The Mauritius Penny [SEP] series
The Mauritius Penny
The Mauritius Penny is the seventh episode of the second series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series "The Avengers", starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman. It originally aired on ABC on 10 November 1962. The episode was directed by Richmond Harding and written by Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks.
Plot.
A philatelist is murdered after discovering an extremely rare and valuable stamp on sale. Steed and Cathy investigate and encounter a naughty dentist.
Cast.
- Patrick Macnee as
sisters who inherit a stamp collection perhaps worth a fortune, which includes both the deep blue two penny and the orange one penny "Post Office" stamps (to which the title refers). One of the Billy Bunter novels is titled "Billy Bunter and the Blue Mauritius", where the blue two pence stamp is stolen and recovered.
"The Case of the One-Penny Orange" (1977) by E. V. Cunningham, the pen name of Howard Fast was the first of a series of novels in which