School for Traitors

20th episode of the 2nd season of The Avengers

"School for Traitors"

The Avengers episode

Episode no.

Season 2
Episode 20

Directed by

Jonathan Alwyn

Written by

James Mitchell

Featured music

John Dankworth (theme)

Production code

3519^[1]

Original air date

8 February 1963 (1963-02-08)

Guest appearances

Melissa Stribling
Anthony Nicholls
John Standing
Richard Thorp
Reginald Marsh

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"School for Traitors" is the twentieth episode of the second series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Julie Stevens. It was first broadcast in the Teledu Cymru region of the ITV network on Friday 8 February 1963. ABC Weekend TV, who produced the show for ITV, broadcast it the next day in its own regions.^[1] The episode was directed by Jonathan Alwyn and written by James Mitchell.^[2]

Plot

During a spate of suicides at a university, a burglar seeks a note to Venus. Steed uncovers a sinister plot to blackmail students into espionage activities.^[3]

Music

Julie Stevens sings Put On a Happy Face with lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse from Bye Bye Birdie, and Yellow Bird by Alan and Marilyn Bergman

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Julie Stevens as Venus Smith
Melissa Stribling as Claire Summers
Anthony Nicholls as Dr. Shanklin
John Standing as Ted East
Richard Thorp as Jack Roberts
Reginald Marsh as Higby
Frank Shelley as Professor Aubyn
Frederick Farley as One Seven
Terence Woodfield as Green
Ronald Mayer as Proctor
Jane Butlin as Barmaid

References

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

External links

"School for Traitors" 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"