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The Best Episodes of The Avengers Season 6

Every episode of The Avengers Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Avengers Season 6!

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 6 Ratings Summary

"The Forget-Me-Knot" is the best rated episode of "The Avengers" season 6. It scored 8/10 based on 399 votes. Directed by James Hill and written by Brian Clemens, it aired on 9/25/1968. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Game".

  • The Forget-Me-Knot
    8.0/10399 votes

    #1 - The Forget-Me-Knot

    Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1968

    Steed's colleague Sean Mortimer comes to see him in a very confused state. He knows there is a traitor in the organization but he has been drugged to put him in an amnesiac state and he can remember little else. Mrs. Peel investigates but she too falls prey to the drug as she and Sean are abducted by bikers. It is down to trainee agent 69, Tara King, to whom Steed is introduced by spymaster 'Mother' to help him save the day.

    Director: James Hill

    Writer: Brian Clemens

  • Game
    8.1/10341 votes

    #2 - Game

    Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1968

    The sudden deaths of several of Steed's former army colleagues are revealed to be part of an elaborate engine of destruction, devised by a man court-martialled by them all. And now he is playing a deadly game.

    Director: Robert Fuest

    Writer: Richard Harris

  • Super Secret Cypher Snatch
    7.3/10298 votes

    #3 - Super Secret Cypher Snatch

    Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/1968

    Problems of a secret leakage from Cypher HQ and the disappearance of agent Jarret are first handed to rival Department MII2, and then to Mother's group. But why does everybody at Cypher HQ claim never to have seen Jarret and state that the only thing worthy of note that happened yesterday was that it rained?

    Director: John Hough

    Writer: Tony Williamson

  • You'll Catch Your Death
    8.1/10353 votes

    #4 - You'll Catch Your Death

    Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1968

    Ear, nose and throat specialists are sneezing themselves to death, each after receiving a mysterious empty envelope. When Tara is kidnapped, Steed takes great care over his morning mail.

    Director: Paul Dickson

    Writer: N/A

  • Split!
    7.9/10318 votes

    #5 - Split!

    Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1968

    When an agent at the Ministry of Top-Secret Information is murdered, Steed and Tara have little difficulty in locating the man responsible. But when a handwriting test indicates that he is Boris Kartovski, someone Steed thought he had killed in Berlin 5 years before, our heroes find themselves drawn into the dangerous experiments of Dr. Constantine.

    Director: Roy Ward Baker

    Writer: Brian Clemens, Dennis Spooner

  • Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40
    7.9/10329 votes

    #6 - Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40

    Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1968

    Somebody is out to get super-computer George/XR40. He is shot, given false data, attacked with acid, and nearly gets his power supply cut. But until George works properly the name and nature of the culprits cannot be established.

    Director: Cyril Frankel

    Writer: Tony Williamson

  • False Witness
    8.3/10393 votes

    #7 - False Witness

    Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1968

    Trusted agent Melville has lost three partners in quick succession, and seems to be lying at every opportunity. Is he really the man to partner Steed in an attempt to convict Lord Edgefield, noted blackmailer? And what is the odd connection between this whole affair and daily milk deliveries?

    Director: Charles Crichton

    Writer: N/A

  • All Done With Mirrors
    7.8/10329 votes

    #8 - All Done With Mirrors

    Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/1968

    The leaking of secrets at Carmadoc Research Establishment throws suspicion on to Steed, who must suffer the torment of house arrest while Tara goes in with a new partner.

    Director: Ray Austin

    Writer: Leigh Vance

  • Legacy of Death
    NaN/100 votes

    #9 - Legacy of Death

    Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/1968

    Anticipating the arrival of his enemies to kill him, millionaire Henley Farrer sets a deadly trap for them involving an Oriental dagger and, inevitably, Steed and Tara.

    Director: Don Chaffey

    Writer: Terry Nation

  • Noon Doomsday
    NaN/100 votes

    #10 - Noon Doomsday

    Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/1968

    Tara visits Steed in a special hospital following an injury to his leg. This is just the backdrop needed by Gerald Kafka, ex-head of Murder International, as he plans his revenge against Steed, who sent him to prison exactly seven years ago. At noon, Steed will die.

    Director: Peter Sykes

    Writer: Terry Nation

  • Look- (stop me if you've heard this one) But There Were These Two Fellers...
    NaN/100 votes

    #11 - Look- (stop me if you've heard this one) But There Were These Two Fellers...

    Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 12/4/1968

    The directors of the Capital Land and Development Company are being murdered and the only clues Steed and Tara have are a massive footprint and a red nose.

    Director: James Hill

    Writer: Dennis Spooner

  • Have Guns- Will Haggle
    7.0/101 votes

    #12 - Have Guns- Will Haggle

    Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 12/11/1968

    The spectacular theft of 3,000 top-secret FF70 rifles from a Government establishment brings Steed and Tara. Steed meets an old 'friend' and is invited to an auction. Tara has other reasons for being there.

