Silent Dust

Episode aired Dec 31, 1965
TV-14
52m

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

361

YOUR RATING

Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg in The Avengers (1961)

Action Comedy Crime Drama Mystery Romance Sci-Fi Thriller

When birds begin to fall from branches in flocks, it seems someone is using the banned chemical Silent Dust in the countryside of Cornwall. Steed and Mrs Peel soon find out a that a small gr... Read allWhen birds begin to fall from branches in flocks, it seems someone is using the banned chemical Silent Dust in the countryside of Cornwall. Steed and Mrs Peel soon find out a that a small group of local landowners is planning to use the deadly dust to blackmail the country by des... Read allWhen birds begin to fall from branches in flocks, it seems someone is using the banned chemical Silent Dust in the countryside of Cornwall. Steed and Mrs Peel soon find out a that a small group of local landowners is planning to use the deadly dust to blackmail the country by destroying Dorset.

Director
- Roy Ward Baker
Writers
- Roger Marshall
- Sydney Newman
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

361

YOUR RATING

Director
- Roy Ward Baker
Writers
- Roger Marshall
- Sydney Newman
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
For the scene in which Mrs. Peel is being chased by hounds and takes a fall, Diana Rigg was doubled by Ray Austin, who accidentally fell into a hole and was knocked unconscious for five minutes.

Goofs
Early in the episode, they show flocking birds, and then individual birds dropping to the floor dead. One of the 'flocking birds' shots is actually film of fruit bats, native to the tropics, not the UK.

Quotes
John Steed: [Peel is steering a gondola, Steed is relaxing in it under a woman's umbrella] Tired?
Emma Peel: [she places the rowing ore firmly in the ground] Exhausted.
John Steed: No stamina.
Emma Peel: [sits down next to him] No comment.
John Steed: I know just how you feel.
Emma Peel: How? How would you know?

Soundtracks
Dixie
(uncredited)
Written by Daniel Decatur Emmett

User reviews8

Featured review

6/10

Silent Dust

When birds start dying in the countryside, Steed and Mrs Peel discover a banned chemical called Silent Dust may be behind it.

Silent Dust is an average episode. As always, there's plenty of recognizable actors in the cast. The plot makes absolutely no sense, and Steed seems to make a miraculous recovery after being shot. Overall, it's entertaining enough.