25/09/1968 The Forget-Me-Knot (Mrs. Emma Peel & Tara King)
Agent Sean Mortimer
learns of a traitor in the organisation, but by the time he reaches Steed and Mrs. Peel he is suffering from amnesia and is
unable to recall the information, or even his own name. Steed goes to inform his boss, the wheelchair-bound man code-named
Mother, but while he is gone, the enemy take Mortimer and use their amnesia-drug to wipe Mrs. Peel’s memory. After Steed
bumps into trainee agent Tara King, he returns to his flat and finds Mrs. Peel; but they are ambushed, Steed’s memory
is wiped and Emma is captured. Slowly regaining his memory, Steed finds Tara’s phone number in
his shoe, and uses her help to discover that the traitor is Mother's number-two, George Burton. The case solved and memories
restored, Mrs. Peel receives some earth-shattering news…
02/10/1968 Game (Tara King)
Steed and Tara
investigate the bizarre deaths of several former military officers that Steed once served alongside. Their only clues are
jigsaw pieces found on the body of each corpse. While Steed checks out a jigsaw manufacturer, Tara
assembles the puzzle, which eventually reveals a picture of a country house. Tracing the location of the manor, Steed and
Tara discover that the murders are part of a revenge planned by a man that the officers once court-martialled;
he is using his love of games to force his victims to play life-scaled games tailored to their profession - with death as
the reward. Unable to save his colleagues, Steed is forced to play the final game of ‘Super Secret Agent’ in order
to rescue Tara from suffocating inside a giant hourglass…
09/10/1968 Super Secret
Cypher Snatch (Tara King)
op-secret ciphers
are being leaked from the Ministry of Defence’s Cipher H.Q., despite airtight security. An internal investigation is
set up, but agents seem to vanish before beginning their assignments. Steed and Tara are called in
to investigate, and find photographic evidence that proves the missing agents have been at the offices - but the entire staff
of Cypher H.Q. insist they have never seen them. While Steed visits the offices of Classy Glass Cleaning Co. Ltd, Tara
spends an ordinary day in the office...
16/10/1968 You'll Catch
Your Death (Tara King)
Ear, nose, and
throat specialists are inexplicably sneezing themselves to death, and the only clues are plain, white, and mysteriously empty
envelopes found by the corpses. While Tara is captured by the enemy, Steed talks to a stationery specialist,
and learns that a nursing school ordered 10,000 envelopes, but and no writing paper. After investigating the nursing school,
Steed soon discovers that the envelopes are far from empty - they actually contain a concentrated viral strain that kills
the victim instantly. He manages to locate the perpetrators, but will he be in time to stop them before Tara
catches a cold..?
23/10/1968 Split! (Tara
King)
A murder occurs
inside the Ministry of Top Secret Information, despite the fact that the security there makes it impossible for an outsider
to get in. After Steed and Tara investigate, a handwriting expert confirms that documents written by
Ministry personnel match the handwriting of Boris Kartovski, a Soviet agent supposedly killed by Steed in Berlin
in 1963. As the number of traitors and murders increases, Steed and Tara discover that Boris Kartovski is still alive, although
now an invalid; and someone is transferring his personality into the minds of the ministry men and then using these involuntary
traitors to commit murders from the inside…
30/10/1968 Whoever Shot
Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40 (Tara King)
While solving
a complex equation, supercomputer ‘George Oblique Stroke XR40’ is shot by an assassin, who fires both barrels
of a shotgun at him at point-blank range. As George dies he it names one of his creators, Sir Wilfred Pelley, as a traitor.
While a team of scientists operate on the computer, Steed and Tara investigate. After several more
attempts are made on George's life, Tara goes undercover as Pelley's visiting American niece, and discovers
that Pelley's butler is not all he seems…
06/11/1968 False Witness
(Tara King)
Lord Edgefield
stands accused of blackmail, but the Ministry’s case against him is called into question when the key witnesses go back
on their own testimonies. Meanwhile, one of Steed's fellow agents, Melville, starts lying about the department's own covert
investigation. Tara follows the clues to ‘DreemyKreem Dairies’, where Lord Edgefield has
contracted a special milk delivery for all the men who can implicate him...