    Director: Ray Austin

    Writer: Donald James

  • They Keep Killing Steed
    NaN/100 votes

    #13 - They Keep Killing Steed

    Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 12/18/1968

    To infiltrate a peace conference, Arcos, a brilliant plastic surgeon, uses a new moulding technique to transform an agent into a duplicate Steed. But when the transformation proves to be unstable, Arcos decides they need the real Steed.

    Director: Robert Fuest

    Writer: Brian Clemens

  • The Interrogators
    NaN/100 votes

    #14 - The Interrogators

    Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 1/1/1969

    When agents find themselves in Colonel Mannering's interrogation centre, they think it's a test of their abilities, and relax with drinks when the sessions are over. But who's fooling who. Steed plays catch the pigeon.

    Director: Charles Crichton

    Writer: Richard Harris, Brian Clemens

  • The Rotters
    NaN/100 votes

    #15 - The Rotters

    Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 1/8/1969

    Members of the Institute of Timber Technology are being killed by a pair of caddish assassins, their advantage being an ability to destroy wood in seconds.

    Director: Robert Fuest

    Writer: Dave Freeman

  • Invasion of the Earthmen
    NaN/100 votes

    #16 - Invasion of the Earthmen

    Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 1/15/1969

    The death of agent Bernard Grant, while investigating the strange goings-on at the Alpha Academy where teenagers are being prepared for inter-planetary conquest, leads Steed and Tara into the generation war.

    Director: Don Sharp

    Writer: Terry Nation

  • Killer
    NaN/100 votes

    #17 - Killer

    Season 6 Episode 17 - Aired 1/22/1969

    Remak is a killer, one the department are desperate to find. But a succession of agents on the trail of Remak are turning up dead, wrapped in polythene. And with Tara on holiday, Steed must go into this case with a new partner.

    Director: Cliff Owen

    Writer: Tony Williamson

  • The Morning After
    NaN/100 votes

    #18 - The Morning After

    Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 1/29/1969

    Steed, attempting to capture super-spy Merlin, is knocked out by a sleeping capsule, and wakes to find London deserted and under martial law. Firing squads are at large, and a nuclear bomb is holding the government to ransom.

    Director: John Hough

    Writer: Brian Clemens

  • The Curious Case of the Countless Clues
    NaN/100 votes

    #19 - The Curious Case of the Countless Clues

    Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 2/5/1969

    Rich men are being blackmailed by two crime experts who plant clues to them all over the scenes of the crimes that they themselves commit. However, when they try to allege that Steed would murder Tara....

    Director: Don Sharp

    Writer: Philip Levene

  • Wish You Were Here
    NaN/100 votes

    #20 - Wish You Were Here

    Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 2/12/1969

    Tara's uncle is being held against his will in a country hotel. So Tara books in, and finds herself equally discouraged from leaving. Could the place also be home to the agent that Mother is missing?

    Director: Don Chaffey

    Writer: Tony Williamson

  • Love All
    NaN/100 votes

    #21 - Love All

    Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 2/19/1969

    Security lapses seem to point to top civil servants suddenly falling in love and giving secrets to an enemy agent disguised as a char lady. Steed investigates, but first has to save Tara from killing herself out of unrequited love.

    Director: Peter Sykes

    Writer: N/A

  • Stay Tuned
    NaN/100 votes

    #22 - Stay Tuned

    Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 2/26/1969

    Steed, packing for a holiday, is knocked unconscious. When he wakes, he continues to pack but is confused when Tara arrives and tells him that he has been away for three weeks. Could it have anything to do with the mysterious man following him whom everybody else but Steed can see?

    Director: Don Chaffey

    Writer: Terry Nation

  • Take Me To Your Leader
    NaN/100 votes

    #23 - Take Me To Your Leader

    Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 3/5/1969

    The discovery of a talking attache case passed from courier to courier until it finally reaches 'Mr. Big' takes Steed and Tara on a dazzling and surreal romp around London.

    Director: John Hough, Robert Fuest

    Writer: N/A

  • Fog
    NaN/100 votes

    #24 - Fog

    Season 6 Episode 24 - Aired 3/12/1969

    When a member of the International Disarmament Committee is stabbed with a swordstick on a foggy night, it looks like the Gaslight Ghoul, murderer of the 1890's, has set up in business again. Can Steed and Tara catch him before the committee is severely lacking in personnel?

    Director: John Hough

    Writer: N/A

  • Who Was That Man I Saw You with?
    NaN/100 votes

    #25 - Who Was That Man I Saw You with?

    Season 6 Episode 25 - Aired 3/19/1969

    Whilst on a top secret security assignment, Tara comes under suspicion of being a double-agent. She must cast similar suspicion on Steed if she is to prove that she has been framed. An enemy agent, Gregor Zaroff, hopes to put the Government's new anti-missile defence system, code named 'Field Marshall', out of action by convincing Steed and Mother that Tara has betrayed the system's secrets. (Source: en.wikipedia.de)

    Director: Don Chaffey

    Writer: N/A