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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 Best Episodes of The Avengers Season 5

A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper...

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  1. Background image for The Superlative Seven
    8.3/10(496 votes)

    #1 - The Superlative Seven

    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.

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    8.2/10(437 votes)

    #2 - The Joker

    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.

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  3. Background image for Who's Who???
    8.2/10(361 votes)

    #3 - Who's Who???

    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.

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    Writer:N/A
  4. Background image for Dead Man's Treasure
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Dead Man's Treasure

    S5:E20

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

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    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:N/A
  5. Background image for The Positive Negative Man
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - The Positive Negative Man

    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.

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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Murdersville

    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.

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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Mission... Highly Improbable

    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.

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    Director:Robert Day
    Writer:N/A
  9. Background image for Never, Never Say Die
    7.9/10(393 votes)

    #8 - Never, Never Say Die

    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.

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    Director:Robert Day
    Writer:N/A
  10. Background image for Escape in Time
    7.8/10(427 votes)

    #9 - Escape in Time

    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.

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    Director:John Krish
    Writer:N/A
  11. Background image for The Correct Way to Kill
    7.8/10(361 votes)

    #10 - The Correct Way to Kill

    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.

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    7.8/10(400 votes)

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

    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?

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    Director:John Krish
  13. Background image for From Venus With Love
    7.7/10(455 votes)

    #12 - From Venus With Love

    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.

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    Director:Robert Day
    Writer:N/A
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    7.7/10(416 votes)

    #13 - Epic

    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.

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    Director:James Hill
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    7.6/10(392 votes)

    #14 - The Fear Merchants

    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.

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    Writer:N/A
  16. Background image for The Winged Avenger
    7.6/10(404 votes)

    #15 - The Winged Avenger

    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?

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    7.5/10(364 votes)

    #16 - The Living Dead

    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.

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    Director:John Krish
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    7.5/10(386 votes)

    #17 - The Hidden Tiger

    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.

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    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:N/A
  19. Background image for Something Nasty in the Nursery
    7.5/10(347 votes)

    #18 - Something Nasty in the Nursery

    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.

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    Director:James Hill
    Writer:N/A
  20. Background image for The See-Through Man
    7.1/10(359 votes)

    #19 - The See-Through Man

    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....

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  21. Background image for The Bird Who Knew Too Much
    7.1/10(355 votes)

    #20 - The Bird Who Knew Too Much

    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?

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Death's Door

    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.

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    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:N/A
  23. Background image for The £50,000 Breakfast
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - The £50,000 Breakfast

    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.

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    Director:Robert Day
  24. Background image for Return of the Cybernauts
    5.8/10(2 votes)

    #23 - Return of the Cybernauts

    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.

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    Director:Robert Day
    Writer:N/A
  25. Background image for You Have Just Been Murdered
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - You Have Just Been Murdered

    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.

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    Director:Robert Asher
    Writer:N/A

Season 5 Ratings Summary

"The Superlative Seven" is the best rated episode of "The Avengers" season 5. It scored 8.3/10 based on 496 votes. Directed by Sidney Hayers and written by Brian Clemens, it aired on 4/8/1967. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Joker".