List of The Avengers episodes

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This is an episode list for the 1960s British television series The Avengers.

As of 2006, the only episodes known to still exist in their entirety from the first series are "Girl on the Trapeze" (which does not feature the regular character of John Steed) and "The Frighteners." The first 20 minutes of the premiere episode, "Hot Snow", have also been rediscovered.[1]

The first four series were in black-and-white; the series was in colour from Series 5 onwards. In addition, the first three series were produced primarily on videotape (with occasional filmed inserts); beginning with series 4 the series moved to all-film production.

As of May 2006, all surviving episodes of the series (including the two complete and one partial episode from the first series) have been released on DVD in North America (Region 1).

1 Series 1 (1961)
2 Series 2 (1962-1963)
3 Series 3 (1963-1964)
4 Series 4 (1965-1966)
5 Series 5 (1967)
6 Series 6 (1968-1969)
7 See also

[edit] Series 1 (1961)

Unless noted in the table below, all episodes in this series featured both Dr. David Keel and John Steed.

Episode #	Original Air Date (UK)	Episode Title	Guest cast
1-01	7 January 1961	Hot Snow	Catherine Woodville, Philip Stone, Robert James, Godfrey Quigley, Moira Redmond
1-02	14 January 1961	Brought to Book	Philip Stone, Robert James, Godfrey Quigley
1-03	21 January 1961	Square Root of Evil	Alex Scott, Michael Robbins
1-04	28 January 1961	Nightmare	Helen Lindsay
1-05	4 February 1961	Crescent Moon	Roger Delgado, Patience Collier
1-06	11 February 1961	Girl on the Trapeze (Keel only)	Kenneth J. Warren
1-07	18 February 1961	Diamond Cut Diamond	Sandra Dorne
1-08	24 February 1961	The Radioactive Man	George Pravda, Gerald Sim
1-09	4 March 1961	Ashes of Roses	Mark Eden
1-10	18 March 1961	Hunt the Man Down	Melissa Stribling
1-11	1 April 1961	Please Don't Feed the Animals	Tenniel Evans
1-12	15 April 1961	Dance with Death	Caroline Blakiston, Angela Douglas, Geoffrey Palmer
1-13	29 April 1961	One for the Mortuary	Frank Gatliff
1-14	13 May 1961	The Springers	Brian Murphy, Donald Morley
1-15	27 May 1961	The Frighteners	Willoughby Goddard, Stratford Johns, Doris Hare
1-16	10 June 1961	The Yellow Needle	Margaret Whiting
1-17	24 June 1961	Death on the Slipway	Nyree Dawn Porter, Peter Arne, Frank Thornton, Tom Adams
1-18	8 July 1961	Double Danger	Charles Hodgson, Ron Pember
1-19	22 July 1961	Toy Trap	Tony Van Bridge
1-20	5 August 1961	The Tunnel of Fear	Murray Hayne
1-21	19 August 1961	The Far Distant Dead (Keel only)	Katharine Blake, Tom Adams
1-22	2 September 1961	Kill the King	Burt Kwouk, Peter Barkworth, Moira Redmond
1-23	9 December 1961	Dead of Winter	John Woodvine, Neil Hallett
1-24	16 December 1961	The Deadly Air	John Stratton, Allan Cuthbertson, Ann Bell, Geoffrey Bayldon
1-25	23 December 1961	A Change of Bait	John Bailey
1-26	30 December 1961	Dragonsfield (Steed only)	Sylva Langova, Alfred Burke, Barbara Shelley, Ronald Leigh-Hunt

[edit] Series 2 (1962-1963)

Those episodes featuring either Dr. Martin King or Venus Smith are noted in the table; all other episodes feature Cathy Gale.

