Avengers: The Frighteners (1961)
This episode was originally telecast May 27, 1961. The title refers to an organization that specializes in "persuading" people to do their bidding via brutal beatings. The head of the crooks is a man called The Deacon (Willoughby Goddard). The current target for the Frighteners is a man who disapproves of his daughter's fiancée, a man who specializes in marrying wealthy women in order to square his debts. As Steed tries to establish a link between the fiancée and the Frighteners, Dr. Keel goes undercover in hopes of exposing the Deacon, or at least to beat him at his own game. "The Frighteners" was written by Berkley Mather. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Director(s):
- Peter Hammond
Synopsis of Avengers: The Frighteners
This episode was originally telecast May 27, 1961. The title refers to an organization that specializes in "persuading" people to do their bidding via brutal beatings. The head of the crooks is a man called The Deacon (Willoughby Goddard). The current target for the Frighteners is a man who disapproves of his daughter's fiancée, a man who specializes in marrying wealthy women in order to square his debts. As Steed tries to establish a link between the fiancée and the Frighteners, Dr. Keel goes undercover in hopes of exposing the Deacon, or at least to beat him at his own game. "The Frighteners" was written by Berkley Mather. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Avengers: The Frighteners
- Doris Hare - Mrs. Briggs
- Godfrey James - Nature Boy
- Philip Locke - Moxon
- Neil Wilson - Beppi
- Charles Wood
- Dawn Beret - Marilyn Waller
- Eric Elliot - Butler
- David Andrews - Nigel
- Ian Hendry - Dr. David Keel
- Stratford Johns - Sir Thomas Waller
- Patrick Macnee - John Steed
- Philip Gilbert - Jeremy de Willoughby
- Willoughby Goddard - The Deacon
- Victor Charrington
- Frank Peters
- Director(s):
- Peter Hammond
- Writer(s):
- Berkley Mather
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