In the run up to a peace conference foreign agents have come up with a dastardly plan to sabotage the event; they will create a duplicate Steed. There first attempts, working from photographs, aren't quite good enough so they kidnap the real Steed. While in captivity they explain to him, and the viewer, how they will create their new Steed
a process he dubs 'instant plastic surgery'. While Steed is held captive Tara is busy looking for him along with Baron Von Curt; a man she met when he asked her to pretend to be his wife in order to shake off a couple of woman he'd mistakenly arranged to meet at the same time. Steed briefly escapes his captors and messes with their plans
he may not be able to prevent them making a new Steed so he arranges it so they create several and they all turn up at the conference at about the same time!
This was a fairly typical Avengers episode; a devious and far-fetched plot to undermine an important conference and plenty of humorous moments. The idea of instant plastic surgery is of course science fiction but the sight of numerous Steeds was entertaining; especially when they spoke and sounded nothing like our Steed. Tara's pairing with Baron Von Curt a bit of a weak point although even this provided some laughs; the best being when Tara got out of his car and jumped into a lake to visit Mother's underwater office leaving the Baron wondering where she had vanished to the show's creators were certainly inventive when picking locations for Mother's various offices! This inventiveness also provided a good base for the bad guys; a large underground lair accessed through an apparently abandoned car in a quarry. Overall this was a fun if rather light instalment.
This was a fairly typical Avengers episode; a devious and far-fetched plot to undermine an important conference and plenty of humorous moments. The idea of instant plastic surgery is of course science fiction but the sight of numerous Steeds was entertaining; especially when they spoke and sounded nothing like our Steed. Tara's pairing with Baron Von Curt a bit of a weak point although even this provided some laughs; the best being when Tara got out of his car and jumped into a lake to visit Mother's underwater office leaving the Baron wondering where she had vanished to the show's creators were certainly inventive when picking locations for Mother's various offices! This inventiveness also provided a good base for the bad guys; a large underground lair accessed through an apparently abandoned car in a quarry. Overall this was a fun if rather light instalment.