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 after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The Avengers" is "The House That Jack Built", rated 8.6/10 from 449 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by Brian Clemens. "The House That Jack Built" aired on 3/5/1966 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Cybernauts".
8.6/10 449 votes#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
8.5/10 537 votes#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
8.4/10 461 votes#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
8.4/10 430 votes#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
8.3/10 431 votes#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
8.3/10 467 votes#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
8.3/10 333 votes#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
8.3/10 385 votes#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
8.2/10 412 votes#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
8.1/10 437 votes#10 - 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
8.1/10 407 votes#11 - 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
8.1/10 383 votes#12 - 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
8.1/10 332 votes#13 - 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
8.1/10 337 votes#14 - 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
8.1/10 345 votes#15 - 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
8.0/10 597 votes#16 - 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
8.0/10 385 votes#17 - 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
8.0/10 394 votes#18 - 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
7.9/10 34 votes#19 - 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
7.9/10 144 votes#20 - 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
7.9/10 318 votes#21 - 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
7.9/10 365 votes#22 - 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
7.9/10 312 votes#23 - 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
7.9/10 324 votes#24 - 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
7.8/10 160 votes#25 - 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