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The Best Episodes of The Avengers Season 2

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Every episode of The Avengers Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Avengers Season 2!

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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  1. 7.5/10(159 votes)

    #1 - Intercrime

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    S2:E15

    Steed wants Mrs. Gale to impersonate Hilda Stern, a recently arrested assassin about to be used by the trans-national crime syndicate Intercrime. Things go swimmingly, until the real Hilda Stern breaks out of Holloway and confronts the imposter.

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  2. 7.3/10(253 votes)

    #2 - Mr Teddy Bear

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    S2:E1

    A man is murdered whilst being interviewed on live television. one-Ten is sure that it is the work of the ruthless assassin Mr Teddy Bear, and he asks Cathy Gale to trap the man - by arranging for him to murder Steed.

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  3. 7.3/10(181 votes)

    #3 - The Mauritius Penny

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    S2:E7

    The owner of a stamp shop is murdered when excitedly talking on the phone to a contact about the rare Mauritius Penny that has turned up on a list. Cathy Gale applies for a job in the shop, and she and Steed witness another murder in an auction room.

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  4. 7.2/10(193 votes)

    #4 - Bullseye

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    S2:E4

    Shareholders in Anderson's, a small-arms manufacturers, are being killed one by one whilst a tycoon plans a take-over. Rifles and other weapons, possibly manufactured by Anderson's, are being smuggled into Africa. Cathy Gale joins the board with a 20 per cent share in order to investigate.

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    Director:Peter Hammond
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  5. 7.2/10(157 votes)

    #5 - Traitor in Zebra

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    S2:E11

    Secrets are finding their way from HMS Zebra, a naval base, to the enemy, rendering the Navy's missile-tracking equipment useless. Steed and Mrs. Gale investigate, and find their attention drawn to the local sweet shop.

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  6. 7.2/10(163 votes)

    #6 - Dead on Course

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    S2:E14

    A plane crashes in Ireland in suspicious circumstances, and the bodies are taken to the nearby St. Mary's Convent . Steed calls in Dr. King to check up on the circumstances of death, while he samples Irish hospitality and bad deeds at Shamrock Airport.

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  8. 7.1/10(218 votes)

    #7 - Propellant 23

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    S2:E2

    At Marseilles airport, Steed and Cathy find the courier they were due to meet dead. His sample of new liquid rocket fuel has been taken. Facing an array of enemy agents, the duo must recover the flask of Propellant 23.

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  9. 7.1/10(161 votes)

    #8 - The Big Thinker

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    S2:E12

    Plato, the most advanced computer in the world, which could be used to target intercepting missiles, keeps breaking down. The body of a professor on the team is found within.

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    Director:Kim Mills
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  10. 7.0/10(168 votes)

    #9 - Death Dispatch

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    S2:E13

    A British courier is attacked in Jamaica, and he protects the contents of his diplomatic bag at the expense of his life. But why? The case only contains mundane documents.

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  11. 7.0/10(144 votes)

    #10 - The White Dwarf

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    S2:E21

    Astonomer Professor Richter believes that the sun's stellar companion, a white dwarf, is returning to the solar system. If it does, that's the end of everything. So why on Earth would anybody want to murder him now?

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  12. 7.0/10(129 votes)

    #11 - Six Hands Across a Table

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    S2:E25

    What should have been a quiet weekend at the home of an old friend soon turns into a thick web of treachery and scheming, which throws Cathy into the world of shipbuilding, cross-company romance, mysterious 'accidents' and misguided nationalism.

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  13. 6.9/10(171 votes)

    #12 - Death of a Great Dane

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    S2:E8

    A man involved in a car crash is found to have fifty thousand pounds worth of diamonds in his stomach. Steed investigates the man's joke shop, Big Laugh, and then the offices of multi-millionaire Litoff. The burial of one of Litoff's Great Danes is not quite what it seems.

