Double-take, # 124

It is hard to tell exactly what can have happened to this supposed television programme information, spotted by Des Pond of Slough:

The mangle here is, of course, ‘assistances’, although the whole thing turns out to be a mangle since the episode actually shown in this slot was from a much later series, in which the Avengers were John Steed and Mrs Emma Peel, not from the original 1961 series, which begins with a focus on a character called Dr David Keel, with assistance from the (definitely neither female nor plural) John Steed, who gradually takes over the lead role.

assistances for assistant/assistants