The Adventures of William Tell Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - The Emperor's Hat

First aired: Sep/15/1958
Writer: Rene Wilde
Director: Ralph Smart
Guest star: Ernest Milton (Furst), Derren Nesbitt (Sentry), Norman Mitchell (Frederick), Charles Houston (Villager)

The Austrians invade and conquer three Swiss cantons and begin imposing heavy taxation. Then they demand that every Swiss citizen bow down to a replica of the Austrian emperor's hat which is placed atop a pole. William Tell, a blacksmith, doesn't like this situation and decides to rebel.

2 :01x02 - The Hostages

First aired: Sep/22/1958
Writer: Doreen Montgomery
Director: Peter Maxwell
Guest star: Peter Hammond (Hofmanstahl), Roy Purcell (Fritz), James Booth (Franz), Celia Hewitt (Gretel)

Tell seizes a shipment of Austrian arms but later finds himself betrayed to Gessler.

3 :01x03 - The Secret Death

First aired: Sep/29/1958
Writer: Doreen Montgomery
Director: Peter Maxwell
Guest star: Sid James (Schaffer), Peter Hammond (Captain Hofmanstahl), Howard Lang (Schmidt), Peter Welch (1st Guard), Jack Lambert (Judge Furst)

Hedda Tell is arrested. A magician offers to help rescue Hedda by giving her a potion which will simulate death.

4 :01x04 - The Gauntlet of St. Gerhardt

First aired: Oct/06/1958
Writer: Doreen Montgomery
Director: Peter Maxwell
Guest star: Howard Pays (Major Augustin), Ian Wallace (Abbot), Derren Nesbitt (Captain Werner), Edward Judd (Trooper)

Gessler seeks to destroy a gauntlet that the Swiss use for inspiration during wartime.

5 :01x05 - The Prisoner

First aired: Oct/13/1958
Writer: John Kruse
Director: Peter Maxwell
Guest star: Jerry Verno (Petitpierre), Michael Caine (Max), John Howard Davies (Karl), Richard Shaw (Tasker), Keith Pyott (Erlanger), Bruce Seton (Bullinger)

Tell discovers that a fellow countryman is being held prisoner against the orders of the Austrian emperor.

6 :01x06 - Voice in the Night

First aired: Oct/20/1958
Writer: Ralph Smart
Director: Terry Bishop
Guest star: Ronald Leigh-Hunt (Gunther), Jack Lambert (Judge Furst), Derren Nesbitt (Frederick), Michael Ripper (Schwarz)

Tell must rescue his father-in-law who's been arrested and is about to be put on trial in Gessler's kangaroo court.

7 :01x07 - The Assassins

First aired: Oct/27/1958
Writer: Ralph Smart
Director: Terry Bishop
Guest star: Roy Purcell (Fritz), Alfred Burke (Bolf), Willoughby Gray (Captain), Edwin Richfield (Maddeaux)

Gessler hires two brigands to pose as Swiss patriots in order to assassinate William Tell

8 :01x08 - The Baroness

First aired: Nov/03/1958
Writer: John Kruse
Director: Peter Maxwell
Guest star: Delphi Lawrence (Baroness), Arthur Skinner (Johann), Bruce Seton (Bullinger), Olive McFarland (Hilde), Norma Purcell (Maria)

Tell finds himself imprisoned in a the castle of a baroness who's in cahoots with Gessler.

9 :01x09 - The Elixir

First aired: Nov/10/1958
Writer: Lindsay Galloway
Director: Terry Bishop
Guest star: Jack Watling (Ferdinand), John McCarthy (Jules), Hamlyn Benson (Innkeeper), Ian Wallace (Father Abbott)

Gessler tries to learn the formula of an elixir.

10 :01x10 - The Suspect

First aired: Nov/17/1958
Writer: Doreen Montgomery
Director: Quentin Lawrence
Guest star: John McCarthy (Emil), Peter Bennett (Gruner), Edward Judd (Officer), Sheila Raynor (Josephine), Marianne Benet (Dagma), Harold Scott (Gaston), Tommy Duggan (Waldmann)

Tell gives a young girl suspected of being an informer an important assignment.

