The Golden Eggs Explained

Series:	The Avengers
Season:	2
Episode:	19
Production:	3518^[1]
Director:	Peter Hammond
Music:	John Dankworth (theme)
Guests:	Peter Arne Pauline Delaney Donald Eccles Gordon Whiting Robert Bernal
Episode List:	List of The Avengers episodes
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"The Golden Eggs" is the nineteenth episode of the second series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman, and made by ABC Weekend TV. It was first broadcast in the Teledu Cymru region of the ITV network on Friday 1 February 1963. ABC broadcast it the next day in its own regions. The episode was directed by Peter Hammond and written by Martin Woodhouse.^[2]

Plot

A burglar steals two gold-plated eggs from a laboratory not knowing that they contain a deadly virus.^[3]

Cast

• Patrick Macnee as John Steed
• Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
• Peter Arne as Julius Redfern
• Pauline Delaney as Elizabeth Bayle
• Donald Eccles as Dr. Ashe
• Gordon Whiting as Leon DeLeon
• Robert Bernal as Hillier
• Irene Bradshaw as Diana DeLeon
• Louis Haslar as Campbell
• Charlie Bird as Hall

External links

• • Episode overview on The Avengers Forever! website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Johnson . Piers . The Golden Eggs . The Avengers . 10 June 2022.
2. Book: Rogers, Dave. The Avengers. 10 April 2012. 25 April 1983. ITV Books in association with Michael Joseph.
3. Web site: The Golden Eggs. The Avengers Forever!. 20 April 2012.