"A Man Called Sloane"
Architect of Evil (1979)

TV Series:

"A Man Called Sloane" (1979)

Original Air Date:

15 December 1979 (Season 1, Episode 11)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Drama

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Gadget | International | Intrigue | Spy

Cast

John Aprea	...	Harry Helms
Lew Brown
Linda Fontana
Adrienne Larussa	...	Serena
Lori Lethin	...	Helen
Vonetta McGee
Michael Pataki	...	Worthington Pendergast
Robert Phalen	...	Weems
Eric Server

Series Cast

These people are regular cast members. Were they in this episode?

Karen Purcill	...	Kelly
Michele Carey	...	Effie (voice)

Washing The World Clean

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Worthington Prendergast has created the blueprint for a new city, to be constructed using slave labour. But first he has to destroy the U.S.A.

KARTEL supplies him with a laser projector whose ray can greatly increase mass. Prendergast plans to sink a ship carrying nuclear waste off California, thus contaminating the coastline. Unfortunately for him, a wily cat burglar named Harry Helms jeopardises the operation by stealing the blue crystal needed to power the device. Sloane decides to impersonate the thief...

Michael Pataki's organ-playing villain is straight out of 'The Phantom Of The Opera', and gives Clive Revill a run for his money in the over-the-top stakes. He executes an ineffective agent by subjecting him to a barrage of deadly sonic waves. Sloane's gymnasium jeopardy was obviously inspired by the 'Shrublands' scene in the Bond film 'Thunderball', while his dart-firing signet ring echoes Bond's wrist-watch gun from 'Moonraker'. Fun episode, let down slightly by the finale. Even Roger Moore's Bond never used soap suds to save the world.