ORBzine - The Avengers TV Review
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New Avengers
1. 1- 1 7 Jan 61 Hot Snow 2. 1- 2 14 Jan 61 Brought to Book 3. 1- 3 21 Jan 61 Square Root of Evil 4. 1- 4 28 Jan 61 Nightmare 5. 1- 5 4 Feb 61 Crescent Moon 6. 1- 6 11 Feb 61 Girl on the Trapeze 7. 1- 7 18 Feb 61 Diamond Cut Diamond 8. 1- 8 25 Feb 61 The Radioactive Man 9. 1- 9 4 Mar 61 Ashes of Roses 10. 1-10 18 Mar 61 Hunt the Man Down 11. 1-11 1 Apr 61 Please Don't Feed the Animals 12. 1-12 15 Apr 61 Dance with Death 13. 1-13 29 Apr 61 One for the Mortuary 14. 1-14 13 May 61 The Springers 15. 1-15 27 May 61 The Frighteners 16. 1-16 10 Jun 61 The Yellow Needle 17. 1-17 24 Jun 61 Death on the Slipway 18. 1-18 8 Jul 61 Double Danger 19. 1-19 22 Jul 61 Toy Trap 20. 1-20 5 Aug 61 The Tunnel of Fear 21. 1-21 19 Aug 61 The Far Distant Dead 22. 1-22 2 Sep 61 Kill the King 23. 1-23 9 Dec 61 Dead of Winter 24. 1-24 16 Dec 61 The Deadly Air 25. 1-25 23 Dec 61 A Change of Bait 26. 1-26 30 Dec 61 Dragonsfield
27. 2- 1 29 Sep 62 Mr Teddy Bear 28. 2- 2 6 Oct 62 Propellant 23 29. 2- 3 13 Oct 62 The Decapod 30. 2- 4 20 Oct 62 Bullseye 31. 2- 5 27 Oct 62 Mission to Montreal 32. 2- 6 3 Nov 62 The Removal Men 33. 2- 7 10 Nov 62 The Mauritius Penny 34. 2- 8 17 Nov 62 Death of a Great Dane 35. 2- 9 24 Nov 62 The Sell-Out 36. 2-10 1 Dec 62 Death on the Rocks 37. 2-11 8 Dec 62 Traitor in Zebra 38. 2-12 15 Dec 62 The Big Thinker 39. 2-13 22 Dec 62 Death Dispatch 40. 2-14 29 Dec 62 Dead on Course 41. 2-15 5 Jan 63 Intercrime 42. 2-16 12 Jan 63 Immortal Clay 43. 2-17 19 Jan 63 Box of Tricks 44. 2-18 26 Jan 63 Warlock 45. 2-19 2 Feb 63 The Golden Eggs 46. 2-20 9 Feb 63 School for Traitors 47. 2-21 16 Feb 63 The White Dwarf 48. 2-22 23 Feb 63 The Man in the Mirror 49. 2-23 2 Mar 63 Conspiracy of Silence 50. 2-24 9 Mar 63 A Chorus of Frogs 51. 2-25 16 Mar 63 Six Hands Across a Table 52. 2-26 23 Mar 63 Killer Whale
53. 3- 1 28 Sep 63 Brief for Murder 54. 3- 2 5 Oct 63 The Undertakers 55. 3- 3 12 Oct 63 Man with Two Shadows 56. 3- 4 19 Oct 63 The Nutshell 57. 3- 5 26 Oct 63 Death of a Batman 58. 3- 6 2 Nov 63 November Five 59. 3- 7 9 Nov 63 The Gilded Cage 60. 3- 8 16 Nov 63 Second Sight 61. 3- 9 23 Nov 63 The Medicine Men 62. 3-10 30 Nov 63 The Grandeur That Was Rome 63. 3-11 7 Dec 63 The Golden Fleece 64. 3-12 14 Dec 63 Don't Look Behind You 65. 3-13 21 Dec 63 Death A La Carte 66. 3-14 28 Dec 63 Dressed to Kill 67. 3-15 4 Jan 64 The White Elephant 68. 3-16 11 Jan 64 The Little Wonders 69. 3-17 18 Jan 64 The Wringer 70. 3-18 25 Jan 64 Mandrake 71. 3-19 1 Feb 64 The Secrets Broker 72. 3-20 8 Feb 64 Trojan Horse 73. 3-21 15 Feb 64 Build a Better Mousetrap 74. 3-22 22 Feb 64 The Outside-In Man 75. 3-23 29 Feb 64 The Charmers 76. 3-24 7 Mar 64 Concerto 77. 3-25 14 Mar 64 Esprit De Corps 78. 3-26 21 Mar 64 Lobster Quadrille
The Avengers [Season 4, Episode 1]
The Town of No Return
Shown 2 Oct 65
Shown 7th July 2006 [Friday]
Top Intelligence agents are going missing in a small town in Norfolk, England.