11 :01x11 - The Cuckoo

First aired: Nov/24/1958
Writer: Ralph Smart
Director: Peter Maxwell
Guest star: George Benson (Conrad), Jack Watling (Ferdinand), Peter Hammond (Hofmanstahl), David Davenport (Sergeant-at-Arms)

A noisy cuckoo and pressure from back home in Austria are driving Gessler crazy.

12 :01x12 - The Bear

First aired: Dec/01/1958
Writer: Doreen Montgomery
Director: Ernest Morris
Guest star: Meadows White (Burgomaster), Peter Hammond (Hofmanstahl), John Howard Davies (Bruno), Graham Stewart (Hans)

The father of one of Tell's resistance fighters doesn't want his son in the group but agrees to allow sonny to remain provided Tell can defeat him in a bare knuckle brawl.

13 :01x13 - The Magic Powder

First aired: Dec/08/1958
Writer: Martin Worth
Director: Peter Maxwell
Guest star: Anthony Parker (Soldier), Peter Hammond (Hofmanshtahl), Gerald Cross (Ludwig), Henry Oscar (Dr. Klein)

Tell and Gessler meet unexpectedly at the castle of an alchemist but they are there for different purposes.

14 :01x14 - The Golden Wheel

First aired: Dec/15/1958
Writer: Michael Connor
Director: Peter Maxwell
Guest star: Charles Ross (Fritz), Patrick Troughton (Hunzler), Richard Warner (Headman), Derek Godfrey (Wolfgang)

A Swiss banker asks for Tell's help in keeping a gold shipment out of Gessler's clutches.

15 :01x15 - The Bride

First aired: Dec/22/1958
Writer: Doreen Montgomery
Director: Quentin Lawrence
Guest star: Mary Webster (Marthe), Richard Bebb (Captain Huber), Glyn Owen (Anton), Derren Nesbitt (Master-at-Arms), Nadja Regin (Maddelenna), Lloyd Lamble (Colondel)

An Italian countess is kidnapped on Gessler's orders to be forced into an arranged marriage.

16 :01x16 - The Boy Slaves

First aired: Dec/29/1958
Writer: John Kruse
Director: Terry Bishop
Guest star: Frazer Hines (Carl), Marjorie Rhodes (Aunt Maria), Bryan Coleman (Count Heinemann), Derren Nesbitt (Schulenberg)

After a young lad insults Gessler and flees, the rotter has 100 children seized and held hostage until the insultor surrenders.

17 :01x17 - The Young Widow

First aired: Jan/05/1959
Writer: Paul Christie
Director: Peter Maxwell
Guest star: Peter Hammond (Hofmanstahl), Norma Parnell (Tina), Melissa Stribling (Countess von Markheim), Charles Houston (Paul), Julian Somers (Kurt)

A countess who's in league with the Swiss Resistance finds herself being blackmailed by a servant.

18 :01x18 - Landslide

First aired: Jan/12/1959
Writer: John Kruse
Director: Terry Bishop
Guest star: Charles Houston (Weber), Frank Thornton (Tax Collector), Marjorie Rhodes (Aunt Maria), Wilfrid Brambell (Josef), Charles Lloyd Pack (Speckler)

Someone impersonating William Tell has been robbing Austrian tax collectors thus bring the hammer from Gessler down on the Swiss. Our hero sets out to find the impersonator before things get worse.

19 :01x19 - The Trap

First aired: Jan/19/1959
Writer: Doreen Montgomery
Director: Quentin Lawrence
Guest star: Robert Shaw (Peter), Richard Burrell (Max), Walter Gotell (Oddices), Peter Torquill (Rudi), Colette Wilde (Ingrid)

A new recruit urges Tell to hijack a diamond that Gessler is shipping back to Austria.

