The Avengers Episode Guide

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Episode Guide

The Avengers: Season 6 (1968 - 1969)

The Avengers: Season 5 (1965 - 1967)

  • Season 5 Episode 24: Mission ... Highly Improbable

    Steed is called in to investigate when Sir Gerald Bancroft and his Rolls-Royce mysteriously disappear while being escorted around a military base. Light-hearted drama, starring Patrick Macnee

  • Season 5 Episode 23: Murdersville

    An old friend of Emma's returns from abroad in the hope of retiring to Little Storping-in-the-Swurf, but discovers the village is harbouring a dark secret. Starring Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee

  • Season 5 Episode 22: The Positive Negative Man

    Steed and Mrs Peel track down a mysterious glowing man responsible for a string of macabre and grisly murders. Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg star, with a guest appearance by Ray McAnally

  • Season 5 Episode 21: You Have Just Been Murdered

    The daring duo track down a blackmailing assassin who scares his victims into meek compliance by carrying out fake murders. Vintage hokum, with Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg and Simon Oates

  • Season 5 Episode 20: Dead Man's Treasure

    Steed and Emma embark on a hunt for a dying agent's hidden dispatch box containing secret information. However, their quest is hindered by obstacles including a car simulator that electrifies its passengers

  • Season 5 Episode 19: The £50,000 Breakfast

    The death of a ventriloquist leads to the discovery that he was carrying a collection of gems in his stomach. Meanwhile, Steed resorts to blackmail and Emma embarks on a mission in the business community

  • Season 5 Episode 18: Death's Door

    Steed and Mrs Peel infiltrate an international conference at which the delegates have begun acting strangely - by predicting their own deaths. Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg star, with Clifford Evans, William Lucas and Allan Cuthbertson

  • Season 5 Episode 17: Return of the Cybernauts

    Electronics executives and industrialists are murdered by a super-strong, seemingly indestructible assailant able to smash through doors and solid walls. The only clue lies in the fact that every victim carried an identical fountain pen, which ended up getting smashed the killer

  • Season 5 Episode 16: Who's Who???

    Freddie Jones and Patricia Haines guest-star as enemy agents who use a fiendish device to transfer their minds into the bodies of Steed and Mrs Peel - whose subsequent strange behaviour makes them a threat to national security

  • Season 5 Episode 15: The Joker

    Emma is enticed into the imposing mansion of an elderly bridge expert, where she is forced to fight for survival without Steed, who is at home nursing a sprained ankle

  • Season 5 Episode 14: Something Nasty in the Nursery

    Important secrets known only to a small group of men are leaked, causing the group to have strange nightmares about their childhoods. Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg star, with Yootha Joyce and Paul Eddington

  • Season 5 Episode 13: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station

    A train ticket alerts Steed and Mrs Peel to a fiendish enemy plot to kill the Prime Minister. Adventure, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg

  • Season 5 Episode 12: The Superlative Seven

    Steed is invited to a fancy-dress party on a remote island, but gradually realises that one of the guests is trying to kill all the others. Donald Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling and Brian Blessed guest star

  • Season 5 Episode 11: Epic

    A psychotic film producer recruits an unwitting Emma to star in his latest epic. Light-hearted drama, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg

  • Season 5 Episode 10: Never, Never Say Die

    Steed meets a dead man - and Emma fights the corpse. Light-hearted action, guest starring Christopher Lee, with Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg

  • Season 5 Episode 9: The Correct Way to Kill

    Emma temporarily changes allegiance and sides with the enemy to investigate the death of two top agents. Light-hearted drama, with Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg

  • Season 5 Episode 8: The Hidden Tiger

    Steed sets off on the hunt for a big cat, while Emma gets badly scratched. Light-hearted drama, guest starring Ronnie Barker, with Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg

  • Season 5 Episode 7: The Living Dead

    Steed and Emma visit the countryside to investigate rumours of a ghost seen in the private chapel of the Duke of Benedict. Nostalgic light-hearted drama, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg

  • Season 5 Episode 6: The Winged Avenger

    Steed goes for a spot of bird-watching and Emma produces a comic strip. Memorable Batman-spoof episode, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg

  • Season 5 Episode 5: The Bird Who Knew Too Much

    Steed goes pigeon-fancying, while Emma searches for a secret that has everyone in a flap. Vintage action, with Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg

  • Season 5 Episode 4: The See-Through Man

    When the Ministry is broken into by an apparently invisible man, it seems a secret formula has fallen into the hands of an organisation run by Soviet Intelligence. Light-hearted action, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg

  • Season 5 Episode 3: Escape in Time

    Steed pays a visit to the barber - but it's Emma who ends up having a close shave. Adventure, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg

  • Season 5 Episode 2: The Fear Merchants

    The duo investigate a spate of murders, and discover a ruthless businessman has been killing his rivals to gain the competitive edge. Vintage adventures, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg

  • Season 5 Episode 1: From Venus With Love

    The duo investigates the strange deaths of several astronomers whose bodies have been mysteriously bleached white, and encounter an eccentric society dedicated to establishing contact with aliens from Venus. First colour episode of the crime-fighting drama, guest-starring Hammer actress Barbara Shelley alongside Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg

The Avengers: Season 4 (1965 - 1966)

  • Season 4 Episode 26: Honey for the Prince

    The duo investigate a firm who make fantasies become a reality - and Mrs Peel joins an Eastern prince's harem. Last in the series, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg

