Bedtime Viewing Diary 2020
Episodes are streamed to the bedroom TV to drop off to (hence the approximate viewing time upon review) or when I wake in the middle of the night/early morning. I set the TV's 'Sleep' function to coincide with the end of the episode, preventing being woken by the TV glare in the middle of the night.
YT=YouTube, DM=Dailymotion, LS=for personal use only.
YT=YouTube, DM=Dailymotion, LS=for personal use only.
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- DirectorRobert DayStarsPatrick MacneeDiana RiggBarbara ShelleyThe members of a society that watches Venus are dying one by one from something that turns them completely white, so Steed joins them to flush out the culprit while Peel chases a light that seems related to the killings.Sun 19 & Mon 20 January, from memory (written January 23, from memory (written Tue 3 Mar 5:44 am)).
- DirectorGordon FlemyngStarsPatrick MacneeDiana RiggPatrick CargillThe executives of several ceramics companies are being driven crazy or killed by fear. The trail leads to a consulting company with some unusual techniques for helping their clients beat their competition.Tue 21 & Wed 22 January, from memory (written January 23, from memory (written Tue 3 Mar 5:44 am)).
- DirectorRobert AsherStarsPatrick MacneeDiana RiggMoira ListerWhen an enemy agent purchases an invisibility formula, the Avengers must find out if the formula's genuine, and if not, how's the apparent invisibility being staged.Fri 23 January, 1am.
- DirectorJohn KrishStarsPatrick MacneeDiana RiggPeter BowlesWhen a mad miscreant whips up a time machine, it takes The Avengers no time at all to show him the "era" of his ways.Fri 23 January, 11:30 pm(ish).
- DirectorRoy RossottiStarsPatrick MacneeDiana RiggRon MoodyTwo spies have obtained information about a secret missile base which they are passing to the other side, via a person known as Captain Caruso, whom the Avengers are charged to locate. In the event the good Captain turns out to be a trained parrot who possesses a photographic memory . . .Mon 27 Jan, 3 am (first 10-15m).
- DirectorPeter DuffellGordon FlemyngStarsPatrick MacneeDiana RiggNigel GreenSeveral businessmen have been killed, the murderer having apparently clawed them to death so that the initial suspect is an author who owns a bird of prey and had a grudge against a victim who ran a publishing house. However, the discovery of a comic called 'The Winged Avenger' featuring a super-hero is found by the latest victim. And could the invention of Professor Poole, boots that allow the wearer to climb walls and scale ceilings, be involved?Tue 4 Feb, 4 & 7 am (first 10-15m). The killings are so badly done, it spoils the episode for me, not even amusing, plus the uploads to DM are all mirrored.
- DirectorSidney HayersStarsPatrick MacneeDiana RiggRonnie BarkerWhat seems to be a man eating tiger on the loose is actually the first step in a plan to take over the whole of England.Tue 4 Feb, 11:30 pm (first 30m) & Wed 5 Feb, 6:15 am (last 30 mins). The killing scenes are terrible, worse than The Winged Avenger (yes it was possible after all).
- DirectorCharles CrichtonStarsPatrick MacneeDiana RiggAnna QuayleSomebody is systematically killing off foreign agents and Steed, who is initially implicated, declares a truce and calls on his Russian opposite number, Nutski. Along with Soviet agents Anna and Ivan the Avengers discover SNOB, an exceedingly English gentlemen's club with murderously patriotic members.Fri 7 Feb, 1:35 am (1-15 mins), Sat 8 Feb, 3 am (15-30 mins).
- DirectorJohn GillingStarsPeter WyngardeJoel FabianiRosemary NicolsFour men in fancy dress costumes are celebrating committing a robbery in a house near a building site when they are gunned down. When a man's body is recovered, locked in a trunk in a car that was pushed into a lake, the bullets that killed him match those from the gun of one of the murdered quartet. Stewart follows the trail to piece together the connection and to unmask the person who hired the robbers and who is holding Libby, a witness to the robbery, captive.Tue 11 Feb, 11:30 pm (30 mins), Wed 12 Feb, 11:58 pm). This ep isn’t on YT.
- DirectorJohn GillingStarsPeter WyngardeJoel FabianiRosemary NicolsCal and Thorn, two Americans, go deep sea diving on the Costa Del Sol and, having brought ashore a fish, proceed to double-cross and kill each other. The fish turns out to be plastic and contains a hundred thousand dollars in notes. The Department team arrive and Stewart and Annabelle pose as a married couple interested in diving to discover the drop-off whilst Jason heads for Madrid in pursuit of the engraver who is making the counterfeit notes.Mon 17 Feb, 11 pm (all, slept through the middle saw the end). Tue 18 Feb, 5 am (all).
