TV series
Mrs Peel, We're Needed!
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).
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A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).
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Episode 1
Following the death of his fiancee Peggy at the hands of heroin smugglers, Dr David Keel vows to track down the killers and avenge his lost love. He is aided in his quest by a mysterious stranger, John Steed.
Directed by Don LeaverWritten by Ray Rigby, Patrick BrawnGuest stars Alister Williamson, Murray Melvin, Katherine Woodville, Ingrid Hafner, Robert James
Episode 2
Steed has infiltrated a gang, led by Mason, which is implicated in Peggy's murder. Steed asks Keel to establish contact with a rival gang, and the doctor discovers that Vance's hitman, Spicer, has been sent to kill Steed.
Directed by Peter HammondWritten by Brian ClemensGuest stars Alister Williamson, Godfrey Quigley, Ingrid Hafner, Mark Burns, Michael Collins, Robert James, Neil McCarthy, Philip Stone
Episode 3
Steed impersonates Riordan, a forger soon to be released from prison, and gains the trust of gang-leader Hooper. Things seem to be going well until Hooper's second-in-command, known as the Cardinal, announces that Riordan's girlfriend is outside waiting to see him.
Directed by Don LeaverWritten by Richard HarrisGuest stars Delphi Lawrence, Alex Scott, Michael Robbins, George Murcell, Heron Carvic
Episode 4
Keel receives a 'phone call from one of his patients, and ends up assuming the identity of her missing husband, a scientist engaged in secret research. Shot in the chest, Keel needs a minor operation - but the anaesthetist has tampered with the oxygen.
Directed by Peter HammondWritten by Terence Feely
Episode 5
A young girl, Carmelite Mendoza, has been kidnapped from a Caribbean island, but Steed suspects a political motive. His suspicions are confirmed when Vasco, the Mendoza family retainer, is observed killing the original kidnapper and abducting the girl himself.
Directed by John KnightWritten by Geoffrey Bellman, Patrick BrawnGuest stars George Roderick, Roger Delgado, Harold Kasket
Episode 6
Keel, reviving a young woman who has jumped into the Thames, is led to the Radeck State Circus, where the trapeze girl is guarded, her face covered by bandages because of an accident. The 'trapeze girl'proves to be the daughter of a defecting scientist, who will be used to force her father to return home. When Keel discovers this, he and Carol are captured by Zibbo the Clown, who will shoot Carol if the police investigation is not called off.
Directed by Don LeaverWritten by Dennis SpoonerGuest stars Edwin Richfield, Howard Goorney, Kenny Baker, Julian Holloway
Episode 7
Steed, attempting to break a gang of international diamond smugglers, is living in a bungalow near Heathrow Airport which was once owned by a suicide whom One-Ten suspects of involvement. Steed awakens one morning somewhat the worse for drink, when a phone call advises him to check the morning paper; the police are tracking a hit-and-run driver. Steed checks his car. It is damaged, and the front is covered with dried blood.
Directed by Peter HammondWritten by Max MarquisGuest stars Douglas Muir, Sandra Dorne, Joy Webster
Episode 8
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 him and harm anyone else he comes into contact with. But Marko, fearing that the police want to find him because of his forged passport, has already gone into hiding.
Directed by Robert TronsonWritten by Patrick BrawnGuest stars George Pravda, Marie Devereux
Episode 9
Steed, investigating a number of probable arson cases, is led to the hairdressing salon of Olive and Jacques Beronne. He asks Keel to let Carol investigate the salon, but after she enters, there is an explosion from within
Directed by Don LeaverWritten by Peter LingGuest stars Ingrid Hafner, Mark Eden, Gordon Rollings
Episode 10
Frank Preston is released from prison and is intent on reclaiming the hidden proceeds of his robbery. So is Steed, who has been ordered to follow the man. So are a couple of thugs, who kidnap Carol. So is Preston's scheming wife, eager to get her hands on the one hundred thousand pounds hidden somewhere in the sewers.
Directed by Peter HammondWritten by Richard Harris
Episode 11
Steed trails a blackmailed civil servant to Brinkley House, a private zoo, only to observe the man throwing a package of money into the reptile pit. The package soon vanishes. The man is then ordered to steal a top secret file.
Directed by Dennis VanceWritten by Dennis Spooner
Episode 12
Dr. Keel resuscitates Elaine Bateman, the owner of a ballroom dancing school who has narrowly survived a murder attempt by gassing. When he returns to the school after dropping his scarf, he is arrested. His scarf has been used to strangle the woman.
