The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

  • Premiered: Feb 1956
  • Episodes: 18
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Season 1
1x1
The Hostage
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 24, 1956
The Scarlet Pimpernel rescues a Baroness from Chauvelin, but she is reluctant to leave because Chauvelin has her son. The Scarlet Pimpernel must rescue the boy and not give away his identity as Sir Percy Blakeney.
1x2
Sir Percy's Wager
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 02, 1956
Countess Caroline is arrested for treason by Chauvelin and sentenced to the guillotine. Her life will be spared if the Scarlet Pimpernel ceases his clandestine activities.
1x3
The Princess
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 09, 1956
The Pimpernel rescues the Marquise de Manton and returns to Paris disguised as Pierre, a peasant, to rescue her maid and in making their escape from prison imagines what might have been if he was not aristocracy.
1x4
A Tale of Two Pigtails
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 16, 1956
Chauvelin sets up a trap and captures Melanie and Alice as they try to flee France. Sir Percy and Lord Hastings must rescue the damsels in distress.
1x5
The Lady in Distress
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 23, 1956
The Pimpernel plans to free a woman from the guillotine but it is a trap by Chauvelin and Cecile, who holds the Pimpernel responsible for her brother's death. In the rescue the Pimpernel is shot and his right arm is wounded with a sword.
1x6
Something Remembered
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 23, 1956
Sir Percy, with his wounded right arm in a sling, is asked by Melaine, whom the Pimpernel once rescued, to aid her brother, Jacques Fleury. The aid wanted is weapons to fight Chauvelin, .. show full overview
1x7
The Elusive Chauvelin
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 06, 1956
Chauvelin comes to England with a plan to capture the Pimpernel but takes the wrong man. Sir Percy must travel to France to rescue the young man but can only accomplish it disguised as Chauvelin.
1x8
The Sword of Justice
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 13, 1956
An Englishman murdering French aristocrats is impersonating the Pimpernel. Sir Percy engineers a plan that allows his capture and execution by Chauvelin.
1x9
Thanksgiving Day
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 20, 1956
An American woman is arrested as the Pimpernel and her brother, Frank Rawlinson, sanctioned by John Adams, needs the Pimpernel's help to rescue her, as he had recently been wounded in a duel with Sir Percy.
1x10
Sir Andrew's Fate
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 27, 1956
Shot and wounded by revolutionaries, Sir Andrew leaps from a coach in a daring escape. He is hidden and nursed by his lover, Colette, who desperately tries to throw the French authorities off his track.
1x11
The Ambassador's Lady
Episode overview
Air date
May 04, 1956
An illicit affair between Lady Fleury and Englishman Richard Hastings leads to the murder of the salacious woman with Hasting being charged with the murder.
1x12
The Christmas Present
Episode overview
Air date
May 11, 1956
Mrs. Burton, Sir Percy's housekeeper, laments Christmases past when many children lived in the house. She is upset when Sir Percy leaves her alone to go to France to rescue four .. show full overview
1x13
The Flower Woman
Episode overview
Air date
May 18, 1956
The Comtesse de la Vallire, a spy of Chauvelin, has known for sometime Percy is the Scarlet Pimpernel and when she hears one of her friends, an imprisoned leader of the revolution, is to .. show full overview
1x14
The Imaginary Invalids
Episode overview
Air date
May 25, 1956
Sir Percy discovers that Chauvelin is blackmailing the banker Rothstein by holding his daughter captive. Rothstein is ill with worry, Chauvelin is ill with gout, Rothstein's daughter is .. show full overview
1x15
Antoine and Antoinette
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 01, 1956
Antoine and Antoinette are waiting to be married when Chauvelin arrives and arrests them. Elise, the younger sister of Antoinette, who has a crush on the Pimpernel, escapes to try to .. show full overview
1x16
The Winged Madonna
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 08, 1956
The Winged Madonna is an icon from one of France's dissolved monasteries. A girl trying to sell the icon to raise money for the monks and nuns draws Sir Percy and Hastings into devising .. show full overview
1x17
Gentlemen of the Road
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 15, 1956
When a beautiful woman shows an unusual interest in the Prince Regent's affairs, Sir Percy uncovers a plot to assassinate the Hanovarian Prince Regent using highwaymen, and restore a .. show full overview
1x18 Show finale
The Farmer's Boy
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 22, 1956
The Pimpernel rescues one of his agents and has to find the man's daughter before Chauvelin does. Disguised as a farm worker, he seeks a job at a farm owned by the girl's miserly uncle and meets the farmer's boy.

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