The Baron Episode Guide
1. Diplomatic Immunity
Writer: Dennis Spooner
Director: Leslie Norman
Guest star: Fredric Abbott (Lovegrove), Patrick Durkin (Gill), Maggie Wright (Latticia), Jolyon Booth (Swann), Dora Reisser (Eva), Michael Wolf (Kimitz), Robert Crewdson (Lazlo), Frank Gatliff (Sforza), Claire Davenport (Anna)
Global rating: 6.8
After a robbery in his london shop, antique dealer John Mannering, a.k.a. the Baron, is persuaded by Templeton-Green to work for Diplomatic Intelligence. He travels behind the Iron Curtin and meets his contact Cordelia. They encounter a corrupt party member who attempts to frame them for the murder of his lover, the London jewellery thief.
2. Red Horse, Red Rider
Writer: Terry Nation
Director: John Hough, John Llewellyn Moxey
Guest star: Jane Blackburn (Ruth Parke), Bruce Montague (Verdon), John Bryans (Arko), Sandor Elès (Alifa), Harold Goldblatt (Olmira), Edward Brayshaw (Shamir), John Bennett (Salan), Jane Merrow (Savannah), Frank Wolff (Miros)
Global rating: 6.5
When Mannering gets a message to buy The Four Horsemen, he travels to Khakania, a country gripped in civil war. The Horseman are a famous statue worth over $1m. The money from the statue will help fund the rebel cause. The Baron tries to flee the country with the rebel leader's daughter and statue but is hounded by the secret police who are always one step ahead of him.
3. The Persuaders
Writer: Dennis Spooner
Director: Leslie Norman
Guest star: Jennifer Clulow (Ann), Tony Thawnton (Lowery), Zeph Gladstone (Scott), Derek Benfield (The Scientist), Reginald Jessup (Markham), Martin Wyldeck (Sir Robert Ellacott), Virginia Stride (Sara), Charles Houston (Hollins), Ronald Hines (Upton), Georgina Wood (Verity Montand), James Villiers (Roddy Harrington)
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David Marlowe is kidnapped from Mannering's shop. For his release he must sell a false Renoir to Sir Robert Ellacott. Mannering calls on Templeton-Green for help. The Baron follows his orders and sells the picture but whilst visiting he meets Sir Robert's nephew Roddy and becomes suspicious. When Marlowe is stabbed by Roddy as he attempts to escape, the other gang members become nervous. Mannering has to meet Roddy with the ransom money to ensure that Marlowe isn't killed.
4. Epitaph for a Hero
Writer: Terry Nation
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Guest star: Patricia Haines (Helga), Paul Maxwell (Jim Carey), Nosher Powell (Charlie), William Lyon Brown (The Gaunt Man), Artro Morris (Owen Davies)
Global rating: 8.4
Mannering attends the funeral of Jim Carey, a former army colleague. After receiving a message that Carey is still alive, Mannering agrees to go undercover for Templeton-Green. An elaborate plan to steal a $1m jewel is bad enough but becomes worse when Cordelia is used as a hostage to ensure that the Baron cooperates with Carey.
5. Something for a Rainy Day
Writer: Terry Nation
Director: Cyril Frankel
Guest star: Patrick Allen (Max Holden), Lois Maxwell (‘Charlie’ Russell), Julian Sherrier (French Lorry Driver), Derek Newark (Lucas), Michael Gwynn (Mark Seldon), Ann Lynn (Anne Seldon), Billy Milton (Benson)
Global rating: 8.8
The Baron does a deal with a scheming insurance agent to recover a £100,000 Aztec mask from an ex-con. However the former crook's gang leader has a different idea and will even hurt his one-time friend's daughter to get the mask.
6. Enemy of the State
Writer: Dennis Spooner
Director: Jeremy Summers
Guest star: Terence Lodge (Heinman), Veronica Strong (Claire Bradfield), Gary Watson (Colin Bradfield), Richard Carpenter (Ronald Bell), Brian Phelan (Ernst Risher), Michael Wolf (Albrecht), John Abineri (Spinoza), Joseph Fürst (Colonel Bucholz), George Roubicek, Gertan Klauber, Stephen Hubay, Frederick Schiller, Carl Duering, Martin Miller, Anton Diffring (Jadwiga Szoblik)
Global rating: 7.0
An undercover British agent is caught in an Eastern Bloc country and names Mannering as his contact. The Baron and Cordelia are in the country to pass over some money. They are warner not to go to the rendezvous by Bradfield as it is a trap. Cordelia is caught and held by the police. Mannering has a plan to kidnap the head of the police but there is a double agent in the Bradfield house.
