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The Best Episodes of The Avengers

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The Best Episodes of The Avengers

A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper...

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  1. Background image for The Gravediggers
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - The Gravediggers

    S4:E2

    Has the late Dr Marlow's proposed radar-jamming system been tested against British defences? If so, the dead scientist seems to be doing it from his grave. And what's the connection with the local hospital's bizarre operations and a train-crazy philanthropist?

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  2. Background image for The Cybernauts
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - The Cybernauts

    S4:E3

    A vastly strong, bullet-proof killer homes in on and destroys several electronics executives. Could it have something to do with Dr. Armstrong's automated work place? Or with the activities of a nearby karate school...

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  3. Background image for The Hour that Never Was
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - The Hour that Never Was

    S4:E9

    Following a motor crash, Steed and Emma explore the seemingly deserted RAF Hamelin, where they were heading for a party to celebrate the base's closure. Is this surreal landscape all a dream, or is it something worse?

    Director:Gerry O'Hara
    Writer:Unknown
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  4. Background image for What the Butler Saw
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - What the Butler Saw

    S4:E22

    According to Steed's double-agent barber, one of three military men is a traitor. But which one? To find out, Steed becomes a butler, and Emma starts Operation Fascination to trap the woman-hungry Group Captain Miles.

    Director:Bill Bain
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  5. Background image for The House That Jack Built
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - The House That Jack Built

    S4:E23

    Emma inherits some property from her deceased Uncle Jack. The property is a very bizaarre house, and when Emma goes to inspect it, she finds herself trapped in a labyrinth of psychological torture.

    Director:Unknown
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  6. Background image for The Winged Avenger
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - The Winged Avenger

    S5:E6

    Is a creature that can walk up walls clawing to death ruthless and powerful men? Does it have anything to do with Professor Poole's invention of boots that let you walk on the ceiling, or with cartoon superhero the Winged Avenger?

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  8. Background image for The Living Dead
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - The Living Dead

    S5:E7

    When representatives of the two organizations head to a country church to investigate the sudden reappearance of a man long thought dead, Steed and Emma are called in to help. It isn't long, of course, before murder rears its ugly head.

    Director:John Krish
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  9. Background image for Never, Never Say Die
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Never, Never Say Die

    S5:E10

    An unfortunate motorist keeps knocking down and killing the same man: a man who's rampaging through the countryside, bulletproof and intent on destruction. A man who just happens to be identical to the urbane Professor Frank N. Stone.

    Director:Robert Day
    Writer:Unknown
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  10. Background image for Epic
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Epic

    S5:E11

    Three Hollywood veterans, led by an insane director, decide that Emma would be perfect for their latest movie, so they kidnap her and film some surreal and deadly footage.

    Director:James Hill
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  11. Background image for Who's Who???
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Who's Who???

    S5:E16

    When one of the Floral Network of agents is found dead atop a pair of stilts, Steed and Emma's interest is piqued. That's the idea, because foreign agents Basil and Lola have a trap prepared for them: a machine that swaps their minds into the pair's bodies.

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  12. Background image for Dead Man's Treasure
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Dead Man's Treasure

    S5:E20

    A missing briefcase full of secrets propels Steed and Emma into a treasure hunt by car.

    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:Unknown
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  13. Background image for The Positive Negative Man
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - The Positive Negative Man

    S5:E22

    When a scientist is found embedded in a wall, Steed and Emma pursue a man in make-up and wellies, whose appearance is terribly shocking.

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  14. Background image for Murdersville
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Murdersville

    S5:E23

    Emma's old friend, Paul Croft, returns from abroad to retire to Little Storping-in-the Swurf. Unfortunately, the village seems to be run along very strange lines. Threatened by yokels, Emma finds herself outnumbered.

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  15. Background image for Mission... Highly Improbable
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Mission... Highly Improbable

    S5:E24

    When Sir Gerald Bancroft and his Rolls-Royce vanish whilst being escorted at a military base, Steed is called upon to solve the puzzle. But before he can he experiences that old shrinking feeling.

