List of The Avengers episodes

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

As of 2008, the only episodes known to still exist in their entirety from the first season 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. It was aired in Britain on ITV between 1961 and 1969.

As of May 2008, 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).

Contents

[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, Murray Melvin
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, George Murcell, Heron Carvic
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, Edwin Richfield, Ivor Salter
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, Dennis Edwards
1-14 13 May 1961 The Springers Brian Murphy, Donald Morley, David Webb
1-15 27 May 1961 The Frighteners Willoughby Goddard, Stratford Johns, Doris Hare, Neil Wilson, Philip Locke, Godfrey James, Eric Elliott
1-16 10 June 1961 The Yellow Needle Margaret Whiting, Wolfe Morris, Eric Dodson
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, Brian Jackson, Brandon Brady, Anne Tirard, Mitzi Rogers
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, Michael Hawkins
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, Michael Robbins, Eric Dodson, Keith Barron, Morris Perry, Steven Scott

[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, Michael Robbins, Michael Collins
2-02 6 October 1962 Propellant 23 Catherine Woodville, Justine Lord, Colin Stinton, Nicholas Courtney, John Dearth, John Gill, Geoffrey Palmer, Graham Ashley
2-03 13 October 1962 The Decapod (with Venus Smith) Philip Madoc, Paul Stassino, Wolfe Morris, Raymond Adamson, Valentino Musetti
2-04 20 October 1962 Bullseye Ronald Radd, Judy Parfitt, Robin Wentworth, Bernard Kay, Fred Ferris, Mitzi Rogers
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, Reed De Rouen, George Little
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, Leslie French, Eric Elliott, Dennis Edwards, Anthony Baird, Roger Maxwell
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, Jerome Willis, Patrick Holt, Alan Browning
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, Brian Vaughan
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, Keith Pyott, Peter Copley, George A. Cooper, Paul Anil, George Roubicek
2-22 23 February 1963 Man in the Mirror (with Venus Smith) Ray Barrett, Michael Gover, Hayden Jones, Rhoda Lewis, David Graham
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, Alan Haywood, Frank Gatliff
2-25 16 March 1963 Six Hands Across a Table Guy Doleman, Philip Madoc, Edward de Souza, Campbell Singer, Ian Cunningham, Ilona Rogers
2-26 23 March 1963 Killer Whale Patrick Magee, Morris Perry, John Bailey, Kenneth Farrington, John Tate, Christopher Coll

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, Michael Goldie, Alec Ross, Fred Ferris
3-02 5 October 1963 The Undertakers Lee Paterson, Jan Holden
3-03 12 October 1963 Man with Two Shadows Geoffrey Palmer, Terence Lodge, Paul Whitsun-Jones, George Little, Robert Lankesheer
3-04 19 October 1963 The Nutshell Charles Tingwell, John Cater, Patricia Haines, Edina Ronay
3-05 26 October 1963 Death of a Batman André Morell, Philip Madoc
3-06 2 November 1963 November Five David Davies, David Langton, Aimée Delamain
3-07 9 November 1963 The Gilded Cage Patrick Magee, Neil Wilson, Alan Haywood, Martin Friend
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, John Flint
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, Gordon Rollings, David Nettheim, Valentino Musetti
3-14 28 December 1963 Dressed to Kill Leonard Rossiter, Richard Leech, John Junkin, Anneke Wills, Alexander Davion, Leon Eagles
3-15 4 January 1964 The White Elephant Godfrey Quigley, Edwin Richfield, Judy Parfitt, Martin Friend
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, Jack May, Ronald Allen, Valentino Musetti
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, James Maxwell, Valentino Musetti, Eddie Powell
3-23 29 February 1964 The Charmers Fenella Fielding, Warren Mitchell, Vivian Pickles, Frank Mills, John Greenwood
3-24 7 March 1964 Concerto Nigel Stock, Sandor Eles, Geoffrey Colville
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, Valentino Musetti

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, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Gordon Whiting
4-04 23 October 1965 Death at Bargain Prices André 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, Edward Underdown
4-08 20 November 1965 A Surfeit of H2O Noel Purcell, Sue Lloyd, Talfryn Thomas, Albert Lieven, Geoffrey Palmer, John Bennett
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, Julian Glover, Wolfe Morris
4-13 25 December 1965 Too Many Christmas Trees Edwin Richfield, Jeanette Sterke, Robert James
4-14 1 January 1966 Silent Dust William Franklyn, Isobel Black, Norman Bird, Charles Lloyd-Pack, Aubrey Morris, Jack Watson
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, John Woodnutt, Maurice Kaufmann, Graham Armitage, Alan Gerrard
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, Jeremy Young, Robert Cawdron, Alf Joint
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, Griffith Davies, Michael Wynne, Keith Pyott
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, Jerome Willis, Christopher Benjamin, David Garth
4-26 26 March 1966 Honey for the Prince Ron Moody, Zia Mohyeddin, Jon Laurimore, Peter Diamond, George Pastell, Reg Pritchard

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 1965-1966 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.

