The White Dwarf

21st episode of the 2nd season of The Avengers

"The White Dwarf"

The Avengers episode

Episode no.

Season 2
Episode 21

Directed by

Richmond Harding

Written by

Malcolm Hulke

Produced by

John Bryce

Featured music

John Dankworth (theme)

Production code

3520^[1]

Original air date

15 February 1963 (1963-02-15)

Guest appearances

George A. Cooper
Philip Latham
Peter Copley
Bill Nagy
Daniel Thorndike
Constance Chapman
Keith Pyott

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"The White Dwarf" is the twenty-first episode of the second series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman. It was first broadcast in the Teledu Cymru region of the ITV network on Friday 15 February 1963. ABC Weekend TV, who produced the show for ITV, broadcast it the next day in its own regions.^[1] The episode was directed by Richmond Harding and written by Malcolm Hulke.^[2]

Plot

A leading astronomer predicts that the earth is about to be destroyed. Steed and Cathy investigate a conspiracy to silence him.^[3]

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
George A. Cooper as Maxwell Barker
Philip Latham as Professor Cartwright
Peter Copley as Henry Barker
Bill Nagy as Mervin Johnson
Daniel Thorndike as Sir Charles
Constance Chapman as Miss Edwina Tregarth
Keith Pyott as Professor Richter
Paul Anil as Professor Rahim
John Falconer as Butler
Vivienne Drummond as Dr Elizabeth Fuller
George Roubicek as Dr Luke Richter

References

^ ^a ^b Johnson, Piers. "The White Dwarf". The Avengers. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
^ Rogers, Dave (25 April 1983). The Avengers. ITV Books in association with Michael Joseph. ISBN 978-0-907965-09-1. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
^ "The White Dwarf". The Avengers Forever!. Retrieved 18 April 2012.

External links

"The White Dwarf" at IMDb
Episode overview on The Avengers Forever! website

The Avengers

Characters

Episodes

Series 1	"Hot Snow" "Crescent Moon" "Girl on the Trapeze" "Dance with Death" "The Frighteners" "Tunnel of Fear"
Series 2	"Mr. Teddy Bear" "Propellant 23" "The Decapod" "Bullseye" "Mission to Montreal" "The Removal Men" "The Mauritius Penny" "Death of a Great Dane" "The Sell Out" "Death on the Rocks" "Traitor in Zebra" "The Big Thinker" "Death Dispatch" "Dead on Course" "Intercrime" "Immortal Clay" "Box of Tricks" "Warlock" "The Golden Eggs" "School for Traitors" "The White Dwarf" "Man in the Mirror" "Conspiracy of Silence" "A Chorus of Frogs" "Six Hands Across a Table" "Killer Whale"
Series 3	"Brief for Murder" "The Undertakers" "Man with Two Shadows" "The Nutshell" "Death of a Batman" "November Five" "The Gilded Cage" "Second Sight" "The Medicine Men" "The Grandeur That Was Rome" "The Golden Fleece" "Don't Look Behind You" "Death a la Carte" "Dressed to Kill" "The White Elephant" "The Little Wonders" "The Wringer" "Mandrake" "The Secrets Broker" "Trojan Horse" "Build a Better Mousetrap" "The Outside-In Man" "The Charmers" "Concerto" "Esprit de Corps" "Lobster Quadrille"
Series 4	"The Town of No Return" "The Gravediggers" "The Cybernauts" "A Surfeit of H₂O" "The Hour That Never Was" "A Touch of Brimstone" "What the Butler Saw"
Series 5	"From Venus with Love" "The Fear Merchants" "Escape in Time" "The See-Through Man" "The Bird Who Knew Too Much" "The Winged Avenger" "The Living Dead" "The Hidden Tiger" "The Correct Way to Kill" "The Superlative Seven" "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station" "Death's Door"
Series 6	"The Forget-Me-Knot" "Have Guns — Will Haggle" "The Morning After"