Episode
The Avengers: Warlock
Overview
Steed is entrusted with the safe-keeping of a new fuel formula when its inventor is found in a coma. The scientist had been involved in a black magic circle which leads Steed and Cathy into the world of hexes and magic powers.
Details
- Series
- The Avengers
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 18
- Air date
- 1963-01-26
- Runtime
- 50 min
Episode context
Warlock is Episode 18 in Season 2 of The Avengers. It aired on 1963-01-26. The runtime is 50 min.
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Episode 17: Box of Tricks
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.
Episode 19: The Golden Eggs
A burglar steals two gold-plated eggs from Dr Ashe, not knowing that they contain a deadly virus. The man quickly falls ill, but refuses to indicate where the case containing the eggs is buried.
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Episode 15: Intercrime
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Episode 21: The White Dwarf
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Episode 14: Dead on Course
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Episode 22: The Man in the Mirror
Venus has her camera and films stolen whilst taking pictures in a fun fair. One film is missed, however, and when developed a face can be seen in the Hall of Mirrors - that of Trevelyan, the cypher clerk who has committed suicide. But Venus's photograph was taken after the man's death.
Episode 13: Death Dispatch
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Episode 23: Conspiracy of Silence
The Mafia aren't about to let Steed get in the way of their lucrative drug-smuggling operation between Britain and North America, and arrange for him to be assassinated. Steed survives, and tracks his intended killer to a circus, where some of the clowns prove to be anything but figures of fun.
Episode 12: The Big Thinker
Plato, the most advanced computer in the world, which could be used to target intercepting missiles, keeps breaking down. The body of a professor on the team is found within.
Episode 24: A Chorus of Frogs
A holiday for Steed in Greece is, of course, no straightforward affair. A deep-sea diver dies in mysterious circumstances, whilst bathyscope experiments are taking place on the yacht where Venus is singing.