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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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Season 1

  • Hot Snow
    6.8/10125 votes
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    Hot Snow

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/1961

    Following the death of his fiancee Peggy at the hands of heroin smugglers, Dr David Keel vows to track down the killers and avenge his lost love. He is aided in his quest by a mysterious stranger, John Steed.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Brought to Book
    7.2/1036 votes
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    Brought to Book

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/14/1961

    Steed has infiltrated a gang, led by Mason, which is implicated in Peggy's murder. Steed asks Keel to establish contact with a rival gang, and the doctor discovers that Vance's hitman, Spicer, has been sent to kill Steed.

    Director: Peter Hammond

    Writer: Brian Clemens

  • Square Root of Evil
    7.3/1036 votes
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    Square Root of Evil

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/21/1961

    Steed impersonates Riordan, a forger soon to be released from prison, and gains the trust of gang-leader Hooper. Things seem to be going well until Hooper's second-in-command, known as the Cardinal, announces that Riordan's girlfriend is outside waiting to see him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Richard Harris

  • Nightmare
    7.2/1036 votes
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    Nightmare

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/28/1961

    Keel receives a 'phone call from one of his patients, and ends up assuming the identity of her missing husband, a scientist engaged in secret research. Shot in the chest, Keel needs a minor operation - but the anaesthetist has tampered with the oxygen.

    Director: Peter Hammond

    Writer: Terence Feely

  • Crescent Moon
    7.2/1032 votes
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    Crescent Moon

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/1961

    A young girl, Carmelite Mendoza, has been kidnapped from a Caribbean island, but Steed suspects a political motive. His suspicions are confirmed when Vasco, the Mendoza family retainer, is observed killing the original kidnapper and abducting the girl himself.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Girl on the Trapeze
    6.9/10133 votes
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    Girl on the Trapeze

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/11/1961

    Keel, reviving a young woman who has jumped into the Thames, is led to the Radeck State Circus, where the trapeze girl is guarded, her face covered by bandages because of an accident. The 'trapeze girl'proves to be the daughter of a defecting scientist, who will be used to force her father to return home. When Keel discovers this, he and Carol are captured by Zibbo the Clown, who will shoot Carol if the police investigation is not called off.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Dennis Spooner

  • Diamond Cut Diamond
    7.5/1029 votes
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    Diamond Cut Diamond

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/18/1961

    Steed, attempting to break a gang of international diamond smugglers, is living in a bungalow near Heathrow Airport which was once owned by a suicide whom One-Ten suspects of involvement. Steed awakens one morning somewhat the worse for drink, when a phone call advises him to check the morning paper; the police are tracking a hit-and-run driver. Steed checks his car. It is damaged, and the front is covered with dried blood.

    Director: Peter Hammond

    Writer: N/A

  • The Radioactive Man
    7.2/1032 votes
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    The Radioactive Man

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/25/1961

    Dr Keel is asked to help in the search for a man who has picked up a radioactive isotope, not knowing that it will quickly kill him and harm anyone else he comes into contact with. But Marko, fearing that the police want to find him because of his forged passport, has already gone into hiding.

    Director: Robert Tronson

    Writer: N/A

  • Ashes of Roses
    7.4/1029 votes
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    Ashes of Roses

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/4/1961

    Steed, investigating a number of probable arson cases, is led to the hairdressing salon of Olive and Jacques Beronne. He asks Keel to let Carol investigate the salon, but after she enters, there is an explosion from within

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Peter Ling

  • Hunt the Man Down
    7.3/1028 votes
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    Hunt the Man Down

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/18/1961

    Frank Preston is released from prison and is intent on reclaiming the hidden proceeds of his robbery. So is Steed, who has been ordered to follow the man. So are a couple of thugs, who kidnap Carol. So is Preston's scheming wife, eager to get her hands on the one hundred thousand pounds hidden somewhere in the sewers.

    Director: Peter Hammond

    Writer: Richard Harris

  • Please Don't Feed the Animals
    7.4/1029 votes
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    Please Don't Feed the Animals

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/1/1961

    Steed trails a blackmailed civil servant to Brinkley House, a private zoo, only to observe the man throwing a package of money into the reptile pit. The package soon vanishes. The man is then ordered to steal a top secret file.

