timothy Bateson as Merryweather
Joanna Jones as Hilda
Edwin Apps as Winters
John G. Heller as Groski

References

^ "The Correct Way to Kill". BBC. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
^ Johnson, Piers. "Series 5 Episode Guide". The Avengers. Retrieved 20 May 2022.

External links

"The Correct Way to Kill" at IMDb
Episode overview on The Avengers Forever! website

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"