13/11/1968 All Done With
Mirrors (Tara King)
Steed is placed
under house arrest after secrets begin leaking from the secret government communications facility where he has been spending
a lot of time. While Steed remains by the pool with Mother and Rhonda, Tara and the inept agent Watney are sent to investigate
the coastal installation, but soon discover that the killers responsible are able to vanish into thin air...
20/11/1968 Legacy of Death
(Tara King)
Immediately after
inheriting an ornate dagger from an anonymous, recently-deceased benefactor, Steed is besieged by several shady visitors who
are all desperate to gain possession of the dagger. One by one, these interested parties end up lying dead in Steed's drawing
room; Tara takes the dagger to be appraised by a ‘Chinese’ antiques dealer, but he to becomes overly interested
the item. Steed and Tara soon learn that the dagger is the key to the hiding place of buried treasure;
the chase is on to find the location of the loot, but the enemy are not far behind them, and Steed’s mysterious benefactor
may not be dead after all…
27/11/1968 Noon Doomsday (Tara King)
With his leg
in plaster, Steed recovers at ‘Department S’, a high-security convalescent home. But after Tara
decides to pay Steed a visit, the facility's guard is soon exposed as a traitor, and he loses the key to the defence system
in the surrounding defensive minefield, effectively trapping Steed and Tara inside. When they discover
that an old enemy is planning to exact his revenge against Steed at high-noon, Steed and Tara ask the
other patients for help, but all but the heavily-bandaged Sunley refuse. As the 12 o’clock
approaches, Steed and Tara frantically plan for the coming confrontation…
04/12/1968 Look- (stop
me if you've heard this one) But There Were These Two Fellers... (Tara King)
The directors
of ‘Project Cupid’, a ministry scheme to create an emergency underground facility for the British government in
case of war, are being systematically killed. The only clue is a clown’s nose left at the scene of one of the deaths,
and so Steed and Tara follow the trail to a library of registered clown-faces, whose ‘records’ are painted on
eggs. Tara is captured by the murderers, two killer clowns, and taken to a rest home for out of work
vaudeville acts, where she discovers that a man running a ‘Punch and Judy’ puppet stand is instructing the acts
to carry out the murders in order to stop ‘Project Cupid’ from levelling some old music halls. Steed arrives at
the home in the guise of ‘Gentleman Johnny’, but will he be in time to prevent Tara from
being burned in half by a failed vaudeville magician wielding a blowtorch..?
11/12/1968 Have Guns-
Will Haggle (Tara King)
Steed and Tara
are called in to investigate the dramatic theft of 3,000 highly-secret, brand-new rifles. The guns have many potential buyers
on the black market, including Colonel Nsonga, who plans to use the weapons to stage a political coup in his home country.
When the thieves stage an auction for the guns, Steed bids against Nsonga, as he has arranged to be the representative of
the Colonel's president. But unknown to Steed, Tara is imprisoned in the hut that is about to be the
target for the demonstration of the guns’ deadly capabilities…
18/12/1968 They Keep Killing
Steed (Tara King)
Steed is kidnapped
by an enemy scientist named Arcos, as part of a diabolical plan to use Steed’s face to make a perfect mould for use
with a quick-face-changing technique, in order to enable a double of Steed to infiltrate a top-security peace conference.
But Steed knocks-out his guard, and switches both the moulds and the documentation that goes with them, with the result that
five enemy agents get sent assignments to become Steed. After Tara, assisted by the suave and handsome
Baron Von Curt, discovers that one of the men has died during the face-changing process, she follows the trail to the conference.
As Steed after Steed arrives, Tara and Curt must stop the duplicates from disrupting the talks - but is the real Steed among
them..?
01/01/1969 The Interrogators
(Tara King)
After several
Military intelligence officers go missing from active service, their contacts are subsequently murdered. Steed and Tara
investigate, and find that each officer attended a special course run by Colonel Mannering. The aim of this course is to establish
the degree to which an agent can withstand interrogation; however, Steed and Tara soon learn that the
Colonel is an enemy agent, and is learning the agents’ secrets during a tea-break with them after each interrogation…
08/01/1969 The Rotters
(Tara King)
Top experts on
forestry and timber are being systematically murdered. Steed and Tara investigate the deaths, and find
that the villains are two upper-class employees from the firm Wormdoom Ltd., who are murdering their former colleagues from
the Institute of Timber Technology with
the use of a spray-gun filled with a fungus that instantl
15/01/1969 Invasion of
the Earthmen (Tara King)
When a fellow
agent is killed on the grounds of a mysterious school called the Alpha Academy,
Steed and Tara investigate. Posing as husband and wife, they uncover a scheme by the organisers of
the academy to train future astronauts for the purpose of conquering outer space. But their cover is soon blown, and both
Steed and Tara find themselves trapped inside a deadly tunnel full of their secret fears, while the
academy members hunt them down...
