This is an episode list for the 1960s British television series The Avengers. The series was aired in Britain on ITV between 1961 and 1969.
The first four series were in black-and-white; the first three were shot on videotape, with occasional filmed inserts. Beginning with series 4 the series moved to all-film production shot using the single camera style. The series was in colour from series 5 onwards.
As of 2011, 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]
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).
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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 | Episode Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-01 | 7 January 1961 | Hot Snow | Catherine Woodville, Philip Stone, Robert James, Godfrey Quigley, Moira Redmond, Murray Melvin, Charles Wade | Only Act 1 (20 minutes) Intact |
| 1-02 | 14 January 1961 | Brought to Book | Philip Stone, Robert James, Godfrey Quigley, Neil McCarthy, Charles Morgan, Michael Collins, Clifford Elkin | Missing |
| 1-03 | 21 January 1961 | Square Root of Evil | Alex Scott, Michael Robbins, George Murcell, Heron Carvic | Broadcast live, never filmed |
| 1-04 | 28 January 1961 | Nightmare | Helen Lindsay | Missing |
| 1-05 | 4 February 1961 | Crescent Moon | Roger Delgado, Patience Collier, Eric Thompson | Broadcast live, never filmed |
| 1-06 | 11 February 1961 | Girl on the Trapeze (Keel only) | Kenneth J. Warren, David Grey, Edwin Richfield, Ivor Salter | Fully Intact |
| 1-07 | 18 February 1961 | Diamond Cut Diamond | Sandra Dorne | Broadcast live, never filmed |
| 1-08 | 24 February 1961 | The Radioactive Man | George Pravda, Gerald Sim, Christine Pollon | Broadcast live, never filmed |
| 1-09 | 4 March 1961 | Ashes of Roses | Mark Eden | Broadcast live, never filmed |
| 1-10 | 18 March 1961 | Hunt the Man Down | Melissa Stribling, Maurice Good | Missing |
| 1-11 | 1 April 1961 | Please Don't Feed the Animals | Tenniel Evans | Missing |
| 1-12 | 15 April 1961 | Dance with Death | Caroline Blakiston, Angela Douglas, Geoffrey Palmer | Missing |
| 1-13 | 29 April 1961 | One for the Mortuary | Frank Gatliff, Dennis Edwards, Peter Madden | Missing |
| 1-14 | 13 May 1961 | The Springers | Brian Murphy, Donald Morley, David Webb | Missing |
| 1-15 | 27 May 1961 | The Frighteners | Willoughby Goddard, Stratford Johns, Doris Hare, Neil Wilson, Philip Locke, Godfrey James, Eric Elliott | Fully Intact |
| 1-16 | 10 June 1961 | The Yellow Needle | Margaret Whiting, Wolfe Morris, Eric Dodson | Missing |
| 1-17 | 24 June 1961 | Death on the Slipway | Nyree Dawn Porter, Peter Arne, Frank Thornton, Hamilton Dyce, Gary Watson, Tom Adams | Missing |
| 1-18 | 8 July 1961 | Double Danger | Kevin Brennan, Charles Hodgson, Ron Pember | Missing |
| 1-19 | 22 July 1961 | Toy Trap | Tony Van Bridge, Brian Jackson, Brandon Brady, Anne Tirard, Mitzi Rogers | Missing |
| 1-20 | 5 August 1961 | The Tunnel of Fear | Murray Hayne, Morris Perry | Missing |
| 1-21 | 19 August 1961 | The Far Distant Dead (Keel only) | Katharine Blake, Tom Adams, Reed De Rouen, Francis de Wolff | Missing |
| 1-22 | 2 September 1961 | Kill the King | Burt Kwouk, Peter Barkworth, Moira Redmond, Patrick Allen, Andy Ho | Missing |
| 1-23 | 9 December 1961 | Dead of Winter | John Woodvine, Neil Hallett | Missing |
| 1-24 | 16 December 1961 | The Deadly Air | John Stratton, Allan Cuthbertson, Ann Bell, Geoffrey Bayldon, Michael Hawkins, Keith Anderson | Missing |
| 1-25 | 23 December 1961 | A Change of Bait | John Bailey, Tim Barrett, Henry Lincoln | Missing |
| 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 | Missing |
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, Nicholas Courtney, John Dearth, John Gill, Geoffrey Palmer, Graham Ashley, Barry Wilsher |
| 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, Alan Curtis, John Bennett, Malcolm Taylor, Terence Woodfield, Leslie Pitt, Pamela Ann Davy |
| 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, Anthony Rogers |
| 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, Gerald Cross |
| 2-11 | 8 December 1962 | Traitor in Zebra | William Gaunt, Richard Leech, John Sharp, June Murphy |
| 2-12 | 15 December 1962 | The Big Thinker | Tenniel Evans, David Garth, Antony Booth, Penelope Lee, Marina Martin |
| 2-13 | 22 December 1962 | Death Dispatch | Gerald Harper, Alan Mason |
| 2-14 | 29 December 1962 | Dead on Course (with Dr. Martin King) | Donal Donnelly, Janet Hargreaves, Bruce Boa, Edward Kelsey, Dennis Cleary |
| 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, James Bree, Gary Watson, Steve Plytas |
| 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, Terence Woodfield |
| 2-21 | 16 February 1963 | The White Dwarf | Philip Latham, Peter Copley, George A. Cooper, Bill Nagy, Constance Chapman, Keith Pyott, 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 Rietti, Sandra Dorne, Roy Purcell, Willie Shearer |
| 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 Rodgers |
| 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 Breakfast.
