A modern day Hellfire Club, led by libertine John Cleverly Cartney, plans to incite chaos by killing three foreign Prime Ministers.A modern day Hellfire Club, led by libertine John Cleverly Cartney, plans to incite chaos by killing three foreign Prime Ministers.A modern day Hellfire Club, led by libertine John Cleverly Cartney, plans to incite chaos by killing three foreign Prime Ministers.
Lewis Alexander
- VIP
- (uncredited)
Sheila Aza
- Theatre-Goer
- (uncredited)
Ann Barrass
- Theatre-goer
- (uncredited)
William Baskiville
- Sheik's security man
- (uncredited)
Alan Beaton
- VIP
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Brian Clemens
- Sydney Newman(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaThe 1966 episode "A Touch of Brimstone" was banned in the US because of Diana Rigg's Queen of Sin outfit (corset, spiked dog collar and boots), which Rigg designed herself. In addition original UK ITV transmissions heavily edited the final whipping scene between Mrs Peel and Cartney to one lash of the whip. All later video and DVD releases featured the full uncut print.
- GoofsWhen Steed halts his Bentley after the electrocution on live TV, the camera zooms in on Steed, but the background projection remains the same.
- Quotes
Emma Peel: I've come here to appeal to you, Mr. Cartney.
John Cartney: You certainly do that.
- ConnectionsFeatured in 100 Greatest Sexy Moments (2003)
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A touch of Brimstone
A wave of practical jokes is damaging Britain's international standing and when a VIP is killed by one, the Avengers step up their hunt for the perpetrators.
Mrs Peel discovers that Cartney, the chief suspect, runs a recreation of a Regency Hellfire Club and she witnesses an angry member challenge Cartney over the killing; the next day, his body is fished from the river. Steed and Emma attend a debauched orgy at the Hellfire Club and notice a sedan chair filled with dynamite heading for the basement which is linked by tunnels to Parliament. Emma is drugged and dressed as a dominatrix, in corset and spiked collar, while Steed realises they have discovered a modern Guy Fawkes consipracy and duels with the club's leading swordsman
Cigars exploding, whoopee cushions, faulty chairs, spiders in ones soup - all used on foreign leaders. Humiliated. Only the Avengers tackle this and make the incidents sound like life and death. Well, one of them does result in death. There's a sharp performance by Peter Wyngarde - aka Jason King - as the leader of a Hellfire club, the one behind these incidents. He's quite a dynamic character and a nasty one too. The removing the pea before the axe strikes is quite tense - that's Steed initiation into the club. Emma Peel gets drugged and is dressed in a dominitrix suit- she looks quite fetching. It's a brilliant episode with an air of menace in the air - it ends with a rousing sword fight between Steed and one of the Hellfire's goons who has a steel claw behind his glove and Mrs Peel goes up against the leader who uses a whip but it's a crack of a whip too far for him as he makes a mistake and gets his up commence.
Mrs Peel discovers that Cartney, the chief suspect, runs a recreation of a Regency Hellfire Club and she witnesses an angry member challenge Cartney over the killing; the next day, his body is fished from the river. Steed and Emma attend a debauched orgy at the Hellfire Club and notice a sedan chair filled with dynamite heading for the basement which is linked by tunnels to Parliament. Emma is drugged and dressed as a dominatrix, in corset and spiked collar, while Steed realises they have discovered a modern Guy Fawkes consipracy and duels with the club's leading swordsman
Cigars exploding, whoopee cushions, faulty chairs, spiders in ones soup - all used on foreign leaders. Humiliated. Only the Avengers tackle this and make the incidents sound like life and death. Well, one of them does result in death. There's a sharp performance by Peter Wyngarde - aka Jason King - as the leader of a Hellfire club, the one behind these incidents. He's quite a dynamic character and a nasty one too. The removing the pea before the axe strikes is quite tense - that's Steed initiation into the club. Emma Peel gets drugged and is dressed in a dominitrix suit- she looks quite fetching. It's a brilliant episode with an air of menace in the air - it ends with a rousing sword fight between Steed and one of the Hellfire's goons who has a steel claw behind his glove and Mrs Peel goes up against the leader who uses a whip but it's a crack of a whip too far for him as he makes a mistake and gets his up commence.
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- London Road, Shenley, Hertfordshire, England, UK(ending scene in horse-drawn carriage)
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- Runtime52 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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