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The Best Episodes of The New Avengers

Every episode of The New Avengers ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The New Avengers!

The Best Episodes of The New Avengers

The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series...
  1. 7.6/10(98 votes)

    #1 - Dead Men are Dangerous

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    Everything Steed cares about is being destroyed or threatened, including his china, his car, and even Purdey. The trio must uncover who would bare such a long-lasting and jealous grudge against the unflappable agent.

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  2. 7.6/10(105 votes)

    #2 - Angels of Death

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    Senior civil servants, MPs, and intelligence personnel are all dying suddenly of ""natural causes,"" and there seems to be no obvious link. The only lead is the mortally-wounded agent who talks of angels of death that kill from within.

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  3. 7.3/10(101 votes)

    #3 - Obsession

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    An old flame of Purdey's reappears when a missile goes missing from an air display. But what's the connection between that, a visiting Arab envoy, and a spy satellite photographing Buckinghamshire?

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    Director:Ernest Day
  4. 7.1/10(79 votes)

    #4 - Medium Rare

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    Mason is the paymaster to a group of informants, but all is not what it seems: the informants are a single man. When Mason suspects this, he is murdered by Wallace, who has been lining his own pockets. Steed begins to investigate, and Wallace decides that the only option left is to frame Steed and kill him.

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    Director:Ray Austin
  5. 7.0/10(82 votes)

    #5 - Complex

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    Agent X41 (codename ""Scapina"") is the USSR's most effective spy. But a photograph has fallen into the hands of the Avengers which may give a clue to his identity. The trail leads the trio to Toronto.

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    Director:N/A
  6. 6.9/10(84 votes)

    #6 - Hostage

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    After Purdey is kidnapped, Steed is given the ransom of Allied attack plans. But has the whole thing been a set up to make the Ministry think Steed is a traitor?

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  8. 6.9/10(76 votes)

    #7 - K is for Kill: Tiger by the Tail (2)

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    The Russian soldiers attacking in France were just the first wave. Two ""K"" agents are the true key to the plan. One ""K"" assassin is killed while assassinating a retired General. Who is the target for the second ""K"" agent and how might this start World War III? Only Steed, Gambit and Purdey can save the world.

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    Director:N/A
  9. 6.7/10(81 votes)

    #8 - K is for Kill: The Tiger Awakes (1)

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    In 1965, a young Russian soldier guns down a Salvation Army Band and escapes only to fall down dead and grow old. In France, in 1977, a young Russian soldier attacks men wearing uniforms. Then a Russian unit is attacking an empty home. After one of the soldiers dies, he also ages. Why are the Russians attacking old targets and then aging? Steed and company are trying to find answers.

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    Director:N/A
  10. 6.4/10(77 votes)

    #9 - Forward Base

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    April 1969: Typhoon Agatha rages causing a new piece of coastline suddenly to appear in Toronto. It's up to the New Avengers to uncover the truth behind it all.

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  11. 6.3/10(83 votes)

    #10 - The Gladiators

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    KGB agent Karl Sminsky is recruiting criminals to train as supremely skilled fighters in order to smash Canada's security system. The Avengers find themselves up against a team of supermen.

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  12. 6.3/10(79 votes)

    #11 - Emily

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    S2:E13

    The trio are on the trail of a mysterious agent ""The Fox."" Although he escapes, he leaves a palm print on the roof of a car owned by the aged Miss Daly and the Avengers must preserve the print to make a positive ID on their target.

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    Director:N/A
  13. 6.2/10(84 votes)

    #12 - The Lion and the Unicorn

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    Paris: Steed captures his nemesis, the Unicorn. But when the Unicorn is accidentally killed by his own men, Steed must use all his cunning to avoid open warfare.

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    Director:Ray Austin
  14. 4.4/10(96 votes)

    #13 - Trap

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    When the Avengers foil a drug drop arranged by a Chinese overlord, they find themselves on the run from his men, the Oriental being determined to have their heads on plates.