  • Season 4 Episode 25: How to Succeed : at Murder

    The duo investigate the murders of a string of businessmen whose secretaries have stepped in as head of the firm after their deaths. Emma gains employment at one of the firms that has recently been taken over, while Steed poses as an executive. Light-hearted drama, starring Patrick Macnee

  • Season 4 Episode 24: A Sense of History

    The duo investigate a university college's staff and students who are suspected of killing a leading economist. Light-hearted drama, starring Patrick Macnee

  • Season 4 Episode 23: The House that Jack Built

    Mrs Peel inherits a house from her uncle Jack, but all is not as it seems and she soon finds herself in a labyrinth of psychological torture. Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee star

  • Season 4 Episode 22: What the Butler Saw

    Steed poses a butler to root out one of three military men as a traitor, while Mrs Peel plans to trap a woman-hungry Group Captain. Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg star

  • Season 4 Episode 21: A Touch of Brimstone

    Celebrated episode, banned in America for many years, which sees Steed infiltrating a murderous cabal the Hellfire Club and Mrs Peel being elected its resident 'Queen of Sin', complete with basque, spiked collar and pet snake. Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg star

  • Season 4 Episode 20: The Danger Makers

    The duo try to discover why assorted prominent figures have begun dicing with death, and encounter a crime cartel whose members thrive on danger to life and limb. Light-hearted drama, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg

  • Season 4 Episode 19: Quick-Quick Slow Death

    The team follow a suspect to a dance academy, where Mrs Peel smashes a spy ring by posing as an instructress. Light-hearted drama, starring Patrick Macnee as suave, sophisticated secret agent John Steed. With Diana Rigg

  • Season 4 Episode 18: The 13th Hole

    Steed and Mrs Peel investigate when danger is afoot at a golf course. Light-hearted drama, starring Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg and Patrick Allen

  • Season 4 Episode 17: The Girl from Auntie

    An imposter poses as Mrs Peel, while a succession of corpses and an actress leads Steed to cast suspicion on the business affairs of Art Incorporated and Arkwright Knitting Circle

  • Season 4 Episode 16: Small Game for Big Hunters

    Agent John Steed and his sidekick Emma are faced with an African cult when a man is found under a voodoo trance in the home counties. Drama, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg

  • Season 4 Episode 15: Room Without a View

    Steed and Mrs Peel investigate a London hotel, concealing a strange link with a prison camp in the Far East. Sixties crime adventure, with Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg

  • Season 4 Episode 14: Silent Dust

    An evil landowner plots to take over the entire country using a secret weapon - killer fertiliser. Fortunately, Steed is ready with bowler and brolly, accompanied by the leather-clad Mrs Peel, to thwart his dastardly plan

  • Season 4 Episode 13: Too Many Christmas Trees

    A seasonal house party is the location for a sinister plot disguised to read Steed's mind. With Patrick Macnee

  • Season 4 Episode 12: Two's a Crowd

    Enemy agents recruit a double of Steed as part of a nefarious plan to betray British interests - but don't realise they are falling for a classic double-bluff. With guest star Warren Mitchell

  • Season 4 Episode 11: Man-Eater of Surrey Green

    The duo investigate the disappearance of several leading botanists and find themselves drawn into an encounter with a Triffid-like man-eating plant from outer space. Classic capers, with Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg

  • Season 4 Episode 10: Dial a Deadly Number

    Steed and Mrs Peel investigate a mysterious series of sudden deaths in the world of high finance, and encounter a cartel of crooked stockbrokers. Light-hearted drama, with Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg

  • Season 4 Episode 9: The Hour That Never Was

    Following a car crash, Steed and Emma investigate a seemingly deserted RAF base that was supposed to be the venue for a huge party. Starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg

  • Season 4 Episode 8: A Surfeit of H2O

    A poacher is drowned by a freak rainstorm, alerting Steed and Mrs Peel to the sinister activities of a criminal mastermind intent on creating mayhem by controlling the weather. Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee star

  • Season 4 Episode 7: The Murder Market

    Steed goes undercover to investigate whether a series of murders is linked to the activities of a marriage bureau

  • Season 4 Episode 6: The Master Minds

    The duo infiltrate an organisation for geniuses, and discover their fellow members are being brainwashed by a sinister matron into committing audacious crimes. Light-hearted drama, starring Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee

  • Season 4 Episode 5: Castle De'ath

    John Steed heads north to investigate a mysterious laird, who he is sure is responsible for fish disappearing from the Scottish coast - and maybe the dead diver found stretched on a rack. Patrick Macnee stars

  • Season 4 Episode 4: Death at Bargain Prices

    Steed and Mrs Peel go undercover in a department store to investigate the death of a ministry agent, uncovering the sinister schemes of a tycoon living in a penthouse above the shop and a missing scientist held captive in the bargain basement

  • Season 4 Episode 2: The Gravediggers

    Mrs Peel poses as a nurse and infiltrates a home for retired railwaymen run by corrupt staff who are using a radar-jamming system to disrupt the country's defences. Diana Rigg stars

  • Season 4 Episode 1: The Town of No Return

    Steed and Mrs Peel stumble upon a chilling mystery in a small coastal community. Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg star

The Avengers: Season 3 (1963 - 1964)

The Avengers: Season 2 (1962 - 1963)

The Avengers: Season 1 (1961)