The Wringer

17th episode of the 3rd season of The Avengers

"The Wringer"

The Avengers episode

Episode no.

Season 3
Episode 17

Directed by

Don Leaver

Written by

Martin Woodhouse

Produced by

John Bryce

Featured music

John Dankworth (theme)

Production code

3618^[1]

Original air date

18 January 1964 (1964-01-18)

Guest appearances

Peter Sallis
Paul Whitsun-Jones
Barry Letts
Gerald Sim
Terence Lodge

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"The Wringer" is the seventeenth episode of the third series of the 1960s British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman. It was originally broadcast by ABC on the ITV network on 18 January 1964. The episode was directed by Don Leaver and written by Martin Woodhouse.^[2]

Plot

Five British agents are eliminated in rapid succession on an Austrian "pipeline" escape route. Steed goes to investigate and finds himself wrongfully accused of betraying them.^[3]

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
Peter Sallis as Hal Anderson
Paul Whitsun-Jones as Charles
Barry Letts as Oliver
Gerald Sim as Lovell
Terence Lodge as The Wringer
Neil Robinson as Bethune
Douglas Cummings as Murdo

References

^ Johnson, Piers. "The Wringer". The Avengers. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
^ Rogers, Dave (25 April 1983). The Avengers. ITV Books in association with Michael Joseph. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
^ "The Wringer". The Avengers Forever!. Retrieved 14 May 2012.

External links

"The Wringer" 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"