Trojan Horse (The Avengers) Explained

Series:	The Avengers
Season:	3
Episode:	20
Production:	3621^[1]
Director:	Laurence Bourne
Music:	John Dankworth (theme)
Guests:	Basil Dignam T. P. McKenna Derek Newark Arthur Pentelow Geoffrey Whitehead
Episode List:	List of The Avengers episodes
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"Trojan Horse" is the twentieth 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 8 February 1964. The episode was directed by Laurence Bourne and written by Malcolm Hulke.^[2]

Plot

Steed and Cathy face horse racing jockeys that are acting as assassins armed with binoculars firing poison darts.^[3]

Cast

• Patrick Macnee as John Steed
• Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
• Basil Dignam as Major Ronald Pantling
• T. P. McKenna as Tony Heuston
• Derek Newark as Johnson
• Arthur Pentelow as George Meadows
• Geoffrey Whitehead as Right Honorable Lucien Ffordsham
• Lucinda Curtis as Ann Meadows
• John Lowe as Lynton Smith
• James Donnelly as Kirby

External links

• • Episode overview on The Avengers Forever! website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Johnson . Piers . Trojan Horse . 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: Trojan Horse. The Avengers Forever!. 14 May 2012.