Episode #	Original Air Date (UK)	Episode Title	Guest cast
2-01	29 September 1962	Mr. Teddy Bear	Bernard Goldman
2-02	6 October 1962	Propellant 23	Catherine Woodville, Justine Lord, Colin Stinton, Nicholas Courtney, John Dearth
2-03	13 October 1962	The Decapod (with Venus Smith)	Philip Madoc, Paul Stassino
2-04	20 October 1962	Bullseye	Ronald Radd, Judy Parfitt
2-05	27 October 1962	Mission to Montreal (with Dr. Martin King)	Patricia English, Mark Eden
2-06	3 November 1962	The Removal Men (with Venus Smith)	Edwin Richfield, Edina Ronay
2-07	10 November 1962	The Mauritius Penny	Alfred Burke, David Langton, Sylva Langova, Richard Vernon
2-08	17 November 1962	Death of a Great Dane	Frederick Jaeger, John Laurie
2-09	24 November 1962	The Sell Out (with Dr. Martin King)	Frank Gatliff, Carleton Hobbs
2-10	1 December 1962	Death on the Rocks	Naomi Chance, Hamilton Dyce
2-11	8 December 1962	Traitor in Zebra	William Gaunt, Richard Leech
2-12	15 December 1962	The Big Thinker	Tenniel Evans
2-13	22 December 1962	Death Dispatch	Gerald Harper
2-14	29 December 1962	Dead on Course (with Dr. Martin King)	Donal Donnelly
2-15	5 January 1963	Intercrime	Julia Arnall, Kenneth J. Warren, Angela Browne
2-16	12 January 1963	Immortal Clay	Paul Eddington
2-17	19 January 1963	Box of Tricks (with Venus Smith)	Edgar Wreford, Dallas Cavell, Royston Tickner
2-18	26 January 1963	Warlock	Peter Arne, John Hollis
2-19	2 February 1963	The Golden Eggs	Peter Arne, Pauline Delaney, Donald Eccles
2-20	9 February 1963	School for Traitors (with Venus Smith)	Anthony Nicholls, Melissa Stribling, Reginald Marsh
2-21	16 February 1963	The White Dwarf	Philip Latham, Peter Copley
2-22	23 February 1963	The Man in the Mirror (with Venus Smith)	Ray Barrett
2-23	2 March 1963	Conspiracy of Silence	Robert Rietty, Sandra Dorne
2-24	9 March 1963	A Chorus of Frogs (with Venus Smith)	John Carson, Eric Pohlmann, Yvonne Shima
2-25	16 March 1963	Six Hands Across a Table	Guy Doleman, Philip Madoc
2-26	23 March 1963	Killerwhale	Patrick Magee, Morris Perry, John Bailey

NOTE: The episode "Death of a Great Dane" was later re-made during Series 5 as "The 50,000 Pound Breakfast".

[edit] Series 3 (1963-1964)

Episode #	Original Air Date (UK)	Episode Title	Guest cast
3-01	28 September 1963	Brief for Murder	John Laurie
3-02	5 October 1963	The Undertakers	Lee Paterson, Jan Holden
3-03	12 October 1963	Man with Two Shadows	Geoffrey Palmer, Terence Lodge
3-04	19 October 1963	The Nutshell	Charles Tingwell, John Cater, Patricia Haines, Edina Ronay
3-05	26 October 1963	Death of a Batman	Andre Morell, Philip Madoc
3-06	2 November 1963	November Five	David Davies, David Langton
3-07	9 November 1963	The Gilded Cage	Patrick Magee
3-08	16 November 1963	Second Sight	John Carson, Peter Bowles
3-09	23 November 1963	The Medicine Men	Peter Barkworth, Harold Innocent
3-10	30 November 1963	The Grandeur That Was Rome	Hugh Burden
3-11	7 December 1963	The Golden Fleece	Warren Mitchell, Tenniel Evans, Robert Lee, Barbara Yu-Ling
3-12	14 December 1963	Don't Look Behind You	Maurice Good, Kenneth Colley, Janine Gray
3-13	21 December 1963	Death a la Carte	Robert James
3-14	28 December 1963	Dressed to Kill	Leonard Rossiter, Richard Leech, John Junkin, Anneke Wills
3-15	4 January 1964	The White Elephant	Godfrey Quigley, Edwin Richfield, Judy Parfitt
3-16	11 January 1964	The Little Wonders	Kenneth J. Warren, David Bauer, Lois Maxwell
3-17	18 January 1964	The Wringer	Terence Lodge, Gerald Sim
3-18	25 January 1964	Mandrake	John Le Mesurier, Annette Andre
3-19	1 February 1964	The Secrets Broker	Patricia English, John Ringham
3-20	8 February 1964	Trojan Horse	Basil Dignam, T.P. McKenna
3-21	15 February 1964	Build a Better Mousetrap	Athene Seyler, Nora Nicholson
3-22	22 February 1964	The Outside-In Man	Ronald Radd
3-23	29 February 1964	The Charmers	Fenella Fielding, Warren Mitchell
3-24	7 March 1964	Concerto	Nigel Stock, Sandor Eles
3-25	14 March 1964	Esprit de Corps	Duncan Macrae, Roy Kinnear, John Thaw, Hugh Morton
3-26	21 March 1964	Lobster Quadrille	Burt Kwouk, Leslie Sands, Gary Watson, Jennie Linden

