Season 5, Episode 13

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station

April 15, 1967

When Lucas, an agent investigating something subversive, gets off his train at the wrong station he is murdered. Has the crime got anything to do with a mole at the admiralty, a train ticket and a fiendish plot to kill the Prime Minister?

Directed by
John Krish
Written by
Brian Clemens

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