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The Best Episodes of The Avengers Season 2

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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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Mr Teddy Bear" is the best rated episode of "The Avengers" season 2. It scored 7.3/10 based on 235 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/29/1962. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Propellant 23".

  • Mr Teddy Bear
    7.3/10235 votes

    #1 - Mr Teddy Bear

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1962

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Propellant 23
    7.1/10202 votes

    #2 - Propellant 23

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1962

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Decapod
    6.1/10191 votes

    #3 - The Decapod

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/1962

    Borb, the president of the Balkan Republic, is visiting London to sign a military deal. His private secretary is killed by a masked wrestler, the Decapod. Steed is assigned to augment the president's bodyguards, but the wrestler continues to kill those close to Borb.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Bullseye
    7.2/10178 votes

    #4 - Bullseye

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/1962

    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.

    Director: Peter Hammond

    Writer: N/A

  • Mission to Montreal
    6.3/10176 votes

    #5 - Mission to Montreal

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/1962

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Removal Men
    6.5/10152 votes

    #6 - The Removal Men

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1962

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Mauritius Penny
    7.3/10170 votes

    #7 - The Mauritius Penny

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1962

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Malcolm Hulke, Terrance Dicks

  • Death of a Great Dane
    6.9/10162 votes

    #8 - Death of a Great Dane

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1962

    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.

    Director: Peter Hammond

    Writer: N/A

  • The Sell-Out
    6.3/10155 votes

    #9 - The Sell-Out

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1962

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Anthony Terpiloff

  • Death on the Rocks
    6.9/10154 votes

    #10 - Death on the Rocks

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/1/1962

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Traitor in Zebra
    7.2/10146 votes

    #11 - Traitor in Zebra

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1962

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Thinker
    7.1/10150 votes

    #12 - The Big Thinker

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/15/1962

    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.

    Director: Kim Mills

    Writer: N/A

  • Death Dispatch
    7.0/10156 votes

    #13 - Death Dispatch

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/22/1962

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dead on Course
    7.2/10153 votes

    #14 - Dead on Course

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/29/1962

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Intercrime
    7.5/10149 votes

    #15 - Intercrime

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/5/1963

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Malcolm Hulke, Terrance Dicks

  • Immortal Clay
    6.6/10144 votes

    #16 - Immortal Clay

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/12/1963

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Box of Tricks
    6.5/10129 votes

    #17 - Box of Tricks

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/19/1963

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Peter Ling

  • Warlock
    6.8/10151 votes

    #18 - Warlock

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/26/1963

    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: N/A

  • The Golden Eggs
    6.9/10134 votes

    #19 - The Golden Eggs

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/2/1963

    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.

    Director: Peter Hammond

    Writer: N/A

  • School for Traitors
    6.8/10130 votes

    #20 - School for Traitors

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/9/1963

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The White Dwarf
    7.1/10135 votes

    #21 - The White Dwarf

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/16/1963

    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?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Malcolm Hulke

  • The Man in the Mirror
    6.4/10120 votes

    #22 - The Man in the Mirror

    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/23/1963

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Anthony Terpiloff, Geoffrey Orme

  • Conspiracy of Silence
    6.2/10125 votes

    #23 - Conspiracy of Silence

    Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/2/1963

    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.

    Director: Peter Hammond

    Writer: N/A

  • A Chorus of Frogs
    6.8/10127 votes

    #24 - A Chorus of Frogs

    Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/9/1963

    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.

    Director: Raymond Menmuir

    Writer: N/A

  • Six Hands Across a Table
    7.0/10125 votes

    #25 - Six Hands Across a Table

    Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/16/1963

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A