Series: | The Avengers |
Season: | 5 |
Episode: | 5 |
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Director: | Roy Rossotti |
Producer: | Albert Fennell, Brian Clemens, Julian Wintle |
Music: | Laurie Johnson |
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Episode List: | List of The Avengers episodes |
Prev: | The See-Through Man |
Next: | The Winged Avenger |
"The Bird Who Knew Too Much" is the fifth 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 Ron Moody, Ilona Rodgers, Kenneth Cope, and Michael Coles.[1] It was first broadcast in the Southern and Tyne Tees regions of the ITV network on Wednesday 8 February 1967. ABC Weekend Television, who commissioned the show for ITV, broadcast it in its own regions three days later on Saturday 11 February.[2] The episode was directed by Roy Rossotti, and written by Brian Clemens.
When fellow counter-espionage agents are murdered checking out a plot to sell secrets of a missile base to foreign powers, Steed and Emma have to find if birds are being used in the scheme especially under the leadership of Captain Crusoe.