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Part One - Issue 1038, November 6th 1971: Full details are not available for this issue.
Written by unknown, drawn by unknown.
Part Two - Issue 1039, November 13th 1971:
SIGNALS being beamed from an old satellite in space are having a strange affect
as they reach England. Mother, aboard an experimental aircraft, cannot
land on an airfield because the staff begins dancing wildly on the runway.
Written by unknown, drawn by John Canning.
Mother tries to land the experimental craft while Steed and Tara investigate the spread of the radio interference. It has spread as far as London, it seems. The whole country appears to be gripped in a dancing fever, but as Steed and Tara are in an underground bunker they are not affected. Mother, similarly unaffected in his orbiting plane, tells Steed and Tara that they must save the country.
Part Three - Issue 1040, November 20th 1971:
STRANGE pop music, beamed down from an old satellite, is having an incredible
effect on the population of England, as Steed and Tara King can see as they
watch on a closed-circuit television from the underground headquarters of the
Secret Service in London - while Mother is overhead in Britain's latest high-altitude
bomber...
Written by unknown, drawn by John Canning.
As the whole country dances on oblivious Steed and Tara make their plans. Tara suggests that they use ear-plugs to protect themselves from the dangerous sounds. Communicating via throat mikes and personal microphones they head into the streets of London. They pass many people who have collapsed, exhausted from dancing, and head for the Ministry of Defence Building where they believe they can discover where the noises have come from. In the meantime, Mother's plane is running out of fuel...
Part Four - Issue 1041, November 27th 1971:
STRANGE pop music, beamed down from a satellite, has caused the population
of England to dance until exhausted. While Mother is in a bomber flying
over London, John Steed and Tara King are attempting to locate the source of
the music with the help of a large telemetry at the top of a Ministry of Defence
building in Whitehall...
Written by unknown, drawn by John Canning.
Using the telemetry, Steed and Tara work out that the music signal must be coming from space. Steed decides that it must be emanating from a satellite and asks Tara to contact Mother. He tracks down the signal and knocks the signal from the sky via a missile he is carrying in his aircraft. The signal is no longer being transmitted country-wide, but Steed wants to locate the original transmission source...
Part Five - Issue 1042, December 4th 1971:
STRANGE pop music, beamed down from a satellite, has caused the population
of England to dance until exhausted - but John Steed and Tara King, using a
telemetry, are trying to trace the source of the music....
Written by unknown, drawn by John Canning.
Using the telemetry, Steed has located the source of the deadly music as being somewhere just beyond the Thames Estuary. At sea. He and Tara commandeer a hovercraft moored on the Thames and head for the source of the signal. They tell Mother that he can now land as he watches them head down the Thames. Steed tells Mother that he has the hovercraft moving but isn't too sure about how to stop it. As it move faster and faster, Steed formulates a plan. He will RAM the pirate ship!!
Part Six
- Issue 1043, December 11th 1971:
JOHN STEED and Tara King have located a pirate radio ship just off Southend
that has been broadcasting strange pop music that has caused the population
of England to dance until exhausted. They are using a hovercraft to reach
the ship, but Steed is unable to stop it...
Written by unknown, drawn by John Canning.
Steed and Tara hurtle towards the pirate radio ship in a hovercraft, but they are unable to stop it. On deck, Discord Danny the Delinquent DJ is waving at them to stop. Steed recalls him as the chap who was sacked by Radio Gluxemburg some months ago. Discord Danny jumps for it, and so do the Avengers. The two craft collide, and both begin to sink. Steed and Tara float in the water and see Danny being picked up by a submarine. A helicopter turns up moments later and plucks Steed and Tara from the sea. They explain to Mother that Discord Danny must have been in the pay of some fiendish foreign power. The ship has sunk to the bottom, but the music plays on and King Neptune and his subjects are seen grooving away.
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