Six Hands Across a Table

25th episode of the 2nd season of The Avengers

"Six Hands Across a Table"

The Avengers episode

Screen title

Episode no.

Season 2
Episode 25

Directed by

Richmond Harding

Written by

Reed R. de Rouen

Produced by

John Bryce

Featured music

John Dankworth (theme)

Production code

3524^[1]

Original air date

16 March 1963 (1963-03-16)

Guest appearances

Guy Doleman
Campbell Singer
Philip Madoc
Edward de Souza
John Wentworth

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"Six Hands Across a Table" is the twenty-fifth 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 by ABC on 16 March 1963. The episode was directed by Richmond Harding and written by Reed R. de Rouen.^[2]

Plot

Cathy becomes romantically involved with shipyard owner Oliver Waldner, blissfully unaware that he is masterminding a dastardly plan to gain control of most of Britain’s shipbuilding industry. After she nearly dies in an apparent accident, Steed sets out to prove that Waldner has murdered a business rival.^[3]

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
Guy Doleman as Oliver Waldner
Campbell Singer as George Stanley
Philip Madoc as Julian Seabrook
Edward de Souza as Brian Collier
John Wentworth as Sir Charles Reniston
Sylvia Bidmead as Rosalind Waldner
Frank Sieman as Bert Barnes
Stephen Hancock as Draughtsman
Freda Bamford as Lady Reniston
Gillian Barclay as Miss Francis
Ilona Rodgers as Receptionist
Ian Cunningham as Butler, Thomas

References

^ Johnson, Piers. "Six Hands Across a Table". The Avengers. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
^ Rogers, Dave (25 April 1983). The Avengers. ITV Books in association with Michael Joseph. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
^ "Six Hands Across a Table". The Avengers Forever!. Retrieved 11 April 2012.

External links

"Six Hands Across a Table" 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"