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A British airline pilot Arthur Holt (Philip Friend of "Buccaneer's Girl") suspects that the commercial aircraft he is flying is laden with illegal narcotics. Just before he embarked on his flight from Cairo to London, smugglers narrowly missed machine gunning him while co-pilot was shopping. Holt shares his suspicions with his co-pilot, Sandy Mason (Jack Watling of "Dangerous Cargo"), and orders him to inform Customs when they land to go over the plane with a fine-tooth comb. Mason urges him to reconsider since they will be the laughingstock of the airline if nothing illicit is found. When they report to their suspicions, a customs official, Alec Simmons (Julian Somers of "Missiles from Hell") performs a preliminary search of their personal belongings. Surprisingly, Simmons find a container of powder in Holt's fight bag that an analysis reveals contains 64 per cent heroin while the remainder is face powder. Holt calls up his old friend Peter Brady and warns him he is about to be arrested for smuggling heroin. Meantime, a man in a raincoat, Clark Sparrow (Leslie Phillips of "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider"), visits Holt's residence and Holt's wife Katherine (Honor Blackman of "Goldfinger") lets Sparrow in to await the arrival of her husband. Sparrow hides the fact that he has a revolver. As it turns out, Katherine is blind, but she relies on your other five senses to give Scotland Yard a description of the man. Brady's sister Diane (Lisa Daniely of "The Man Who Was Nobody") drives our protagonist to Holt's residence. However, just as they are wheeling into the driveway, the man in the raincoat bursts out the door, and Katherine behaves hysterically like anybody would because this bespectacled, mustached gent in a raincoat had brandished a revolver and shot the pilot twice. Later, at the hospital, the doctors aren't optimistic about Holt's chances of survival. They fear he will die from his gunshot wounds. Brady chases after killer but loses him when he jumps into another car after a brief foot chase. Katherine provides Scotland Yard with as much information as she could remember. The invisible man steps in to assist Detective Inspector Heath (Robert Raglan of "Loot") who has no problem with him. Again, this isn't the invisible man of H. G. Wells' classic novel who went berserk as a result of his experiments that deprived him of his physical presence. The premise is if Sparrow can be fooled into believing the blind wife can actually see, then the Yard can arrest him and charge him. Meantime, the invisible man shadows Sparrow to a news agency and watches as he retrieves a packet. Later, when Sparrow is dining at a restaurant, Katherine cruises up in the invisible man's two seater sports car with the invisible man helping her drive. They fool Sparrow into believing that she can in fact see, and he flees with both the wife and the invisible man as well as Scotland Yard in pursuit. Indeed, little of this interesting episode is realistic, but it is still a lot of fun. If you look carefully, one of the detective sergeants is played by none other than Desmond Llewelyn, best known as Q in the James Bond series. It is really neat to see both Llewelyn and Blackman together in this riveting episode years before they appeared in the Bond franchise. The invisible man gets to smoke cigarettes, open and close doors, and ultimately appears masked in the final scene. During the earlier foot chase when Brady was following Sparrow down an alley way, Brady slipped between to innocent bystanders--a man and a woman heading in different directions--and bumped into both of them in his rush to keep Sparrow insight. Naturally, the woman turned on the man and smacked because she thought he was getting fresh. Clocking in a 26 snappy little minutes, this episode entitled "Blind Justice" lives up to its title and director C. M. Pennington-Richards never lets the pace lag.

When a pilot is framed for drug dealing, then gunned down in front of his blind wife, Peter Brady must find the attempted assassin. As the wife was in the house, Brady decides to trick the gunman into believing she can see and therefore identify him. Brady does this in a truly magnificent manner by having her 'drive' (while he invisible operates the pedals) and she stops outside the restaurant where the gunman is eating and points him out, guided by Brady.

Wonderful bit of trickery. Interesting that the seventies McCallum Invisible Man would likewise pick up on the conflicts of invisibility in regard to blindness or how to use it, when a blind girl is kidnapped and McCallum had to rescue her.

And quite an all-star cast here as well; Honor Blackman as the wife, Phillips as the gunman who I have seen in some Carry On films, Jack Watling (Deborah's father) as the co-pilot and Desmond Llewellyn (sp)