The Avengers (TV Series)

The Bird Who Knew Too Much (1967)

Patrick Macnee: John Steed

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Quotes 

• John Steed , Emma Peel : The parrot's taking the information out!

• John Steed : Do you know they brought over the whole Eastern rocket program in the eye of a needle?

  Emma Peel : Ingenious!

  John Steed : Hmm. Except for the fact that the courier laid down and rested in a haystack.

  Emma Peel : You mean they...

  John Steed : They're still looking for it.

• Samantha Slade : It's a lovely car. Why do you have straps on your bonnet?

  John Steed : To keep it on.

  Samantha Slade : Oh. Well, how many gallons does it do to the mile?

  John Steed : You mean how many miles does she do to the gallon?

• John Steed : Mark Pearson is dead. And you and I are going to have a little talk.

  Samantha Slade : A talk? Well, what about?

  John Steed : Cabbages and kings... Life, birds and the bees - but mostly about birds.

• John Steed : Frank Elrick. He was engaged on counter-counter-counterespionage.

  Emma Peel : Well, somebody countered his counter. Where was this, eh, found?

  John Steed : In a contractor's yard and just in time. In another hour or so... he would have been the cornerstone of a new supermarket. Poor, old Frank. He was a pretty solid sort of type.

  Emma Peel : He still is.