The Bird Who Knew Too Much

"The Bird Who Knew Too Much" is the fifth episode of the fifth series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg, and guest starring Ron Moody, Ilona Rodgers, Kenneth Cope, and Michael Coles.

[1] It was first broadcast in the Southern and Tyne Tees regions of the ITV network on Wednesday 8 February 1967.

ABC Weekend Television, who commissioned the show for ITV, broadcast it in its own regions three days later on Saturday 11 February.

[2] The episode was directed by Roy Rossotti, and written by Brian Clemens.

When fellow counter-espionage agents are murdered checking out a plot to sell secrets of a missile base to foreign powers, Steed and Emma have to find if birds are being used in the scheme especially under the leadership of Captain Crusoe.