“The Murder Market” Review
Here’s a nice surprise – this episode is much better than I remember. The opening is brilliant – a man is shot by his blind date – but in front […]
Here’s a nice surprise – this episode is much better than I remember. The opening is brilliant – a man is shot by his blind date – but in front […]
This is one of the few episodes of season 4 I could remember very little about, partly no doubt because I missed taping it back in the 90s, but also partly […]
Fabulous, perfectly paced, beautifully crafted, atmospheric episode. It opens with a pan across the picturesque setting to a Scottish castle (we know it’s Scottish, because Laurie Johnson’s especially composed bagpipe […]
Sometimes this is my favourite episode of The Avengers. Almost entirely set within a department store, with a brutal opening (an agent is gunned down in one of the stores […]
A distinctly sci-fi episode, with our first diabolical mastermind of season 4. It’s a strong episode, concerned with automation, robots and artificial intelligence. It’s a well crafted tale too, though […]
Every June solstice, as summer stretches ahead, some miserable bastard always say “well, the days are getting shorter”. Is there a more perfect Avengers episode than this? I think there […]
Ah, Mrs Peel, Mrs Peel. The Avengers swaggers back onto the screen after what – at the time – would have been an 18 month gap with a new theme […]
There’s a superficial intellectual appeal to these quizzes that are supposed to match you up to a political party. But fun though the quiz format may be, I think there’s […]
Cathy’s last episode, sadly. Worse, it’s a bit of a whimper, opening with a rather routine sinister murder and conspiracy then shaping up to be a rather boring standard procedural. Worse […]
We’re back in the world of the military – but this is far superior to The Golden Fleece. This time, the conspiracy is on a somewhat grander scale – an […]
Easily the best opening to an episode ever… A woman enters a room, passing Cathy and a tall gentleman. She rips her blouse, picks up the phone, claims she’s been […]
Here’s yet another story that gets remade – it’s another Brian Clemens story – which later became the equally fogettable The Correct Way to Kill. I’d forgotten this original so […]