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The Best Episodes of The Avengers Season 5

Every episode of The Avengers Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Avengers Season 5!

The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left...
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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"From Venus With Love" is the best rated episode of "The Avengers" season 5. It scored 7.7/10 based on 433 votes. Directed by Robert Day and written by N/A, it aired on 1/14/1967. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Fear Merchants".

  • From Venus With Love
    7.7/10433 votes

    #1 - From Venus With Love

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 1/14/1967

    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: N/A

  • The Fear Merchants
    7.6/10377 votes

    #2 - The Fear Merchants

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 1/21/1967

    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: N/A

  • Escape in Time
    7.8/10409 votes

    #3 - Escape in Time

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 1/28/1967

    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: N/A

  • The See-Through Man
    7.1/10345 votes

    #4 - The See-Through Man

    Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 2/4/1967

    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

  • The Bird Who Knew Too Much
    7.1/10338 votes

    #5 - The Bird Who Knew Too Much

    Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 2/11/1967

    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

    Writer: Alan Pattillo, Brian Clemens

  • The Winged Avenger
    7.6/10386 votes

    #6 - The Winged Avenger

    Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 2/18/1967

    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?

    Director: Gordon Flemyng

    Writer: Richard Harris

  • The Living Dead
    7.5/10351 votes

    #7 - The Living Dead

    Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 2/25/1967

    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

  • The Hidden Tiger
    7.5/10371 votes

    #8 - The Hidden Tiger

    Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 3/4/1967

    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: N/A

  • The Correct Way to Kill
    7.8/10345 votes

    #9 - The Correct Way to Kill

    Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 3/11/1967

    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

  • Never, Never Say Die
    7.9/10374 votes

    #10 - Never, Never Say Die

    Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 3/18/1967

    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: N/A

  • Epic
    7.7/10396 votes

    #11 - Epic

    Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 4/1/1967

    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

  • The Superlative Seven
    8.3/10474 votes

    #12 - The Superlative Seven

    Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 4/8/1967

    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

  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station
    7.8/10383 votes

    #13 - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station

    Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 4/15/1967

    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

  • Something Nasty in the Nursery
    7.5/10330 votes

    #14 - Something Nasty in the Nursery

    Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 4/22/1967

    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: N/A

  • The Joker
    8.2/10416 votes

    #15 - The Joker

    Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 4/29/1967

    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

  • Who's Who???
    8.3/10340 votes

    #16 - Who's Who???

    Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 5/6/1967

    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: N/A

  • Return of the Cybernauts
    5.5/101 votes

    #17 - Return of the Cybernauts

    Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 9/30/1967

    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: N/A

  • Death's Door
    NaN/100 votes

    #18 - Death's Door

    Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 10/7/1967

    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: N/A

  • The £50,000 Breakfast
    NaN/100 votes

    #19 - The £50,000 Breakfast

    Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 10/14/1967

    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

  • Dead Man's Treasure
    NaN/100 votes

    #20 - Dead Man's Treasure

    Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 10/21/1967

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

    Director: Sidney Hayers

    Writer: N/A

  • You Have Just Been Murdered
    NaN/100 votes

    #21 - You Have Just Been Murdered

    Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 10/28/1967

    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: N/A

  • The Positive Negative Man
    NaN/100 votes

    #22 - The Positive Negative Man

    Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 11/4/1967

    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

  • Murdersville
    NaN/100 votes

    #23 - Murdersville

    Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 11/11/1967

    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

  • Mission... Highly Improbable
    NaN/100 votes

    #24 - Mission... Highly Improbable

    Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 11/18/1967

    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: N/A