"School for Traitors" is the twentieth episode of the second series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Julie Stevens. It was first broadcast in the Teledu Cymru region of the ITV network on Friday 8 February 1963. ABC Weekend TV, who produced the show for ITV, broadcast it the next day in its own regions. The episode was directed by Jonathan Alwyn and written by James Mitchell.
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Plot
During a spate of suicides at a university, a burglar seeks a non-existant note that one of the students had purportedly sent to Venus before his death. Steed uncovers a sinister plot to blackmail students into espionage activities.
Music
Julie Stevens sings Put On a Happy Face with lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse from Bye Bye Birdie, and Yellow Bird by Alan and Marilyn Bergman
Cast
Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Julie Stevens as Venus Smith
Melissa Stribling as Claire Summers
Anthony Nicholls as Dr. Shanklin
John Standing as Ted East
Richard Thorp as Jack Roberts
Reginald Marsh as Higby
Frank Shelley as Professor Aubyn
Frederick Farley as One Seven
Terence Woodfield as Green
Ronald Mayer as Proctor
Jan Butlin as Barmaid