The White Elephant

15th episode of the 3rd season of The Avengers

"The White Elephant"

The Avengers episode

Episode no.

Season 3
Episode 15

Directed by

Laurence Bourne

Written by

John Lucarotti

Produced by

John Bryce

Featured music

John Dankworth (theme)

Production code

3616^[1]

Original air date

4 January 1964 (1964-01-04)

Guest appearances

Godfrey Quigley
Edwin Richfield
Scott Forbes
Bruno Barnabe
Judy Parfitt

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"The White Elephant" is the fifteenth episode of the third series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman. It was first broadcast by ABC on 4 January 1964. The episode was written by John Lucarotti.^[2]

Plot

Following the theft of Snowy, a rare albino elephant, Steed and Cathy are brought in to investigate illegal ivory smuggling.^[3]

Cast

Patrick Macnee as John Steed
Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale
Godfrey Quigley as Noah Marshall
Edwin Richfield as Professor Thaddeus Lawrence
Scott Forbes as Lew Conniston
Bruno Barnabe as Fitch
Judy Parfitt as Brenda Paterson
Rowena Gregory as Madge Jordan
Toke Townley as Joseph Gourlay
Martin Friend as George

References

^ Johnson, Piers. "The White Elephant". The Avengers. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
^ Rogers, Dave (25 April 1983). The Avengers. ITV Books in association with Michael Joseph. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
^ "The White Elephant". The Avengers Forever!. Retrieved 14 May 2012.

External links

"The White Elephant" at IMDb
Episode overview on The Avengers Forever! website

The Avengers

Characters

Episodes

Series 1	"Hot Snow" "Crescent Moon" "Girl on the Trapeze" "Dance with Death" "The Frighteners" "Tunnel of Fear"
Series 2	"Mr. Teddy Bear" "Propellant 23" "The Decapod" "Bullseye" "Mission to Montreal" "The Removal Men" "The Mauritius Penny" "Death of a Great Dane" "The Sell Out" "Death on the Rocks" "Traitor in Zebra" "The Big Thinker" "Death Dispatch" "Dead on Course" "Intercrime" "Immortal Clay" "Box of Tricks" "Warlock" "The Golden Eggs" "School for Traitors" "The White Dwarf" "Man in the Mirror" "Conspiracy of Silence" "A Chorus of Frogs" "Six Hands Across a Table" "Killer Whale"
Series 3	"Brief for Murder" "The Undertakers" "Man with Two Shadows" "The Nutshell" "Death of a Batman" "November Five" "The Gilded Cage" "Second Sight" "The Medicine Men" "The Grandeur That Was Rome" "The Golden Fleece" "Don't Look Behind You" "Death a la Carte" "Dressed to Kill" "The White Elephant" "The Little Wonders" "The Wringer" "Mandrake" "The Secrets Broker" "Trojan Horse" "Build a Better Mousetrap" "The Outside-In Man" "The Charmers" "Concerto" "Esprit de Corps" "Lobster Quadrille"
Series 4	"The Town of No Return" "The Gravediggers" "The Cybernauts" "A Surfeit of H₂O" "The Hour That Never Was" "A Touch of Brimstone" "What the Butler Saw"
Series 5	"From Venus with Love" "The Fear Merchants" "Escape in Time" "The See-Through Man" "The Bird Who Knew Too Much" "The Winged Avenger" "The Living Dead" "The Hidden Tiger" "The Correct Way to Kill" "The Superlative Seven" "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station" "Death's Door"
Series 6	"The Forget-Me-Knot" "Have Guns — Will Haggle" "The Morning After"