    Director:Robert Day
    Writer:Unknown
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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Game

    S6:E2

    The sudden deaths of several of Steed's former army colleagues are revealed to be part of an elaborate engine of destruction, devised by a man court-martialled by them all. And now he is playing a deadly game.

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  17. Background image for All Done With Mirrors
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - All Done With Mirrors

    S6:E8

    The leaking of secrets at Carmadoc Research Establishment throws suspicion on to Steed, who must suffer the torment of house arrest while Tara goes in with a new partner.

    Director:Ray Austin
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  18. Background image for The Morning After
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - The Morning After

    S6:E18

    Steed, attempting to capture super-spy Merlin, is knocked out by a sleeping capsule, and wakes to find London deserted and under martial law. Firing squads are at large, and a nuclear bomb is holding the government to ransom.

    Director:John Hough
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  19. Background image for The Forget-Me-Knot
    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #18 - The Forget-Me-Knot

    S6:E1

    Steed's colleague Sean Mortimer comes to see him in a very confused state. He knows there is a traitor in the organization but he has been drugged to put him in an amnesiac state and he can remember little else. Mrs. Peel investigates but she too falls prey to the drug as she and Sean are abducted by bikers. It is down to trainee agent 69, Tara King, to whom Steed is introduced by spymaster 'Mother' to help him save the day.

    Director:James Hill
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  20. Background image for Escape in Time
    7.2/10(4 votes)

    #19 - Escape in Time

    S5:E3

    Several notorious criminals have vanished into thin air. A whisper has been received that the escape chain starts in London, but, when agent Paxton follows it, he winds up dead in the Thames with a 300-year-old bullet in him.

    Director:John Krish
    Writer:Unknown
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  21. Background image for Warlock
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Warlock

    S2:E18

    Steed is entrusted with the safe-keeping of a new fuel formula when its inventor is found in a coma. The scientist had been involved in a black magic circle which leads Steed and Cathy into the world of hexes and magic powers.

    Director:Peter Hammond
    Writer:Unknown
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  22. Background image for Castle De'ath
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Castle De'ath

    S4:E5

    Why have all the fish vanished from the Scottish coastline? Does it have anything to do with a dead frogman, found stretched as if on a rack? Steed and Emma think so, which is why they're guests of Ian, the 35th Laird of Clan De'ath, and in danger of being caught by the gillies.

    Director:James Hill
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  23. Background image for A Surfeit of H2O
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - A Surfeit of H2O

    S4:E8

    A poacher drowns in a field during a freak storm, and Jonah, the village carpenter, starts building an ark. But Steed thinks it's all got more to do with the permanent cloud that hangs over Grannie Gregson's Glorious Grog factory.

    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:Unknown
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  24. Background image for The Correct Way to Kill
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - The Correct Way to Kill

    S5:E9

    Foreign agents are being killed, but not by British agents. Steed thinks it terribly unfair, and so does his opposite number, Nutski. They make an arrangement, and Steed and Emma find themselves with Soviet partners in an investigation of a group of very British killers.

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  25. Background image for The Superlative Seven
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - The Superlative Seven

    S5:E12

    Steed is invited to a party, and finds himself trapped in a remote-controlled aircraft, with six fancy-dressed specialists in various combat styles, en route to a distant island. There, they are pitted against each other in a deadly test.

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  26. Background image for Super Secret Cypher Snatch
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Super Secret Cypher Snatch

    S6:E3

    Problems of a secret leakage from Cypher HQ and the disappearance of agent Jarret are first handed to rival Department MII2, and then to Mother's group. But why does everybody at Cypher HQ claim never to have seen Jarret and state that the only thing worthy of note that happened yesterday was that it rained?

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Gravediggers" is the best rated episode of "The Avengers". It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Quentin Lawrence and written by Malcolm Hulke, it aired on 10/9/1965. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Cybernauts".