'The Strange Case of the Missing Corpse' was filmed on the set of 'Honey for the Price' and what started out as a colour film test to promote the new season to TV execs got transformed into an advertisement for the upcoming colour episodes on American television, which was the only place to ever broadcast any part of it. It is said to have originally been a twenty-minute mini-episode, the version presently available on video is three minutes long

[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, Arthur Cox, Derek Newark, Kenneth Benda
5-02 21 January 1967 The Fear Merchants Patrick Cargill, Andrew Keir, Brian Wilde, Garfield Morgan, Annette Carell, Declan Mulholland, Edward Burnham
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, Donald Pickering, Neil Hallett, John Crocker, Roy Patrick, John Garrie, William Fox
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, Jack Gwillim, Stanley Meadows, Frederick Treves, Reg Pritchard
5-09 11 March 1967 The Correct Way to Kill Anna Quayle, Michael Gough, Peter Barkworth, Terence Alexander, Philip Madoc, Graham Armitage, Timothy Bateson
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 (mainly Peel) Peter Wyngarde, Isa Miranda, Kenneth J. Warren
5-12 8 April 1967 The Superlative Seven (mainly Steed) 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, Arnold Diamond, Campbell Singer, Malcolm Taylor
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, William Lucas, Marne Maitland
5-19 14 October 1967 The £50,000 Breakfast Yolande Turner, David Langton
5-20 21 October 1967 Dead Man's Treasure Valerie Van Ost, Edwin Richfield, Neil McCarthy, Arthur Lowe, Norman Bowler, Rio Fanning
5-21 28 October 1967 You Have Just Been Murdered Barrie Ingham, George Murcell, Leslie Crawford, Simon Oates, Leslie French, John Baker, Geoffrey Chater, Clifford Cox
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, Eric Flynn, Robert Cawdron, John Sharp, Tony Caunter, Geoffrey Colville, Joseph Greig
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, Aubrey Richards, Brian Badcoe, Garfield Morgan
6-03 9 October 1968 The Super Secret Cypher Snatch John Carlisle, Simon Oates, Allan Cuthbertson, Angela Scoular, Nicholas Smith, Donald Gee, David Quilter, Clifford Earl, Alec Ross, Lionel Wheeler
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, Julian Glover, 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, Tenniel Evans, Graham Ashley
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, Robert James
6-12 11 December 1968 Have Guns — Will Haggle Johnny Sekka, Nicola Pagett, Jonathan Burn, Roy Stewart, Timothy Bateson
6-13 18 December 1968 They Keep Killing Steed Ian Ogilvy, Ray McAnally, Norman Jones
6-14 1 January 1969 The Interrogators Christopher Lee, Glynn Edwards, Neil Wilson, Neil McCarthy, Philip Bond
6-15 8 January 1969 The Rotters Gerald Sim, Eric Barker, Jerome Willis, John Nettleton, Frank Middlemass, Charles Morgan, Harold Innocent
6-16 15 January 1969 Invasion of the Earthmen William Lucas, Warren Clarke, Lucy Fleming, Christian Roberts, Chris Chittell, George Roubicek
6-17 22 January 1969 Killer Jennifer Croxton, Richard Wattis, Grant Taylor, William Franklyn, Harry Towb, James Bree, Michael McStay, John Bailey
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, Derek Newark, Gary Watson, David Garth, Louise Pajo
6-21 19 February 1969 Love All Veronica Strong, Terence Alexander, Patsy Rowlands, Frank Gatliff, David Baron, Peter Stephens
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, Michael Robbins, Michael Hawkins, Henry Stamper
6-24 12 March 1969 Fog Nigel Green, Guy Rolfe, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Patsy Smart, Arnold Diamond, John Barrard
6-25 19 March 1969 Who Was That Man I Saw You With? William Marlowe, Ralph Michael, Shane Rimmer, Alan Wheatley, Ken Barker, Alan Browning, Ralph Ball, Aimée Delamain
6-26 26 March 1969 Homicide and Old Lace Joyce Carey, Mary Merrall, Gerald Harper, Keith Baxter, Edward Brayshaw, Bryan Mosley, Donald Pickering, Gertan Klauber, Kristopher Kum, Kevork Malikyan
6-27 2 April 1969 Thingumajig Dora Reisser, Iain Cuthbertson, Vernon Dobtcheff, Edward Burnham
6-28 7 April 1969 My Wildest Dream Peter Vaughan, Edward Fox, Philip Madoc, John Savident, Hugh Moxey
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, Michael Elwyn, Neil Hallett, Michael Culver, Robert Russell
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, holiday. Steed's fellow agent for this episode is Lady Diana Forbes-Blakeney (played by Jennifer Croxton).

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