The first season of The Avengers starred Ian Hendry and Patrick Macnee. In the second season, Hendry's character had left and he's never mentioned.
But Honor Blackman's Cathy Gale was not yet Steed's main partner. There were a couple of episodes with another doctor, and six episodes with a female singer called Venus Smith (who was not a martial artist, nor a polymath, like Cathy Gale). However, the Gale episodes quickly became the most popular, and by the end of the season, she would be the sole partner - as well as in the third season, it would be Cathy Gale and Steed alone.
Mr. Teddy Bear was the first Cathy Gale episode shown, but not the first episode filmed. In this episode, Steed and Gale already know each other.
A hired assassin code-named Teddy Bear is making life miserable for the British secret service. Steed is tasked with catching him. (They know his name, they know his victims, but they don't know what he looks like). Steed goes to Mrs. Gale's with his plan, she is to hire Mr. Teddy Bear to kill him - Steed.
In the second Gale scene, Gale's dislike of Steed - mild as it is - is evident. (She's to kill Steed on the behest of her employers, not on her own account, and she smiles when she says it.)
Steed has an annoying habit of snapping his fingers when he orders a projectionist to go from slide to slide, and Cathy Gale's memory is revealed to be photographic.
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