22/01/1969 Killer (Tara
King)
An agent is found
dead, neatly packaged in plastic-wrapping and pink ribbons, in a graveyard. Tara is on holiday, and
so Steed and her replacement, Lady Diana Forbes-Blakeney, investigate. Meanwhile, one agent after other attempts to confront
a deadly enemy agent called Remak; but they each end up being murdered in various ways, and are later found in the same graveyard,
in the same neat packaging. Finally, Steed confronts the killer and discovers that REMAK is the ‘Remote Electri-Matic
Agent Killer’ - the ultimate killing machine…
29/01/1969 The Morning
After (Tara King)
Steed and Tara
attempt to capture a quadruple-agent called Merlin, but when the tricky agent tries to elude capture by releasing a new sleeping
gas on them, he too is sent to sleep. Twenty-four hours later, the trio awake, only to find the town deserted and under martial
law. But while the outside world thinks that the army is there to defuse an old atom bomb found buried in an embassy building,
the fake military men are in fact installing a new device as part of a plan to blow up London…
05/02/1969 The Curious
Case of the Countless Clues (Tara King)
Members of the
aristocracy are being blackmailed by a group of criminals who plant incriminating evidence at the scenes of murders that they
themselves commit. Steed and Tara investigate, and discover that the mastermind behind the plan is
a creative blackmailer with a weakness for fine paintings. But when Steed gets too close to the truth, the villains attempt
to blackmail him - and the intended victim is Tara…
12/02/1969 Wish You Were
Here (Tara King)
Tara
learns her that uncle has been on holiday for a month, and that no one is able to contact him; deciding to investigate, she
travels to the Elizabethan Hotel where he is staying in order to find him. When her uncle tells her that he and his fellow
guests are all being held prisoner, Tara refuses to believe him; she tries to leave and get help, but
promptly falls victim to several strange accidents which prevent her from leaving the building. Tara
soon discovers that the hotel provides a unique service for certain guests: they can check in, but cannot check out - ever.
In an attempt to undermine the hotel operations, Tara and her uncle take over the kitchens, but unknown to them there is a
traitor in their midst...
19/02/1969 Love All (Tara
King)
Top civil servants
are involved in security leaks at the missile department, and each of them is acting strangely. Steed and Tara
follow the clues and learn that the men have all fallen in love with the same cleaning woman, and are revealing their secrets
to her. While Steed attempts to find out what makes this rather unattractive woman so desirable, Tara
contemplates committing suicide for her own new lover…
26/02/1969 Stay Tuned
(Tara King)
Steed prepares
to leave for a three-week holiday, but as he leaves his flat Tara arrives and informs him that he has
already had his holiday. Steed has no recollection of his three-week absence, and so Father, the blind woman filling in for
Mother, removes him from active duty so that he can investigate what happened during the missing period of time. Unsure whether
his amnesia is benign, or a sign of something sinister, Steed soon finds that a strange oriental holds the key to his uncovering
a plot to kill Mother...
05/03/1969 Take Me To Your
Leader (Tara King)
When Steed and
Tara intercept an exchange attempt involving a dog and a motorcyclist, they manage to grab the red
attache case that was to be swapped. The case contains a large sum of money, a tape player, and a bomb as a security device.
The only safe way of opening it is for Steed and Tara to follow its spoken instructions to pass it
along a chain of enemy agents until it reaches its final recipient - the mastermind behind the scheme. But as Tara
finds herself buried alive with a deadly decoy case, Steed is lead back to Mother...
12/03/1969 Fog (Tara King)
It seems that
the Victorian murderer known as the Gaslight Ghoul is once again stalking the fog-shrouded streets of London.
