Box of Tricks (The Avengers)

"Box of Tricks"
The Avengers episode

Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 17
Directed by	Kim Mills
Written by	Peter Ling Edward Rhodes
Produced by	John Bryce
Featured music	Laurie Johnson John Dankworth (theme)
Production code	2-17
Original air date	20 January 1963 (1963-01-20)
Guest appearance(s)
Jane Barratt Maurice Hedley Edgar Wreford Ian Curry April Olrich

Box of Tricks is the seventeenth episode of the second series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Julie Stevens. It originally aired on ABC on 20 January 1963. The episode was directed by Kim Mills and written by Peter Ling and Edward Rhodes.^[1]

Plot

Death of a nightclub magician's assistant leads through a crippled general and his quack, to employment opportunities and secret documents.^[2]

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Julie Stevens as Venus Smith
Jane Barratt as Kathleen Sutherland
Maurice Hedley as General Sutherland
Edgar Wreford as Dr. Gallam
Ian Curry as Gerry Weston
April Olrich as Denise
Dallas Cavell as Manager
Jacqueline Jones as Henriette
Robert Hartley as Nena the Barman
Royston Tickner as Maitre D'
Gail Starforth as Maid
Lynn Taylor as Valerie

References

↑ Rogers, Dave (25 April 1983). The Avengers. ITV Books in association with Michael Joseph. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
↑ "Box of Tricks". The Avengers Forever!. Retrieved 20 April 2012.

External links

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" "Death's Door"

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