The Golden Eggs

19th episode of the 2nd season of The Avengers

"The Golden Eggs"

The Avengers episode

Episode no.

Season 2
Episode 19

Directed by

Peter Hammond

Written by

Martin Woodhouse

Featured music

John Dankworth (theme)

Production code

3518^[1]

Original air date

1 February 1963 (1963-02-01)

Guest appearances

Peter Arne
Pauline Delaney
Donald Eccles
Gordon Whiting
Robert Bernal

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"The Golden Eggs" is the nineteenth episode of the second series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman, and made by ABC Weekend TV. It was first broadcast in the Teledu Cymru region of the ITV network on Friday 1 February 1963. ABC broadcast it the next day in its own regions.^[1] The episode was directed by Peter Hammond and written by Martin Woodhouse.^[2]

Plot

A burglar steals two gold-plated eggs from a laboratory not knowing that they contain a deadly virus.^[3]

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
Peter Arne as Julius Redfern
Pauline Delaney as Elizabeth Bayle
Donald Eccles as Dr. Ashe
Gordon Whiting as Leon DeLeon
Robert Bernal as Hillier
Irene Bradshaw as Diana DeLeon
Louis Haslar as Campbell
Charlie Bird as Hall

References

^ ^a ^b Johnson, Piers. "The Golden Eggs". The Avengers. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
^ Rogers, Dave (25 April 1983). The Avengers. ITV Books in association with Michael Joseph. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
^ "The Golden Eggs". The Avengers Forever!. Retrieved 20 April 2012.

External links

"The Golden Eggs" at IMDb
Episode overview on The Avengers Forever! website

The Avengers

Characters

John Steed
Cathy Gale
Emma Peel
Tara King
Mike Gambit
Purdey
Mother

Episodes

Series 1	"Hot Snow" "Crescent Moon" "Girl on the Trapeze" "Dance with Death" "The Frighteners" "Tunnel of Fear"
Series 2	"Mr. Teddy Bear" "Propellant 23" "The Decapod" "Bullseye" "Mission to Montreal" "The Removal Men" "The Mauritius Penny" "Death of a Great Dane" "The Sell Out" "Death on the Rocks" "Traitor in Zebra" "The Big Thinker" "Death Dispatch" "Dead on Course" "Intercrime" "Immortal Clay" "Box of Tricks" "Warlock" "The Golden Eggs" "School for Traitors" "The White Dwarf" "Man in the Mirror" "Conspiracy of Silence" "A Chorus of Frogs" "Six Hands Across a Table" "Killer Whale"
Series 3	"Brief for Murder" "The Undertakers" "Man with Two Shadows" "The Nutshell" "Death of a Batman" "November Five" "The Gilded Cage" "Second Sight" "The Medicine Men" "The Grandeur That Was Rome" "The Golden Fleece" "Don't Look Behind You" "Death a la Carte" "Dressed to Kill" "The White Elephant" "The Little Wonders" "The Wringer" "Mandrake" "The Secrets Broker" "Trojan Horse" "Build a Better Mousetrap" "The Outside-In Man" "The Charmers" "Concerto" "Esprit de Corps" "Lobster Quadrille"
Series 4	"The Town of No Return" "The Gravediggers" "The Cybernauts" "A Surfeit of H₂O" "The Hour That Never Was" "A Touch of Brimstone" "What the Butler Saw"
Series 5	"From Venus with Love" "The Fear Merchants" "Escape in Time" "The See-Through Man" "The Bird Who Knew Too Much" "The Winged Avenger" "The Living Dead" "The Hidden Tiger" "The Correct Way to Kill" "The Superlative Seven" "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station" "Death's Door"
Series 6	"The Forget-Me-Knot" "Have Guns — Will Haggle" "The Morning After"