NOTE: The episode "Don't Look Behind You" was later re-made during Series 5 as "The Joker"; "The Charmers" was remade for the same Series as "The Correct Way to Kill".

[edit] Series 4 (1965-1966)

Episode #	Original Air Date (UK)	Episode Title	Guest cast
4-01	2 October 1965	The Town of No Return	Alan MacNaughtan, Terence Alexander, Patrick Newell
4-02	9 October 1965	The Gravediggers	Ronald Fraser, Paul Massie, Caroline Blakiston, Wanda Ventham
4-03	16 October 1965	The Cybernauts	Michael Gough, Frederick Jaeger, Bernard Horsfall, Burt Kwouk, John Hollis
4-04	23 October 1965	Death at Bargain Prices	Andre Morell, T.P. McKenna, Allan Cuthbertson
4-05	30 October 1965	Castle De'ath	Gordon Jackson, Robert Urquhart
4-06	6 November 1965	The Master Minds	Patricia Haines, Laurence Hardy, Bernard Archard
4-07	13 November 1965	The Murder Market	Patrick Cargill, John Woodvine
4-08	20 November 1965	A Surfeit of H2O	Noel Purcell, Sue Lloyd, Talfryn Thomas, Albert Lieven
4-09	27 November 1965	The Hour That Never Was	Roy Kinnear, Gerald Harper
4-10	4 December 1965	Dial a Deadly Number	Clifford Evans, Jan Holden, John Carson, Peter Bowles, Gerald Sim
4-11	11 December 1965	Man-Eater of Surrey Green	Athene Seyler, Derek Farr
4-12	18 December 1965	Two's a Crowd	Warren Mitchell, Topol
4-13	25 December 1965	Too Many Christmas Trees	Edwin Richfield, Jeanette Sterke
4-14	1 January 1966	Silent Dust	William Franklyn, Isobel Black
4-15	8 January 1966	Room Without a View	Paul Whitsun-Jones, Philip Latham, Peter Jeffrey
4-16	15 January 1966	Small Game for Big Hunters	Bill Fraser, James Villiers
4-17	22 January 1966	The Girl from AUNTIE	Liz Fraser, Alfred Burke, Bernard Cribbins
4-18	29 January 1966	The Thirteenth Hole	Patrick Allen, Francis Matthews
4-19	5 February 1966	Quick-Quick Slow Death	Eunice Gayson
4-20	12 February 1966	The Danger Makers	Nigel Davenport, Douglas Wilmer, Fabia Drake
4-21	19 February 1966	A Touch of Brimstone	Peter Wyngarde, Carol Cleveland, Colin Jeavons
4-22	26 February 1966	What the Butler Saw	Denis Quilley, John Le Mesurier
4-23	5 March 1966	The House That Jack Built	Michael Goodliffe
4-24	12 March 1966	A Sense of History	Nigel Stock, Patrick Mower, Jacqueline Pearce
4-25	19 March 1966	How to Succeed ... at Murder	Angela Browne, Sarah Lawson
4-26	26 March 1966	Honey for the Prince	Ron Moody, Zia Mohyeddin

Two versions of "The Town of No Return" were produced, one featuring Elizabeth Shepherd as Emma Peel and a remake after the role was recast with Diana Rigg. The Shepherd version was never televised and is believed to be lost.

