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The Best Episodes of The Avengers Season 5

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Avengers Season 5 Episode 12 - The Superlative Seven
    8.3/10(536 votes)

    S5:E12

    Steed is invited to a party, and finds himself trapped in a remote-controlled aircraft, with six fancy-dressed specialists in various combat styles, en route to a distant island. There, they are pitted against each other in a deadly test.

    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  2. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 16 - Who's Who???
    8.3/10(393 votes)

    S5:E16

    When one of the Floral Network of agents is found dead atop a pair of stilts, Steed and Emma's interest is piqued. That's the idea, because foreign agents Basil and Lola have a trap prepared for them: a machine that swaps their minds into the pair's bodies.

    Director:John Llewellyn Moxey
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 15 - The Joker
    8.2/10(466 votes)

    S5:E15

    Invited for the weekend to the home of a fellow Bridge Expert, Emma finds herself trapped in a house designed to send her mad. Her tormentor is Max Prendergast, a man she befriended and then betrayed in Berlin some time before. Then Steed came to the rescue but now he's at home nursing a sprained ankle.

    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  4. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 10 - Never, Never Say Die
    8.0/10(427 votes)

    S5:E10

    An unfortunate motorist keeps knocking down and killing the same man: a man who's rampaging through the countryside, bulletproof and intent on destruction. A man who just happens to be identical to the urbane Professor Frank N. Stone.

    Director:Robert Day
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 20 - Dead Man's Treasure
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    S5:E20

    A missing briefcase full of secrets propels Steed and Emma into a treasure hunt by car.

    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 23 - Murdersville
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    S5:E23

    Emma's old friend, Paul Croft, returns from abroad to retire to Little Storping-in-the Swurf. Unfortunately, the village seems to be run along very strange lines. Threatened by yokels, Emma finds herself outnumbered.

    Director:Robert Asher
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  7. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 24 - Mission... Highly Improbable
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    S5:E24

    When Sir Gerald Bancroft and his Rolls-Royce vanish whilst being escorted at a military base, Steed is called upon to solve the puzzle. But before he can he experiences that old shrinking feeling.

    Director:Robert Day
    Writer:Philip Levene

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  8. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 13 - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station
    7.9/10(435 votes)

    S5:E13

    When Lucas, an agent investigating something subversive, gets off his train at the wrong station he is murdered. Has the crime got anything to do with a mole at the admiralty, a train ticket and a fiendish plot to kill the Prime Minister?

    Director:John Krish
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  9. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 3 - Escape in Time
    7.8/10(471 votes)

    S5:E3

    Several notorious criminals have vanished into thin air. A whisper has been received that the escape chain starts in London, but, when agent Paxton follows it, he winds up dead in the Thames with a 300-year-old bullet in him.

    Director:John Krish
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 9 - The Correct Way to Kill
    7.8/10(395 votes)

    S5:E9

    Foreign agents are being killed, but not by British agents. Steed thinks it terribly unfair, and so does his opposite number, Nutski. They make an arrangement, and Steed and Emma find themselves with Soviet partners in an investigation of a group of very British killers.

    Director:Charles Crichton
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  11. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 1 - From Venus with Love
    7.7/10(502 votes)

    S5:E1

    The strange deaths of several astronomers, left bleached white, pose a problem. Whilst Steed joins the stargazers, Emma chases a bright light, and finds herself in the hot seat.

    Director:Robert Day
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 6 - The Winged Avenger
    7.7/10(443 votes)

    S5:E6

    Is a creature that can walk up walls clawing to death ruthless and powerful men? Does it have anything to do with Professor Poole's invention of boots that let you walk on the ceiling, or with cartoon superhero the Winged Avenger?

    Directors:Gordon Flemyng, Peter Duffell
    Writer:Richard Harris

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  13. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 11 - Epic
    7.7/10(459 votes)

    S5:E11

    Three Hollywood veterans, led by an insane director, decide that Emma would be perfect for their latest movie, so they kidnap her and film some surreal and deadly footage.

