Avengers Logo 'Split!'
by Brian Clemens
Avengers Cast

A murder occurs inside the Ministry of Top Secret Information, despite the fact that the security there makes it impossible for an outsider to get in. After Steed and Tara investigate, a handwriting expert confirms that documents written by Ministry personnel match the handwriting of Boris Kartovski, a Soviet agent supposedly killed by Steed in Berlin in 1963. As the number of traitors and murders increases, Steed and Tara discover that Boris Kartovski is still alive, although now an invalid; and someone is transferring his personality into the minds of the ministry men and then using these involuntary traitors to commit murders from the inside…

Patrick Macnee (John Steed), Linda Thorson (Tara King), Julian Glover (Peter Rooke), Nigel Davenport (Lord Barnes), Bernard Archer (Doctor Constantine), Jayne Sofiano (Petra), Christopher Benjamin (Swindon), John G. Heller (Hinnel), Steve Scott (Kartovski), Maurice Good (Harry Mercer), Iain Anders (Frank Compton), John Kidd (The Butler)

Directed by Roy Baker
Produced by Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens

TX:
UK: 23rd October, 1968

Notes:
*Featuring John Steed and Tara King

*The tag scene: Tara wants an exotic drink, but Steed only has champagne. Tara is worried by Steed’s strange behaviour while changing his suit, as his hand looks crippled - just like Kartovski's…