King Henry I reportededly died from eating a surfeit of .... what?
A History of English Food before. Among the unusual and sometimes "disgusting" foods that Dickson Wright has tasted on our behalf are "oily, fishy" seal; salted sheep; "rather unpleasant" ancient-style cheese made blue with a dirty horse harness; "fishy" and "stringy" swan; and lampreys, which were "So delicious I can see why Henry I died of eating a surfeit of them". She found, writes Hennessy, that a Stilton cheese crawling with maggots was "too pungent", but rook breast meat was "not unpalatable" if you remove the "backbone". Hennessy enjoys the stories of Henry the Eighth's seven-hour banquet, complete with live blackbirds escaping from a pie
A Surfeit of H2O and free Mrs Peel from the machine. They enter the "rain" room and fight with the distillery workers in the soaking wet environment. Dr. Sturm overblows the machine and kills himself to avoid the secret being stolen. Production for the episode was completed from 30 April to 11 May 1965. The 1998 film "The Avengers" also featured a weather-controlling machine as the primary threat to be dealt with. A Surfeit of H2O A Surfeit of H2O is the eighth episode of the fourth series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series "The Avengers", starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg.