The Murder Market

A businessman meets a woman for a blind date and she immediately shoots him.

He's not the only one though, and the Avengers are called in to investigate a spate of similar deaths that seem linked to the Togetherness introduction agency.

The agency facilitates the murder of inconvenient relatives for its members, while providing alibis for them by making sure they're seen elsewhere at the time of death, the attractive Barbara Wakefield being their chief assassin.

A sharp and fun episode with a villainous performance by Patrick Gargill as the head of a matchmaking agency which sets rich bachelors with a suitable match ... which ends in their murder. In a unique way The Murder Market shows us how a dating agency could also be a front for criminal activity, such as scamming the poor subject. Fake profiles, etc. There's a "strangers on the train" vibe with the murder exchange idea. Mrs Peel blows on a tuba and is murdered by Steed - all fake, of course. There's a lively fight scene at the end.