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    Director:Ray Austin
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    #14 - The Eagle's Nest

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    When murderous fishermen kill an agent investigating an island, Steed, Gambit, and Purdey go to investigate the man's death and the suspicious monastery there. Apparently in 1945 an airplane carrying 'Germany's Greatest Treasure' made its final stop there, and the monks turn out quite different than perhaps Steed and his crew have anticipated...

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    #15 - House of Cards

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    When Steed has a hoard of screaming teenagers rescue his intended victim, spymaster Perov seemingly commits suicide. But days later his system of sleeper agents, the House of Cards, activates, and Steed, Purdy & Gambit find themselves fighting trusted friends.

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    Director:Ray Austin
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    #16 - The Last of the Cybernauts ...??

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    When a double agent called Kane is horribly disfigured in a chase, he vows vengeance...and calls upon the powers of a force who has tangled with Steed and his associates twice before: the Cybernauts. Creations of a misguided and imbalanced scientist, Dr Armstrong, these metallic menaces in both their attempts were stopped by the suave Steed and the inimitable Mrs Peel. However, this time they are being manipulated by an even more malignant force, and Steed and his friends enter into great danger in an attempt to stop the Cybernauts one last time.

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    #17 - The Midas Touch

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    The terrific trio come up against Professor Turner, a scientist with a lust for gold, and his protege Midas, whose touch is deadly.

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    Director:N/A
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    #18 - Cat Amongst the Pigeons

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    The warning of a dying man tips Steed off that ecologist Rydercroft is to be killed at noon. All plans are taken to protect the man's aircraft but it still crashes. Soon the Avengers come up against a new breed of enemy.

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    Director:John Hough
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    #19 - Target!

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    In an attempt to break Steed's perfect shooting-range record, Purdey tackles the range with all her grace and skill. However, it's not enough as she misses one tiny percentage and gets hit with a mark. But other agents begin to die who have performed similarly, and Steed and Gambit start putting the clues together and find that they must work fast to save their friend and colleague before she succumbs to a nasty poison.

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    Director:Ray Austin
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    #20 - To Catch a Rat

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    A strange message alerts Steed, Purdey, and Gambit to something strange going on. While Steed does his own research, Purdey and Gambit set out to help shed some light on the situation. However, the reality of the case is that due to a seventeen-year-old open case and a bout of amnesia, the legendary traitorous White Rat has at last begun to operate again. And Purdey is in imminent danger from her own romance.

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    Director:James Hill
    Writer:N/A
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    #21 - The Tale of the Big Why

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    Released from prison after 9 years for spying, Burt Brandon heads straight for an abandoned well near Neverton containing unspecificed secret information. He is soon killed by 2 agents but has managed to post a package to his daughter. Steed recovers the package only to find it contains a pulp Western ""The Tale of the Big Why.""

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    Director:N/A
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    #22 - Faces

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    A bizarre series of deaths of high-ups in the government becomes the business of Steed and his colleagues when a personal friend of his becomes one of the deceased. However, due to suspicion from the delicate nature of the case...apparently people are being duplicated by an unscrupulous firm...Steed, Purdey, and Gambit all go off on their own and make individual progress into the case. However, it seems that the situation is too far-reaching and confusing for each alone. They must work together and figure out quickly, who's who and what's what, before they themselves become the next targets.

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    #23 - Gnaws

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    2 scientists are developing a new growth drug which could end world famine. Unfortunately some of the drug has been flushed down the sink resulting in something nasty in the sewers.

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    #24 - Dirtier by the Dozen

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    Gambit tries to meet Travis, a man carrying some secret film, but he is killed before handing it over.

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    #25 - Sleeper

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    Having witnessed a test on a new sleeping gas called S-95 & thus made immune to its effects, the Avengers awake one Sunday morning to find the whole city of London asleep and an open house on the city's banks and jewellers.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Dead Men are Dangerous" is the best rated episode of "The New Avengers". It scored 7.6/10 based on 98 votes. Directed by Sidney Hayers and written by Brian Clemens, it aired on 9/9/1977. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Angels of Death".