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The Avengers (1960-1969)
 Country
of Origin: UK
Dates of Broadcast: 7 January 1961 - 21 May 1969
Number of Seasons: 6
Total Number of Episodes: 161
Average Episode Running Times: 50m
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: black and white (1961-1965); colour (1967-1969)
Sound: mono
PLOT SUMMARY
Debonaire British secret agent John Steed teams with a variety of fellow
agents, usually women, to combat all manner of master criminals, mad
scientists and other threats to national security.
EPISODES
| SERIES ONE |
SERIES TWO |
SERIES THREE |
Hot Snow (7 January 1961)
Brought to Book (14 January 1961)
Square Root of Evil (21 January 1961)
Nightmare (28 January 1961)
Crescent Moon (4 February 1961)
Girl on the Trapeze (11 February 1961)
Diamond Cut Diamond (18 February 1961)
The Radioactive Man (25 February 1961)
Ashes of Roses (4 March 1961)
Hunt the Man Down (18 March 1961)
Please
Don't Feed the Animals (1 April 1961)
Dance with Death (15 April 1961)
One for the Mortuary (29 April 1961)
The Springers (13 May 1961)
The Frighteners (27 May 1961)
The Yellow Needle (10 June 1961)
Death on the Slipway (24 June 1961)
Double Danger (8 July 1961)
Toy Trap (22 July 1961)
The Tunnel of Fear (5 August 1961)
The Far Distant Dead (19 August 1961)
Kill the King (2 September 1961)
Dead of Winter (9 December 1961)
The Deadly Air (16 December 1961)
A Change of Bait (23 December 1961)
Dragonsfield (30 December 1961) |
Mr Teddy Bear (29 September 1962)
Propellant 23 (6 October 1962)
The Decapod (13 October 1962)
Bullseye (20 October 1962)
Mission to Montreal (27 October 1962)
The Removal Men (3 November 1962)
The
Mauritius Penny (10 November 1962)
Death of a Great Dane (17 November 1962)
The Sell-Out (24 November 1962)
Death on the Rocks (1 December 1962)
Traitor in Zebra (8 December 1962)
The
Big Thinker (15 December 1962)
Death Dispatch (22 December 1962)
Dead on Course (29 December 1962)
Intercrime (5 January 1963)
Immortal Clay (12 January 1963)
Box of Tricks (19 January 1963)
Warlock (26 January 1963)
The Golden Eggs (2 February 1963)
School for Traitors (9 February 1963)
The White Dwarf (16 February 1963)
The Man in the Mirror (23 February 1963)
Conspiracy of Silence (2 March 1963)
A Chorus of Frogs (9 March 1963)
Six Hands Across a Table (16 March 1963)
Killer Whale (23 March 1963) |
Brief for Murder (28 September 1963)
The Undertakers (5 October 1963)
Man with Two Shadows (12 October 1963)
The
Nutshell (19 October 1963)
Death
of a Batman (26 October 1963)
November Five (2 November 1963)
The Gilded Cage (9 November 1963)
Second Sight (16 November 1963)
The Medicine Men (23 November 1963)
The Grandeur That Was Rome (30 November 1963)
The
Golden Fleece (7 December 1963)
Don't Look Behind You (14 December 1963)
Death Ala Carte (21 December 1963)
Dressed to Kill (28 December 1963)
The White Elephant (4 January 1964)
The Little Wonders (11 January 1964)
The Wringer (18 January 1964)
Mandrake (25 January 1964)
The Secrets Broker (1 February 1964)
Trojan
Horse (8 February 1964)
Build a Better Mousetrap (15 February 1964)
The Outside-In Man (22 February 1964)
The Charmers (29 February 1964)
Concerto (7 March 1964)
Esprit De Corps (14 March 1964)
Lobster Quadrille (21 March 1964) |
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| SERIES FOUR |
SERIES FIVE |
SERIES SIX |
The Town of No Return (2 October 1965)
The Gravediggers (9 October 1965)
The Cybernauts
(16 October 1965)
Death
at Bargain Prices (23 October 1965)
Castle De'ath (30 October 1965)
The Master Minds (6 November 1965)
The Murder Market (13 November 1965)
A Surfeit of H2O (20 November 1965)
The Hour that Never Was (27 November 1965)
Dial
a Deadly Number (4 December 1965)
Man-Eater of Surrey Green (11 December 1965)
