Diamond Cut Diamond

Diamond Cut Diamond is the seventh episode of Season 1, which aired on the 18th February 1961.

Previous Episode: Girl on the Trapeze

Next Episode: The Radioactive Man

Synopsis
Posing as an airline steward accused of a crime, Steed is inducted into an illicit diamond smuggling ring. After a successful flight to New York and a subsequent party, Steed returns home drunk. The next morning he finds he is accused of killing a girl in a hit and run accident during the night. But Dr Keel determines that Steed had instead been heavily drugged and could not have driven a car. The smugglers, who use each of their couriers only once, had blackmailed Steed into committing suicide, which is their modus operandi. Just before Steed is forced to take his own life and that of an accomplice, Keel arrives with the police.

Cast

 * Dr David Keel - Ian Hendry
 * John Steed - Patrick Macnee
 * One Ten - Douglas Muir
 * Fiona Charles - Sandra Dorne
 * Dr Collard - Hamlyn Benson
 * Carol Wilson - Ingrid Hafner
 * Stella Creighton - Joy Webster

Crew

 * Writer - Max Marquis
 * Director - Peter Hammond
 * Designer - Robert Fuest
 * Producer - Leonard White