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The Avengers

  • TV-14
  • 1961–1969
  • 6 seasons
  • Action & Adventure, Crime
  • 7.8

Mrs Peel, We're Needed!

A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).

Episodes

24 episodes
  1. 1From Venus with Love

    Jan 14, 1967

    The strange deaths of several astronomers, left bleached white, pose a problem. Whilst Steed joins the stargazers, Emma chases a bright light, and finds herself in the hot seat.

  2. 2The Fear Merchants

    Jan 21, 1967

    Four men involved in the production of ceramics suffer nervous breakdowns in everyday situations. All have recently turned down the opportunity to merge with the British Porcelain Company. Steed and Emma investigate the world of fear, with terrifying consequences.

  3. 3Escape in Time

    60 minJan 28, 19677.5

    Several notorious criminals have vanished into thin air. A whisper has been received that the escape chain starts in London, but, when agent Paxton follows it, he winds up dead in the Thames with a 300-year-old bullet in him.

  4. 4The See-Through Man

    Feb 4, 1967

    The Ministry has been broken into by, it seems, an invisible man. A trail leads via inventor Quilby to the Eastern Drug Company, a front organisation run by Soviet intelligence. Meanwhile, the crack spies Elena and Alexandre Vazin are in town. But nobody has seen anything of Alexandre....

  5. 5The Bird Who Knew Too Much

    Feb 11, 1967

    Emma and Steed investigate the mystery of how top secret things are being photographed from the air. Could it have something to do with the groovy world of fashion photography and a parrot called Captain Crusoe?

  6. 6The Winged Avenger

    Feb 18, 1967

    Is a creature that can walk up walls clawing to death ruthless and powerful men? Does it have anything to do with Professor Poole's invention of boots that let you walk on the ceiling, or with cartoon superhero the Winged Avenger?

  7. 7The Living Dead

    Feb 25, 1967

    When representatives of the two organizations head to a country church to investigate the sudden reappearance of a man long thought dead, Steed and Emma are called in to help. It isn't long, of course, before murder rears its ugly head.

  8. 8The Hidden Tiger

    Mar 4, 1967

    The mauling to death of several members of the committee of PURRR (the Philanthropic Union for the Rescue, Relief and Recuperation of Cats) exposes Steed and Emma to a diabolical scheme to take over the entire country.

  9. 9The Correct Way to Kill

    Mar 11, 1967

    Foreign agents are being killed, but not by British agents. Steed thinks it terribly unfair, and so does his opposite number, Nutski. They make an arrangement, and Steed and Emma find themselves with Soviet partners in an investigation of a group of very British killers.

  10. 10Never, Never Say Die

    Mar 18, 1967

    An unfortunate motorist keeps knocking down and killing the same man: a man who's rampaging through the countryside, bulletproof and intent on destruction. A man who just happens to be identical to the urbane Professor Frank N. Stone.

  11. 11Epic

    Apr 1, 1967

    Three Hollywood veterans, led by an insane director, decide that Emma would be perfect for their latest movie, so they kidnap her and film some surreal and deadly footage.

  12. 12The Superlative Seven

    Apr 8, 1967

    Steed is invited to a party, and finds himself trapped in a remote-controlled aircraft, with six fancy-dressed specialists in various combat styles, en route to a distant island. There, they are pitted against each other in a deadly test.

  13. 13A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station

    Apr 15, 1967

    When Lucas, an agent investigating something subversive, gets off his train at the wrong station he is murdered. Has the crime got anything to do with a mole at the admiralty, a train ticket and a fiendish plot to kill the Prime Minister?

  14. 14Something Nasty in the Nursery

    Apr 22, 1967

    Secrets known only to a small group of trusted men have leaked, and the men are having strange dreams of their childhood, featuring their nannies and a bouncing ball. Emma checks out the toyshop, Steed explores a school for nannies.

  15. 15The Joker

    52 minApr 29, 1967

    Invited for the weekend to the home of a fellow Bridge Expert, Emma finds herself trapped in a house designed to send her mad. Her tormentor is Max Prendergast, a man she befriended and then betrayed in Berlin some time before. Then Steed came to the rescue but now he's at home nursing a sprained ankle.

  16. 16Who's Who???

    May 6, 1967

    When one of the Floral Network of agents is found dead atop a pair of stilts, Steed and Emma's interest is piqued. That's the idea, because foreign agents Basil and Lola have a trap prepared for them: a machine that swaps their minds into the pair's bodies.

  17. 17Return of the Cybernauts

    60 minSep 30, 1967

    The brother of the late Clement Armstrong sets a deadly trap for Steed and Mrs. Peel, whom he blames for his brother's death at the hands of his murderous creations, the Cybernauts.

  18. 18Death's Door

    Oct 7, 1967

    A European peace conference comes under the threat of sabotage when the British delegates begin to suffer from premonitions and nightmares. After Sir Andrew Boyd, who has witnessd his death in a dream, is killed, Steed and Emma must keep his replacement, Lord Melford, sane and alive.

  19. 19The £50,000 Breakfast

    60 minOct 14, 1967

    The accidental death of a ventriloquist reveals that he had been carrying a fortune in gems inside his stomach. Steed stoops to blackmail and Emma goes shopping for ties in the search through the business community for a rich Borzoi.

  20. 20Dead Man's Treasure

    60 minOct 21, 1967

    A missing briefcase full of secrets propels Steed and Emma into a treasure hunt by car.

  21. 21You Have Just Been Murdered

    Oct 28, 1967

    Various millionaires are withdrawing large sums of money from the bank. Steed suspects blackmail but none of the men is willing to talk. Then he gets a call from Gilbert Jarvis, who tells Steed that he, Jarvis, has 'just been murdered'. Again.

  22. 22The Positive Negative Man

    60 minNov 4, 1967

    When a scientist is found embedded in a wall, Steed and Emma pursue a man in make-up and wellies, whose appearance is terribly shocking.

  23. 23Murdersville

    Nov 11, 1967

    Emma's old friend, Paul Croft, returns from abroad to retire to Little Storping-in-the Swurf. Unfortunately, the village seems to be run along very strange lines. Threatened by yokels, Emma finds herself outnumbered.

  24. 24Mission... Highly Improbable

    Nov 18, 1967

    When Sir Gerald Bancroft and his Rolls-Royce vanish whilst being escorted at a military base, Steed is called upon to solve the puzzle. But before he can he experiences that old shrinking feeling.

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Series cast

Patrick MacneeJohn Steed161 episodes
Honor BlackmanCatherine Gale52 episodes
Diana RiggEmma Peel51 episodes
Linda ThorsonTara King33 episodes
Ian HendryDr. David Keel26 episodes
Patrick NewellSmallwood22 episodes
Edwin RichfieldBarlow6 episodes
Julie StevensVenus Smith6 episodes
Philip MadocVan Doren5 episodes
Robert JamesRonnie Vance5 episodes
John SharpJupp4 episodes
Allan CuthbertsonWebster4 episodes
Michael RobbinsHenry Farrow4 episodes
Judy ParfittLoris4 episodes
Garfield MorganManservant4 episodes
John BaileyRalph Bleech4 episodes
Frank MaherNicholls4 episodes
John HollisZoltan4 episodes

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