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The Best Episodes of The New Avengers Season 1

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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 The Avengers and was developed by Albert Fennell and Brian

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The New Avengers Season 1 Episode 6 - Target!
    8.1/10(153 votes)

    S1:E6

    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.

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  2. The New Avengers Season 1 Episode 10 - Gnaws
    8.0/10(144 votes)

    S1:E10

    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.

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  3. The New Avengers Season 1 Episode 3 - The Last of the Cybernauts ...??
    7.8/10(172 votes)

    S1:E3

    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.

    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  4. The New Avengers Season 1 Episode 1 - The Eagle's Nest
    7.4/10(208 votes)

    S1:E1

    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...

    Director:Desmond Davis
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  5. The New Avengers Season 1 Episode 9 - Faces
    7.4/10(120 votes)

    S1:E9

    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.

    Director:James Hill
    Writers:Dennis Spooner, Brian Clemens

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  6. The New Avengers Season 1 Episode 2 - House of Cards
    7.3/10(152 votes)

    S1:E2

    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.

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  7. The New Avengers Season 1 Episode 7 - To Catch a Rat
    7.3/10(124 votes)

    S1:E7

    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.

    Director:James Hill
    Writer:Terence Feely

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  8. The New Avengers Season 1 Episode 5 - Cat Amongst the Pigeons
    7.2/10(132 votes)

    S1:E5

    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.

    Director:John Hough
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  9. The New Avengers Season 1 Episode 12 - Sleeper
    7.1/10(114 votes)

    S1:E12

    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.

    Director:Graeme Clifford
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  10. The New Avengers Season 1 Episode 8 - The Tale of the Big Why
    6.9/10(118 votes)

    S1:E8

    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.""

    Director:Robert Fuest
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  11. The New Avengers Season 1 Episode 13 - Three Handed Game
    6.9/10(132 votes)

    S1:E13

    Steed's plan to have 3 memory experts memorise a third of each of the Allied defence plans for courier purposes seems to have been a perfect success until Juvenator arrives with a machine capable of draining minds.

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writers:Dennis Spooner, Brian Clemens

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  12. The New Avengers Season 1 Episode 4 - The Midas Touch
    6.8/10(141 votes)

    S1:E4

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

    Director:Robert Fuest
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  13. The New Avengers Season 1 Episode 11 - Dirtier by the Dozen
    6.5/10(110 votes)

    S1:E11

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

    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Target!" is the best rated episode of "The New Avengers" season 1. It scored 8.1/10 based on 153 votes. Directed by Ray Austin and written by Dennis Spooner, it aired on 11/26/1976. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Gnaws".