Killer Whale

Cathy's gym is famed for training a prized fighter, but Steed is convinced that the gym is the base for a gang who deal in the illegal snuggling of Ambergris.

For anyone wondering, Ambergris produced by sperm whales, and is used by perfumers, it makes fragrances last longer, it is hugely valuable.

From the sublime, to the ridiculous, I loved the previous episode, I thought the series finale however, was something of a disappointment. I thought the story was a little messy, it somehow jarred, I thought Cathy was a little wasted.

Patrick Magee is rather wonderful as Pancho, but his performance alone isn't enough to save this episode.

A disappointing end to the series, a shame the previous episode wasn't used as the season finale.

5/10.

"Killer Whale" was the last episode from the second season, another lackluster ringside plot, ala "The Decapod." The enigmatic Patrick Magee, a mainstay of low budget British horror films, makes a fine villain (soon to play another in "The Gilded Cage"), as Sam "Pancho" Driver, manager of a gymnasium where boxers train, and a little illicit smuggling occurs. Steed finally gets equal footage with Cathy, allowing her to manage a prospective young boxer at Pancho's gym, Joey Frazer (Kenneth Farrington), but when he washes up with a bar of soap discovered in another man's locker, it turns out to be a sample of ambergris smuggled in from the Caribbean, used in making perfumes. John Bailey ("A Change of Bait," "Dial a Deadly Number," and "Killer") plays Fernand, Pancho's partner in crime and owner of the couturier where Steed pretends to be a buyer of a complete new wardrobe for a fictitious niece, and while giving Fernand her 'measurements,' lasciviously eyes the smiling receptionist (Lyndall Goodman), who realizes that Steed's niece has the same figures! We are also intoduced to Cathy's new push button apartment, a main feature in season three. Among the series veterans are Morris Perry ("Tunnel of Fear" and "Dragonsfield"), John Tate ("Build a Better Mousetrap"), Robert Mill ("Double Danger"), and Fredric Abbot ("The Gilded Cage"). Credited as 'Models from the Kenneth Sweet Collection' are June Hodgson, Diane Keys, and Elaine Little.