20 :01x20 - The Shrew

First aired: Jan/26/1959
Writer: Max Savage
Director: Peter Maxwell
Guest star: Keith Pyatt (Hans), Roy Godfrey (Karl), Joanna Dunham (Gretel), John Salew (Colonel Wentzel), Harriette Johns (Gertrude)

Gessler wants Tell captured and he starts riding his men hard until the deed is done.

21 :01x21 - The Manhunt

First aired: Feb/02/1959
Writer: Doreen Montgomery
Director: Peter Maxwell
Guest star: Cyril Chamberlain (Vogel), Christopher Lee (Prince Erich), Leslie Perrins (Count Hegel), Kevin Stoney (Heinrich), Scott Finch (Peter)

A crazed prince stages a hunt using the most dangerous game of all as his quarry.

22 :01x22 - The Killer

First aired: Feb/09/1959
Writer: Lindsay Galloway
Director: Peter Maxwell
Guest star: Monica Grey (Anna), Derek Godfrey (Burgomaster), Sally Travers (Frau Strauss), Richard Vernon (Merchant), Kevin Stoney (Strauss), Alex Scott (Klaus)

Allies of Gessler are out to frame Tell for theft and murder.

23 :01x23 - The Surgeon

First aired: Feb/16/1959
Writer: Doreen Montgomery
Director: Peter Maxwell
Guest star: Derek Aylward (Kramer), Stanley Van Beers (Apothecary), David Blake Kelly (Von Eckenburg), Frank Thornton (Heinburgher)

After being wounded by Austrian forces, Tell is given shelter by the Swiss but there's no doctor available to attend to his wounds.

24 :01x24 - The Ensign

First aired: Feb/23/1959
Writer: Max Savage, Leslie Arliss
Director: Quentin Lawrence
Guest star: John Carson (Fritz), Edward Evans (Hoffman), Julian Somers (Hugo), Andre Van Gyseghem (Grand Duke), John Maxim (Strauss)

A young Austrian officer decides to defect after witnessing Gessler's brutality.

25 :01x25 - The Unwelcome Stranger

First aired: Mar/09/1959
Writer: Paul Christie
Director: Peter Maxwell
Guest star: Derren Nesbitt (Martin), Peter Swanwick (Hofer), John Maxim (Captain Markheim), John McCarthy (Heinz), David de Keyser (Karl), Susan Travers (Dina), Norman MacOwan (Andreas)

Tell discovers that the Burgomaster of a village once loyal to him is now selling arms to the Austrians and attempts to prevent the sale.

26 :01x26 - The Avenger

First aired: Mar/16/1959
Writer: Lindsay Galloway
Director: Anthony Squire
Guest star: Willoughby Gray (Number One), Diana Lambert (Anna), John Le Mesurier (Duke of Burgundy), Ralph Michael (Quirini), Raymond Young (Alda), Derek Waring (Louis), Peter Reynolds (Hilaire)

Tell investigates the disappearance of two peace envoys.

27 :01x27 - The Bandit

First aired: Mar/23/1959
Writer: Doreen Montgomery
Director: Anthony Squire
Guest star: Brian Rawlinson (Rinaldo), Simone Lovell (Eva), William Abney (Fritz), Maurice Kaufmann (Carl), Michael Peake (Landlord), Robert Raglan (Hans), Kenneth Cope (Marco)

When bandits steal jewels from Gessler, Tell plans to recover them for the Swiss.

28 :01x28 - Gessler's Daughter

First aired: Mar/30/1959
Writer: Lindsay Galloway
Director: Ernest Morris
Guest star: Perlita Neilson (Anna Gessler), Catherine Finn (Frau Muller), Michael Golden (Muller), Howard Pays (Vogler), Patsy Smart (Nurse)

Tell helps his archenemy, Gessler, rescue his kidnapped daughter.

