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Download Youll Catch Your Death
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original title: You'll Catch Your Death
genge: Action,Comedy,Crime,Mystery,Romance,Sci-Fi,Thriller
duration: 51min
keywords: tiedup, straitjacket, spraybottle, chloroform
He is the latest in a line of doctors to die the same way. Fearing a major flu epidemic could be about to engulf the country, Mother dispatches Steed and Tara to investigate. The trail leads first to the Anastasia Nursing Academy, and then to the home of Colonel Timothy ( Retired ), played by Roland Culver, who runs an anti-allergy clinic.
Glover ( Fulton Mackay ) is in league with the A.N.A.'s Matron ( Sylvia Kay ) to develop the ultimate weapon - a bug that kills in seconds by inducing so much sneezing in the victim that all air to the lungs is cut off. They will sell it to the highest bidder once it is perfected. First, they must kill the only doctors who might have found an antidote...
Jeremy Burnham wrote this originally for the Emma Peel series, under the title 'Atishoo! Atishoo! We All Fall Down!'. It is based on a suitably outrageous premise, peopled by fine actors of the calibre of Valentine Dyall, Henry McGee, Dudley Sutton, Charles Lloyd Pack ( father of Roger ), and has some good moments, but strangely never becomes the classic it promises to be. I think Paul Dickson, the director, took it much too seriously. He also worked on 'The Champions' and 'Department S' - with far greater success.
This was Fulton Mackay's second appearance in 'The Avengers' - he was in 'Return Of The Cybernauts' and reappeared later in the Thorson series in the final episode 'Bizarre'. Sylvia Kay, who plays 'Matron, was 'Mrs.Warrender' in John Sullivan's 'Just Good Friends'.
Mother's office is strange even by his standards - it looks like an unfinished film set, with a pool and stepladders galore. During the briefing, Rhonda gives both Steed and Mother ice cream cornets! Colonel Timothy's clinic is a wonderful piece of design - so that we never forget its main purpose, the main corridor wall has a gigantic nose carved from stone! A different director, such as Robert Fuest or Charles Crichton, would I think have made a better episode. At least it got Burnham's stint as 'Avengers' writer off to an above average start. Somebody is targeting the world's ear, nose and throat specialists
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