ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>The Great Great Britain Crime</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-7-Logo.jpg" WIDTH="150" HEIGHT="113" ALT="Avengers Logo"></TD> <TD WIDTH="270" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="3" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"><B>'The Great Great Britain Crime'</B><BR><FONT SIZE="3">by Malcolm Hulke<BR>and Terrance Dicks</TD> <TD ROWSPAN="2" WIDTH="160" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><IMG SRC="Avengers Pictures/Avengers-Season-7-Cast.jpg" WIDTH="158" HEIGHT="115" ALT="Avengers Cast"></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"> When season 7 went into production, John Bryce took over as producer from Brian Clemens and Albert Fennel. However, after making just three episodes Bryce was then replaced by Clemens and Fennell, who decided that two of the completed stories were unsuitable, although one of these,  The Great Great Britain Crime , was eventually recycled into  Homicide and Old Lace when the tight schedule proved too difficult. <BR><BR>Details of this unseen story are scare, but from what remains in  Homicide and Old Lace , it can be gathered that it involves a plot by Intercrime, an international crime organisation, to steal all the major art treasures of Britain, including the Crown Jewels. By staging a national emergency, they cause all of the treasures to be moved into a high-security vault - to which they have already obtained the security access codes. <BR><BR>The other two episodes Bryce made were  Invitation to a Killing (later recycled into  Have Guns - Will Haggle ), and  Invasion of the Earthmen (which apparently survived relatively intact) <BR><BR> Patrick Macnee (<B>John Steed</B>), Linda Thorson (<B>Tara King</B>) <BR><BR><B>Directed by Ray Austin</B> <BR><B>Produced by John Bryce</B> <BR><BR><B>TX:</B> <FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"> <BR>UK: N/A <BR><BR><B>Notes:</B> <BR>*Featuring John Steed and Tara King <BR><BR><BR> </BODY> </HTML>