Directed by Don LeaverWritten by Peter LingGuest stars Diana King, Angela Douglas, Ewan Roberts
Episode 13
When Keel attends a health conference in Geneva he is unaware that he is carrying, in microdot form, a vital new medical formula - unaware, that is, until he is arrested for murder.
Directed by Peter HammondWritten by Brian ClemensGuest stars Toke Townley
Episode 14
Steed is trying to track down the organisers of a group who offer to spring any convict - even the dangerous ones - from prison if they're paid the right money. Keel impersonates a prisoner, and the trail seems to lead to a girl's finishing school.
Directed by Don LeaverWritten by Geoffrey Bellman, John WhitneyGuest stars Arthur Howard, Brian Murphy, Charles Farrell, Margo Andrew, Donald Morley, Donald Morley
Episode 15
To stop his daughter seeing suspected conman Jeremy de Willoughby, Sir Thomas Waller has hired arch-criminal the Deacon to 'put the frighteners on'. Steed is on the trail of the Deacon and, with the aid of Dr. Keel, stops two thugs from seriously wounding de Willoughby. They set a trap for the Deacon and the lovers.
Directed by Peter HammondWritten by Berkely MatherGuest stars Stratford Johns, Philip Gilbert, Doris Hare, David Andrews
Episode 16
After an unsuccessful murder attempt against Sir Wilberforce Lungi, Steed asks Keel, an old friend of the pro-Western African leader, to investigate Lungi's secretary, Jacquetta Brown. Meanwhile, Steed flies to Africa to meet Lungi's tribalist rival, Shebro.
Directed by Don LeaverWritten by Reed De Rouen, Patrick CampbellGuest stars Margaret Whiting, Wolfe Morris
Episode 17
An agent has been killed at the secret dockyard where submarines are built. Steed investigates, and finds that a foreign spy has been arranging 'accidents' for him.
Directed by Peter HammondWritten by James MitchellGuest stars Frank Thornton, Tom Adams, Gary Watson, Nyree Dawn Porter, Hamilton Dyce
Episode 18
Keel, called to deal with a man seriously injured by an accident, quickly discovers that the man is suffering from gunshot wounds, and that he may be implicated in a recent diamond robbery.
Directed by Roger JenkinsWritten by John Lucarotti, Gerald Verner
Episode 19
Keel is asked by the improbably named Bunty to help her find her missing friend. What is the connection between the department store where the women work and a call-girl racket?
Directed by Don LeaverWritten by Bill Strutton
Episode 20
Top-secret information is finding its way into the wrong hands, and the source seems to be a south coast fairground. Steed succeeds in getting hypnotised and winds up in the ghost-train tunnel. With frightening results, of course.
Directed by Guy VerneyWritten by John KruseGuest stars Anthony Bate, Nicky Henson, Julian Holloway, Morris Perry
Episode 21
Dr Keel, treating the victims of a cyclone struck Mexican village, uncovers a number of food-poisonings; emergency cooking oil is, in fact, hydraulic fluid.
Directed by Peter HammondWritten by John LucarottiGuest stars Tom Adams, Francis de Wolff, Michael Mellinger
Episode 22
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 dissidents and assassinations.
Directed by Roger JenkinsWritten by James MitchellGuest stars Moira Redmond, Patrick Allen
Episode 23
The discovery of the body of Schneider, a wanted Nazi war criminal, deep-frozen in a consignment of meat at London docks brings Steed and Keel into the shadowy world of Phoenix, a new and terrifying Fascist party in Britain.
Directed by Don LeaverWritten by Eric PaiceGuest stars Norman Chappell
Episode 24
An experimental vaccine is stolen, and the subsequent test proves deadly. Steed and Keel, suspecting that the human 'guinea pig' did not die directly from the vaccine, volunteer to be the next subjects.
Directed by John KnightWritten by Lester PowellGuest stars John Stratton, Allan Cuthbertson, Geoffrey Bayldon
Episode 25
An unusual and sprawling tale of heart disease, industrial unrest, and a consignment of rotten bananas.
Directed by Don LeaverWritten by Lewis DavidsonGuest stars Gillian McCutcheon, John Bailey
Episode 26
How has a research centre developing radiation-proof material managed to irradiate one of its scientists? Once more, Steed submits himself to scientific testing.
Directed by Peter HammondWritten by Terence FeelyGuest stars Michael Robbins, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Keith Barron, Alfred Burke, Barbara Shelley, Morris Perry
Episode information updated Jul 24, 2026
Patrick MacneeJohn Steed
Ian HendryDr. David Keel
Honor BlackmanCatherine Gale
Linda ThorsonTara King
Diana RiggEmma Peel
Gerald HarperColonel Corf
Tenniel EvansDr. Hurst
Alister WilliamsonTom
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