- DirectorJohn GillingStarsPeter WyngardeJoel FabianiRosemary NicolsSpanish police attempt to flag down a white Chevrolet but it crashes and is revealed to have been 'driven' by a dummy and worked by remote control. Jason notes that the dummy is wearing an identical tie-pin to a man in England whose speciality is remote-controlled cars. Back in Spain, despite lack of cooperation from the local authorities, the team foil an attempt to drive a remote-controlled vehicle into a N.A.T.O. convoy.Wed 19 Feb, 1:30 am (all, slept through the middle saw the end, written 2:36 am).
- DirectorCyril FrankelStarsPeter WyngardeJoel FabianiRosemary NicolsAn intruder named Gerhard breaks into the heavily guarded grounds of a villa belonging to a man named Kolliatis, who has just gone to sleep after watching a home movie. Rather than steal anything Gerhard glues a clown's mask onto the sleeping man's face. When Kolliatis wakes up and tries to remove it he has a heart attack and dies. As he was a friend of Sir Curtis the Department 'S' team are called in and discover a vendetta and a blackmail racket.Wed 19 Feb, 3:30 am slept through most of it (can recall nothing of it) woke up @ 5 am. Thu 20 Feb, 1:30 am.
- DirectorJeremy SummersStarsPeter WyngardeNigel GreenMichael BatesTwo English criminals, Charles and Edward, are committing copy-cat robberies stolen from the plots of Jason's books, which causes the police to take an interest in the author after a security guard is killed. Jason and his girlfriend Arlene have an encounter with the two villains and escape but, as they can now recognize the pair, they are in danger as they head for Venice, where a trap has been set for them.Thu 20 Feb, 11:55 pm. Got off to sleep after 10-15 mins. Sat 22 Feb, 12:10 am, watched from start, once again was asleep after 10-15 mins. Mon 24 Feb 12:10 am, watched from start, asleep after 25 mins approx, 5:30 am watched last 28 mins then got off to sleep.
- DirectorCyril FrankelStarsPeter WyngardeJoel FabianiRosemary NicolsAn elderly man, wandering on an airport runway in his night wear, is killed by an incoming plane; Jason talks to the man's niece and discovers he worked in industrial financial. Meanwhile, Sir Curtis asks Stewart and Annabelle to track down a scientist working on an advanced form of brain-washing. Jason's investigations lead him to a sinister country club, run by a man called Carter, in reality a front for the brain-washing experiments of Dr. Dreiker. Unless Annabelle and Stewart can get to Jason in time, it will soon be him walking out in front of the flight path.Tue 25 Feb 1:10 am DM, asleep after 20 mins. Very similar for Wed 26 & Thu 27, Fri 28 12:15 am, last 30 mins. Thu 30 Jul, 2 am (est).
- DirectorJohn GillingStarsPeter WyngardeJoel FabianiRosemary NicolsSomething strange has happened at the Bellman-Parsons chemical factory. Although locals claim that they saw the work force arriving as normal, the management report that all of the regular employees reported in as sick, except one, and he is later found murdered. A substitute work force has been using the factory for a plot involving the use of its tankers, a gold robbery and the soon-to-be-opened Northover nuclear power generating station, where Annabelle is held captive by the villains.Tue 3 Mar 1:10 am DM, whole episode then went to sleep (written 5:41 am).
- DirectorRay AustinStarsPeter WyngardeJoel FabianiRosemary NicolsThree days after he disappeared on his way to see 'Don Giovanni' at Covent Garden, food critic Robin Skelton is found wandering in the Mexican desert. The Department is called in to investigate, and it becomes apparent that Skelton was mistaken for his double, rocket scientist Peter Sinclair, who is involved in tests for the American space schedule. Once they realize this, they discover that in the meantime Sinclair has also been kidnapped. The only clue Skelton can give the Department is 'Turtle in the Shell', which leads them to the Bahamas, where Sinclair has been taken by villainous Dr. Wolf.Tue 3 Mar 6:10 am, whole episode but can’t remember how it ended. Never even made to see Cordelia from The Baron.
Sun 12 Apr 12:55 am (asleep after 10 mins) & 6:55 am. “Turtle in the Shell”. - DirectorJack ArnoldStarsRobert WagnerMalachi ThroneRicardo MontalbanAl must steal a sample of a revolutionary new type of jet fuel, the only trouble is he doesn't know what to look for.Wed 4 Mar 6:10 am DM, whole episode. Fell asleep around 7:15 am to headphone music (LS).
- DirectorDavid LaneStarsGabrielle DrakeGeorge SewellDolores MantezThree Interceptors are sent to frustrate a UFO attack but one collides with the UFO, killing the pilot, Ken Matthews. Lieutenant Gay Ellis was giving the pilots their instructions and Straker suspects she sacrificed Matthews to spare another pilot, Mark Bradley, her apparent lover. Psychological tests on Gay and Mark, as processed by a computer, confirm that they are in love but both deny it. When an alien lands on Earth, Gay sends Mark to capture it, to prove that she is impartial and prepared to risk his life. He comes through and goes on a date with her. Straker tells them that if Gay had followed official SHADO protocol all three pilots would have been killed.Fri 6 Mar 12:13 am YT, watching as I type (12:18 am just on “Century 21 fashions” credit).
