Mr. Teddy Bear

1st episode of the 2nd season of The Avengers

"Mr. Teddy Bear"

The Avengers episode

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Episode no.

Season 2
Episode 1

Directed by

Richmond Harding

Written by

Martin Woodhouse

Produced by

Leonard White

Featured music

John Dankworth (theme)

Production code

3506^[1]

Original air date

29 September 1962 (1962-09-29)

Guest appearances

Douglas Muir
Bernard Goldman
Tim Brinton
Kenneth Keeling
John Horsley
John Ruddock
Michael Robbins

Episode chronology

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List of episodes

"Mr. Teddy Bear" is the first episode of the second series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman. It was first broadcast by ABC on 29 September 1962. The episode was directed by Richmond Harding and written by Martin Woodhouse.^[2]

Plot

Steed and Cathy must track down an elusive assassin nicknamed Mr. Teddy Bear.^[3]

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
Douglas Muir as One Ten
Bernard Goldman as Mr. Teddy Bear
Tim Brinton as TV Interviewer
Kenneth Keeling as Colonel Vernon Wayne-Gilley
John Horsley as Dr. Gilmore
John Ruddock as Dr. James Howell
Michael Robbins as Henry Farrow
Michael Collins as George, the Technician/Teddy Bruin
Sarah Maxwell as Blonde Cafe Girl

References

^ Johnson, Piers. "Mr Teddy Bear". The Avengers. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
^ Rogers, Dave (25 April 1983). The Avengers. ITV Books in association with Michael Joseph. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
^ "Mr. Teddy Bear". The Avengers Forever!. Retrieved 3 May 2012.

External links

"Mr. Teddy Bear" at IMDb
Episode overview on The Avengers Forever! website

The Avengers

Characters

John Steed
Cathy Gale
Emma Peel
Tara King
Mike Gambit
Purdey
Mother

Episodes

Series 1	"Hot Snow" "Crescent Moon" "Girl on the Trapeze" "Dance with Death" "The Frighteners" "Tunnel of Fear"
Series 2	"Mr. Teddy Bear" "Propellant 23" "The Decapod" "Bullseye" "Mission to Montreal" "The Removal Men" "The Mauritius Penny" "Death of a Great Dane" "The Sell Out" "Death on the Rocks" "Traitor in Zebra" "The Big Thinker" "Death Dispatch" "Dead on Course" "Intercrime" "Immortal Clay" "Box of Tricks" "Warlock" "The Golden Eggs" "School for Traitors" "The White Dwarf" "Man in the Mirror" "Conspiracy of Silence" "A Chorus of Frogs" "Six Hands Across a Table" "Killer Whale"
Series 3	"Brief for Murder" "The Undertakers" "Man with Two Shadows" "The Nutshell" "Death of a Batman" "November Five" "The Gilded Cage" "Second Sight" "The Medicine Men" "The Grandeur That Was Rome" "The Golden Fleece" "Don't Look Behind You" "Death a la Carte" "Dressed to Kill" "The White Elephant" "The Little Wonders" "The Wringer" "Mandrake" "The Secrets Broker" "Trojan Horse" "Build a Better Mousetrap" "The Outside-In Man" "The Charmers" "Concerto" "Esprit de Corps" "Lobster Quadrille"
Series 4	"The Town of No Return" "The Gravediggers" "The Cybernauts" "A Surfeit of H₂O" "The Hour That Never Was" "A Touch of Brimstone" "What the Butler Saw"
Series 5	"From Venus with Love" "The Fear Merchants" "Escape in Time" "The See-Through Man" "The Bird Who Knew Too Much" "The Winged Avenger" "The Living Dead" "The Hidden Tiger" "The Correct Way to Kill" "The Superlative Seven" "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station" "Death's Door"
Series 6	"The Forget-Me-Knot" "Have Guns — Will Haggle" "The Morning After"