The New Avengers (TV Series)

To Catch a Rat (1976)

Patrick Macnee: John Steed

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Quotes 

• John Steed : [having received a message from 'the Flyer']  The Flyer?

  Mike Gambit : Sounds like the fifties and sixties. The flyer, the butcher, the baker.

  Purdey : The candlestick maker.

  Mike Gambit : You used a lot of funny names in those days, didn't you?

  John Steed : They weren't funny. I was the New Doberman.

  Mike Gambit : Woof woof.

  Purdey : That's an awful lot of morse.

  John Steed : They abbreviated it. Cut it short after the D. The New D.

  Purdey : The nudie?

• Mike Gambit : [looking through old files]  Steed? You tell me about this incident in Istanbul. Devilish clever use of the garlic sausage.

  John Steed : You're supposed to be spying on them, not me!

• John Steed : They went to catch a flyer, they caught a catcher.

• John Steed : You were sipping brandy? Like this?

  [pours himself a drink] 

  Grant : Yes. I say, Steed, what is it?

  John Steed : Excelent. Fine Napoleon, I facet.

• John Steed : You see my position, minister, I have to suspect everyone. My recurring nightmare is that one day I might even have to arrest myself.

  Minister Quaintance : I sincerely hope not.

• Irwin Gunner : Who's that?

  John Steed : I know I'm seventeen years late, but welcome back, Gunner.