7. And Suddenly You're Dead
Writer: Terry Nation, Dennis Spooner
Director: Cyril Frankel
Guest star: Vladek Sheybal (Frederich Reiner), Conrad Monk (Garage Attendant), Ernst Walder (Neumann), Jerry Stovin (Peter Franklin), John Collin (Bishop), Bernard Kay (Kruger), Kay Walsh (Ingar Sorenson), George Pravda (Inspector Strauss), Alan MacNaughtan (Larry Holmes)
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The Baron and Cordelia are in Switzerland when they bump into Peter Franklin, an old friend of Cordelia. Franklin, who is a CIA agent, has stolen the latest strain in a deadly virus from the laboratory he was working in. When Franklin is killed, Mannering is in a race with Sorenson, the scientist who developed the virus, and Holmes, an unscrupulous character, to discover the whereabouts of the deadly bacteria.
8. The Legions of Ammak
Writer: Michael Cramoy
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Guest star: Peter Wyngarde (Ronald Noyes), George Murcell (Oleg Kosakian), Isa Miranda (Mrs Kosakian), Jim Bolton (Abdullah), Angela Lovell (Betty Francis), John Barcroft (Bank Cashier), Arthur Hewlett (Hargreaves), Kerry Marsh (Katherine Vale), Kenneth Colley (Dinny Brand), Valli Newby (Sirocco), Michael Godfrey (Colonel Ahmed Bey)
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Mannering is asked by an eccentric millionaire to witness him purchase The Legions of Ammrak, a golden necklace that contains seven perfectly matched black pearls. The Baron identifies that they are genuine but David Marlowe notices that the seller, King Ibrahim, is wearing the wrong school tie. When Mannering realises that he's being duped, he has to recover both the money and the necklace.
9. Samurai West
Writer: Brian Degas
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Guest star: Raymond Huntley (Col. Norman Starling), Clifford Earl (Detective Sergeant), Royston Tickner (Simpson), Sidonie Bond (Nurse), Hal Dyer (Miss Chanter), Colin Jeavons (Tom Sterling), Larry Taylor (Yasugi), Jeanne Roland (Samantha), Lee Montague (Asano)
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The sale of a 5000-year-old Samurai sword gives the Baron trouble. When the seller, Asano, bumps into an old enemy, Norman Sterling, at Mannering's apartment, Sterling promises to avenge the treatment of him and his brother in a Japanese POW camp. After Asano is murdered, the Baron has to protect Sterling from Asano's loyal servant is out for revenge.
10. You Can't Win Them All
Writer: Dennis Spooner
Director: Don Chaffey
Guest star: Edwin Brown (1st Warder), Reginald Marsh (Chief Insp. Filmer), David Burke (I) (Whetlor), John Bown (Tredgett), Peter Bowles (Jim Gaynor), John Cater (Ronnie Osbourne), Mark Dignam (Coburn), Tony Caunter (Darby), Sam Wanamaker (Sefton Folkard), Douglas Livingstone (Sgt. Copley), Nita Lorraine (Sharron), Ken Barker (as Ken Haward) (Warder No. 2)
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The Baron learns the location of the stolen Petrograd icons, but he is assaulted and robbed after recovering them from a safety deposit box. Mannering enters a game of poker at the Peerage club, where he plays for the stolen icons.
11. Masquerade
Writer: Terry Nation, Dennis Spooner
Director: Cyril Frankel
Guest star: Peter Thomas (Chauffeur), Lisa Thomas (Receptionist), John Barrett (Ministry Clerk), Geoffrey Palmer (Anstruther), Kenneth J. Warren (David Fox-Stuart), John Carson (Revell), Yvonne Furneaux (Selina Travis), Bernard Lee (Morgan Travis)
Global rating: 8.0
Mannering is invited by Sir Frederick Alton to his country home. When he enters the house he hears a woman crying for help. As he goes to help he's knocked unconscious. He wakes up to discover that he has a twin double. Mannering manages to change places with the double and his captors kill the man they belive to be the Baron. They then let him in on their plans to steal the Crown Jewels only for Cordelia to turn up at the wrong moment.
