Episode 137: Tara King Era
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Production completed: 17 April 1968
UK Premiere (London, Season 7): 30 October 1968
US Premiere (New York, Season 4): 9 December 1968
Someone committed
cold-blooded murder, firing both barrels of a shotgun at point-blank range—at a cold-blooded computer, one that was in the midst
of implicating its creator, Sir Wilfred Pelley, as a traitor. While George undergoes
surgery, Tara poses as Pelley's American niece, and finds out that there's more to
Pelley's butler than meets the eye.
IMHO |
Check your brain at the door and just enjoy the ride. The
acute anthropomorphizing of George—performing surgery on it as if it was an injured
human, complete with "anesthesia"—is entirely too silly, even stupid, but
on the whole it is more enjoyable than most of this season, due in large
part to Linda Thorson's four-bowler performance as Tara as Pelley's niece. Shares the plot with the Cathy
Gale episode, "The Big Thinker," another
super-computer-sabotage story, albeit one that was intended to be
more serious, but alas had even more chuckles than its quasi-remake. Runner up in
the "Longest and Most Ridiculous Avengers Episode Title" contest.
Trivia |
Howard Blake composed some of the incidental music for this episode.
*This unofficial subtitle is by Yours Truly.
Best Line |
When Steed asks Tara to double for Pelley's niece, he shows her
a photo and she asks, "Where's the resemblance?" Steed smiles, "The
knees."
Tag |
Steed asked George for a cocktail recipe, but the results were explosive.
