The Avengers Forever: You'll Catch Your Death

Episode 138: Tara King Era
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Tara: "I have a weakness for balding men..."

"I know, I know... you can see right through me. I've heard that one before!"

Tag

Steed and Tara are both suffering from colds. "Face it," Tara laughs, "you're hopelessly compromised!"

A.K.A.

Atishoo, Atishoo, All Fall Down

À vos souhaits

Tod per Post

Lettere mortali

Atrapará A Su Muerte

On the Radio

• Not To Be Sneezed At

Other Viewpoints

• Visitor Reviews
• The Young Avenger

YOU'LL CATCH YOUR DEATH

Steed shops for stationery
Tara goes for a checkup*

Production completed: 24 May 1968
UK Premiere (London, Season 7): 16 October 1968
US Premiere (New York, Season 4): 7 October 1968

Ear-nose-throat specialists all over the world are dropping dead. The only common factor among the cases, aside from the suddenness of death, is an empty envelope. Conferring with a stationery specialist, Steed learns that a nursing school ordered 10,000 envelopes—and no writing paper!

IMHO

I'm sure I must be sounding like a broken record by now, but again, not great yet not bad. Praises: An interesting premise, and topically prophetic—to the point of being truly spooky. Intriguing setting for Mother, who shares an ice cream, instead of a brandy, with Steed. Gripes: All of the victims' sneezes sound the same! And why does that huge nose have ladders inside? Does it double as their fire escape?

Trivia

Screenwriter Jeremy Burnham was a guest actor who appeared in three episodes: "The Town of No Return," "The Fear Merchants" and "The Forget-Me-Knot."

According to Television's Greatest Hits, this was the top-rated episode for this year, and ranked eighth of all Avengers episodes according to viewer ratings at the time it aired. It may come as a surprise what the other top-rated episodes were.

Steed's Kin: Steed gives Tara a remedy for a cold that he received from his "aunt," who died at a young age, having caught a cold!

*This unofficial subtitle is by Yours Truly.

On Location

The Anastasia Nursing Academy is actually Shenley Hall. On Location provides present-day view of this location.

Best Line

Colonel Timothy: "What are we looking for?" Steed: "An attractive brunette." Colonel Timothy: "Who isn't?" (Sexist, yes, but delivered cutely)

Essential Reading

Mrs. Peel... We're Needed by Piers Johnson

YOU'LL CATCH YOUR DEATH
Written by Directed by	Jeremy Burnham Paul Dickson
Full production credits
CAST
John Steed Tara King Colonel Timothy Butler Glover Matron Mother Dexter Preece Fawcett Maidwell Camrose Farrar Janice Seaton Georgina Melanie Padley Herrick Postman	Patrick Macnee 007 Linda Thorson Ronald Culver 007 Valentine Dyall 007 Fulton Mackay # Sylvia Kay Patrick Newell # Dudley Sutton Peter Bourne # Charles Lloyd Pack # Henry McGee Hamilton Dyce # Bruno Barnabe # Fiona Hartford Geoffrey Chater # Jennifer Clulow Emma Cochrane Willoughby Gray 007 Andrew Laurence # Douglas Blackwell
# DOPPELGANGERS
Bruno Barnabe	The White Elephant Honey for the Prince
Peter Bourne	A Sense of History
Geoffrey Chater	You Have Just Been Murdered
Hamilton Dyce	Death on the Rocks Death on the Slipway
Andrew Laurence	Murdersville
Fulton Mackay	Return of the Cybernauts Bizarre
Patrick Newell	The Town of No Return Something Nasty in the Nursery
Charles Lloyd Pack	Silent Dust