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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 4 Episode 10 - Skeleton in the Closet
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    S4:E10

    A man tries to blackmail a high society woman for something she did when she was in college.

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    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  2. undefined Season 3 Episode 14 - Dressed to Kill
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    S3:E14

    An incoming missile attack, which is detected by all but one of the country's early warning stations, proves to be a false alarm. Steed finds himself attending an exclusive New Year's Eve fancy-dress party on a train. The train terminates at a remote, deserted station, and a guest is killed with an arrow.

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    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  3. undefined Season 1 Episode 11 - See No Evil
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    S1:E11

    A serial killer dubbed The Scalper' is attacking blonde women, including a friend of Tessa's. MacLeod recognizes the pattern of an Immortal who, betrayed by the woman he loved, became a killer. To end the carnage, MacLeod was forced to confront and kill him, back in 1925. Now the killings have started again, the modern day killer mimicking the 70-year-old M.O., killing in the same locations as the previous murders. It falls to MacLeod and Tessa to stop this madman.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  4. undefined Season 5 Episode 23 - Murdersville
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    S5:E23

    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.

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    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  5. undefined Season 4 Episode 23 - The House That Jack Built
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    S4:E23

    Emma inherits some property from her deceased Uncle Jack. The property is a very bizaarre house, and when Emma goes to inspect it, she finds herself trapped in a labyrinth of psychological torture.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  6. undefined Season 3 Episode 1 - Brief for Murder
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E1

    Thanks to the clever briefing of the Lakin brothers a man charged with treason is found not guilty. Mrs Gale believes that Steed is implicated, and contacts the newspapers. Steed threatens her: either withdraw her allegations or pay the consequences. Soon Steed is on trial for Gale's murder.

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    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  7. undefined Season 3 Episode 12 - Don't Look Behind You
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E12

    Invited to spend the weekend at the home of medievel costume expert Sir Cavalier Resagne, Cathy finds herself alone in the house, pestered by a young man who claims to be a film director, and haunted by her past. And where is Steed?

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  8. undefined Season 6 Episode 1 - The Forget-Me-Knot
    8.0/10(5 votes)

    S6:E1

    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.

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    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  9. undefined Season 6 Episode 18 - The Morning After
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E18

    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:N/A
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  10. undefined Season 5 Episode 7 - The Living Dead
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    S5:E7

    When representatives of the two organizations head to a country church to investigate the sudden reappearance of a man long thought dead, Steed and Emma are called in to help. It isn't long, of course, before murder rears its ugly head.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  11. undefined Season 5 Episode 11 - Epic
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    S5:E11

    Three Hollywood veterans, led by an insane director, decide that Emma would be perfect for their latest movie, so they kidnap her and film some surreal and deadly footage.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  12. undefined Season 5 Episode 12 - The Superlative Seven
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    S5:E12

    Steed is invited to a party, and finds himself trapped in a remote-controlled aircraft, with six fancy-dressed specialists in various combat styles, en route to a distant island. There, they are pitted against each other in a deadly test.

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    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  13. undefined Season 4 Episode 22 - What the Butler Saw
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    S4:E22

    According to Steed's double-agent barber, one of three military men is a traitor. But which one? To find out, Steed becomes a butler, and Emma starts Operation Fascination to trap the woman-hungry Group Captain Miles.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  14. undefined Season 3 Episode 21 - Build a Better Mousetrap
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    S3:E21

    What does Cathy joining a motorcycle gang, two elderly ladies who own a watermill and claim to be witches, and all of the clocks stopping at a local atomic research station have in common? They're all present in Brian Clemen's first great step into the bizarre.

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    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  15. undefined Season 5 Episode 5 - The Bird Who Knew Too Much
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    S5:E5

    Emma and Steed investigate the mystery of how top secret things are being photographed from the air. Could it have something to do with the groovy world of fashion photography and a parrot called Captain Crusoe?

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  16. undefined Season 5 Episode 9 - The Correct Way to Kill
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    S5:E9

    Foreign agents are being killed, but not by British agents. Steed thinks it terribly unfair, and so does his opposite number, Nutski. They make an arrangement, and Steed and Emma find themselves with Soviet partners in an investigation of a group of very British killers.

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    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  17. undefined Season 3 Episode 23 - The Charmers
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E23

    The opposition believe Steed is responsible for the death of their agent Vinkel. Steed, however, had nothing to do with the murder and, as a show of good faith, agrees to a swap of partners with Keller in a bid to find the real killer.

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    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  18. undefined Season 6 Episode 14 - The Interrogators
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E14

    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:N/A
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  19. undefined Season 6 Episode 33 - Bizarre
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    S6:E33

    When a woman is found walking barefoot in a snowy field, complaining of a dead man who wasn't dead, Steed investigates the Happy Meadows funeral parlour, which doesn't seem to be keeping its clients down under. What connection could that business possibly have with Mystic Tours?

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  20. undefined Season 3 Episode 26 - Lobster Quadrille
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E26

    When an agent investigating radioactivity levels in shellfish is killed in a beach hut fire, Steed and Cathy get involved in the heady worlds of nightclubbing, chess and lobster fishermen.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  21. undefined Season 1 Episode 9 - The Old, the New and the Deadly
    6.8/10(6 votes)

    S1:E9

    It seems that everyone including a former Nazi wants a German Eagle statuette, and they think that Danny is the one who has it.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  22. undefined Season 1 Episode 12 - That's Me Over There
    6.7/10(6 votes)

    S1:E12

    In order to catch a war criminal, Danny must impersonate the kidnapped Brett, but how will he explain an English Lord with a Brooklyn accent?

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  23. undefined Season 4 Episode 1 - The Town of No Return
    6.6/10(5 votes)

    S4:E1

    Four agents have vanished, looking for each other, in Little Bazeley-by-the-Sea. Steed and Emma go in for the man who went in for the man who.... and meet the odd local landlord, blacksmith and vicar. Are they more than they seem?

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  24. undefined Season 5 Episode 13 - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    S5:E13

    When Lucas, an agent investigating something subversive, gets off his train at the wrong station he is murdered. Has the crime got anything to do with a mole at the admiralty, a train ticket and a fiendish plot to kill the Prime Minister?

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  25. undefined Season 4 Episode 4 - Death at Bargain Prices
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    S4:E4

    When an agent is killed in the lift of Pinter's Department store, Steed and Emma get involved with King Kane, a tycoon who lives in a penthouse above the store. Why is Professor Popple, a missing atomic scientist, being held in the bargain basement?

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    Writer:Brian Clemens

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Brian Clemens Ratings Summary

"Skeleton in the Closet" is the best rated episode written by Brian Clemens. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 2/11/1989 and is rated 1.5 points higher than their second-best episode, "Dressed to Kill".