Series: | The Avengers |
Season: | 2 |
Episode: | 20 |
Production: | 3519[1] |
Director: | Jonathan Alwyn |
Music: | John Dankworth (theme) |
Guests: | |
Episode List: | List of The Avengers episodes |
Prev: | The Golden Eggs |
Next: | The White Dwarf |
"School for Traitors" is the twentieth episode of the second series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Julie Stevens. It was first broadcast in the Teledu Cymru region of the ITV network on Friday 8 February 1963. ABC Weekend TV, who produced the show for ITV, broadcast it the next day in its own regions. The episode was directed by Jonathan Alwyn and written by James Mitchell.[2]
During a spate of suicides at a university, a burglar seeks a note to Venus. Steed uncovers a sinister plot to blackmail students into espionage activities.[3]
Julie Stevens sings Put On a Happy Face with lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse from Bye Bye Birdie, and Yellow Bird by Alan and Marilyn Bergman