Castle De'ath

The Avengers in Scotland! The action takes place in an old Scottish castle complete with torture room and ghost. Considering all this the ideas are a bit below expectations. John and Emma don't have enough dialogue together and a lot of time is wasted with unnecessary long scenes. The dance routine of Steed without reason for the plot, not that this would be a reason to complain, it just is not enough fun. It looks as if it had been shot at a real castle. If so it had not been taken enough advantage of. The whole MacGuffin (how fitting that this invention by Alfred Hitchcock has a Scottish name) is maybe the weakest in the monochrome season with Diana Rigg. And that means something since some of them border on the ridiculous. But for such nonsense there is not enough happening and too much talk.