“Super Secret Cypher Snatch” Review
This really is a well-crafted and entertaining episode. Something of a surprise, because it didn’t stand out in my memory – and it’s certainly not a classic, or one of […]
Month: August 2014
“Game” Review
Visually daring, with its surreal epic versions of board games, but conservative in terms of plot, this episode is entertaining if only because it’s Avengers by numbers. From the opening, […]
“The Forget-Me-Knot” Review
And so we bid farewell to Mrs Peel. There’s always a danger that everyone will hate the episode in which a well-loved character is written out, so I want to […]
“Mission… Highly Improbable” Review
My main complaint against this one I’ve already articulated in discussing Who’s Who??? At one end of this season the show took a rational, sceptical approach to sci-fi tropes using them as […]
“Deep Breath” Review
Well, it’s better than The Twin Dilemma, but it’s not as straight-forwardly enjoyable as The Christmas Invasion. In fact, I think it’s going to take quite a few viewings to […]
“Murdersville” Review
Holy Zarquon, this is good. How come it’s been so long since I watched this? No wonder I named my blog after it, I obviously had excellent taste back then… […]
“The Positive Negative Man” Review
Who hasn’t, while wearing rubber souled shoes, linked hands with fellow schoolmates to form a chain with the boy or girl on one end clutching the classroom’s metal doorknob, while […]
“You Have Just Been Murdered” Review
The last of those rare beasts: a Mrs Peel episode I’ve not seen before. The opening’s great, full of tension, as a man is threatened by an intruder. We see […]
“Dead Man’s Treasure” Review
This is basically just an excuse to chase around the countryside in lots of cool cars and have lots of location shots – which is great, because it’s highly entertaining. […]
“The £50,000 Breakfast” Review
The last of the remakes goes the furthest back in The Avengers history for its source – Death of a Great Dane, the only series 2 episode to be remade (the […]
Avenging July
Where June saw a decline in quality, July’s episodes have very gradually started to improve. With Epic and Who’s Who??? taking the show as far as it could go in one direction, […]
“Dance With Death” Lost Episode Review
There’s a scene at the start of Mark Taverner’s wonderful radio comedy In The Chair where the soundscape puts us in a dentists’ surgery. The dentist is reassuring the patient, who […]