- DirectorRay AustinStarsPeter WyngardeJoel FabianiRosemary NicolsIn the South of France two hitmen study a photograph of a man taken in a festival square. They then go to his house with the intention of killing him but he drops down dead of a heart attack. The body is removed to the local morgue where the killers overpower the mortuary attendant and shoot bullets into the corpse. The dead man is identified as Christopher Lomax, a small-time crook, but he supposedly died three years earlier. The Department is called in to investigate how a man can die twice - assuming that he died in the first place.Fri 6 Mar 6:15 am DM.
- DirectorCyril FrankelStarsPeter WyngardeJoel FabianiRosemary NicolsIn Rome Johnnie is visited by 'the brothers' and there is a shoot-out, resulting in carnage. Johnnie has given the tipsy Stacey a package to be delivered to Paris and when a curious Stacey opens it, he finds three plastic flowers and a cryptic quotation. Herein lies the key to the whereabouts of five million stolen dollars. Department 'S' is called in to go to Paris and find the loot but there are other interested parties who, needless to say, will kill for possession of the clues.Sat 7 Mar 11:13 pm DM. Fell asleep thirdway through, woke up and saw last 5-10. Rewatched 6:20 am.
- DirectorCyril FrankelStarsPeter WyngardeJoel FabianiRosemary NicolsEconomist John Burnham is due to become the next head of the International Monetary Fund and he has progressive ideas which certain Communist agents do not want to see put into play so they shoot his wife Mary in front of him. However Burnham keeps repeatedly seeing Mary, though it is assumed that he is going mad, which is what his enemies have set out to achieve in order to discredit him and his work and harm the Western economy. Department 'S' are called in and soon discover that there is an impostor impersonating Mary.Mon 9 Mar 1:56 am DM, fell asleep 15-20 mins in (written 7:53 am, woke 7:15ish). Resumed from 20:50 at 8:15 am approximately.
- DirectorJohn GillingStarsPeter WyngardeJoel FabianiRosemary NicolsA tube train arrives at Redbridge station with all its passengers dead and the conductor who found it is also knocked out by nerve gas. Whilst Annabelle is escorting Mrs. Taylor, the widow of one of the dead men, from the morgue, they are held up and Mrs. Taylor is abducted, as later is Jason, whilst investigating at the station. The trail leads to a manufacturing company where Annabelle goes undercover as a secretary though she too is in danger when her employers, criminal speculators out to tap the hotline between the White House and 10 Downing Street, discover who she is.Wed 11 Mar 12 am YT, watched Emmy Leg Massage on Psychetruth queued up afterwards. Didn’t feel tired (writing at 1:11 am), reminds me of that Motörhead lyric
“I should be tired,
And all I am is wired”
I watched this episode at an earlier date but accidentally removed it from the list thinking I was adding it a second and separate time on the list. There’s still no way of entering the same episode/title more than once on a list.
Sat 18 Jul 2:05 am. Asleep in 15 minutes. - DirectorLeslie NormanStarsPeter WyngardeJoel FabianiRosemary NicolsGreg Halliday, disgruntled employee at a chemical works, leaves the plant with a phial of deadly nerve gas. He is captured by enemy agents out to obtain his lethal product but saved by the intervention of the Department. However, he absconds to London and threatens to unleash the gas and destroy the city unless world governments listen to his plans for peace.Wed 11 Mar 11:35 pm DM, asleep by 30 min mark, rewatched 3:55 am (Thu 12 Mar). Anthony Hopkins.
- DirectorCyril FrankelStarsPeter WyngardeJoel FabianiRosemary NicolsAt the City of Southwark hospital senior British civil servant Peregrine Haslett-Smith is about to undergo a tricky operation but Mr. Walker, the surgeon responsible, is knocked unconscious and, when he recovers, finds that somebody else has completed the operation. The only surgeon capable of performing such a delicate operation would be Dr. Uri Dutrov, but he is retired and living in Moscow, where Stewart goes to interview him. Jason, however, flies South to Istanbul to uncover the real truth behind the perfect operation.Sun 15 Mar 12 am DM, asleep 25-30 mins, rewatched 5 or 6 am.
- DirectorRay AustinStarsPeter WyngardeJoel FabianiRosemary NicolsSir Curtis and a lady friend are at an antiques auction in Bond street, where a mirror sells for an astronomically high sum in view of its appearance. Later Gresford, the man who bought the mirror is murdered and it is discovered that he had at his home another, virtually identical mirror. An intrigued Sir Curtis gets the team to investigate, leading Jason to the antique shops of Paris.Mon 16 Mar 12:20 am DM, whole episode. Still not tired.