ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>The Midas Touch</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR=#000000"> <TABLE ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="550" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="3" BORDER="0"> <TR> <TD ROWSPAN="2" WIDTH="180" VALIGN=MIDDLE ALIGN=CENTER><IMG SRC="New Avengers Pictures/New Avengers Logo.jpg" WIDTH="185" HEIGHT="131" BORDER="0" ALT="New Avengers Logo"></TD> <TD WIDTH="245" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="4" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"><B>'The Midas Touch'</B><BR><FONT SIZE="3">by Brian Clemens</TD> <TD ROWSPAN="2" WIDTH="120" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><IMG SRC="New Avengers Pictures/New Avengers Cast.jpg" WIDTH="130" HEIGHT="170" ALT="New Avengers"></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"> When found smuggling gold dust into the country, Hong-Kong Harry, a disgraced former agent, reveals to Steed that the gold is to be used in an auction amongst arms dealers as part of a project called Midas. Meanwhile, gold-obsessed Professor Turner has infected a man code-named Midas with dozens of deadly diseases, while keeping Midas himself immune. After Turner gives Midas powers a test-run at a party, killing everyone in a matter of minutes, Purdey is caught by Midas' keepers as she attempts to investigate. Steed and Gambit hear of a dignitary s visit to a gold exhibition, and rush to the museum to prevent Midas from killing her. Arriving in the nick of time, they rescue Purdey and imprison Midas within a sarcophagus, but not before Turner is touched by his own creation, and left to die in agony. <BR><BR>Patrick Macnee (<B>John Steed</B>), Gareth Hunt (<B>Mike Gambit</B>), Joanna Lumley (<B>Purdey</B>), John Carson (<B>Freddy</B>), Ed Devereaux (<B>Vann</B>), Ronald Lacy (<B>Hong Kong Harry</B>), David Swift (<B>Turner</B>), Jeremy Child (<B>Lieutenant</B>), Robert Mill (<B>Curator</B>), Ray Edwards (<B>Garvin</B>), Gilles Millinaire (<B>Midas</B>), Pik-Sen Lim (<B>Sing</B>), Chris Tranchell (<B>Doctor</B>), Lionel Guyett (<B>Tayman</B>), Geoffrey Bateman (<B>Simpson</B>), Tim Condren (<B>Boz</B>), Peter Winter (<B>Morgan</B>), Bruce Bould (<B>Froggart</B>), Bruno Elrington (<B>Choy</B>), Kenneth Gilbert (<B>Rostock</B>)*, Tania Mallett (<B>Sara</B>)*, Pola Churchill (<B>Princess</B>)* <BR>Unbilled <BR><BR><B>Directed by Robert Fuest</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>LWT - 12th November 1976 <BR><BR><B>Notes:</B> <BR>*Featuring John Steed, Mike Gambit and Purdey <BR> <BR> <BR> </BODY> </HTML>