7.060 minSeason 6 • Episode 33
LatestWhen a woman is found walking barefoot in a snowy field, complaining of a dead man who wasn't dead, Steed investigates the Happy Meadows funeral parlour, which doesn't seem to be keeping its clients down under. What connection could that business possibly have with Mystic Tours?
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).
Costume
Emma Peel's leather catsuits basically invented the action heroine aesthetic.
Production
Swinging London sets that make you want to time travel immediately.
Cinematography
Black-and-white episodes hit different—pure noir spy atmosphere.
Creator
Sydney Newman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Emma Peel's name was literally chosen because it sounded like 'M-appeal'—male appeal, because 1960s executives were subtle like sledgehammers.
Patrick Macnee wrote the series' 'bible' insisting Steed never use a gun—making the umbrella and sword cane iconic out of sheer stubbornness.
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