Series 1 (1961)

Hot Snow
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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...Read more

Brought to Book
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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 ri...Read more

Square Root of Evil
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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 b...Read more

Nightmare
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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 engage...Read more

Crescent Moon
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February 4, 1961

A young girl, Carmelite Mendoza, has been kidnapped from a Caribbean island, but Steed suspects a political motive. His suspicio...Read more

Girl on the Trapeze
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February 11, 1961 • 50m

Keel, reviving a young woman who has jumped into the Thames, is led to the Radeck State Circus, where the trapeze girl is guarded,...Read more

Diamond Cut Diamond
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February 18, 1961

Steed, attempting to break a gang of international diamond smugglers, is living in a bungalow near Heathrow Airport which was once...Read more

The Radioactive Man
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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 hi...Read more

Ashes of Roses
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March 4, 1961

Steed, investigating a number of probable arson cases, is led to the hairdressing salon of Olive and Jacques Beronne. He asks Kee...Read more

Hunt the Man Down
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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 o...Read more

Please Don't Feed the Animals
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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 int...Read more

Dance with Death
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April 15, 1961

Dr. Keel resuscitates Elaine Bateman, the owner of a ballroom dancing school who has narrowly survived a murder attempt by gassing...Read more

One for the Mortuary
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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 -...Read more

The Springers
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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...Read more

The Frighteners
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May 27, 1961 • 51m

To stop his daughter seeing suspected conman Jeremy de Willoughby, Sir Thomas Waller has hired arch-criminal the Deacon to 'put th...Read more

The Yellow Needle
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June 10, 1961

After an unsuccessful murder attempt against Sir Wilberforce Lungi, Steed asks Keel, an old friend of the pro-Western African lead...Read more

Death on the Slipway
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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 ...Read more

Double Danger
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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...Read more

Toy Trap
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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 st...Read more

Tunnel of Fear
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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 succee...Read more

The Far Distant Dead
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August 19, 1961

Dr Keel, treating the victims of a cyclone struck Mexican village, uncovers a number of food-poisonings; emergency cooking oil is...Read more

Kill the King
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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 dissiden...Read more

Dead of Winter
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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 St...Read more

The Deadly Air
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December 16, 1961

An experimental vaccine is stolen, and the subsequent test proves deadly. Steed and Keel, suspecting that the human 'guinea pig' ...Read more

A Change of Bait
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December 23, 1961

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

Dragonsfield
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December 30, 1961

How has a research centre developing radiation-proof material managed to irradiate one of its scientists? Once more, Steed submit...Read more