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The Best Episodes of The Avengers Season 4

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Avengers Season 4 Episode 23 - The House That Jack Built
    8.7/10(526 votes)

    S4:E23

    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:Don Leaver
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  2. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 3 - The Cybernauts
    8.5/10(641 votes)

    S4:E3

    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

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  3. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 9 - The Hour that Never Was
    8.4/10(507 votes)

    S4:E9

    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:Roger Marshall

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  4. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 21 - A Touch of Brimstone
    8.4/10(513 votes)

    S4:E21

    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:James Hill
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  5. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 13 - Too Many Christmas Trees
    8.3/10(534 votes)

    S4:E13

    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

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  6. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 4 - Death at Bargain Prices
    8.1/10(537 votes)

    S4:E4

    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

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  7. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 17 - The Girl From Auntie
    8.1/10(462 votes)

    S4:E17

    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:Roger Marshall

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  8. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 26 - Honey for the Prince
    8.1/10(398 votes)

    S4:E26

    Steed and Emma return from a party to find a dying agent in Steed's flat. What is the connection between honey, a firm which makes fantasies to order and the oil deal promised by a visiting Bavarian Prince?

    Director:James Hill
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  9. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 1 - The Town of No Return
    8.0/10(737 votes)

    S4:E1

    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

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  10. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 6 - The Master Minds
    8.0/10(457 votes)

    S4:E6

    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

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  11. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 7 - The Murder Market
    8.0/10(488 votes)

    S4:E7

    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

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  12. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 25 - How to Succeed... at Murder
    7.9/10(381 votes)

    S4:E25

    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:Don Leaver
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  13. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 2 - The Gravediggers
    7.8/10(566 votes)

    S4:E2

    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

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  14. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 10 - Dial a Deadly Number
    7.8/10(448 votes)

    S4:E10

    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:Don Leaver
    Writer:Roger Marshall

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  15. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 5 - Castle De'ath
    7.7/10(489 votes)

    S4:E5

    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

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  16. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 11 - Man-Eater of Surrey Green
    7.7/10(459 votes)

    S4:E11

    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:Philip Levene

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  17. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 20 - The Danger Makers
    7.7/10(388 votes)

    S4:E20

    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:Roger Marshall

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  18. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 8 - A Surfeit of H2O
    7.6/10(471 votes)

    S4:E8

    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:Colin Finbow

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  19. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 19 - Quick-Quick Slow Death
    7.6/10(418 votes)

    S4:E19

    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

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  20. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 22 - What the Butler Saw
    7.6/10(378 votes)

    S4:E22

    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

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  21. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 24 - A Sense of History
    7.6/10(375 votes)

    S4:E24

    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:Martin Woodhouse

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  22. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 12 - Two's a Crowd
    7.4/10(413 votes)

    S4:E12

    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:Philip Levene

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  23. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 15 - Room Without a View
    7.4/10(395 votes)

    S4:E15

    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:Roger Marshall

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  24. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 18 - The Thirteenth Hole
    7.3/10(392 votes)

    S4:E18

    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

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  25. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 16 - Small Game for Big Hunters
    7.1/10(382 votes)

    S4:E16

    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:Unknown

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"The House That Jack Built" is the best rated episode of "The Avengers" season 4. It scored 8.7/10 based on 526 votes. Directed by Don Leaver and written by Brian Clemens, it aired on 3/5/1966. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Cybernauts".