Season 3 opens with a slight tale most notable for its 60s concern with East-West relations, and for Steed chumming up with one of his counterparts from behind the Iron Curtain, Zalenko (Nigel 'Wrong Number Six/Professor Hayter' Stock).
Zalenko is the secret police minder of concert pianist Veliko, who has a talent for wandering naively into trouble, thus endangering crucial trade talks. Certain people stand to profit by the failure of said talks -it's quite often 'certain people who stand to profit' who did it in The Avengers - and they use a simple but effective trick to get him into a position where he can be blackmailed. Steed and Zalenko co-operate to defeat them.
Geoffrey 'Mr Perry' Colville as the murderous Burns.
I called this episode 'slight' but I liked it. I do enjoy these depictions of Steed as a professional agent, with perhaps more in common with other agents, from whichever side, than anyone else.
(Thanks to Warren again for pointing out that this is another Dicks/Hulke scripting effort).
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