For American broadcast, all episodes of the 1965-66 season included a specially shot prologue preceding the main credits, showing Steed and Peel walking across a giant chessboard while a narrator introduces the characters and the concept of the series.

[edit] Series 5 (1967)

Episode #	Original Air Date (UK)	Episode Title	Guest cast
5-01	14 January 1967	From Venus with Love	Barbara Shelley, Philip Locke, Jon Pertwee, Billy Cornelius
5-02	21 January 1967	The Fear Merchants	Patrick Cargill, Andrew Keir, Brian Wilde, Garfield Morgan, Annette Carell
5-03	28 January 1967	Escape in Time	Toshiro Mifune, Geoffrey Bayldon, Judy Parfitt, Imogen Hassall
5-04	4 February 1967	The See-Through Man	Warren Mitchell, Roy Kinnear, Moira Lister
5-05	11 February 1967	The Bird Who Knew Too Much	Ron Moody, Kenneth Cope, Anthony Valentine, Ilona Rodgers
5-06	18 February 1967	The Winged Avenger	Nigel Green, Colin Jeavons
5-07	25 February 1967	The Living Dead	Chaim Topol, Pamela Ann Davy
5-08	4 March 1967	The Hidden Tiger	Ronnie Barker, Gabrielle Drake
5-09	11 March 1967	The Correct Way to Kill	Anna Quayle, Michael Gough, Peter Barkworth, Terence Alexander, Philip Madoc
5-10	18 March 1967	Never, Never Say Die	Christopher Lee, Patricia English, Peter Jeffrey, Christopher Benjamin, Alan Chuntz
5-11	1 April 1967	Epic	Peter Wyngarde, Isa Miranda, Kenneth J. Warren
5-12	8 April 1967	The Superlative Seven	Charlotte Rampling, Brian Blessed, James Maxwell, Donald Sutherland
5-13	15 April 1967	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station	John Laurie, Drewe Henley, Isla Blair
5-14	22 April 1967	Something Nasty in the Nursery	Dudley Foster, Yootha Joyce, Paul Eddington, Clive Dunn, Patrick Newell
5-15	29 April 1967	The Joker	Peter Jeffrey, Ronald Lacey, Sally Nesbitt
5-16	6 May 1967	Who's Who?	Freddie Jones, Patricia Haines
5-17	30 September 1967	Return of the Cybernauts	Peter Cushing, Frederick Jaeger, Charles Tingwell, Fulton Mackay
5-18	7 October 1967	Death's Door	Clifford Evans, Allan Cuthbertson
5-19	14 October 1967	The 50,000 Dollar Breakfast	Yolande Turner, David Langton
5-20	21 October 1967	Dead Man's Treasure	Valerie Van Ost, Edwin Richfield, Neil McCarthy, Arthur Lowe
5-21	28 October 1967	You Have Just Been Murdered	Barrie Ingham
5-22	4 November 1967	The Positive-Negative Man	Ray McAnally, Michael Latimer, Caroline Blakiston, Sandor Eles
5-23	11 November 1967	Murdersville	Colin Blakely, Ronald Hines, Sheila Fearn
5-24	18 November 1967	Mission: Highly Improbable	Ronald Radd, Jane Merrow, Francis Matthews, Nicholas Courtney

"From Venus With Love" was the first episode of the Avengers to be produced in colour.