Mrs Peel goes undercover as a school-teacher.
The Avengers [Season 4, Episode 2]
The Gravediggers
Shown 9 Oct 65
Shown 14th July 2006 [Friday]
Someone has built a system that can jam the UK's radar defence network.
Mrs Peel goes undercover as a nurse.
Stephen Berkoff [Rambo, The Krays] is one of the villain's henchmen.
The Avengers [Season 4, Episode 3]
The Cybernauts
Shown 16 Oct 65
Shown 21st July 2006 [Friday]
People are being killed off by an unseen killer. The murderer is bulletproof, super-strong, and is vaguely human-shaped.
Mrs Peel joins a Karate club to investigate one of the blackbelts.
Steed goes undercover, and speaks to Burt Kwouk [ Monkey, Water Margin ] about miniaturised computer components and robotics. Then he meets Michael Gough [ Horror Hospital ], a wheelchair-bound genius.
Crippled madmen, iconic recurring villains ... Coincidentally, this ep was made around the time the Daleks and Cybermen were developed for Doctor Who .
The Avengers [Season 4, Episode 4]
Death at Bargain Prices
Shown 23 Oct 65
A Dating Agency is marrying women to rich men, and then creating rich widows.
Steed and Mrs Peel go undercover as singletons.
The Avengers [Season 4, Episode 5]
Castle De'ath
Shown 30 Oct 65
Steed and Mrs Peel are hired to set a Scottish castle up for tourism. Unfortunately, it seems to be haunted ...
Steed and Peel are actually undercover. Someone's using the castle as a secret base.
Gordon Jackson [The Professionals] is the castle's owner.
The Avengers [Season 4, Episode 6]
The Master Minds
Shown 6 Nov 65
A bunch of ruthless spies are photographing secret documents. Steed and Peel discover that the burglars are brainwashed pawns, and have to discover the brains behind the operation.
The trail leads to RanSack, a club for egg-heads. Steed and Peel join up, and attend a co-ed college in a stately home.
There's a fight in the Gymnasium, not entirely dissimilar to a fight in The Prisoner.
The Avengers [Season 4, Episode 7]
The Murder Market
Shown 13 Nov 65
Shown 28th July 2006 [Friday]
Men are being assassinated. It seems a Dating Agency is involved - so Steed signs up.
Mrs Peel has to fake her death.
86. 4- 8 20 Nov 65 A Surfeit of H2O
The Avengers [Season 4, Episode 9]
The Hour that Never Was
Shown 27 Nov 65
Shown 11th August 2006 [Friday]
Steed and Mrs Peel arrive at an RAF base - where everyone is missing!
The Avengers must discover what new superweapon is threatening national defence, and defeat the villain in the final act. Just like they do in most eps.
A suspicious milkman is in the area. This seems to be a motif in 1960s spy films: Carry On Spying used one [jesting on the fact that Sean Connery used to be one!], and one played an important role in an episode of The Prisoner . And when one appeared in The Living Daylights , perhaps that was a subtle reference.