12. The Killing
Writer: Terry Nation, Dennis Spooner
Director: Cyril Frankel
Guest star: Paul Stanton (Security Guard), Anthony Blackshaw (Security Guard), Peter Thomas (Chauffeur), John Gill (Brooks), Yvonne Furneaux (Selina Travis), Bernard Lee (Morgan Travis), John Gabriel (III) (Castle), Geoffrey Palmer (Anstruther), Kenneth J. Warren (David Fox-Stuart), Frank Wolff (Frank Martin), John Carson (Revell)
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The Baron has to convince Cordelia who he is, but he still has to play the part for his captors. He manages to get rid of Revell and the gang head to London. However, one of the gang is the best friend of the part Mannering is playing. After he's discovered, the Baron really has to steal the Crown Jewels.
13. Portrait of Louisa
Writer: Terry Nation
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Guest star: Brian Wilde (Paul Sutton), Leo Kayne (Barman), Lisa Thomas (Beth), Richard Owens (Sergeant Richards), Moira Redmond (Louisa), Terence Alexander (Nigel Brockhurst), Jo Rowbottom (Jane Benson), Meredith Edwards (Inspector Powell), Mark Burns (Peter Langley)
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Louisa Trenton, an old friend of Mannering is in trouble. When she sells the Baron some rare family miniatures he offers his help but she declines. Later when she calls for his help he rushes to meet her in a London club only to find that she has been murdered. When he investigates he discovers that she was being blackmailed by her young lover. He is only the fall guy but as Mannering tries to find out who is the boss, more people are murdered.
14. Farewell to Yesterday
Writer: Harry W. Junkin
Director: Leslie Norman
Guest star: Arnold Diamond (Train Steward), Peter Brett (Air Steward), Christine Child (Air Stewardess), Clive Cazes (Police Captain), Totti Truman Taylor (English Woman), Walter Horsbrugh (English Man), Sylvia Syms (Cathy Dorne), Patrick Bedford (John Cavendish), William Sylvester (Nick), Victor Maddern (Dino), Barry Shawzin (Marko)
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The Baron looks up an old flame and discovers that she is working for a major art-smuggling ring. She agrees to help him recover a nuumber of gold medallions that had been stolen from the Vatican.
15. A Memory of Evil
Writer: Terry Nation, Dennis Spooner
Director: Don Chaffey
Guest star: John Cazabon (Granger), Mark Peterson (Hien), Danvers Walker (Rudi Gemmel), John Tate (Josef Holz), John Rollason (Oscar Dancer), Ann Bell (Nikki Holz), Robert Hardy (Curt Hoffman), Edwin Richfield (Heller), Frederick Bartman (Lucien Holtz)
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A young woman travels to London to see the Baron but is kidnapped before she can make contact. Mannering and Cordelia uncover a group of neo-Nazis who are selling off art treasures to finance their plans for European domination.
16. Long Ago and Far Away
Writer: Dennis Spooner
Director: Robert Asher
Guest star: Conrad Monk (1st Policeman), George Zenios (2nd Policeman), Janna Hill (Airline Hostess), Eric Pohlmann (Captain Heifetz), Paul Stassino (Joaquin Salvador), Michael Forrest (Gautier), Annette Carell (Eleanor Saumarez), David Swift (I) (Philippe), Barry Linehan (Gambler in El Hamra Bar), Peter Hutchins (Bartender), Jonathan Elson (Lieutenant), Alex Scott (Ramon Petrarca), Douglas Wilmer (Rafael), Barrie Ingham (Roland Haswell)
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Cordelia is arrested in South America following the disappearance of an explorer she had arranged to meet. The Baron flies in and uncovers a police cover up and a hidden stockpile of weapons.
