"The Outside-In Man" is the twenty-second episode of the third series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series ''

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'', starring

Patrick Macnee Daniel Patrick Macnee (6 February 1922 – 25 June 2015) was a British film and television actor. After serving in the Royal Navy during World War II, he began his acting career in Canada. Despite having some small film roles, Macnee spent much ...

and Honor Blackman. It was first broadcast by

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on 22 February 1964. The episode was directed by

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and written by Philip Chambers.

Plot

Steed finds himself protecting a British defector, formerly Steed's target and now an enemy diplomat, from an assassin. Selling a used car is part of the scheme.

Cast

as John Steed * Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale * Ronald Radd as Quilpie * James Maxwell as Mark Charter * William Devlin as Ambassador *

Basil Hoskins Basil William Hoskins (10 June 1929 – 17 January 2005) was an English theatre and film actor. Hoskins, a native of Edmonton, London, was educated at the Edmonton County School. Hoskins studied acting at RADA and joined the Nottingham Playhous ...

as Major Zulficar *

Beryl Baxter Beryl Baxter (8 April 1926 - 29 November 2012) was a British film actress whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1970s.Profile ...

as Helen Rayner * Arthur Lovegrove as Michael Lynden *

Virginia Stride Virginia Thomas (born 1936, in Yokohama, Japan), professionally known as Virginia Stride, is a British actress on stage and screen who first came to public attention on television in the 1960s. She was the first wife of the actor John Stride ( ...

as Alice Brisket * Philip Anthony as General Sharp * Anthony Dawes as Edwards * Ronald Mansell as Jenkins *

Valentino Musetti Valentino Musetti (born 7 January 1943 in Pontremoli, Tuscany, Italy), often known as just Val Musetti, is an Italian-born English film and TV stuntman and retired motor racing driver. Highlights of his career include finishing third in the Shell ...

as Guard *

Eddie Powell Eddie Powell (9 March 1927 - 11 August 2000) was a British stuntman and actor. Powell performed stuntwork in several films for Hammer Studios, serving as a regular stunt double for Christopher Lee. His credits during this time included portra ...

as Guard * Paul Blomley as Butcher

References

External links

*
Episode overview on The Avengers Forever! website
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