NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#2 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#3 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#4 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#5 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#6 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#7 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#8 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#9 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#10 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#11 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#12 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#13 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#14 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#15 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#16 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#17 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#18 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#19 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#20 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#21 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#22 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#23 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#24 - Homicide And Old Lace
Season 6 Episode 26 - Aired 3/26/1969
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: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#25 - Thingumajig
Season 6 Episode 27 - Aired 4/2/1969
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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"Death's Door" is the worst rated episode of "The Avengers". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Sidney Hayers and written by N/A, it aired on 10/7/1967. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "The £50,000 Breakfast".