The Avengers [Season 4, Episode 10]
Dial a Deadly Number
Shown 4 Dec 65
Megacorp CEOs are dropping dead mysteriously.
Steed goes undercover, investing with Banker suspect Peter Bowles [The Irish RM].
Mrs Peel uncovers a link to the businessmens' Bleepers. Yes, they have 1960s prototype phone pagers.
89. 4-11 11 Dec 65 Man-Eater of Surrey Green
The Avengers [Season 4, Episode 12]
Two's a Crowd
Shown 18 Dec 65
Top KGB Colonel Psov and his 4 aides [including Julian Glover - For Your Eyes Only, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ] hire an actor to impersonate Steed at a NATO Conference.
The Russian Ambassador is UK sitcom actor Warren Mitchell!
This ep's gadget is a mobile phone. It's the size of a briefcase!
91. 4-13 25 Dec 65 Too Many Christmas Trees
The Avengers [Season 4, Episode 14]
Silent Dust
Shown 1 Jan 66
The Avengers discover that a poisonous substance named Silent Dust threatens to destroy the English countryside.
The Avengers [Season 4, Episode 15]
Room Without a View
Shown 8 Jan 66
A missing scientist returns home. He may have escaped from a Manchurian prison camp.
A lot of people have gone missing after staying in a hotel. Steed and Mrs Peel check in.
The Avengers [Season 4, Episode 16]
Small Game For Big Hunters
Shown 15 Jan 66
95. 4-17 22 Jan 66 The Girl From Auntie 96. 4-18 29 Jan 66 The Thirteenth Hole
The Avengers [Season 4, Episode 19]
Quick-Quick Slow Death
Shown 5 Feb 66
The Avengers [Season 4, Episode 20]
The Danger Makers
Shown 12 Feb 66
The Avengers [Season 4, Episode 21]
A Touch of Brimstone
Shown 19 Feb 66
The Avengers [Season 4, Episode 22]
What the Butler Saw
Shown 26 Feb 66
Shown 14th November 2008 [Friday]
John Le Meseurier (Dad's Army) guest-stars as the eponymous butler.
101. 4-23 5 Mar 66 The House That Jack Built
The Avengers [Season 4, Episode 24]
A Sense of History
Shown 12 Mar 66
Shown 18th January 2006 [Thursday]
The mission is to uncover the murderer of a man who planned to end world poverty. Mrs Peel goes undercover at Oxbridge as a lecturer.
103. 4-25 19 Mar 66 How to Succeed... at Murder 104. 4-26 26 Mar 66 Honey For the Prince
Season 5
105. 5- 1 14 Jan 67 From Venus With Love 106. 5- 2 21 Jan 67 The Fear Merchants 107. 5- 3 28 Jan 67 Escape in Time 108. 5- 4 4 Feb 67 The See-Through Man 109. 5- 5 11 Feb 67 The Bird Who Knew Too Much
The Avengers [Season 5, Episode 6]
The Winged Avenger
Shown 18 Feb 67
Shown 16th December 2005 [Friday]
Steed and Mrs Peel investigate a series of strange murders. The vigilante killer must be able to walk up vertical surfaces!
Our heroes discover that a slightly mad scientist may have made boots capable of performing such a task. of course, he denies it.
They also discover that the killer is emulating a comic-strip character. Which leads to a climax that mocks the Batman TV show. Steed hits the killer with boards that have cheesy sound-effects written on them!
111. 5- 7 25 Feb 67 The Living Dead 112. 5- 8 4 Mar 67 The Hidden Tiger 113. 5- 9 11 Mar 67 The Correct Way to Kill 114. 5-10 18 Mar 67 Never, Never Say Die 115. 5-11 1 Apr 67 Epic
The Avengers [Season 5, Episode 12]
The Superlative Seven
Shown 8 Apr 67
Shown 6th June 2008 [Friday]
Steed is invited to a fancy dress party on a plane. The other guests include Brian Blessed [ Flash Gordon, Phantom Menace ] and Charlotte Rampling .
