Foreign spies (aren't they always?) are sabotaging the working of a building-size computer named "Plato", and have also set their sights on a brilliant-but-immature scientist heading up the project. At one point they derail his mental gymnastics playing poker with a combination of drugged drinks and marked cards, trying to get him under their power.
Cathy's credentials as an anthropologist allow her access to the facility, and her first day investigating, a dead body shows up. Soon the baddies have her in their sights, but as usual, they don't know the kind of person they're dealing with. Steed wants to give Cathy a free hand this time around, but keeps missing his plane to the Middle East (or so he says). Good thing, he winds up saving Cathy and the "boy wonder" scientist from being murdered by freezing. By the end, I kinda guessed who the "inside" saboteur was. Apart from the suspects being narrowed down, he was the most SINISTER-looking.
The sets and story on this one reminded me of a Jon Pertwee "DOCTOR WHO" story nearly a decade early.
A few vaguely-familiar actors included Walter Hudd as the project chief (I'd seen him in "TWO-WAY STRETCH" and "SINK THE BISMARCK!", though I don't actually remember him in either); Tenniel Evans as the assistant head (a SAINT, 2 other AVENGERS, and a Pertwee DOCTOR WHO, "Carnival of Monsters"), and Anthony Booth as the "wonder boy" who kept getting himself into one jam after another (I've seen him in "BRANNIGAN" and "THE RETURN OF MR. MOTO"; as it turns out, he was in 52 episodes of "TILL DEATH DO US PART" as the son-in-law, the same role Rob Reiner played on "ALL IN THE FAMILY"!).
Cathy's credentials as an anthropologist allow her access to the facility, and her first day investigating, a dead body shows up. Soon the baddies have her in their sights, but as usual, they don't know the kind of person they're dealing with. Steed wants to give Cathy a free hand this time around, but keeps missing his plane to the Middle East (or so he says). Good thing, he winds up saving Cathy and the "boy wonder" scientist from being murdered by freezing. By the end, I kinda guessed who the "inside" saboteur was. Apart from the suspects being narrowed down, he was the most SINISTER-looking.
The sets and story on this one reminded me of a Jon Pertwee "DOCTOR WHO" story nearly a decade early.
A few vaguely-familiar actors included Walter Hudd as the project chief (I'd seen him in "TWO-WAY STRETCH" and "SINK THE BISMARCK!", though I don't actually remember him in either); Tenniel Evans as the assistant head (a SAINT, 2 other AVENGERS, and a Pertwee DOCTOR WHO, "Carnival of Monsters"), and Anthony Booth as the "wonder boy" who kept getting himself into one jam after another (I've seen him in "BRANNIGAN" and "THE RETURN OF MR. MOTO"; as it turns out, he was in 52 episodes of "TILL DEATH DO US PART" as the son-in-law, the same role Rob Reiner played on "ALL IN THE FAMILY"!).