Two's a Crowd (18 December 1965)
Too Many Christmas Trees (25 December 1965)
Silent Dust (1 January 1966)
Room Without a View (8 January 1966)
Small Game For Big Hunters (15 January 1966)
The Girl From Auntie (22 January 1966)
The Thirteenth Hole (29 January 1966)
Quick-Quick Slow Death (5 February 1966)
The
Danger Makers (12 February 1966)
A Touch of Brimstone (19 February 1966)
What
the Butler Saw (26 February 1966)
The House That Jack Built (5 March 1966)
A Sense of History (12 March 1966)
How
to Succeed... at Murder (19 March 1966)
Honey For the Prince (26 March 1966) |
From Venus With Love (14 January 1967)
The Fear Merchants (21 January 1967)
Escape in Time (28 January 1967)
The See-Through Man (4 February 1967)
The Bird Who Knew Too Much (11 February 1967)
The Winged Avenger (18 February 1967)
The Living Dead (25 February 1967)
The Hidden Tiger (4 March 1967)
The
Correct Way to Kill (11 March 1967)
Never, Never Say Die (18 March 1967)
Epic (1 April 1967)
The Superlative Seven (8 April 1967)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station (15 April 1967)
Something Nasty in the Nursery (22 April 1967)
The Joker (29 April 1967)
Who's Who??? (6 May 1967)
Return of the Cybernauts (30 September 1967)
Death's Door (7 October 1967)
The 50,000 Pound Breakfast (14 October 1967)
Dead Man's Treasure (21 October 1967)
You Have Just Been Murdered (28 October 1967)
The Positive Negative Man (4 November 1967)
Murdersville (11 November 1967)
Mission... Highly Improbable (18 November 1967) |
The Forget-Me-Knot (12 January 1969)
Game (19 January 1969)
Super Secret Cypher Snatch (26 January 1969)
You'll
Catch Your Death (2 February 1969)
Split! (9 February 1969)
Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40 (16 February 1969)
False Witness (23 February 1969)
All
Done With Mirrors (2 March 1969)
Legacy of Death (9 March 1969)
Noon
Doomsday (16 March 1969)
Look- (stop me if you've heard this one) But There Were These Two
Fellers... (23 March 1969)
Have Guns- Will Haggle (30 March 1969)
They Keep Killing Steed (6 April 1969)
The Interrogators (13 April 1969)
The Rotters (20 April 1969)
Invasion of the Earthmen (27 April 1969)
Killer (4 May 1969)
The Morning After (11 May 1969)
The Curious Case of the Countless Clues (18 May 1969)
Wish You Were Here (25 May 1969)
Stay Tuned (8 June 1969)
Take Me To Your Leader (15 June 1969)
Fog (23 June 1969)
Homicide
and Old Lace (6 July 1969)
Love
All (13 July 1969)
Get-A-Way! (27 July 1969)
Thingumajig (1 August 1969)
Pandora (10 August 1969)
Requiem (17 August 1969)
Take-Over (24 August 1969)
Who Was That Man I Saw You With? (31 August 1969)
My Wildest Dream (7 September 1969)
Bizarre (14 September 1969) |
AVAILABILITY
France
DVD Distributor: Canal+
UK
DVD Distributor: Kult TV/Contender
USA
DVD Distributor: A&E Home Video
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Chapeau melon et bottes de cuir - French
title
Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone - German title
Agente Speciale - Italian title
Vengadores, Los - Spanish/Argentinian title
LINKS
SEQUEL
New Avengers, The (1976-1977)
SEE ALSO
Avengers, The (1998)
EXTRACTS INCLUDED IN
Avengers Revisited, The (2005)
REFERENCES
BOOKS
The Avengers by Toby Miller
articles
The Avengers and Me by Patrick Macnee
and Dave Rogers
production notes
The Avengers Companion by Alain Carraze
and Jean-Luc Putheaud
articles, episode guide
The Avengers Dossier by Paul Cornell,
Martin Day and Keith Topping
episode guide, reviews
The Complete Avengers by Dave Rogers
episode guide, production notes, credits, synopses
The Ultimate Avengers by Dave Rogers
episode guide, production notes, credits, synopses
KEYWORDS
secret agents, spies
Last Updated:
21 February, 2010
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