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The Best Episodes of The Avengers

Every episode of The Avengers ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Avengers!

The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left...
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Best Episodes Summary

"The House That Jack Built" is the best rated episode of "The Avengers". It scored 8.6/10 based on 458 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Brian Clemens, it aired on 3/5/1966. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Cybernauts".

  • The House That Jack Built
    8.6/10458 votes
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    #1 - The House That Jack Built

    Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 3/5/1966

    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: N/A

    Writer: Brian Clemens

  • The Cybernauts
    8.4/10557 votes
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    #2 - The Cybernauts

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1965

    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...

    Director: Sidney Hayers

    Writer: Philip Levene

  • Too Many Christmas Trees
    8.4/10470 votes
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    #3 - Too Many Christmas Trees

    Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 12/25/1965

    Christmas. Steed is having bad, seemingly prophetic, dreams, involving festive themes and a dead agent. Can he find solace at a fancy-dress party in the country home of a Dickens enthusiast?

    Director: Roy Ward Baker

    Writer: Tony Williamson

  • A Touch of Brimstone
    8.4/10446 votes
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    #4 - A Touch of Brimstone

    Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 2/19/1966

    When a group of hoaxsters called the Hellfire Club mix murder with their mischief, Steed and Emma demonstrate a few tricks of their own. The whalebone corset, high laced boots and spiked dog-collar Emma wears as the "Queen of Sin" were designed by Diana Rigg herself, and resulted in A Touch of Brimstone being banned from American TV.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Brian Clemens

  • The Hour that Never Was
    8.3/10441 votes
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    #5 - The Hour that Never Was

    Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1965

    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: N/A

  • The Superlative Seven
    8.3/10478 votes
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    #6 - The Superlative Seven

    Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 4/8/1967

    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.

    Director: Sidney Hayers

    Writer: Brian Clemens

  • Who's Who???
    8.3/10342 votes
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    #7 - Who's Who???

    Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 5/6/1967

    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.

    Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

    Writer: N/A

  • False Witness
    8.3/10395 votes
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    #8 - False Witness

    Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1968

    Trusted agent Melville has lost three partners in quick succession, and seems to be lying at every opportunity. Is he really the man to partner Steed in an attempt to convict Lord Edgefield, noted blackmailer? And what is the odd connection between this whole affair and daily milk deliveries?

    Director: Charles Crichton

    Writer: N/A

  • The Joker
    8.2/10419 votes
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    #9 - The Joker

    Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 4/29/1967

    Invited for the weekend to the home of a fellow Bridge Expert, Emma finds herself trapped in a house designed to send her mad. Her tormentor is Max Prendergast, a man she befriended and then betrayed in Berlin some time before. Then Steed came to the rescue but now he's at home nursing a sprained ankle.

    Director: Sidney Hayers

    Writer: Brian Clemens

  • The Girl From Auntie
    8.1/10396 votes
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    #10 - The Girl From Auntie

    Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 1/22/1966

    Steed returns from holiday to find that a quite different Mrs. Peel is inhabiting his old friend's flat. With the aid of actress Georgie Price-Jones, he discovers that Art Incorporated and the Arkwright Knitting Circle are doing more together than just sharing needles.

    Director: Roy Ward Baker

    Writer: N/A

  • Honey For the Prince
    8.1/10347 votes
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    #11 - Honey For the Prince

    Season 4 Episode 26 - Aired 3/26/1966

    Steed and Emma return from a party to find a dying agent in Steed's flat. What is the connection between honey, a firm which makes fantasies to order and the oil deal promised by a visiting Bavarian Prince?

    Director: James Hill

    Writer: Brian Clemens

  • Game
    8.1/10342 votes
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    #12 - Game

    Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1968

    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.

    Director: Robert Fuest

    Writer: Richard Harris

  • You'll Catch Your Death
    8.1/10357 votes
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    #13 - You'll Catch Your Death

    Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1968

    Ear, nose and throat specialists are sneezing themselves to death, each after receiving a mysterious empty envelope. When Tara is kidnapped, Steed takes great care over his morning mail.

