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
A man is murdered whilst being interviewed on live television. one-Ten is sure that it is the work of the ruthless assassin Mr Teddy Bear, and he asks Cathy Gale to trap the man - by arranging for him to murder Steed.
Directed by Richmond HardingWritten by Martin WoodhouseGuest stars Michael Robbins, Douglas Muir, Sarah Maxwell, Michael Collins
Episode 2
At Marseilles airport, Steed and Cathy find the courier they were due to meet dead. His sample of new liquid rocket fuel has been taken. Facing an array of enemy agents, the duo must recover the flask of Propellant 23.
Directed by Jonathan AlwynWritten by Jon Manchip WhiteGuest stars John Crocker, Katherine Woodville, Nicholas Courtney, Geoffrey Palmer, Justine Lord, Graham Ashley
Episode 3
Borb, the president of the Balkan Republic, is visiting London to sign a military deal. His private secretary is killed by a masked wrestler, the Decapod. Steed is assigned to augment the president's bodyguards, but the wrestler continues to kill those close to Borb.
Directed by Don LeaverWritten by Eric PaiceGuest stars Philip Madoc, Julie Stevens, Wolfe Morris
Episode 4
Shareholders in Anderson's, a small-arms manufacturers, are being killed one by one whilst a tycoon plans a take-over. Rifles and other weapons, possibly manufactured by Anderson's, are being smuggled into Africa. Cathy Gale joins the board with a 20 per cent share in order to investigate.
Directed by Peter HammondWritten by Eric PaiceGuest stars Ronald Radd, Bernard Kay, Judy Parfitt, John Frawley
Episode 5
A film star's stand-in is murdered, and microfilm of North American early warning systems has been stolen. The film star, despite an aversion to travelling by sea, proceeds to Montreal on a luxury liner. In an attempt to find the mocrofilm Dr King is assigned as her personal doctor, and Steed goes under cover as a steward.
Directed by Don LeaverWritten by Lester PowellGuest stars John Frawley, Jon Rollason, Iris Russell, Mark Eden, Alan Curtis, John Bennett, Gerald Sim, Angela Thorne
Episode 6
Steed is trying to infiltrate a group of assassins currently based in the South of France. He robs the leader of some jewellery in order to impress him, then waits for them in the local club. It just so happens that Venus Smith is singing there.
Directed by Don LeaverWritten by Jeremy ScottGuest stars Edwin Richfield, Donald Tandy, George Roderick, Patricia Denys, Julie Stevens
Episode 7
The owner of a stamp shop is murdered when excitedly talking on the phone to a contact about the rare Mauritius Penny that has turned up on a list. Cathy Gale applies for a job in the shop, and she and Steed witness another murder in an auction room.
Directed by Richmond HardingWritten by Malcolm Hulke, Terrance DicksGuest stars David Langton, Edward Jewesbury, Grace Arnold, Alfred Burke, Richard Vernon
Episode 8
A man involved in a car crash is found to have fifty thousand pounds worth of diamonds in his stomach. Steed investigates the man's joke shop, Big Laugh, and then the offices of multi-millionaire Litoff. The burial of one of Litoff's Great Danes is not quite what it seems.
Directed by Peter HammondWritten by Jeremy ScottGuest stars John Laurie, Frederick Jaeger
Episode 9
Steed's department is guarding M. Roland, A UN negotiator in London for important talks, but cannot prevent an assassination attempt. Indeed, it seems that one of Steed's colleagues is selling secrets - and Steed finds that even he is under suspicion.
Directed by Don LeaverWritten by Anthony TerpiloffGuest stars Arthur Hewlett, Michael Mellinger, Jon Rollason
Episode 10
Illegal diamonds are swamping the market. The wife of a diamond merchant is murdered. Time for Steed and Gathy Gale to feign marriage.
Directed by Jonathan AlwynWritten by Eric PaiceGuest stars Hamilton Dyce
Episode 11
Secrets are finding their way from HMS Zebra, a naval base, to the enemy, rendering the Navy's missile-tracking equipment useless. Steed and Mrs. Gale investigate, and find their attention drawn to the local sweet shop.
Directed by Richmond HardingGuest stars John Sharp, William Gaunt, Richard Leech, Jack Stewart, Michael Danvers-Walker
Episode 12
Plato, the most advanced computer in the world, which could be used to target intercepting missiles, keeps breaking down. The body of a professor on the team is found within.
Directed by Kim MillsWritten by Martin WoodhouseGuest stars Tenniel Evans, Anthony Booth, Walter Hudd, David Garth, Allan McClelland, Penelope Lee, Marina Martin, Ray Browne
Episode 13
A British courier is attacked in Jamaica, and he protects the contents of his diplomatic bag at the expense of his life. But why? The case only contains mundane documents.
Directed by Jonathan AlwynWritten by Leonard FinchamGuest stars Gerald Harper, Caron Gardner
Episode 14
A plane crashes in Ireland in suspicious circumstances, and the bodies are taken to the nearby St. Mary's Convent . Steed calls in Dr. King to check up on the circumstances of death, while he samples Irish hospitality and bad deeds at Shamrock Airport.
