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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 1 Episode 6 - Target!
    8.5/10(2 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:N/A
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  2. undefined Season 2 Episode 3 - Medium Rare
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    S2:E3

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  3. undefined Season 1 Episode 9 - End of the Road
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    S1:E9

    Eddie Houseman, a Tracy Family friend, is left stranded on a cliff after a demolition operation goes wrong.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  4. undefined Season 1 Episode 16 - The Imposters
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E16

    Operations are unjustly suspended when imposters disguised as International Rescue take secret papers from a vault.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  5. undefined Season 1 Episode 10 - Gnaws
    8.0/10(2 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:N/A
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  6. undefined Season 2 Episode 39 - Checkmate
    7.8/10(9 votes)

    S2:E39

    The Doctor finally discovers what the Monk is up to and must move fast to prevent his opponent from altering the course of history.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  7. undefined Season 3 Episode 21 - Destruction of Time
    7.5/10(6 votes)

    S3:E21

    With the Daleks poised to invade the solar system, the Doctor decides his only option is to activate the Time Destructor prematurely, threatening the entire planet.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  8. undefined Season 1 Episode 6 - Day of Disaster
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    S1:E6

    A Martian probe-rocket containing two engineers is buried underneath rubble when a bridge collapses.

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    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  9. undefined Season 1 Episode 9 - Faces
    7.5/10(2 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:N/A
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  10. undefined Season 2 Episode 13 - Emily
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  11. undefined Season 2 Episode 38 - A Battle of Wits
    7.2/10(9 votes)

    S2:E38

    The Doctor manages to escape from his cell and get the upper hand on the Monk but his plans are derailed when Sven and Ulf arrive at the monastery.

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    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  12. undefined Season 2 Episode 36 - The Watcher
    7.1/10(11 votes)

    S2:E36

    The Doctor, Vicki, and Steven Taylor, go to 1066 England, but something doesn't seem right including modern inventions like a Gramaphone and electricity. Could there be another Time Lord?

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  13. undefined Season 2 Episode 15 - Inferno
    7.0/10(10 votes)

    S2:E15

    Inspired by the Doctor, Nero sets Rome ablaze. Ian must fight his way out of the arena and rescue Barbara. The Doctor and Vicki hurry to flee the city and escape to the TARDIS.

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    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  14. undefined Season 6 Episode 11 - Look- (stop me if you've heard this one) But There Were These Two Fellers...
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    S6:E11

    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.

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    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  15. undefined Season 1 Episode 18 - Cry Wolf
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E18

    The Hood attacks a space tracking station in Australia.

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    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  16. undefined Season 1 Episode 13 - Three Handed Game
    7.0/10(2 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:N/A
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  17. undefined Season 2 Episode 10 - Complex
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    S2:E10

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  18. undefined Season 2 Episode 11 - Forward Base
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    S2:E11

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  19. undefined Season 2 Episode 14 - Conspiracy
    6.7/10(10 votes)

    S2:E14

    Poppaea plans to poison Barbara who has become the object of Nero's affections. The Doctor is to be thrown to the lions and Ian and Delos are set against each other in the arena.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  20. undefined Season 2 Episode 37 - The Meddling Monk
    6.7/10(12 votes)

    S2:E37

    The Doctor is being held prisoner by the Monk and Steven and Vicki's search for him brings them to the Saxon village.But a greater danger threatens when a Viking raiding party arrives.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  21. undefined Season 1 Episode 42 - Prisoners of Conciergerie
    6.6/10(8 votes)

    S1:E42

    Ian finally delivers his message to James Stirling but in order to secure Susan's release he and Barbara are forced into a dangerous spying mission.

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    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  22. undefined Season 3 Episode 15 - Coronas of the Sun
    6.5/10(6 votes)

    S3:E15

    The Doctor, Steven and Sara escape Mira in a Dalek pursuit ship but when they find the ship is returning to Kembel, they are forced to come up with a new plan to avoid the Daleks.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  23. undefined Season 3 Episode 20 - The Abandoned Planet
    6.5/10(6 votes)

    S3:E20

    The Doctor, Steven and Sara reach Kembel where they find the Daleks have betrayed their allies and imprisoned them.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  24. undefined Season 1 Episode 6 - Girl on the Trapeze
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    S1:E6

    Keel, reviving a young woman who has jumped into the Thames, is led to the Radeck State Circus, where the trapeze girl is guarded, her face covered by bandages because of an accident. The 'trapeze girl'proves to be the daughter of a defecting scientist, who will be used to force her father to return home. When Keel discovers this, he and Carol are captured by Zibbo the Clown, who will shoot Carol if the police investigation is not called off.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  25. undefined Season 6 Episode 5 - Split!
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    S6:E5

    When an agent at the Ministry of Top-Secret Information is murdered, Steed and Tara have little difficulty in locating the man responsible. But when a handwriting test indicates that he is Boris Kartovski, someone Steed thought he had killed in Berlin 5 years before, our heroes find themselves drawn into the dangerous experiments of Dr. Constantine.

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    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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Dennis Spooner Ratings Summary

"Target!" is the best rated episode written by Dennis Spooner. It scored 8.5/10 based on 2 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 11/26/1976 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Medium Rare".