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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 1 - The Town of No Return
    8.0/10(735 votes)

    #1 - The Town of No Return

    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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  2. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 2 - The Gravediggers
    7.8/10(565 votes)

    #2 - The Gravediggers

    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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  3. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 3 - The Cybernauts
    8.5/10(640 votes)

    #3 - The Cybernauts

    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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  4. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 4 - Death at Bargain Prices
    8.1/10(536 votes)

    #4 - Death at Bargain Prices

    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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  5. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 5 - Castle De'ath
    7.7/10(488 votes)

    #5 - Castle De'ath

    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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  6. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 6 - The Master Minds
    8.0/10(455 votes)

    #6 - The Master Minds

    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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  7. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 7 - The Murder Market
    8.0/10(487 votes)

    #7 - The Murder Market

    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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  8. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 8 - A Surfeit of H2O
    7.6/10(468 votes)

    #8 - A Surfeit of H2O

    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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  9. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 9 - The Hour that Never Was
    8.4/10(503 votes)

    #9 - The Hour that Never Was

    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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  10. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 10 - Dial a Deadly Number
    7.8/10(447 votes)

    #10 - Dial a Deadly Number

    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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  11. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 11 - Man-Eater of Surrey Green
    7.7/10(457 votes)

    #11 - Man-Eater of Surrey Green

    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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  12. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 12 - Two's a Crowd
    7.4/10(410 votes)

    #12 - Two's a Crowd

    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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  13. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 13 - Too Many Christmas Trees
    8.3/10(532 votes)

    #13 - Too Many Christmas Trees

    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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  14. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 14 - Silent Dust
    6.9/10(408 votes)

    #14 - Silent Dust

    S4:E14

    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:Roger Marshall

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

    #15 - Room Without a View

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

    #16 - Small Game for Big Hunters

    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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  17. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 17 - The Girl From Auntie
    8.1/10(460 votes)

    #17 - The Girl From Auntie

    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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  18. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 18 - The Thirteenth Hole
    7.3/10(391 votes)

    #18 - The Thirteenth Hole

    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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  19. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 19 - Quick-Quick Slow Death
    7.6/10(417 votes)

    #19 - Quick-Quick Slow Death

    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 20 - The Danger Makers
    7.7/10(386 votes)

    #20 - The Danger Makers

    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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  21. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 21 - A Touch of Brimstone
    8.4/10(511 votes)

    #21 - A Touch of Brimstone

    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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  22. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 22 - What the Butler Saw
    7.6/10(377 votes)

    #22 - What the Butler Saw

    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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  23. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 23 - The House That Jack Built
    8.7/10(525 votes)

    #23 - The House That Jack Built

    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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  24. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 24 - A Sense of History
    7.5/10(373 votes)

    #24 - A Sense of History

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

    #25 - How to Succeed... at Murder

    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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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 735 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".