29 :01x29 - The General's Daughter

First aired: Apr/06/1959
Writer: Ian Stuart Black
Director: Peter Maxwell
Guest star: Peter Torquill (Corporal Muller), Bruce Seton (General), Scott Finch (Stefan), Michael Caine (Sgt. Wiener), Ann Hughes (Maria)

When the Bear gets captured, Tell's only hope at rescuing his pal lies with a general's daughter.

30 :01x30 - The Raid

First aired: Apr/13/1959
Writer: Leslie Arliss
Director: Leslie Arliss
Guest star: Michael Brennan (Hans), Terence Cooper (Guard), Tony Thawnton (Fritz), Peter Bennett (Sergeant)

Tell and a new ally decide to raid an Austrian armory.

31 :01x31 - Castle of Fear

First aired: Apr/20/1959
Writer: Doreen Montgomery
Director: Peter Maxwell
Guest star: Alan Rowe (Anton), Ferdy Mayne (Gustav), Keith Rawlings (Hans), Edwin Richfield (Eric)

Tell follows a traitor to the home of a supposed Swiss patriot.

32 :01x32 - The Black Brothers

First aired: Apr/27/1959
Writer: Doreen Montgomery
Director: Quentin Lawrence
Guest star: Roger Delgado (Luigi), Paul Stassino (Pietro), Warren Mitchell (Carlo)

Tell travels to Italy to purchase arms for the Swiss cause.

33 :01x33 - The Lost Letter

First aired: May/04/1959
Writer: Lindsay Galloway
Director: Terry Bishop
Guest star: Derren Nesbitt (Frederick), Alex Scott (Franz), Max Bacon (Cobbler), John Dearth (Muller), Jack Lambert (Judge Furst), Olive McFarland (Vera)

Tell must rescue a captured messenger carrying an important letter from Gessler's clutches.

34 :01x34 - Secret Weapon

First aired: May/11/1959
Writer: Lindsay Galloway
Director: Ernest Morris
Guest star: Jack Watling (Captain), Derrick Sherwin (Hans), John Horsley (Jacques)

Tell infiltrates a slave labor camp in order to free its inmates.

35 :01x35 - The Master Spy

First aired: May/18/1959
Guest star: Harvey Hall (Heinz), Glyn Owen (Anton), Maureen Beck (Rosa), Jack Watling (Ferdinand Hofmanstahl), Adrienne Corri (Mara)

Tell finds himself matching wits with a beautiful and cunning female spy known as "the Shadow."

36 :01x36 - The Traitor

First aired: May/25/1959
Director: Peter Maxwell
Guest star: Bruce Seton (Bullinger), William Lucas (Kramer), Neil Hallett (Rothman)

The leader of another Swiss resistance group sends for Tell and Hedda to help him uncover a traitor in his ranks.

37 :01x37 - The Spider

First aired: Jun/01/1959
Guest star: Deborah Watling (Child), Robert Cawdron (Captain), Trevor Reid (Von Brenen), Donald Pleasence (The Spider), John Horsley (Klaus), Howard Pays (Johan), Shelagh Wilcocks (Gerda)

Gessler sends an agent known as the Spider to bring in William Tell.

38 :01x38 - The Mountain People

First aired: Jun/08/1959
Writer: John Kruse
Director: Quentin Lawrence
Guest star: John Dearth (Major Richter), Terence Cooper (Captain Kraus), James Booth (Josef), Fred Johnson (Father), Lee Montague (Sgt. Johan), Maureen Davis (Eve), Catherine Finn (Margit)

The boyfriend of a young damsel grows jealous when his beloved develops a crush on Tell.

39 :01x39 - Undercover

First aired: Jun/15/1959
Writer: Lindsay Galloway
Director: Ernest Morris
Guest star: Peter Welch (Johan), Jill Browne (Magda), Derek Bond (Emperor), David Peel (Sebastian), John Longden (Reinhardt), Stanley Van Beers (Chancellor), Ian Colin (Michaelis)

Tell urgently needs to contact a Swiss spy in the Austrian emperor's retinue.