The Avengers Episode 1
"From Venus With Love"
(Bons baisers de Vénus)
by Philip Levene

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Produced by Albert Fennell & Brian Clemens
Executive Producer Julian Wintle
Directed by Robert Day
Teleplay by Phillip Levene

All characters and events in this teleplay are fictitious and any similarity to actual events or persons, living or dead, is purely co-incidental.

Music by Laurie Johnson
Starring Patrick Macnee as John Steed,
Diana Rigg as Emma Peel.
Barbara Shelley Venus Browne
Philip Locke Dr Henry Primble
Jon Pertwee Brigadier Whitehead
Derek Newark Crawford
Jeremy Lloyd Bertram Fortesque Winthrope Smith
Arthur Cox Professor Clarke
Principal items of Mr Macnee's wardrobe designed by Pierre Cardin
Miss Rigg's costumes designed by Alun Hughes

Mrs Peel is called away from her fencing practice by Steed's arrival.
They have to investigate when astronomers start turning white while observing Venus. Have the Venusians invaded earth, as Primble suggests to Steed? Are aliens killing the rich patrons of the British Venusian Society?
Steed is unconvinced and when they discover a tape recording of the aliens is in fact a laser warming up it's clear that Primble is behind it all. A deadly fight ensues and Emma is strapped in for corrective eye surgery.
The Avengers are invited to "have dinner on Venus", after dispatching Primble with his own laser, but Steed worries about his Claret not travelling well.

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