ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR=#000000"> <TABLE ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="580" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="3" BORDER="0"> <TR> <TD ROWSPAN="2" WIDTH="150" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><IMG SRC="Avengers Pictures/Season-5-Logo.jpg" WIDTH="150" HEIGHT="115" ALT="Avengers Logo"></TD> <TD WIDTH="355" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="3" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"><B>'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station'</B><BR><FONT SIZE="3">by Brian Sherriff <BR><FONT SIZE="2">(Brian Clemens and Roger Marshall)</TD> <TD ROWSPAN="2" WIDTH="175" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><IMG SRC="Avengers Pictures/Avengers-Season-5-Cast.jpg" WIDTH="175" HEIGHT="100" ALT="Avengers Cast"></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"> Steed goes off the rails - Emma finds her station in life <BR><BR> Steed and Mrs. Peel are sent to meet Lucas, a fellow agent, at the train station. But when Lucas never arrives, they soon uncover an organisation that is using the railway system to pass encoded messages on ticket stubs. As Steed and Mrs. Peel investigate derelict train stations and discover a  twiddley type of signalling, they expose a disgruntled train conductor s plot to assassinate the Prime Minister& <BR><BR> Patrick Macnee (<B>John Steed</B>), Diana Rigg (<B>Emma Peel</B>), John Laurie (<B>Crewe</B>), Isla Blair (<B>Bride</B>), Drewe Henley (<B>Groom</B>), Richard Caldicot (<B>Admiral</B>), James Hayter (<B>Ticket Collector</B>), Tim Barrett (<B>Salt</B>), Dyson Lovell (<B>Warren</B>), Peter J. Elliott (<B>Attendant</B>), Michael Nightingale (<B>Lucas</B>), Noel Davis (<B>Secretary</B>) <BR><BR><B>Directed by John Krish</B> <BR><B>Produced by Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens</B> <BR><BR><B>TX:</B> <FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"> <BR>UK: 15th April, 1967 <BR><BR><B>Notes:</B> <BR>*Featuring John Steed and Mrs. Emma Peel <BR><BR>* Mrs Peel, we re needed : Mrs. Peel finds a toy train set running along the floor of her flat, which carries a sign saying  Mrs. Peel - We're Needed! <BR><BR>*The tag scene: While waiting for the arrival of the Prime Minister, Steed and Mrs. Peel discuss the titles that they will receive for having saved his life... <BR><BR><BR> </BODY> </HTML>