[edit] Series 6 (1968-1969)

Episode #	Original Air Date (UK)	Episode Title	Guest cast
6-01	25 September 1968	The Forget-Me-Knot (featuring both Emma Peel and Tara King)	Jeremy Young
6-02	2 October 1968	Game	Peter Jeffrey
6-03	9 October 1968	The Super Secret Cypher Snatch	John Carlisle, Simon Oates, Allan Cuthbertson, Catherine von Schell, Nicholas Smith
6-04	16 October 1968	You'll Catch Your Death	Michael Culver, Valentine Dyall, Fulton Mackay, Sylvia Kay, Dudley Sutton
6-05	23 October 1968	Split!	Nigel Davenport, Chaim Topol, Bernard Archard, John G. Heller
6-06	30 October 1968	Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40?	Dennis Price, Clifford Evans, Judy Parfitt, Frank Windsor, Saskia Cohen Tanugi
6-07	6 November 1968	False Witness	Barry Warren, John Bennett, William Job
6-08	13 November 1968	All Done with Mirrors	Dinsdale Landen, Peter Copley, Edwin Richfield, Michael Trubshaw, Michael Nighttengale, Robert Sidaway
6-09	20 November 1968	Legacy of Death	Stratford Johns, Ronald Lacey, Richard Hurndall
6-10	27 November 1968	Noon Doomsday	T.P. McKenna, Ray Brooks, Anthony Ainley, Peter Bromilow
6-11	4 December 1968	Look — (Stop Me If You've Heard This One) — But There Were These Two Fellers...	Jimmy Jewel, John Cleese, Bernard Cribbins, Julian Chagrin, John Woodvine, Talfryn Thomas
6-12	11 December 1968	Have Guns — Will Haggle	Johnny Sekka, Nicola Pagett, Jonathan Burn
6-13	18 December 1968	They Keep Killing Steed	Ian Ogilvy, Ray McAnally, Norman Jones
6-14	1 January 1969	The Interrogators	Vincent Price, Glynn Edwards
6-15	8 January 1969	The Rotters	Gerald Sim, Eric Barker, Jerome Willis
6-16	15 January 1969	Invasion of the Earthmen	William Lucas, Warren Clarke, Lucy Fleming, Christian Roberts
6-17	22 January 1969	Killer	Jennifer Croxton, Richard Wattis, Grant Taylor, William Franklyn
6-18	29 January 1969	The Morning After	Peter Barkworth, Joss Ackland, Brian Blessed, Penelope Horner, Donald Douglas
6-19	5 February 1969	The Curious Case of the Countless Clues	Anthony Bate, Kenneth Cope
6-20	12 February 1969	Wish You Were Here	Liam Redmond, Robert Urquhart, Brook Williams, Dudley Foster
6-21	19 February 1969	Love All	Veronica Strong, Terence Alexander, Patsy Rowlands
6-22	26 February 1969	Stay Tuned	Kate O'Mara, Iris Russell, Roger Delgado, Gary Bond
6-23	5 March 1969	Take Me to Your Leader	Patrick Barr, Penelope Keith, John Ronane
6-24	12 March 1969	Fog	Nigel Green, Guy Rolfe
6-25	19 March 1969	Who Was That Man I Saw You With?	William Marlowe, Ralph Michael, Shane Rimmer
6-26	26 March 1969	Homicide and Old Lace	Joyce Carey, Mary Merrall, Gerald Harper, Keith Baxter, Edward Brayshaw
6-27	2 April 1969	Thingumajig	Dora Reisser, Iain Cuthbertson
6-28	7 April 1969	My Wildest Dream	Peter Vaughan, Edward Fox, Philip Madoc
6-29	16 April 1969	Requiem	Angela Douglas, John Paul, John Cairney
6-30	23 April 1969	Take-Over	Tom Adams, Hilary Pritchard, Michael Gwynn, Elizabeth Sellars, Garfield Morgan
6-31	30 April 1969	Pandora	Chaim Topol, Tatsuya Nakadai, John Laurie, Kathleen Byron
6-32	14 May 1969	Get-a-Way	Peter Bowles, Andrew Keir
6-33	21 May 1969	Bizarre	Roy Kinnear, Fulton Mackay

This unusually long series of 33 episodes is divided into two separate series by some sources.

NOTE: In the episode "Killer", Tara King is only seen departing for, and returning from, vacation. Steed's fellow agent for this episode is Lady Diana Forbes-Blakeney (played by Jennifer Croxton).