Conspiracy of Silence (The Avengers)

Conspiracy of Silence is the twenty-third episode of the second series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman. It originally aired on ABC on 3 March 1963. The episode was directed by Peter Hammond and written by Roger Marshall.^[1]

Plot

Steed and Cathy investigate a Mafia drugs gang using a travelling circus as a front.^[2] Clowning around leads a nosy journalist to use her judo.

Cast

• Patrick Macnee as John Steed
• Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
• Robert Rietti as Carlo Bennett
• Sandra Dorne as Rickie Bennett
• Alec Mango as Sica
• Roy Purcell as Gutman
• Tommy Godfrey as Arturo
• John Church as Terry
• Artro Morris as James
• Willie Shearer as Professor
• Ian Wilson as Rant

References

External links

• Conspiracy of Silence at the Internet Movie Database
• Episode overview on The Avengers Forever! website

The Avengers
Characters	John Steed Cathy Gale Emma Peel Tara King Mike Gambit Purdey Mother Father
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" "Death's Door"
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