Episode 137: Tara King Era |
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Production completed: 17 April 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.
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.
Howard Blake composed some of the incidental music for this episode. *This unofficial subtitle is by Yours Truly.
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."
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WHOEVER SHOT POOR GEORGE OBLIQUE STROKE XR40? |
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Written by |
Tony Williamson |
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John Steed |
Patrick Macnee 007 |
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Arthur Cox |
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Clifford Evans |
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Anthony Nicholls |
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Judy Parfitt |
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Adrian Ropes |
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