17. The Maze
Writer: Brian Clemens
Director: Jeremy Summers
Guest star: John Brandon, Michael Graham, Henry McGee, Robert Arnold, Glynn Edwards (D.I. Walsh), Richard Mathews (Mark Prentice), Patrick Durkin (Marsh), Royston Tickner (Griffiths), Arthur Pentelow (Landlord), John Orchard (Marvin), Judith Arthy (Jill Prentice), David Morrell (D.S. Miller), Don Borisenko (Walter Farrow), Alan MacNaughtan (Gaydon)
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Mannering stops up to pick up a petrified girl in a country lane, as they drive away they are shot at and crash off the road. When he comes to, he keeps having flashbacks that feature weird objects but the police simply think that he is suffering from concussion. As he tries to retrace his footsteps, he is watched by a man with a gun who is determined not to let him near the house in which the girl is held hostage.
18. The Long, Long Day
Writer: Brian Clemens
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Guest star: John Bluthal (Guiseppe Borzo), Derrick Sherwin (Vee), Brian Rawlinson (Bruno Navini), John Bryans (Barman), Neil Robinson (Pantoni), Sue Donovan (Pia Vallachio), Dallia Penn (Maria), Peter Arne (Navini), Eddie Byrne (Murphy)
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The Italian government ask the Baron to obtain a witness statement from a young woman who has gone into hiding after witnessing a gangster murder her sister.
19. There's Someone Close Behind You
Writer: Terry Nation, Dennis Spooner
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Guest star: Paul Harris (Wayne), Peter Forbes-Robertson (Yeldham), Raymond Adamson (Inspector Bob Weston), Norman Space (Stanley Merrick), Ken Parry (Marty Cranwell), Michael Robbins (Alan Jordan), Philip Madoc (Frank Oddy), Jerome Willis (Detective Inspector Thomson), Richard Wyler (Greg Wilde), Mike Pratt (Sheldon)
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Mannering gets a tip-off that there will be a robbery at the Lynstead Collection. The police and the Baron lie in wait but one of the policemen is killed by the gang leader, Greg Wilde. Wilde is arrested for murder but his crooked solicitor tells him that all of the witnesses will be disposed of. Mannering escapes an attempt on his life but Wilde escapes from police custody and is out to get the Baron.
20. The Seven Eyes of Night
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Director: Robert Asher
Guest star: Jeremy Brett (Walker), Patricia English (Madame Devereaux), Hilary Tindall (Nancy Cummings)
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21. The Edge of Fear
Writer: Dennis Spooner
Director: Quentin Lawrence
Guest star: Alan Wheatley (Lord Mountford), John Abineri (Cerdan), Gerald Sim (Foster), David Cargill (Richards), Paul Dawkins (Dr. Poulton), David Beale (Summers), Dafna Dan (Air Hostess), John Gatrell (Coleman), William Franklyn (Jordon), Willoughby Goddard (Colbert)
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The Baron is asked to confirm whether the Mona Lisa hanging in the Louvre is genuine… but the world-famous painting is stolen.
22. Storm Warning
Writer: Terry Nation
Director: Gordon Flemyng
Guest star: Dennis Chin (Policeman #1), Michael Chow (Chee), Andy Ho (Tang), Terence Mountain (Peters), Roland Brand (Coleman), John Woodvine (John Garvey), Dudley Sutton (Carlton), Reginald Marsh (Captain Brenner), Derek Newark (Baggio)
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The Baron and Cordelia are at the Macao docks checking a shipment of antiques. A missing crate leads to Cordelia witnessing a murder on baord a cargo ship. When she is held prisoner Mannering has to stow away on the ship. They meet an undercover CIA agent working as one of the crew who tells them about the ship's mysterious cargo and its secret destination. The CIA agent is killed and Mannering forced out into the open.
23. The Island
Writer: Terry Nation
Director: Gordon Flemyng
Guest star: Garrick Hagon, Ed Bishop, Alan Gifford, William Buck (Lt. Lang), Jeffrey Wickham (Paul Millet), Terence Mountain (Peters), Roland Brand (Coleman), Warren Stanhope (Willis), Michael Hawkins (Inspector Ralph Nelson), David Healy (David Laver), Derek Newark (Baggio), Reginald Marsh (Captain Brenner), Dudley Sutton (Brian Carlton)
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With the ship arriving at the island to deliver its cargo, Mannering learns of the plot to steal an American space capsule. Via the ship's radio he alerts the US Navy of the plot. He and Cordelia escape and they must think up a plan to stop the robbery and hope that the Navy can get to them in time to assist.