| 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, Patrick Holt |
| 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, Edric Connor, Norman Chappell, Alan Haywood, Martin Friend |
| 3-08 | 16 November 1963 | Second Sight | John Carson, Peter Bowles, Steven Scott |
| 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, Michael Hawkins, 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, Henry Lincoln |
| 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, Harry Landis, Tony Steedman, Christopher Robbie, Mark Heath |
| 3-17 | 18 January 1964 | The Wringer | Peter Sallis, Terence Lodge, Gerald Sim, Barry Letts, Paul Whitsun-Jones |
| 3-18 | 25 January 1964 | Mandrake | John Le Mesurier, Annette Andre, Philip Locke |
| 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, Derek Newark |
| 3-21 | 15 February 1964 | Build a Better Mousetrap | Athene Seyler, Nora Nicholson, John Tate |
| 3-22 | 22 February 1964 | The Outside-In Man | Ronald Radd, James Maxwell, Ronald Mansell, Valentino Musetti, Eddie Powell |
| 3-23 | 29 February 1964 | The Charmers | Fenella Fielding, Warren Mitchell, Vivian Pickles, Frank Mills, John Greenwood, Peter Porteous |
| 3-24 | 7 March 1964 | Concerto | Nigel Stock, Sandor Elès, Geoffrey Colville |
| 3-25 | 14 March 1964 | Esprit de Corps | Duncan Macrae, Roy Kinnear, John Thaw, Hugh Morton, Tony Lambden |
| 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 and Dressed to Kill was in large part remade in again the same series, as The Superlative Seven.
In this series, Steed was partnered by Emma Peel (as played by Diana Rigg). It was also the last series to be recorded in Black & White.
Actress Elizabeth Shepherd was originally cast as Emma Peel, one complete episode The Town of No Return was filmed before the producers closed down production partway through filming of a second episode The Murder Market in order to recast the part. The Shepherd footage has never been televised and is believed to be lost. Canal+ claimed they had the original footage then later retracted this claim.
For American broadcast, all episodes of the 1965-1966 series 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 in colour on the set of Honey for the Prince and was, as Brian Clemens originally wrote it, intended to be tagged on to the end of the final b/w episode transmitted in America to advertise the upcoming colour episodes (though the b/w sequence titled 'Preamble for USA' written by Clemens to introduce the item, which was to have featured Rigg and Macnee explaining/introducing this short colour test film is either lost or was never filmed). It was also cut down into a trailer for the colour episodes coming soon to ABC Network in America. It was never meant to be screened in any other country. (Just like the prologue to the b/w Rigg episodes.) There is a myth that it was to have originally been a twenty-minute mini-episode, the version presently available on video is three minutes long.