Directed by Richmond HardingWritten by Eric PaiceGuest stars Bruce Boa, Edward Kelsey, Donal Donnelly, Jon Rollason, Janet Hargreaves, John McLaren, Liam Gaffney, Peggy Marshall
Episode 15
Steed wants Mrs. Gale to impersonate Hilda Stern, a recently arrested assassin about to be used by the trans-national crime syndicate Intercrime. Things go swimmingly, until the real Hilda Stern breaks out of Holloway and confronts the imposter.
Directed by Jonathan AlwynWritten by Malcolm Hulke, Terrance DicksGuest stars Alan Browning, Julia Arnall, Patrick Holt, Kenneth J. Warren, Angela Browne, Jerome Willis, Paul Hansard, Donald Webster
Episode 16
Marling Ceramics, run by Cathy's friends, Richard and Allan Marling, claim to be on the verge of creating an unbreakable china. However, when Steed arrives to investigate, a body is discovered in a tank of clay.
Directed by Richmond HardingWritten by James MitchellGuest stars Steve Plytas, Paul Eddington
Episode 17
Classified information is finding its way into the wrong hands and Steed feels sure that this has something to do with the death of the magician's assistant at the club where Venus Smith is working. Steed investigates the lethal vanishing cabinet.
Directed by Kim MillsWritten by Peter LingGuest stars Royston Tickner, Julie Stevens
Episode 18
Steed is entrusted with the safe-keeping of a new fuel formula when its inventor is found in a coma. The scientist had been involved in a black magic circle which leads Steed and Cathy into the world of hexes and magic powers.
Directed by Peter HammondWritten by Doreen MontgomeryGuest stars Douglas Muir, Fred Evans, Peter Arne, John Hollis, Pat Spencer, Olive Milbourne, Alban Blakelock, Brian Vaughan
Episode 19
A burglar steals two gold-plated eggs from Dr Ashe, not knowing that they contain a deadly virus. The man quickly falls ill, but refuses to indicate where the case containing the eggs is buried.
Directed by Peter HammondWritten by Martin WoodhouseGuest stars Peter Arne
Episode 20
Steed, investigating the suicide of a University tutor, discovers that the man seems to have shot himself with a gun with a silencer attached. Venus is sent a tub of acid 'face-cream', and there is another mysterious suicide.
Directed by Jonathan AlwynWritten by James MitchellGuest stars John Standing, Reginald Marsh, Richard Thorp, Julie Stevens
Episode 21
Astonomer Professor Richter believes that the sun's stellar companion, a white dwarf, is returning to the solar system. If it does, that's the end of everything. So why on Earth would anybody want to murder him now?
Directed by Richmond HardingWritten by Malcolm HulkeGuest stars Keith Pyott, Peter Copley, Philip Latham, Constance Chapman, George A. Cooper, Bill Nagy, Vivienne Drummond, Daniel Thorndike
Episode 22
Venus has her camera and films stolen whilst taking pictures in a fun fair. One film is missed, however, and when developed a face can be seen in the Hall of Mirrors - that of Trevelyan, the cypher clerk who has committed suicide. But Venus's photograph was taken after the man's death.
Directed by Kim MillsWritten by Anthony Terpiloff, Geoffrey OrmeGuest stars Ray Barrett, Julie Stevens, Rhoda Lewis, Michael Gover, David Graham, Daphne Anderson, Julian Somers, Haydn Jones
Episode 23
The Mafia aren't about to let Steed get in the way of their lucrative drug-smuggling operation between Britain and North America, and arrange for him to be assassinated. Steed survives, and tracks his intended killer to a circus, where some of the clowns prove to be anything but figures of fun.
Directed by Peter HammondWritten by Roger MarshallGuest stars Tommy Godfrey, Sandra Dorne, Alec Mango, Robert Rietti, Roy Purcell, John Church, Artro Morris, Willie Shearer
Episode 24
A holiday for Steed in Greece is, of course, no straightforward affair. A deep-sea diver dies in mysterious circumstances, whilst bathyscope experiments are taking place on the yacht where Venus is singing.
Directed by Raymond MenmuirWritten by Martin WoodhouseGuest stars Eric Pohlmann, Julie Stevens, Yvonne Shima, Colette Wilde, John Carson, Frank Gatliff, Michael Gover, Alan Haywood
Episode 25
What should have been a quiet weekend at the home of an old friend soon turns into a thick web of treachery and scheming, which throws Cathy into the world of shipbuilding, cross-company romance, mysterious 'accidents' and misguided nationalism.
Directed by Richmond HardingWritten by Reed De RouenGuest stars Guy Doleman, Edward de Souza
Episode 26
Cathy is managing the boxer Joey Frazer, but Pancho Driver's gym, where the man is training, is, Steed suspects, the centre for shipments of illegal ambergris.
Directed by Kim MillsWritten by John LucarottiGuest stars Morris Perry, John Tate, John Bailey, Patrick Magee, Kenneth Farrington, Julie Paulle, Christopher Coll, Robert Mill
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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