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The Best Episodes of The Avengers Season 2

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A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series'

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Avengers Season 2 Episode 15 - Intercrime
    7.5/10(181 votes)

    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.

    Director:Jonathan Alwyn
    Writers:Terrance Dicks, Malcolm Hulke

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  2. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 1 - Mr Teddy Bear
    7.4/10(288 votes)

    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.

    Director:Richmond Harding
    Writer:Martin Woodhouse

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  3. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 7 - The Mauritius Penny
    7.3/10(204 votes)

    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.

    Director:Richmond Harding
    Writers:Terrance Dicks, Malcolm Hulke

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  4. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 11 - Traitor in Zebra
    7.3/10(183 votes)

    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.

    Director:Richmond Harding
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 4 - Bullseye
    7.2/10(218 votes)

    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.

    Director:Peter Hammond
    Writer:Eric Paice

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  6. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 14 - Dead on Course
    7.2/10(188 votes)

    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.

    Director:Richmond Harding
    Writer:Eric Paice

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  7. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 2 - Propellant 23
    7.1/10(245 votes)

    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.

    Director:Jonathan Alwyn
    Writer:Jon Manchip White

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  8. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 12 - The Big Thinker
    7.1/10(185 votes)

    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.

    Director:Kim Mills
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 21 - The White Dwarf
    7.1/10(162 votes)

    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?

    Director:Richmond Harding
    Writer:Malcolm Hulke

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  10. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 13 - Death Dispatch
    7.0/10(187 votes)

    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.

    Director:Jonathan Alwyn
    Writer:Leonard Fincham

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  11. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 25 - Six Hands Across a Table
    7.0/10(149 votes)

    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.

    Director:Richmond Harding
    Writer:Reed De Rouen

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  12. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 8 - Death of a Great Dane
    6.9/10(194 votes)

    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.

    Director:Peter Hammond
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 10 - Death on the Rocks
    6.9/10(185 votes)

    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.

    Director:Jonathan Alwyn
    Writer:Eric Paice

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  14. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 19 - The Golden Eggs
    6.9/10(165 votes)

    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.

    Director:Peter Hammond
    Writer:Martin Woodhouse

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  15. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 20 - School for Traitors
    6.8/10(157 votes)

    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.

    Director:Jonathan Alwyn
    Writer:James Mitchell

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  16. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 18 - Warlock
    6.7/10(187 votes)

    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.

    Director:Peter Hammond
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 24 - A Chorus of Frogs
    6.7/10(152 votes)

    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.

    Director:Raymond Menmuir
    Writer:Martin Woodhouse

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  18. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 16 - Immortal Clay
    6.6/10(175 votes)

    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.

    Director:Richmond Harding
    Writer:James Mitchell

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  19. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 17 - Box of Tricks
    6.6/10(159 votes)

    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.

    Director:Kim Mills
    Writer:Peter Ling

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  20. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 26 - Killer Whale
    6.6/10(146 votes)

    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.

    Director:Kim Mills
    Writer:John Lucarotti

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  21. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 6 - The Removal Men
    6.5/10(190 votes)

    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.

    Director:Don Leaver
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 22 - The Man in the Mirror
    6.4/10(146 votes)

    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.

    Director:Kim Mills
    Writers:Anthony Terpiloff, Geoffrey Orme

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  23. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 5 - Mission to Montreal
    6.3/10(216 votes)

    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.

    Director:Don Leaver
    Writer:Lester Powell

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  24. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 9 - The Sell-Out
    6.3/10(188 votes)

    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.

    Director:Don Leaver
    Writer:Anthony Terpiloff

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  25. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 3 - The Decapod
    6.1/10(235 votes)

    S2:E3

    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:Don Leaver
    Writer:Eric Paice

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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 181 votes. Directed by Jonathan Alwyn and written by Terrance Dicks, Malcolm Hulke, it aired on 1/5/1963. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Mr Teddy Bear".