ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>The Winged Avenger</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="4" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"><B>'The Winged Avenger'</B><BR><FONT SIZE="3">by Richard Harris</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 birdwatching - Emma does a comic strip <BR><BR> Several business executives of a publishing agency are found mysteriously clawed to death in their high-rise flats. At first Steed and Mrs. Peel suspect the culprit to be a large bird of prey owned by an author wronged by the publisher, but then they meet the inventor of a pair of magnetic boots; and when they find a comic book near another victim, they discover that the adventures of its avenging superhero are rather too close with the real-life situation to be mere coincidence& <BR><BR> Patrick Macnee (<B>John Steed</B>), Diana Rigg (<B>Emma Peel</B>), Nigel Green (<B>Sir Lexius Cray</B>), Jack MacGowran (<B>Professor Poole</B>), Neil Hallett (<B>Arnie Packers</B>), Colin Jeavons (<B>Stanton</B>), Roy Patrick (<B>Julian</B>), John Garrie (<B>Tay-Ling</B>), Donald Pickering (<B>Peter Roberts</B>), William Fox (<B>Simon Roberts</B>), A.J. Brown (<B>Dawson</B>), Hilary Wontner (<B>Dumayn</B>), John Crocker (<B>Fothers</B>), Ann Sydney (<B>Gerda</B>) <BR><BR><B>Directed by Gordon Flemyng and Peter Duffell</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: 18th February, 1967 <BR><BR><B>Notes:</B> <BR>*Featuring John Steed and Mrs. Emma Peel <BR><BR>* Mrs Peel, we re needed : As Mrs. Peel puts the final touches to her painting, she spies the words  Mrs. Peel in one corner; Steed arrives and finishes the sentence off with  We're Needed! <BR><BR>*The tag scene: Back at Mrs. Peel s flat, Steed shows her his artistic skills by 'illustrating' the meal he has planned for that night. <BR><BR>*The comic book artwork used in this story was drawn by Frank Bellamy, who illustrated  Dan Dare in the  Eagle comic <BR><BR><BR> </BODY> </HTML>