I’m still not quite sure what the distinction between scifi and other stuff actually is, or why it matters (though I still hope to have it explained to me @fusionpatrol). […]

This is a great little story, taking the best of the grim realism of the early episodes (widowed Diana’s distress is a lovely bit of melodrama, and the ambulance crash […]

Ooh-er! That dancing! Ahem. Is it me, or is it hot in here? Essentially, this is the pilot for the X-Files, albeit 30 years and and 7 months before the […]

The titular box is either the cabinet used by a stage magician for the vanishing lady trick, or a casket supposedly stuffed with healing crystals by a quack Doctor (each, […]

“I’ve told you before, I don’t approve of amateurs.” For a show whose premise is based on an professional crime-fighter teaming up with an amateur, you might expect this to […]

This falls between two stools. Not quite the gritty kind of story The Avengers was originally about, doesn’t play up the fantastical nonsense enough. We have a crime bureau with […]

There’s a seriously shocking opening for an Avengers episode: a plane crash with 38 fatalities. The manner of their deaths is grim as the pilots guided by wreckers, and, in […]

We’re in Jamaica! I joked about having an episode set further afield than France and suddenly we’re galavanting through Columbia and Peru… Just as The Removal Men, the hot location […]

Computers! For a moment I wondered if this was where The Avengers gets all futuristic and veers into sci-fi. Having its roots in ‘gritty’ crime drama, and then having developed […]

Sabotage! Espionage! Military! Chemistry! This is more like it. Despite an unfeasibly elaborate method for passing secrets, via a dartboard and a member of the subspecies canine lupus, this is […]

Diamond smuggling. Despite the exotic allure of the stones themselves, this is back to busting brutal organised crime in a very season one style story. It’s a brutal, brute-force attempt […]