    Director: Paul Dickson

    Writer: N/A

  • The Town of No Return
    8.0/10625 votes
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    #14 - The Town of No Return

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1965

    Four agents have vanished, looking for each other, in Little Bazeley-by-the-Sea. Steed and Emma go in for the man who went in for the man who.... and meet the odd local landlord, blacksmith and vicar. Are they more than they seem?

    Director: Roy Ward Baker

    Writer: Brian Clemens

  • Death at Bargain Prices
    8.0/10454 votes
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    #15 - Death at Bargain Prices

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1965

    When an agent is killed in the lift of Pinter's Department store, Steed and Emma get involved with King Kane, a tycoon who lives in a penthouse above the store. Why is Professor Popple, a missing atomic scientist, being held in the bargain basement?

    Director: Charles Crichton

    Writer: Brian Clemens

  • The Murder Market
    8.0/10419 votes
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    #16 - The Murder Market

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1965

    What could an outbreak of motiveless murders have to do with the activities of a marriage bureau called Togetherness Inc.? Well, think of Hitchcock's 'Strangers On A Train' and you'll be close. Steed and Emma seek their ideal partners....

    Director: Peter Graham Scott

    Writer: Tony Williamson

  • The Forget-Me-Knot
    8.0/10403 votes
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    #17 - The Forget-Me-Knot

    Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1968

    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

    Writer: Brian Clemens

  • Dragonsfield
    7.9/1036 votes
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    #18 - Dragonsfield

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 12/30/1961

    How has a research centre developing radiation-proof material managed to irradiate one of its scientists? Once more, Steed submits himself to scientific testing.

    Director: Peter Hammond

    Writer: Terence Feely

  • The Master Minds
    7.9/10398 votes
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    #19 - The Master Minds

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1965

    A government official, dresssed as one of the Horse-guards, helps in a raid on secret files and is wounded. Recovering, he remembers nothing. Is his crime anything to do with his membership of Ransack, a club for those with high IQs? Emma can join, but Steed may have to cheat....

    Director: Peter Graham Scott

    Writer: Robert Banks Stewart

  • How to Succeed... at Murder
    7.9/10330 votes
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    #20 - How to Succeed... at Murder

    Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 3/19/1966

    When several top executives die, their secretaries take over their firms. Is it mere chance, or are women trying to take over the world? Steed employs a deadly secretary, and Emma finds sorority down at the gym.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Brian Clemens

  • Never, Never Say Die
    7.9/10376 votes
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    #21 - Never, Never Say Die

    Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 3/18/1967

    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: N/A

  • Split!
    7.9/10319 votes
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    #22 - Split!

    Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1968

    When an agent at the Ministry of Top-Secret Information is murdered, Steed and Tara have little difficulty in locating the man responsible. But when a handwriting test indicates that he is Boris Kartovski, someone Steed thought he had killed in Berlin 5 years before, our heroes find themselves drawn into the dangerous experiments of Dr. Constantine.

    Director: Roy Ward Baker

    Writer: Brian Clemens, Dennis Spooner

  • Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40
    7.9/10331 votes
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    #23 - Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40

    Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1968

    Somebody is out to get super-computer George/XR40. He is shot, given false data, attacked with acid, and nearly gets his power supply cut. But until George works properly the name and nature of the culprits cannot be established.

    Director: Cyril Frankel

    Writer: Tony Williamson

  • Brief for Murder
    7.8/10165 votes
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    #24 - Brief for Murder

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1963

    Thanks to the clever briefing of the Lakin brothers a man charged with treason is found not guilty. Mrs Gale believes that Steed is implicated, and contacts the newspapers. Steed threatens her: either withdraw her allegations or pay the consequences. Soon Steed is on trial for Gale's murder.

    Director: Peter Hammond

    Writer: Brian Clemens

  • Dressed to Kill
    7.8/10149 votes
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    #25 - Dressed to Kill

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/28/1963

    An incoming missile attack, which is detected by all but one of the country's early warning stations, proves to be a false alarm. Steed finds himself attending an exclusive New Year's Eve fancy-dress party on a train. The train terminates at a remote, deserted station, and a guest is killed with an arrow.

    Director: Bill Bain

    Writer: Brian Clemens