    Director:James Hill
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  14. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 2 - The Fear Merchants
    7.6/10(430 votes)

    S5:E2

    Four men involved in the production of ceramics suffer nervous breakdowns in everyday situations. All have recently turned down the opportunity to merge with the British Porcelain Company. Steed and Emma investigate the world of fear, with terrifying consequences.

    Director:Gordon Flemyng
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 7 - The Living Dead
    7.5/10(415 votes)

    S5:E7

    When representatives of the two organizations head to a country church to investigate the sudden reappearance of a man long thought dead, Steed and Emma are called in to help. It isn't long, of course, before murder rears its ugly head.

    Director:John Krish
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  16. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 8 - The Hidden Tiger
    7.5/10(424 votes)

    S5:E8

    The mauling to death of several members of the committee of PURRR (the Philanthropic Union for the Rescue, Relief and Recuperation of Cats) exposes Steed and Emma to a diabolical scheme to take over the entire country.

    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 14 - Something Nasty in the Nursery
    7.5/10(380 votes)

    S5:E14

    Secrets known only to a small group of trusted men have leaked, and the men are having strange dreams of their childhood, featuring their nannies and a bouncing ball. Emma checks out the toyshop, Steed explores a school for nannies.

    Director:James Hill
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 22 - The Positive Negative Man
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    S5:E22

    When a scientist is found embedded in a wall, Steed and Emma pursue a man in make-up and wellies, whose appearance is terribly shocking.

    Director:Robert Day
    Writer:Tony Williamson

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  19. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 4 - The See-Through Man
    7.1/10(403 votes)

    S5:E4

    The Ministry has been broken into by, it seems, an invisible man. A trail leads via inventor Quilby to the Eastern Drug Company, a front organisation run by Soviet intelligence. Meanwhile, the crack spies Elena and Alexandre Vazin are in town. But nobody has seen anything of Alexandre....

    Director:Robert Asher
    Writer:Philip Levene

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  20. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 5 - The Bird Who Knew Too Much
    7.1/10(399 votes)

    S5:E5

    Emma and Steed investigate the mystery of how top secret things are being photographed from the air. Could it have something to do with the groovy world of fashion photography and a parrot called Captain Crusoe?

    Director:Roy Rossotti
    Writers:Alan Pattillo, Brian Clemens

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  21. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 19 - The £50,000 Breakfast
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    S5:E19

    The accidental death of a ventriloquist reveals that he had been carrying a fortune in gems inside his stomach. Steed stoops to blackmail and Emma goes shopping for ties in the search through the business community for a rich Borzoi.

    Director:Robert Day
    Writer:Roger Marshall

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  22. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 18 - Death's Door
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    S5:E18

    A European peace conference comes under the threat of sabotage when the British delegates begin to suffer from premonitions and nightmares. After Sir Andrew Boyd, who has witnessd his death in a dream, is killed, Steed and Emma must keep his replacement, Lord Melford, sane and alive.

    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 17 - Return of the Cybernauts
    6.2/10(3 votes)

    S5:E17

    The brother of the late Clement Armstrong sets a deadly trap for Steed and Mrs. Peel, whom he blames for his brother's death at the hands of his murderous creations, the Cybernauts.

    Director:Robert Day
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 21 - You Have Just Been Murdered
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    S5:E21

    Various millionaires are withdrawing large sums of money from the bank. Steed suspects blackmail but none of the men is willing to talk. Then he gets a call from Gilbert Jarvis, who tells Steed that he, Jarvis, has 'just been murdered'. Again.

    Director:Robert Asher
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"The Superlative Seven" is the best rated episode of "The Avengers" season 5. It scored 8.3/10 based on 536 votes. Directed by Sidney Hayers and written by Brian Clemens, it aired on 4/8/1967. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Who's Who???".