Unfortunately, evil genius Donald Sutherland [ Don't Look Now ] has planned the whole thing as a test for his super-assassin.
The Avengers [Season 5, Episode 13]
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station
Shown 15 Apr 67
Shown 10th May 2007 [Thursday]
Steed and Mrs Peel take a journey on a train. Unfortunately, a band of assassins are aboard with a plan to kill the Prime Minister [John Laurie - Dad's Army].
118. 5-14 22 Apr 67 Something Nasty in the Nursery 119. 5-15 29 Apr 67 The Joker 120. 5-16 6 May 67 Who's Who??? 121. 5-17 30 Sep 67 Return of the Cybernauts 122. 5-18 7 Oct 67 Death's Door 123. 5-19 14 Oct 67 The 50,000 Pound Breakfast
The Avengers [Season 5, Episode 20]
Dead Man's Treasure
Shown 21 Oct 67
Shown 31st March 2006 [Friday]
Steed's contact is chased by a pair of villains. He manages to hide the mcguffin before they get him.
Steed and Mrs Peel must win a car rally to find the mcguffin before the villains do.
125. 5-21 28 Oct 67 You Have Just Been Murdered
The Avengers [Season 5, Episode 22]
The Positive Negative Man
Shown 4 Nov 67
Shown 20th April 2006 [Thursday]
An assassin with an electrified thimble is bumping off scientists. Steed and Mrs Peel investigate.
127. 5-23 11 Nov 67 Murdersville
The Avengers [Season 5, Episode 24]
Mission... Highly Improbable
Shown 18 Nov 67
Shown 5th May 2006 [Friday]
A Treasury Department official goes MIA just after entering a top-secret military test zone. The only trace that Steed finds is a tonka-toy scale copy of the man's car ...
Rogue scientists at the base have developed a way of miniaturising things. However, one of them wants to smuggle new tech out and sell it to the Soviet miliary attache!
129. 6- 1 25 Sep 68 The Forget-Me-Knot 130. 6- 2 2 Oct 68 Game 131. 6- 3 9 Oct 68 Super Secret Cypher Snatch 132. 6- 4 16 Oct 68 You'll Catch Your Death 133. 6- 5 23 Oct 68 Split! 134. 6- 6 30 Oct 68 Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40 135. 6- 7 6 Nov 68 False Witness 136. 6- 8 13 Nov 68 All Done With Mirrors 137. 6- 9 20 Nov 68 Legacy of Death 138. 6-10 27 Nov 68 Noon Doomsday 139. 6-11 4 Dec 68 Look - (stop me if you've heard this one) But There Were These Two Fellers ... 140. 6-12 11 Dec 68 Have Guns- Will Haggle 141. 6-13 18 Dec 68 They Keep Killing Steed 142. 6-14 1 Jan 69 The Interrogators 143. 6-15 8 Jan 69 The Rotters 144. 6-16 15 Jan 69 Invasion of the Earthmen 145. 6-17 22 Jan 69 Killer 146. 6-18 29 Jan 69 The Morning After 147. 6-19 5 Feb 69 The Curious Case of the Countless Clues 148. 6-20 12 Feb 69 Wish You Were Here 149. 6-21 19 Feb 69 Love All 150. 6-22 26 Feb 69 Stay Tuned 151. 6-23 5 Mar 69 Take Me To Your Leader 152. 6-24 12 Mar 69 Fog 153. 6-25 19 Mar 69 Who Was That Man I Saw You With? 154. 6-26 26 Mar 69 Homicide And Old Lace 155. 6-27 2 Apr 69 Thingumajig 156. 6-28 7 Apr 69 My Wildest Dream 157. 6-29 16 Apr 69 Requiem 158. 6-30 23 Apr 69 Take-Over 159. 6-31 30 Apr 69 Pandora 160. 6-32 14 May 69 Get-A-Way 161. 6-33 21 May 69 Bizarre