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S01E26: Dragonsfield

How has a research centre developing radiation-proof material managed to irradiate one of its scientists? Once more, Steed submits himself to scientific testing.

Overview

A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).

Episodes

Hot Snow

S01E01 Hot Snow

January 7, 1961
Following the death of his fiancee Peggy at the hands of heroin smugglers, Dr David Keel vows to track down the killers and avenge his lost love. He is aided in his quest by a...
Brought to Book

S01E02 Brought to Book

January 14, 1961
Steed has infiltrated a gang, led by Mason, which is implicated in Peggy's murder. Steed asks Keel to establish contact with a rival gang, and the doctor discovers that Vance's hitman, Spicer, has been sent...
Square Root of Evil

S01E03 Square Root of Evil

January 21, 1961
Steed impersonates Riordan, a forger soon to be released from prison, and gains the trust of gang-leader Hooper. Things seem to be going well until Hooper's second-in-command, known as the Cardinal, announces that Riordan's girlfriend...
Nightmare

S01E04 Nightmare

January 28, 1961
Keel receives a 'phone call from one of his patients, and ends up assuming the identity of her missing husband, a scientist engaged in secret research. Shot in the chest, Keel needs a minor operation...
Crescent Moon

S01E05 Crescent Moon

February 4, 1961
A young girl, Carmelite Mendoza, has been kidnapped from a Caribbean island, but Steed suspects a political motive. His suspicions are confirmed when Vasco, the Mendoza family retainer, is observed killing the original kidnapper and...
Girl on the Trapeze

S01E06 Girl on the Trapeze

February 11, 1961 6.0 50 min
Keel, reviving a young woman who has jumped into the Thames, is led to the Radeck State Circus, where the trapeze girl is guarded, her face covered by bandages because of an accident. The 'trapeze...
Diamond Cut Diamond

S01E07 Diamond Cut Diamond

February 18, 1961
Steed, attempting to break a gang of international diamond smugglers, is living in a bungalow near Heathrow Airport which was once owned by a suicide whom One-Ten suspects of involvement. Steed awakens one morning somewhat...
The Radioactive Man

S01E08 The Radioactive Man

February 25, 1961
Dr Keel is asked to help in the search for a man who has picked up a radioactive isotope, not knowing that it will quickly kill him and harm anyone else he comes into contact...
Ashes of Roses

S01E09 Ashes of Roses

March 4, 1961
Steed, investigating a number of probable arson cases, is led to the hairdressing salon of Olive and Jacques Beronne. He asks Keel to let Carol investigate the salon, but after she enters, there is an...
Hunt the Man Down

S01E10 Hunt the Man Down

March 18, 1961
Frank Preston is released from prison and is intent on reclaiming the hidden proceeds of his robbery. So is Steed, who has been ordered to follow the man. So are a couple of thugs, who...
Please Don't Feed the Animals

S01E11 Please Don't Feed the Animals

April 1, 1961
Steed trails a blackmailed civil servant to Brinkley House, a private zoo, only to observe the man throwing a package of money into the reptile pit. The package soon vanishes. The man is then ordered...
Dance with Death

S01E12 Dance with Death

April 15, 1961
Dr. Keel resuscitates Elaine Bateman, the owner of a ballroom dancing school who has narrowly survived a murder attempt by gassing. When he returns to the school after dropping his scarf, he is arrested. His...
One for the Mortuary

S01E13 One for the Mortuary

April 29, 1961
When Keel attends a health conference in Geneva he is unaware that he is carrying, in microdot form, a vital new medical formula - unaware, that is, until he is arrested for murder.
The Springers

S01E14 The Springers

May 13, 1961
Steed is trying to track down the organisers of a group who offer to spring any convict - even the dangerous ones - from prison if they're paid the right money. Keel impersonates a prisoner,...
The Frighteners

S01E15 The Frighteners

May 27, 1961 5.0 51 min
To stop his daughter seeing suspected conman Jeremy de Willoughby, Sir Thomas Waller has hired arch-criminal the Deacon to 'put the frighteners on'. Steed is on the trail of the Deacon and, with the aid...
The Yellow Needle

S01E16 The Yellow Needle

June 10, 1961
After an unsuccessful murder attempt against Sir Wilberforce Lungi, Steed asks Keel, an old friend of the pro-Western African leader, to investigate Lungi's secretary, Jacquetta Brown. Meanwhile, Steed flies to Africa to meet Lungi's tribalist...
Death on the Slipway

S01E17 Death on the Slipway

June 24, 1961
An agent has been killed at the secret dockyard where submarines are built. Steed investigates, and finds that a foreign spy has been arranging 'accidents' for him.
Double Danger

S01E18 Double Danger

July 8, 1961
Keel, called to deal with a man seriously injured by an accident, quickly discovers that the man is suffering from gunshot wounds, and that he may be implicated in a recent diamond robbery.
Toy Trap

S01E19 Toy Trap

July 22, 1961
Keel is asked by the improbably named Bunty to help her find her missing friend. What is the connection between the department store where the women work and a call-girl racket?
Tunnel of Fear

S01E20 Tunnel of Fear

August 5, 1961
Top-secret information is finding its way into the wrong hands, and the source seems to be a south coast fairground. Steed succeeds in getting hypnotised and winds up in the ghost-train tunnel. With frightening results,...
The Far Distant Dead

S01E21 The Far Distant Dead

August 19, 1961
Dr Keel, treating the victims of a cyclone struck Mexican village, uncovers a number of food-poisonings; emergency cooking oil is, in fact, hydraulic fluid.
Kill the King

S01E22 Kill the King

September 2, 1961
A visit to London to sign an oil treaty from a monarch whose life is under threat brings Steed and Keel into the world of dissidents and assassinations.
Dead of Winter

S01E23 Dead of Winter

December 9, 1961
The discovery of the body of Schneider, a wanted Nazi war criminal, deep-frozen in a consignment of meat at London docks brings Steed and Keel into the shadowy world of Phoenix, a new and terrifying...
The Deadly Air

S01E24 The Deadly Air

December 16, 1961
An experimental vaccine is stolen, and the subsequent test proves deadly. Steed and Keel, suspecting that the human 'guinea pig' did not die directly from the vaccine, volunteer to be the next subjects.
A Change of Bait

S01E25 A Change of Bait

December 23, 1961
An unusual and sprawling tale of heart disease, industrial unrest, and a consignment of rotten bananas.
Dragonsfield

S01E26 Dragonsfield

December 30, 1961
How has a research centre developing radiation-proof material managed to irradiate one of its scientists? Once more, Steed submits himself to scientific testing.

Cast

Patrick Macnee
Patrick Macnee
John Steed
Linda Thorson
Linda Thorson
Tara King
Ian Ogilvy
Ian Ogilvy
William Lucas
William Lucas

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