Episode
The Avengers: Box of Tricks
Overview
Classified information is finding its way into the wrong hands and Steed feels sure that this has something to do with the death of the magician's assistant at the club where Venus Smith is working. Steed investigates the lethal vanishing cabinet.
Details
- Series
- The Avengers
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 1963-01-19
- Runtime
- 51 min
Episode context
Box of Tricks is Episode 17 in Season 2 of The Avengers. It aired on 1963-01-19. The runtime is 51 min.
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