24. Time to Kill
Writer: Dennis Spooner
Director: Jeremy Summers
Guest star: David Garth (Vincente Carreras), David Calderisi (Hotel Clerk), George Murcell (Captain Sereda), David Lander (Taxi Driver), Edward Brayshaw (Carlos Lamas), Steven Scott (Gardo), Frieda Knorr (Josefina), Peter Bowles (Mendez), Geraldine Moffat (Christina), Hamilton Dyce (Vitale)
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The daughter of the owner of a cursed cameo brooch tries to sell it to Cordelia, but is killed before they can complete the transaction. The owner himself is then murdered, and Cordelia kidnapped.
25. Night of the Hunter
Writer: Terry Nation
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Guest star: Walter Gotell (Capt. Brandt), Garfield Morgan (Stavros), David Garfield (Nicholas), David Nettheim (Cravos), Peter Bourne (Peter), Zeph Gladstone (Daniella), Clive Cazes (Mikos), Eric Mason (II) (Seaman), Katharine Blake (Madame Nicharos), Derek Godfrey (The General), John Richards (Paeblo)
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Mannering has sold some valuable antiques on behalf of Madame Nicharos, wife of a South American president but secretly a sympathiser with the revolutionary movement. He and Cordelia go to deliver the proceeds in person, but they are tailed by her husband's agents.
26. So Dark the Night
Writer: Terry Nation, Dennis Spooner
Director: Robert Tronson
Guest star: Caroline Blakiston (Felicity Talbot), Brown Derby (Carl Grant), Colin Rix (Policeman), John Garrie (Ben Cross), George Baker (Frank Ashton), John Franklyn-Robbins (Dr. Thornton), Gillian Lewis (Joyce Grant), Freddie Jones (Landlord)
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Mannering goes to carry out a valuation but discovers that his client, a one-time bullion robber, has been murdered by a former accomplice looking for his share of the spoils.
27. The Man Outside
Writer: Terry Nation
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Guest star: Jeremy Burnham (Philip Tremayne), Donald Douglas (Donald Macrae), John Ringham (Inspector Duncan), Anne Sharpe (Jean Henderson), Joseph Greig (Fergus), Harry Littlewood (Landlord), Roy Hanlon (Policeman), David Bauer (Bruno Orsini), Paul Maxwell (Dino Rossi), Michael Coles (Vince Florio)
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Attending the inquest into the death of a friend, the Baron spots someone else wearing his friend's ring. Investigating, he stumbles across a plot to flood the U.K. with counterfeit currency.
28. Roundabout
Writer: Terry Nation
Director: Robert Tronson
Guest star: Sandor Elès (Pierre Savel), Charles Thomas (Caron), Norman Bird (Inspector Macauley), Ewan Roberts (Richard Bates), Victor Beaumont (Heuer), Frederick Treves (Doctor), Lisa Thomas (Claudine), Annette Andre (Samantha Ballard), Edwin Richfield (George Delair), Lisa Daniely (Lisa Delair), Frank Sieman, June Ritchie (Jeanne Varda)
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The manager of Mannering's Paris outlet is at the heart of a drug trafficking operation. The Baron tries to convince the gang that he wants a piece of the action.
29. The High Terrace
Writer: Dennis Spooner
Director: Robert Asher
Guest star: Donald Webster (Johnny Haswell), Del Baker (Rhys Brown), Phyllis Montefiore (Madame Bregonzi), Robert Bridges (Clifford Thornton), John Crocker (Reynolds), Joe Ritchie (Porter), Maggie Wright, Veronica Hurst (Phyllis Thornton), John Collin (Inspector Summers), Jan Holden (Sarah Knight), Max Adrian (The Chosen One)
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The Baron looks into the disappearance of a woman and investigates a bizarre religious order that she had been visiting. The leader of the cult orders the elimination of the Baron.
30. Countdown
Writer: Terry Nation
Director: Robert Asher
Guest star: Peter Brace, Leslie White (II), David King, Edward Woodward (Arkin Morley), Harold Lang (Allan Yates/White), Michael Wynne (Logan), Philip Locke (Compton), Malcolm Farquhar, Valerie Leon (Movie Actress)
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