| Episode # | Original Air Date (UK) | Episode Title | Guest cast |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5-01 | 14 January 1967 | From Venus with Love | Barbara Shelley, Philip Locke, Jon Pertwee, Arthur Cox, Derek Newark, Kenneth Benda, Michael Lynch |
| 5-02 | 21 January 1967 | The Fear Merchants | Patrick Cargill, Andrew Keir, Brian Wilde, Garfield Morgan, Annette Carell, Bernard Horsfall, Declan Mulholland, Edward Burnham |
| 5-03 | 28 January 1967 | Escape in Time | Geoffrey Bayldon, Judy Parfitt, Imogen Hassall, Nicholas Smith, Clifford Earl, Edward Caddick |
| 5-04 | 4 February 1967 | The See-Through Man | Warren Mitchell, Roy Kinnear, Moira Lister, John Nettleton |
| 5-05 | 11 February 1967 | The Bird Who Knew Too Much | Ron Moody, Ilona Rodgers, Kenneth Cope, Michael Coles, John Wood, Anthony Valentine, John Lee |
| 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 | Julian Glover, Pamela Ann Davy, Jack Woolgar, Jack Watson, Edward Underdown, John Cater, Vernon Dobtcheff |
| 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, John G. Heller |
| 5-10 | 18 March 1967 | Never, Never Say Die | Christopher Lee, Patricia English, Michael Gough, Christopher Benjamin, Peter Dennis, Alan Chuntz, Jeremy Young, Arnold Ridley |
| 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, John Hollis |
| 5-13 | 15 April 1967 | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station | James Hayter, John Laurie, Drewe Henley, Isla Blair, Tim Barrett, Richard Caldicot, Michael Nightingale |
| 5-14 | 22 April 1967 | Something Nasty in the Nursery | Dudley Foster, Yootha Joyce, Paul Eddington, Clive Dunn, Patrick Newell, Trevor Bannister, Paul Hardwick, Dennis Chinnery |
| 5-15 | 29 April 1967 | The Joker | Peter Jeffrey, Ronald Lacey, Sally Nesbitt, John Stone |
| 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, Roger Hammond, Noel Coleman |
| 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, Christopher Greatorex, Nigel Lambert, Jon Laurimore, Anneke Wills, Cecil Parker |
| 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 Elès |
| 5-23 | 11 November 1967 | Murdersville | Colin Blakely, John Ronane, Ronald Hines, John Sharp, Sheila Fearn, Eric Flynn, Norman Chappell, Robert Cawdron, Tony Caunter, Geoffrey Colville |
| 5-24 | 18 November 1967 | Mission: Highly Improbable | Ronald Radd, Jane Merrow, Francis Matthews, Nicholas Courtney, Richard Leech, Kevin Stoney |
The Fear Merchants was the first episode of the Avengers to be produced in colour.
| 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, Alan Lake, John Lee, Douglas Sheldon |
| 6-02 | 2 October 1968 | Game | Peter Jeffrey, Aubrey Richards, Brian Badcoe, Garfield Morgan, Alex Scott |
| 6-03 | 9 October 1968 | Super Secret Cypher Snatch | John Carlisle, Simon Oates, Allan Cuthbertson, Ivor Dean, 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, Ronald Culver, Charles Lloyd Pack, Hamilton Dyce, Geoffrey Chater, Willoughby Gray |
| 6-05 | 23 October 1968 | Split! | Nigel Davenport, Julian Glover, Bernard Archard, John G. Heller, Steven Scott, Maurice Good, Christopher Benjamin |
| 6-06 | 30 October 1968 | Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40? | Dennis Price, Clifford Evans, Judy Parfitt, Frank Windsor, Saskia Cohen Tanugi, Anthony Nicholls, Valerie Leon, Arthur Cox |
| 6-07 | 6 November 1968 | False Witness | Barry Warren, John Bennett, Tony Steedman, William Job, Simon Lack, Arthur Pentelow, Rio Fanning, Jimmy Gardner |
| 6-08 | 13 November 1968 | All Done with Mirrors | Dinsdale Landen, Peter Copley, Edwin Richfield, Michael Trubshawe, Michael Nightingale, Robert Sidaway, Tenniel Evans, Graham Ashley, David Grey |
| 6-09 | 20 November 1968 | Legacy of Death | Stratford Johns, Ronald Lacey, Richard Hurndall, John Hollis, Tutte Lemkow, Michael Bilton |
| 6-10 | 27 November 1968 | Noon Doomsday | T. P. McKenna, Ray Brooks, Anthony Ainley, Peter Bromilow, Peter Halliday |
| 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, Michael Turner |
| 6-13 | 18 December 1968 | They Keep Killing Steed | Ian Ogilvy, Ray McAnally, Norman Jones, Bernard Horsfall, Reg Whitehead |
| 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, Jerome Willis, Eric Barker, John Nettleton, Patrick Newell, Frank Middlemass, Harold Innocent, Amy Dalby, John Stone |
| 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, Tony Selby, Edward de Souza, George A. Cooper, Reginald Jessup, Peter Jones |
| 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, Richard Caldicot |
