Episode
The Avengers: The See-Through Man
Overview
The Ministry has been broken into by, it seems, an invisible man. A trail leads via inventor Quilby to the Eastern Drug Company, a front organisation run by Soviet intelligence. Meanwhile, the crack spies Elena and Alexandre Vazin are in town. But nobody has seen anything of Alexandre....
Details
- Series
- The Avengers
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 1967-02-04
Episode context
The See-Through Man is Episode 4 in Season 5 of The Avengers. It aired on 1967-02-04.
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Episode 7: The Living Dead
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Episode 8: The Hidden Tiger
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Episode 9: The Correct Way to Kill
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Episode 12: The Superlative Seven
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When Lucas, an agent investigating something subversive, gets off his train at the wrong station he is murdered. Has the crime got anything to do with a mole at the admiralty, a train ticket and a fiendish plot to kill the Prime Minister?