Six Hands Across a Table

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{{Infobox television episode

| series = The Avengers

| image = The Avengers Six Hands Across a Table.jpg

| image_size =

| caption = Screen title

| season = 2

| episode = 25

| airdate = {{Start date|1963|3|16|df=y}}

| production = 3524{{cite web |last1=Johnson |first1=Piers |title=Six Hands Across a Table |url=https://www.dissolute.com.au/the-avengers-tv-series/series-2/225-six-hands-across-a-table-other.html |website=The Avengers |access-date=10 June 2022}}

| writer = Reed R. de Rouen

| director = Richmond Harding

| music = John Dankworth (theme)

| guests = * Guy Doleman

| episode_list = List of The Avengers episodes

| prev = A Chorus of Frogs

| next = Killer Whale

}}

"Six Hands Across a Table" is the twenty-fifth episode of the second series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman. ABC first broadcast on 16 March 1963. The episode was directed by Richmond Harding and written by Reed R. de Rouen.{{cite book|last=Rogers|first=Dave|title=The Avengers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W0MNAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=10 April 2012|date=25 April 1983|publisher=ITV Books in association with Michael Joseph}}

Plot

Cathy becomes romantically involved with shipyard owner Oliver Waldner, blissfully unaware that he is masterminding a dastardly plan to gain control of most of Britain’s shipbuilding industry. After she nearly dies in an apparent accident, Steed sets out to prove that Waldner has murdered a business rival.{{cite web|url=http://theavengers.tv/forever/gale1-25.htm|title=Six Hands Across a Table|publisher=The Avengers Forever!|accessdate=11 April 2012}}

Cast

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