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A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series'

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    The Avengers Season 6 Episode 24 - Fog
    4.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E24

    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:Unknown

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  2. The Avengers Season 6 Episode 26 - Homicide And Old Lace
    4.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E26

    It's Mother's birthday and he is visiting two of his aunts, Harriet and Georgina. To celebrate he tells them a hair-colour changing story, 'The Great Great British Crime'.

    Director:John Hough
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Avengers Season 6 Episode 31 - Pandora
    4.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E31

    Tara is kidnapped, and wakes to discover that it is 1915, and she is apparently called Pandora. Could this be because of the little matter of a dowry and a missing bride? Steed struggles to solve a very old mystery.

    Director:Robert Fuest
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Avengers Season 6 Episode 19 - The Curious Case of the Countless Clues
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E19

    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

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  5. The Avengers Season 6 Episode 21 - Love All
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E21

    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:Unknown

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  6. The Avengers Season 6 Episode 23 - Take Me To Your Leader
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E23

    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.

    Directors:John Hough, Robert Fuest
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Avengers Season 6 Episode 27 - Thingumajig
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E27

    The Reverend Shelley, a wartime pal of Steed's, seeks his help when archaeologists beneath his church are murdered mysteriously. Do the killing have anything to do with small malevolent mobile metal boxes....?

    Director:Leslie Norman
    Writer:Terry Nation

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  8. 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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  9. The Avengers Season 6 Episode 13 - They Keep Killing Steed
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E13

    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

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  10. The Avengers Season 6 Episode 16 - Invasion of the Earthmen
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E16

    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

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  11. The Avengers Season 6 Episode 20 - Wish You Were Here
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E20

    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

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  12. The Avengers Season 6 Episode 22 - Stay Tuned
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E22

    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

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  13. The Avengers Season 6 Episode 25 - Who Was That Man I Saw You with?
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E25

    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:Unknown

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  14. The Avengers Season 6 Episode 28 - My Wildest Dream
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E28

    When one of the Acme Precision Combine is brutally stabbed, Steed and Tara are on hand to witness the crime, thanks to a telephoned warning. But why does somebody want them to see so many killings, and what does it have to do with Dr. Jaeger's aggresso-therapy clinic?

    Director:Robert Fuest
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  15. The Avengers Season 6 Episode 29 - Requiem
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E29

    When Steed takes prime witness Miranda Loxton to a safe house to protect her from Murder-International hitmen, Tara is kidnapped. She escapes to find herself in her worst nightmare. A booby-trap in Steed's apartment kills Mother and Tara may be the only one with the hidden knowledge of where Steed has gone.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  16. The Avengers Season 6 Episode 30 - Take-Over
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E30

    The home of Steed's friends Bill and Laura Bassett is invaded by a group of ruthless criminals who implant explosives in their throats. Unfortunately, this is the weekend that Steed is coming to stay.

    Director:Robert Fuest
    Writer:Terry Nation

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  17. The Avengers Season 6 Episode 32 - Get-A-Way
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E32

    Two invincible foreign agents escape from the ultimate prison, a monastery run by the security services. They resume their mission, to kill one important person each. Steed and Tara set out to catch them, and to find out how they escaped, before their leader follows suit.

    Director:Don Sharp
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 3 - The Decapod
    6.1/10(235 votes)

    S2:E3

    Borb, the president of the Balkan Republic, is visiting London to sign a military deal. His private secretary is killed by a masked wrestler, the Decapod. Steed is assigned to augment the president's bodyguards, but the wrestler continues to kill those close to Borb.

    Director:Don Leaver
    Writer:Eric Paice

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  19. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 23 - Conspiracy of Silence
    6.1/10(153 votes)

    S2:E23

    The Mafia aren't about to let Steed get in the way of their lucrative drug-smuggling operation between Britain and North America, and arrange for him to be assassinated. Steed survives, and tracks his intended killer to a circus, where some of the clowns prove to be anything but figures of fun.

    Director:Peter Hammond
    Writer:Roger Marshall

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  20. 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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  21. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 5 - Mission to Montreal
    6.3/10(216 votes)

    S2:E5

    A film star's stand-in is murdered, and microfilm of North American early warning systems has been stolen. The film star, despite an aversion to travelling by sea, proceeds to Montreal on a luxury liner. In an attempt to find the mocrofilm Dr King is assigned as her personal doctor, and Steed goes under cover as a steward.

    Director:Don Leaver
    Writer:Lester Powell

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  22. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 9 - The Sell-Out
    6.3/10(188 votes)

    S2:E9

    Steed's department is guarding M. Roland, A UN negotiator in London for important talks, but cannot prevent an assassination attempt. Indeed, it seems that one of Steed's colleagues is selling secrets - and Steed finds that even he is under suspicion.

    Director:Don Leaver
    Writer:Anthony Terpiloff

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  23. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 22 - The Man in the Mirror
    6.4/10(146 votes)

    S2:E22

    Venus has her camera and films stolen whilst taking pictures in a fun fair. One film is missed, however, and when developed a face can be seen in the Hall of Mirrors - that of Trevelyan, the cypher clerk who has committed suicide. But Venus's photograph was taken after the man's death.

    Director:Kim Mills
    Writers:Anthony Terpiloff, Geoffrey Orme

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  24. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 6 - The Removal Men
    6.5/10(190 votes)

    S2:E6

    Steed is trying to infiltrate a group of assassins currently based in the South of France. He robs the leader of some jewellery in order to impress him, then waits for them in the local club. It just so happens that Venus Smith is singing there.

    Director:Don Leaver
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Avengers Season 3 Episode 10 - The Grandeur That Was Rome
    6.5/10(166 votes)

    S3:E10

    Strange diseases are being reported in various parts of the world, and Steed's suspicion is that somebody has been tampering with the insecticides and fertilisers of United Foods and Dressings. Cathy Gale is captured whilst investigating, and will be the 'guinea pig' for a test on the new strain of bubonic plague.

    Director:Kim Mills
    Writer:Rex Edwards

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Fog" is the worst rated episode of "The Avengers". It scored 4/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by John Hough and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/12/1969. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Homicide And Old Lace".