I was folding clothes — three socks without mates: a personal record — and listening to "The Far Distant Dead”, one of the final four The Avengers: The Lost Episodes, where Big Finish made #AudioPlays of missing season-one episodes of #TheAvengersUKTV

It's the second Keel-only episode¹. In this one Dr. Keel is vacationing in Mexico when a big storm hits and he volunteers to help out at the worst-hit town. Then stuff happens…

What I note is that characters repeatedly call the storm a "cyclone," which seems wrong, as big storms in both the North Atlantic and the Northeast Pacific are called "hurricanes."² So it's not even the case of an old BBC show accidentally using the British term. #terminology

[1] They really considered him as the lead the first season, with Steed merely a convenient way to get a doctor involved in crime and spy cases.

[2] Western Pacific big storms are called typhoons, while Southern hemisphere big storms are called cyclones. (The dividing line between typhoons and cyclones runs southeast from Singapore, between Papua New Guinea and Australia, then north of New Zealand.) #vocabulary

Cut vegetables for stew. That's #AudioPlay time. Listened to some of #TheAvengersUKTV's Lost Episodes by #BigFinish. "Girl on the Trapeze" is technically s01e06, but appeared on Disc Five.

An unusual episode, in that Steed doesn't appear in it at all, it's strictly a Dr. Keel adventure. Walking to meet friends, he sees a young woman leap off a bridge. It gets him involved in false identities and foreign agents kidnapping a woman to make her defected father come home.

It balanced "Crescent Moon," which was 90% a Steed episode, with his vacation in the Bahamas interrupted so he can see to trouble on a nearby island where the daughter of the recently-killed ruler was kidnapped. She was rescued and then re-kidnapped by another group…

Downloaded the final two volumes, only three episodes on each, down from the four of previous volumes.

Forty freaking seconds. I'm #listening to Volume Five of _The Avengers: The Lost Episodes_, and whoever ripped the CD of this #AudioDrama to M4B has put forty seconds of silence between tracks. Amazingly annoying.

Worse, between acts there's the musical burst one knows from the TV show. So one act ends, forty seconds of silence pass, there's a three-second musical sting, an additional forty seconds of silence, then the next act begins. Ugh. #TheAvengersUKTV