| "The Fear Merchants" | |
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| The Avengers episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 2 |
| Directed by | Gordon Flemyng |
| Written by | Philip Levene (teleplay) |
| Featured music | Laurie Johnson |
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"The Fear Merchants" is the second 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 Patrick Cargill, Brian Wilde, Annette Carell, and Garfield Morgan.[1] It was first broadcast in the Southern region of the ITV network on Monday 16 January 1967. ABC Weekend Television, who commissioned the show for ITV, broadcast it in its own regions five days later on Saturday 21 January.[2] The episode was directed by Gordon Flemyng, and written by Philip Levene.