The Living Dead (The Avengers)

7th episode of the 5th season of The Avengers

"The Living Dead"

The Avengers episode

Opening title

Episode no.

Season 5
Episode 7

Directed by

John Krish

Written by

Brian Clemens (teleplay)

Featured music

Laurie Johnson

Original air dates

22 February 1967 (1967-02-22) (Southern Television)
25 February 1967 (ABC Weekend TV)

Guest appearances

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"The Living Dead" is the seventh episode of the fifth series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg, and guest starring Julian Glover, Pamela Ann Davy, Howard Marion-Crawford, and Jack Woolgar. It was first broadcast in the Southern and Tyne Tees regions of the ITV network on Wednesday 22 February 1967. ABC Weekend Television, who commissioned the show for ITV, broadcast it in its own regions three days later on Saturday 25 February. The episode was directed by John Krish, and written by Brian Clemens.

Plot

When the ghost of the deceased Duke of Benedict turns up in the cemetery, Steed and Emma have to check out the mining disaster that apparently killed the duke.

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Diana Rigg as Emma Peel
Julian Glover as Masgard
Pamela Ann Davy as Mandy Mackay
Howard Marion Crawford as Geoffrey, 16th Duke of Benedict
Jack Woolgar as Kermit the Hermit
Jack Watson as Hopper
Edward Underdown as Rupert Staplow, 15th Duke of Benedict
John Cater as Olliphant
Vernon Dobtcheff as George Spencer
Alister Williamson as Tom

References

"The Living Dead". BBC. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
Johnson, Piers. "Series 5 Episode Guide". The Avengers. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
"Avengers: The Living Dead (1967) - John Krish - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie.
"The Living Dead (1967)". BFI. Archived from the original on 13 February 2019.

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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"