The Undertakers (The Avengers) Explained

Series:	The Avengers
Season:	3
Episode:	2
Production:	3608^[1]
Director:	Bill Bain
Music:	John Dankworth (theme)
Guests:	Lee Patterson Jan Holden Lally Bowers Patrick Holt Mandy Miller Howard Goorney
Episode List:	List of The Avengers episodes
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"The Undertakers" is the second episode of the third series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman. It was first broadcast by ABC on 5 October 1963. The episode was directed by Bill Bain and written by Malcolm Hulke.^[2]

Plot

Why are they coming for people who aren't dead yet? A dodgy retirement home is being used as part of a scam to avoid inheritance tax. Steed and Cathy investigate.^[3]

Cast

• Patrick Macnee as John Steed
• Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
• Lee Patterson as Lomax
• Jan Holden as Paula Madden
• Lally Bowers as Mrs. Renter
• Patrick Holt as Robert Madden
• Mandy Miller as Daphne Madden
• Howard Goorney as Green
• Marcella Markham as Mrs. Lomax
• Ronald Russell as Wilkinson
• Helena McCarthy as Mrs. Baker
• Denis Forsyth as Reeve

External links

• • Episode overview on The Avengers Forever! website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Johnson . Piers . The Undertakers . The Avengers . 11 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 Undertakers. The Avengers Forever!. 10 May 2012.