    Director: Dennis Vance

    Writer: Dennis Spooner

  • Dance with Death
    7.1/1032 votes
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    Dance with Death

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/15/1961

    Dr. Keel resuscitates Elaine Bateman, the owner of a ballroom dancing school who has narrowly survived a murder attempt by gassing. When he returns to the school after dropping his scarf, he is arrested. His scarf has been used to strangle the woman.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Peter Ling

  • One for the Mortuary
    7.1/1034 votes
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    One for the Mortuary

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/29/1961

    When Keel attends a health conference in Geneva he is unaware that he is carrying, in microdot form, a vital new medical formula - unaware, that is, until he is arrested for murder.

    Director: Peter Hammond

    Writer: Brian Clemens

  • The Springers
    6.9/1032 votes
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    The Springers

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 5/13/1961

    Steed is trying to track down the organisers of a group who offer to spring any convict - even the dangerous ones - from prison if they're paid the right money. Keel impersonates a prisoner, and the trail seems to lead to a girl's finishing school.

    Director: Don Leaver

    Writer: Geoffrey Bellman

  • The Frighteners
    7.0/10131 votes
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    The Frighteners

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 5/27/1961

    To stop his daughter seeing suspected conman Jeremy de Willoughby, Sir Thomas Waller has hired arch-criminal the Deacon to 'put the frighteners on'. Steed is on the trail of the Deacon and, with the aid of Dr. Keel, stops two thugs from seriously wounding de Willoughby. They set a trap for the Deacon and the lovers.

    Director: Peter Hammond

    Writer: N/A

  • The Yellow Needle
    7.1/1031 votes
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    The Yellow Needle

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 6/10/1961

    After an unsuccessful murder attempt against Sir Wilberforce Lungi, Steed asks Keel, an old friend of the pro-Western African leader, to investigate Lungi's secretary, Jacquetta Brown. Meanwhile, Steed flies to Africa to meet Lungi's tribalist rival, Shebro.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Death on the Slipway
    7.0/1032 votes
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    Death on the Slipway

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 6/24/1961

    An agent has been killed at the secret dockyard where submarines are built. Steed investigates, and finds that a foreign spy has been arranging 'accidents' for him.

    Director: Peter Hammond

    Writer: N/A

  • Double Danger
    7.0/1034 votes
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    Double Danger

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 7/8/1961

    Keel, called to deal with a man seriously injured by an accident, quickly discovers that the man is suffering from gunshot wounds, and that he may be implicated in a recent diamond robbery.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Toy Trap
    7.4/1033 votes
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    Toy Trap

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 7/22/1961

    Keel is asked by the improbably named Bunty to help her find her missing friend. What is the connection between the department store where the women work and a call-girl racket?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Bill Strutton

  • Tunnel of Fear
    7.7/1074 votes
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    Tunnel of Fear

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 8/5/1961

    Top-secret information is finding its way into the wrong hands, and the source seems to be a south coast fairground. Steed succeeds in getting hypnotised and winds up in the ghost-train tunnel. With frightening results, of course.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Far Distant Dead
    6.8/1030 votes
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    The Far Distant Dead

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 8/19/1961

    Dr Keel, treating the victims of a cyclone struck Mexican village, uncovers a number of food-poisonings; emergency cooking oil is, in fact, hydraulic fluid.

    Director: Peter Hammond

    Writer: John Lucarotti

  • Kill the King
    7.4/1032 votes
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    Kill the King

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 9/2/1961

    A visit to London to sign an oil treaty from a monarch whose life is under threat brings Steed and Keel into the world of dissidents and assassinations.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dead of Winter
    7.4/1033 votes
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    Dead of Winter

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 12/9/1961

    The discovery of the body of Schneider, a wanted Nazi war criminal, deep-frozen in a consignment of meat at London docks brings Steed and Keel into the shadowy world of Phoenix, a new and terrifying Fascist party in Britain.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Deadly Air
    7.4/1031 votes
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    The Deadly Air

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 12/16/1961

    An experimental vaccine is stolen, and the subsequent test proves deadly. Steed and Keel, suspecting that the human 'guinea pig' did not die directly from the vaccine, volunteer to be the next subjects.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Change of Bait
    7.3/1031 votes
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    A Change of Bait

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 12/23/1961

    An unusual and sprawling tale of heart disease, industrial unrest, and a consignment of rotten bananas.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dragonsfield
    7.9/1034 votes
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    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