The Bird Who Knew Too Much

5th episode of the 5th season of The Avengers

"The Bird Who Knew Too Much"

The Avengers episode

Episode no.

Season 5
Episode 5

Directed by

Roy Rossotti

Written by

Brian Clemens (teleplay)
Alan Pattillo (story)

Produced by

Albert Fennell, Brian Clemens, Julian Wintle

Featured music

Laurie Johnson

Original air dates

8 February 1967 (1967-02-08) (Southern Television)
11 February 1967 (ABC Weekend TV)

Guest appearances

Ron Moody
Ilona Rodgers
Kenneth Cope
Michael Coles

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"The Bird Who Knew Too Much" is the fifth episode of the fifth series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg, and guest starring Ron Moody, Ilona Rodgers, Kenneth Cope, and Michael Coles.^[1] It was first broadcast in the Southern and Tyne Tees regions of the ITV network on Wednesday 8 February 1967. ABC Weekend Television, who commissioned the show for ITV, broadcast it in its own regions three days later on Saturday 11 February.^[2] The episode was directed by Roy Rossotti, and written by Brian Clemens.

Plot

When fellow counter-espionage agents are murdered checking out a plot to sell secrets of a missile base to foreign powers, Steed and Emma have to find if birds are being used in the scheme especially under the leadership of Captain Crusoe.

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Diana Rigg as Emma Peel
Ron Moody as Jordan
Ilona Rodgers as Samantha Slade
Kenneth Cope as Tom Savage
Michael Coles as Verret
John Wood as Twitter
Anthony Valentine as Cunliffe
Clive Colin Bowler as Robin
John Lee as Mark Pearson

References

^ "The Bird Who Knew Too Much". BBC. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
^ Johnson, Piers. "Series 5 Episode Guide". The Avengers. Retrieved 20 May 2022.

External links

"The Bird Who Knew Too Much" at IMDb
Episode overview on The Avengers Forever! website

The Avengers

Characters

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"