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The New Avengers

  • 1976–1977
  • 2 seasons
  • Drama, Action & Adventure
  • 7.2

The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The Avengers and was developed by Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens. A joint United Kingdom-France-Canada production, the show picks up the adventures of John Steed and his team of Avengers fighting evil plots and world domination. Whereas in the original series Steed had almost always been partnered with a woman, in the new series he had two partners: Mike Gambit, a top agent, crack marksman and trained martial artist, and Purdey, a former trainee with The Royal Ballet who was an amalgam of many of the best talents from Steed's previous female partners.

Episodes

13 episodes
  1. 1Dead Men are Dangerous

    50 minSep 9, 1977

    Everything Steed cares about is being destroyed or threatened, including his china, his car, and even Purdey. The trio must uncover who would bare such a long-lasting and jealous grudge against the unflappable agent.

  2. 2Angels of Death

    50 minSep 16, 1977

    Senior civil servants, MPs, and intelligence personnel are all dying suddenly of ""natural causes,"" and there seems to be no obvious link. The only lead is the mortally-wounded agent who talks of angels of death that kill from within.

  3. 3Medium Rare

    50 minSep 23, 1977

    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.

  4. 4The Lion and the Unicorn

    50 minSep 30, 1977

    Paris: Steed captures his nemesis, the Unicorn. But when the Unicorn is accidentally killed by his own men, Steed must use all his cunning to avoid open warfare.

  5. 5Obsession

    50 minOct 7, 1977

    An old flame of Purdey's reappears when a missile goes missing from an air display. But what's the connection between that, a visiting Arab envoy, and a spy satellite photographing Buckinghamshire?

  6. 6Trap

    50 minOct 14, 1977

    When the Avengers foil a drug drop arranged by a Chinese overlord, they find themselves on the run from his men, the Oriental being determined to have their heads on plates.

  7. 7Hostage

    50 minOct 21, 1977

    After Purdey is kidnapped, Steed is given the ransom of Allied attack plans. But has the whole thing been a set up to make the Ministry think Steed is a traitor?

  8. 8K is for Kill: The Tiger Awakes (1)

    50 minOct 28, 1977

    In 1965, a young Russian soldier guns down a Salvation Army Band and escapes only to fall down dead and grow old. In France, in 1977, a young Russian soldier attacks men wearing uniforms. Then a Russian unit is attacking an empty home. After one of the soldiers dies, he also ages. Why are the Russians attacking old targets and then aging? Steed and company are trying to find answers.

  9. 9K is for Kill: Tiger by the Tail (2)

    50 minNov 4, 1977

    The Russian soldiers attacking in France were just the first wave. Two ""K"" agents are the true key to the plan. One ""K"" assassin is killed while assassinating a retired General. Who is the target for the second ""K"" agent and how might this start World War III? Only Steed, Gambit and Purdey can save the world.

  10. 10Complex

    50 minNov 11, 1977

    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.

  11. 11Forward Base

    50 minNov 18, 1977

    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.

  12. 12The Gladiators

    50 minNov 25, 1977

    KGB agent Karl Sminsky is recruiting criminals to train as supremely skilled fighters in order to smash Canada's security system. The Avengers find themselves up against a team of supermen.

  13. 13Emily

    50 minDec 17, 1977

    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.

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Series cast

Patrick MacneeJohn Steed26 episodes
Gareth HuntMike Gambit26 episodes
Joanna LumleyPurdey26 episodes
Maurice MarsacLeParge3 episodes
Sacha PitoëffKerov2 episodes
John PaulDoctor2 episodes
August SchellenbergBailey2 episodes
George ChuvaloHuge Man2 episodes
Neil VipondChuck Peters2 episodes
Louis ZorichKarl2 episodes
Peter BoretskiTarnokoff2 episodes
Terry WoodSoo Choy2 episodes
Pierre VernierColonel Martin2 episodes
Paul-Émile DeiberToy2 episodes
Christine DelarocheJeanine Leparge2 episodes
Charles MillotCol. Stanislav2 episodes
Jeremy WilkinRichards2 episodes
Anthony BaileySimon Carter2 episodes

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