# Dead on Course

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{{Infobox television episode
| series       = [The Avengers](/source/The_Avengers_(TV_series))
| image        =
| caption      = 
| season       = 2
| episode      = 14
| airdate      = {{Start date|1962|12|29|df=y}}
| production   = 3501<ref>{{cite web |last1=Johnson |first1=Piers |title=Dead on Course |url=https://www.dissolute.com.au/the-avengers-tv-series/series-2/214-dead-on-course-other.html |website=The Avengers |access-date=10 June 2022}}</ref>
| writer       = [Eric Paice](/source/Eric_Paice)
| director     = [Richmond Harding](/source/Richmond_Harding)
| music        = [John Dankworth](/source/John_Dankworth) (theme)
| guests       = * [Jon Rollason](/source/Jon_Rollason)
* [John McLaren](/source/John_McLaren_(actor))
* [Liam Gaffney](/source/Liam_Gaffney)
* [Donal Donnelly](/source/Donal_Donnelly)
* [Peggy Marshall](/source/Peggy_Marshall)
* [Elizabeth Murray](/source/Elizabeth_Murray_(actress))
| episode_list = List of The Avengers episodes
| prev         = [Death Dispatch](/source/Death_Dispatch)
| next         = [Intercrime](/source/Intercrime) 
}}
"'''Dead on Course'''" is the fourteenth episode of the second season of the 1960s British [spy-fi](/source/spy-Fi_(subgenre)) television series ''[The Avengers](/source/The_Avengers_(TV_series))'', starring [Patrick Macnee](/source/Patrick_Macnee). It was first broadcast by [ABC](/source/ABC_Weekend_TV) on 29 December 1962. The episode was directed by [Richmond Harding](/source/Richmond_Harding) and written by [Eric Paice](/source/Eric_Paice).<ref name="Rogers1983">{{cite book|last=Rogers|first=Dave|title=The Avengers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W0MNAQAAMAAJ|access-date=10 April 2012|date=25 April 1983|publisher=ITV Books in association with Michael Joseph}}</ref>

==Plot==
Canadian aircraft crash off course, near an Irish convent. But what happened to the crew?<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theavengers.tv/forever/gale1-14.htm|title=Dead on Course|publisher=The Avengers Forever!|access-date=28 April 2012}}</ref>

==Cast==
* [Patrick Macnee](/source/Patrick_Macnee) as John Steed
* [Jon Rollason](/source/Jon_Rollason) as Dr. Martin King 
* [John McLaren](/source/John_McLaren_(actor)) as Freedman 
* [Liam Gaffney](/source/Liam_Gaffney) as Michael Joyce
* [Donal Donnelly](/source/Donal_Donnelly) as Vincent O'Brien 
* [Peggy Marshall](/source/Peggy_Marshall) as Mother Superior
* [Elisabeth Murray](/source/Elisabeth_Murray_(actress)) as Deidre O'Connor/Slade  
* [Janet Hargreaves](/source/Janet_Hargreaves) as Sister Isobel  
* [Nigel Arkwright](/source/Nigel_Arkwright) as Mr. Hughes
* [Bruce Boa](/source/Bruce_Boa) as Bob Austin Slade
* [Margo Jenkins](/source/Margo_Jenkins) as Margot
* [Trevor Reid](/source/Trevor_Reid) as Pilot
* [Edward Kelsey](/source/Edward_Kelsey) as Gerry
* [Denis Cleary](/source/Denis_Cleary) as Ambulance Man
* [Wilfred Grove](/source/Wilfred_Grove) as Male Nun

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb episode|0516821}}
*[http://theavengers.tv/forever/gale1-14.htm Episode overview on The Avengers Forever! website]

{{The Avengers}}

Category:The Avengers season 2 episodes
Category:1962 British television episodes

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