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  14. 6.9/10(166 votes)

    #13 - Death on the Rocks

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    S2:E10

    Illegal diamonds are swamping the market. The wife of a diamond merchant is murdered. Time for Steed and Gathy Gale to feign marriage.

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  15. 6.9/10(142 votes)

    #14 - The Golden Eggs

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    S2:E19

    A burglar steals two gold-plated eggs from Dr Ashe, not knowing that they contain a deadly virus. The man quickly falls ill, but refuses to indicate where the case containing the eggs is buried.

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  16. 6.8/10(139 votes)

    #15 - School for Traitors

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    S2:E20

    Steed, investigating the suicide of a University tutor, discovers that the man seems to have shot himself with a gun with a silencer attached. Venus is sent a tub of acid 'face-cream', and there is another mysterious suicide.

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  17. 6.7/10(161 votes)

    #16 - Warlock

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    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.

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  18. 6.7/10(132 votes)

    #17 - A Chorus of Frogs

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    S2:E24

    A holiday for Steed in Greece is, of course, no straightforward affair. A deep-sea diver dies in mysterious circumstances, whilst bathyscope experiments are taking place on the yacht where Venus is singing.

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  19. 6.6/10(152 votes)

    #18 - Immortal Clay

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    S2:E16

    Marling Ceramics, run by Cathy's friends, Richard and Allan Marling, claim to be on the verge of creating an unbreakable china. However, when Steed arrives to investigate, a body is discovered in a tank of clay.

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  20. 6.6/10(127 votes)

    #19 - Killer Whale

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    S2:E26

    Cathy is managing the boxer Joey Frazer, but Pancho Driver's gym, where the man is training, is, Steed suspects, the centre for shipments of illegal ambergris.

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  21. 6.5/10(166 votes)

    #20 - The Removal Men

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    S2:E6

    Steed is trying to infiltrate a group of assassins currently based in the South of France. He robs the leader of some jewellery in order to impress him, then waits for them in the local club. It just so happens that Venus Smith is singing there.

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  22. 6.5/10(137 votes)

    #21 - Box of Tricks

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    S2:E17

    Classified information is finding its way into the wrong hands and Steed feels sure that this has something to do with the death of the magician's assistant at the club where Venus Smith is working. Steed investigates the lethal vanishing cabinet.

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  23. 6.4/10(126 votes)

    #22 - The Man in the Mirror

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    S2:E22

    Venus has her camera and films stolen whilst taking pictures in a fun fair. One film is missed, however, and when developed a face can be seen in the Hall of Mirrors - that of Trevelyan, the cypher clerk who has committed suicide. But Venus's photograph was taken after the man's death.

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  24. 6.3/10(191 votes)

    #23 - Mission to Montreal

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    S2:E5

    A film star's stand-in is murdered, and microfilm of North American early warning systems has been stolen. The film star, despite an aversion to travelling by sea, proceeds to Montreal on a luxury liner. In an attempt to find the mocrofilm Dr King is assigned as her personal doctor, and Steed goes under cover as a steward.

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  25. 6.3/10(166 votes)

    #24 - The Sell-Out

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    S2:E9

    Steed's department is guarding M. Roland, A UN negotiator in London for important talks, but cannot prevent an assassination attempt. Indeed, it seems that one of Steed's colleagues is selling secrets - and Steed finds that even he is under suspicion.

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  26. 6.2/10(133 votes)

    #25 - Conspiracy of Silence

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    S2:E23

    The Marfia aren't about to let Steed get in the way of their lucrative drug-smuggling operation between Britain and North America, and arrange for him to be assassinated. Steed survives, and tracks his intended killer to a circus, where some of the clowns prove to be anything but figures of fun.

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Intercrime" is the best rated episode of "The Avengers" season 2. It scored 7.5/10 based on 159 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Malcolm Hulke, Terrance Dicks, it aired on 1/5/1963. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Mr Teddy Bear".