| Series: | The Avengers |
| Season: | 5 |
| Episode: | 7 |
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| Director: | John Krish |
| Producer: | Albert Fennell, Brian Clemens, Julian Wintle |
| Music: | Laurie Johnson |
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| Episode List: | List of The Avengers episodes |
| Prev: | The Winged Avenger |
| Next: | The Hidden Tiger |
"The Living Dead" is the seventh 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 Julian Glover, Pamela Ann Davy, Howard Marion-Crawford, and Jack Woolgar.[1] It was first broadcast in the Southern and Tyne Tees regions of the ITV network on Wednesday 22 February 1967. ABC Weekend Television, who commissioned the show for ITV, broadcast it in its own regions three days later on Saturday 25 February.[2] [3] The episode was directed by John Krish, and written by Brian Clemens.[4]
When the ghost of the deceased Duke of Benedict turns up in the cemetery, Steed and Emma have to check out the mining disaster that apparently killed the duke.