8.0/10613 votes#1 - 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
7.8/10482 votes#2 - The Gravediggers
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1965
Has the late Dr Marlow's proposed radar-jamming system been tested against British defences? If so, the dead scientist seems to be doing it from his grave. And what's the connection with the local hospital's bizarre operations and a train-crazy philanthropist?
Director: Quentin Lawrence
Writer: Malcolm Hulke
8.4/10552 votes#3 - 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
8.0/10450 votes#4 - 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
7.7/10418 votes#5 - Castle De'ath
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1965
Why have all the fish vanished from the Scottish coastline? Does it have anything to do with a dead frogman, found stretched as if on a rack? Steed and Emma think so, which is why they're guests of Ian, the 35th Laird of Clan De'ath, and in danger of being caught by the gillies.
Director: James Hill
Writer: John Lucarotti
8.0/10393 votes#6 - 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
8.1/10414 votes#7 - 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
7.6/10402 votes#8 - A Surfeit of H2O
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1965
A poacher drowns in a field during a freak storm, and Jonah, the village carpenter, starts building an ark. But Steed thinks it's all got more to do with the permanent cloud that hangs over Grannie Gregson's Glorious Grog factory.
Director: Sidney Hayers
Writer: N/A
8.3/10438 votes#9 - 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
7.8/10382 votes#10 - Dial a Deadly Number
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1965
A series of sudden deaths in high finance leads Steed to dabble in shares while Emma investigates the makers of executive paging devices. Are companies being acquired through a simple and subtle form of murder?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10386 votes#11 - Man-Eater of Surrey Green
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/1965
Deaf botanist Alan Carter's fiancee walks away from their floral bliss under some strange influence, and is picked up by an entranced chauffeur. Has it got anything to do with the giant seed from outer space that has landed nearby?...
Director: Sidney Hayers
Writer: N/A
7.4/10354 votes#12 - Two's a Crowd
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1965
Colonel Psev, a mysterious and unseen foreign spy with a toy fixation, arrives in London to infiltrate a defence conference. His four aides bully Brodny, the ambassador, until he comes up with a cunning ruse: Gordon Webster, rakish male model, is Steed's double.
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Writer: N/A
8.4/10467 votes#13 - 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
6.9/10352 votes#14 - Silent Dust
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/1/1966
The lack of martens in a pleasant stretch of English countryside alerts Steed to the possible release of a fertiliser that has failed, reducing a landscape to a wasteland. But why is the local farming community so aggressive?
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Writer: N/A
7.4/10337 votes#15 - Room Without a View
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/8/1966
A brilliant scientist reappears at the house of his wife. Has he escaped from notorious Manchurian prison camp Ni-San? And why have so many missing people stayed at the Chessman Hotel? Steed and Emma book in.
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Writer: N/A
7.2/10328 votes#16 - Small Game For Big Hunters
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 1/15/1966
When a man is found under Shirenzai, the trance-like Kalayan voodoo, in the heart of Hertfordshire, Steed finds himself amidst the horror of the last days of empire. Are bandits loose in the English countryside?
Director: Gerry O'Hara
Writer: N/A
8.1/10393 votes#17 - 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
7.3/10335 votes#18 - The Thirteenth Hole
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 1/29/1966
An agent is shot on the thirteenth hole of the Craigleigh golf club, so Steed and Emma join the club. Steed puts his limited skills to use in a murderous tournament, but Emma helps him get a hole in one.
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Writer: Tony Williamson
7.6/10363 votes#19 - Quick-Quick Slow Death
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 2/5/1966
An agent is run over disposing of the body of a man in a dinner suit, while he was pushing him along in a pram. This all has something to do with Terpsichorean Training Techniques, a dance school where Emma teaches and Steed enrols.
Director: James Hill
Writer: Robert Banks Stewart
7.7/10327 votes#20 - The Danger Makers
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 2/12/1966
Several military figures have been killed in dangerous games of daring. Emma and Steed follow the trail to a secret society of military men with very dangerous aims.
Director: Charles Crichton
Writer: N/A
8.4/10440 votes#21 - 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
7.5/10319 votes#22 - What the Butler Saw
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 2/26/1966
According to Steed's double-agent barber, one of three military men is a traitor. But which one? To find out, Steed becomes a butler, and Emma starts Operation Fascination to trap the woman-hungry Group Captain Miles.
Director: Bill Bain
Writer: Brian Clemens
8.6/10456 votes#23 - 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
7.6/10314 votes#24 - A Sense of History
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 3/12/1966
A death by archery sends Steed and Emma undercover at St. Bodes Academy, where the arguments between staff and hip students, and between different theories of history, seem to have taken on a murderous edge.
Director: Peter Graham Scott
Writer: N/A
7.9/10328 votes#25 - 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
The Best Episodes of The Avengers Season 4
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Season 4 Ratings Summary
"The Town of No Return" is the best rated episode of "The Avengers" season 4. It scored 8/10 based on 613 votes. Directed by Roy Ward Baker and written by Brian Clemens, it aired on 10/2/1965. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Gravediggers".