| 6-21 | 19 February 1969 | Love All | Veronica Strong, Terence Alexander, Patsy Rowlands, Frank Gatliff, David Baron, Peter Stephens, Zulema Dene, Larry Taylor |
| 6-22 | 26 February 1969 | Stay Tuned | Gary Bond, Kate O'Mara, Iris Russell, Duncan Lamont, Howard Marion-Crawford, Roger Delgado, Harold Kasket, Ewan Roberts, Patrick Westwood |
| 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, Norman Chappell, Patsy Smart, Arnold Diamond |
| 6-25 | 19 March 1969 | Who Was That Man I Saw You With? | William Marlowe, Ralph Michael, Shane Rimmer, Alan MacNaughtan, Alan Wheatley, Bryan Marshall, 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, Stephen Hubay |
| 6-27 | 2 April 1969 | Thingumajig | Dora Reisser, Iain Cuthbertson, Vernon Dobtcheff, Edward Burnham, Willoughby Goddard, Russell Waters |
| 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 Cairney, John Paul, Denis Shaw, Katya Wyeth, John Baker |
| 6-30 | 23 April 1969 | Take-Over | Tom Adams, Hilary Pritchard, Michael Gwynn, Elizabeth Sellars, Garfield Morgan |
| 6-31 | 30 April 1969 | Pandora | Julian Glover, Reginald Barratt, John Laurie, Kathleen Byron, Peter Madden |
| 6-32 | 14 May 1969 | Get-a-Way | Peter Bowles, Andrew Keir, Michael Elwyn, Neil Hallett, Michael Culver, Robert Russell, William Wilde, James Belchamber |
| 6-33 | 21 May 1969 | Bizarre | Roy Kinnear, Fulton Mackay, John Sharp, Ron Pember |
John Bryce replaced, for the start of the series, Brian Clemens and Albert Fennell as producer. By the time Clemens and Fennell returned three episodes had been filmed: Two 90 minute episodes called Invitation To a Killing and The Great Great Britain Crime as well as a standard length episode Invasion of the Earthmen. These were considered to be extremely flawed episodes and likely would have been scrapped except they didn't have time to film new episodes and meet their American contract so Invitation To a Killing was heavily edited and had several new shots filmed to become Have Guns — Will Haggle, The Great Great Britain Crime was heavily edited and had some old footage from previous episodes added, as well as some new footage to become Homicide and Old Lace. Invasion of the Earthmen was slightly edited as well. No known copies of the original version of "Invasion of the Earthmen" or the two 90 minute episodes are known to exist.[2]
This unusually long series of 33 episodes was divided into two separate series on original US broadcast. It was produced in two batches: seven episodes (mostly without Patrick Newell as "Mother" and none with Rhonda Parker as "Rhonda") and were added to the last eight Diana Rigg episodes for broadcast in the USA in the spring of 1968, which made up the third series on ABC in America. On the original US broadcasts these episodes featured the original 'Shooting Gallery' opening/closing titles featuring Tara in a tight fitting tan outfit with a short skirt and gunshots as Steed and Tara are shot at by an unseen gunman, this was filmed by Harry Booth. These seven episodes were then added sporadically into the 26 episodes produced in the next block and transmitted in Britain as a single 33-episode run. The standard title sequence field/suits of armour opening and playing card ending were filmed by Robert Fuest, originally for the first US transmission of the 2nd block of 26 episodes, which made up the fourth series on ABC in America. These were then tacked on to all 33 episodes when broadcast in the UK, apart from 'The Forget-Me-Knot' which retained the amended Emma Peel opening credits and the original Tara King end credit sequence.[3]
NOTES: 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).
In the USA the field/suits of armour title sequence was re-edited to 23 seconds (the UK sequence runs 49 seconds), to accommodate more commercials.
The original 1968 German dubbed episodes of this series had the field/suits of armour opening titles but the 'Shooting Gallery' end titles.
The original 1968 French dubbed episodes of this series feature a variant in the opening title music, a gunshot is heard during the shot of Tara running between two rows of suits of armour toward Steed, and the sound of the sword swipe at the beginning is missing.
The original title music for the opening 'Shooting Gallery' sequence featured gunshots, the version of "Split!" with this title sequence currently available on DVD has the standard title music with opening sword swipe sound effect, where the 1st gunshot should be.
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