Esprit de Corps (The Avengers)

Esprit de Corps is the twenty-fifth episode of the third series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman. It originally aired on ABC on 14 March 1964. The episode was directed by Don Leaver and written by Eric Paice.^[1]

Plot

Steed and Cathy investigate the murder of a soldier and uncover a plot to stage a coup d'état against the British government.^[2] The regal Mrs Gale meets a strangler who's not a true gentleman.

Cast

• Patrick Macnee as John Steed
• Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
• Duncan Macrae as Brigadier General Sir Ian Stuart-Bollinger
• Joyce Heron as Lady Dorothy Stuart-Bollinger
• Roy Kinnear as Private Jessop
• John Thaw as Captain Trench
• Pearl Catlin as Mrs. Angela Craig
• Doug Robinson as Sergeant Marsh
• Hugh Morton as Admiral, Harry
• Anthony Blackshaw as Private Hamish Asquith

References

External links

• Esprit de Corps at the Internet Movie Database
• Episode overview on The Avengers Forever! website

The Avengers
Characters	John Steed Cathy Gale Emma Peel Tara King Mike Gambit Purdey Mother Father
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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