Mission to Montreal explained

"Mission to Montreal" is the fifth episode of the second series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee. It was first broadcast by ABC on 27 October 1962. The episode was directed by Don Leaver and written by Lester Powell.^[2]

Plot

Steed and Dr. King are assigned a mission to recover a microfilm containing the stolen plans of a missile early warning system. Shipboard, they meet knives and a drunken film star.^[3]

Cast

• Patrick Macnee as John Steed
• Jon Rollason as Dr. Martin King
• Patricia English as Carla Berotti
• Iris Russell as Sheila Dowson
• Mark Eden as Alec Nicholson
• Gillian Muir as Judy
• Harold Berens as Film Director
• Alan Curtis as A.G. Brand
• John Bennett as Guido Marson
• Gerald Sim as Budge
• Eric McCain as Pearson
• Alan Casley as Barman
• John Frawley as Passenger
• Malcolm Taylor as Reporter
• Terence Woodfield as Reporter
• Leslie Pitt as Reporter
• Pamela Ann Davy as Peggy
• William Buck as Photographer
• Angela Thorne as Receptionist
• Peter Mackriel as Steward
• William Swan as Steward

Story Notes

Mission to Montreal is introduces Dr. Martin King (Jon Rolloason), a thinly disguised reworked character of Dr. David Keel, marking the first of three appearances in the series. The other Keel episodes held over and rewritten for series 2 are The Sell-Out and Dead on Course.

External links

• • Episode overview on The Avengers Forever! website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Johnson . Piers . Mission to Montreal . The Avengers . 10 June 2022.
2. Book: Rogers, Dave. The Avengers. 10 April 2012. 25 April 1983. ITV Books in association with Michael Joseph.
3. Web site: Mission to Montreal. The Avengers Forever!. 3 May 2012.