His latest victims are all part of an important world disarmament committee, and as they are systematically found dead, Steed
and Tara attempt to track down the killer. After Steed meets the members of a gentlemen’s club
devoted to the appreciation of the Ghoul, he and Tara discover that the murderer is killing the delegates because he himself
is against anti-gun laws…
19/03/1969 Who Was That
Man I Saw You With? (Tara King)
Tara
is assigned to test the security at a top-secret missile-defence system called Field Marshall – by breaking into the
complex. But unknown to Tara, a villain named Zaroff is working on a scheme to frame her as a traitor, by making it appear
that she is working with an enemy agent. As the evidence mounts up, Tara’s loyalty is questioned.
But Steed, believing her to be innocent, investigates; it seems Tara’s innocence lies in the
services of a lip-reader…
26/03/1969 Homicide And
Old Lace (Tara King)
Mother spends
his birthday with his two aunts, Georgina and Harriet. He decides to entertain them with a story involving
Steed and Tara infiltrating the international criminal organization known as Intercrime, who are planning
to steal all of Britain's treasures in one fell swoop by staging
a false alarm missile attack on London…
02/04/1969 Thingumajig
(Tara King)
Archaeologists
working on a dig underneath a 12th century church are being killed off under mysterious circumstances. The vicar is an old
friend of Steed's, and asks him to investigate the strange deaths, despite the fact that he himself believes them to be supernatural
in nature. Steed and Tara search the dark tunnels and discover that the deaths are being caused by
deadly box-like machines with the power to eat electricity. These machines were created a foreign scientist as part of a plan
to kill everyone in the country - but two of the devices accidentally escaped. Steed has to disable the box in the tunnels,
while Tara finds herself trapped in her flat at the mercy of the other…
07/04/1969 My Wildest Dream
(Tara King)
The board members
of the Acme Precision Corporation are dropping dead in rapid succession. By a strange coincidence, Steed has witnessed every
murder, and in each case, the killer appears to be walking in his sleep. Steed and Tara investigate,
and discover that someone is manipulating these ‘murderers’ with agresso-psycho therapy, making them commit the
murders for their own gain. But will Steed be the next victim before the criminal mastermind is revealed…?
16/04/1969 Requiem (Tara
King)
When key-witness
Miranda Luxton is nearly murdered, Steed is assigned to protect her. He takes her to a safe-house that only he knows the location
of; but then Tara is kidnapped as part of an elaborate and devious plan to extract Steed's whereabouts
from her - a plan that involves bombing Steed's flat and killing Mother…
23/04/1969 Take-Over (Tara
King)
A gang of criminals
arrive at the country home of Steed’s friends Bill and Laura Bassett and promptly take over the premises, making the
homeowners prisoners using explosive devices surgically inserted in their necks. But when Steed arrives for a ‘late’
Christmas celebration (in February), he disrupts the villains’ plans to ruin a peace conference that is to take place
nearby…
30/04/1969 Pandora (Tara
King)
While in an antique
shop, Tara is grabbed an attacker and knocked-out with chloroform. Waking up with a splitting headache,
she finds herself apparently in the year 1915, in a house full of people who all address her as ‘Pandora’. Confused
and bewildered, Tara eventually manages to uncover the truth: it is all part of a plot by two brothers, Rupert and Henry,
whose wealthy, dying uncle Gregory has hidden a large fortune somewhere in the house as a dowry for Pandora, his wife-to-be;
unfortunately, Pandora died years ago, and so Tara must take her place in order for his two nephews to discover the location
of the fortune…
14/05/1969 Get-A-Way (Tara
King)
When two enemy
agents inexplicably escape from a maximum security prison, Steed and Tara are called in to investigate.
The two escaped agents later kill their assigned targets, prompting Steed to interrogate the remaining prisoner, Ezdorf, in
order to discover their means of escape. But Ezdorf refuses to give anything away, and calmly announces that he, too, will
soon escape - and that Steed is his target…
21/05/1969 Bizarre (Tara
King)
A woman is found
wandering through a snowy field in her nightgown, babbling about dead men who will not stay dead. Steed, Tara and Captain
Carson investigate and learn that she was thrown from a train by a man leaving his coffin, which was bound for a graveyard
called ‘Happy Meadows’. Steed and Tara visit the resting place and meet the man in charge,
Bagpipes Happychap, who likes to make death fun. But Happychap is not much of a caretaker, as his ‘Paradise Plot’
area is filled with gravestones for deceased financiers - but empty coffins. Captain Carson investigates, only to die twice;
Steed follows his trail and dies only once - and then wakes up to a life of luxury underground…