Series 1 poster

Series 1

(1961)

Overview

"The Frighteners," "Girl on the Trapeze" and the first twenty minutes of "Hot Snow" are the known episodes to exist of the first season. All the other episodes of season one were destroyed by the BBC in a bulk wipe, to which many classic shows have been lost [IE: Dr. Who, Dad's Army, The Spies, etc.) We do hope that the rest will pop up someday, somewhere, somehow...

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Patrick Macnee

as John Steed

Ian Hendry as Dr. David Keel
Ian Hendry

as Dr. David Keel

Episodes

Hot Snow poster

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January 7, 1961

Following the death of his fiancee Peggy at the hands of heroin smugglers, Dr David Keel vows to track down the killers…

Brought to Book poster

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January 14, 1961

Steed has infiltrated a gang, led by Mason, which is implicated in Peggy's murder. Steed asks Keel to establish contac…

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January 21, 1961

Steed impersonates Riordan, a forger soon to be released from prison, and gains the trust of gang-leader Hooper. Thing…

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January 28, 1961

Keel receives a 'phone call from one of his patients, and ends up assuming the identity of her missing husband, a scien…

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February 4, 1961

A young girl, Carmelite Mendoza, has been kidnapped from a Caribbean island, but Steed suspects a political motive. H…

Girl on the Trapeze poster

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February 11, 1961

Keel, reviving a young woman who has jumped into the Thames, is led to the Radeck State Circus, where the trapeze girl …

Diamond Cut Diamond poster

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February 18, 1961

Steed, attempting to break a gang of international diamond smugglers, is living in a bungalow near Heathrow Airport whi…

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February 25, 1961

Dr Keel is asked to help in the search for a man who has picked up a radioactive isotope, not knowing that it will quic…

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March 4, 1961

Steed, investigating a number of probable arson cases, is led to the hairdressing salon of Olive and Jacques Beronne. …

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March 18, 1961

Frank Preston is released from prison and is intent on reclaiming the hidden proceeds of his robbery. So is Steed, who…

Please Don't Feed the Animals poster

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April 1, 1961

Steed trails a blackmailed civil servant to Brinkley House, a private zoo, only to observe the man throwing a package o…

Dance with Death poster

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April 15, 1961

Dr. Keel resuscitates Elaine Bateman, the owner of a ballroom dancing school who has narrowly survived a murder attempt…

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April 29, 1961

When Keel attends a health conference in Geneva he is unaware that he is carrying, in microdot form, a vital new medica…

The Springers poster

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May 13, 1961

Steed is trying to track down the organisers of a group who offer to spring any convict - even the dangerous ones - fro…

The Frighteners poster

The Frighteners 5.0

May 27, 1961

To stop his daughter seeing suspected conman Jeremy de Willoughby, Sir Thomas Waller has hired arch-criminal the Deacon…

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June 10, 1961

After an unsuccessful murder attempt against Sir Wilberforce Lungi, Steed asks Keel, an old friend of the pro-Western A…

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June 24, 1961

An agent has been killed at the secret dockyard where submarines are built. Steed investigates, and finds that a forei…

Double Danger poster

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July 8, 1961

Keel, called to deal with a man seriously injured by an accident, quickly discovers that the man is suffering from gun…

Toy Trap poster

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July 22, 1961

Keel is asked by the improbably named Bunty to help her find her missing friend. What is the connection between the de…

Tunnel of Fear poster

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August 5, 1961

Top-secret information is finding its way into the wrong hands, and the source seems to be a south coast fairground. S…

The Far Distant Dead poster

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August 19, 1961

Dr Keel, treating the victims of a cyclone struck Mexican village, uncovers a number of food-poisonings; emergency coo…

Kill the King poster

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September 2, 1961

A visit to London to sign an oil treaty from a monarch whose life is under threat brings Steed and Keel into the world …

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December 9, 1961

The discovery of the body of Schneider, a wanted Nazi war criminal, deep-frozen in a consignment of meat at London dock…

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December 16, 1961

An experimental vaccine is stolen, and the subsequent test proves deadly. Steed and Keel, suspecting that the human 'g…

A Change of Bait poster

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December 23, 1961

An unusual and sprawling tale of heart disease, industrial unrest, and a consignment of rotten bananas.

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December 30, 1961

How has a research centre developing radiation-proof material managed to irradiate one of its scientists? Once more, S…