Great opening – a woman finds her long lost husband has returned to the house – and he tries to strangle her. During a dinner party. Overall, though, it’s slow […]

This doesn’t start well. Dead birds, comically toppling off branches. It’s the least well realised effect in the whole episode, and they run it up front – intercut with stock […]

Presumably because of its surreal dream-sequence opening, this episode seems to be quite highly regarded, but it’s one of my least favourite. It has a much stronger, far less ambiguous […]

The second doppelgänger story (after The Man With Two Shadows). This one has a different twist… It’s a story which features a lot of models in different senses. Col Psev […]

This is 1970s Doctor Who in 1965. After a run of 10 good or outstanding episodes, the first dud of season 4. It’s a distinctly sci-fi episode, featuring the only […]

Another cracking episode – featuring some cutting edge technology: the pager! It’s so futuristic there’s an explanation of how pagers work (repeatedly emphasising they’re like the ones in hospitals – […]

Steed and Emma walk around a deserted airfield for half an hour – making it my favourite episode (if it weren’t for The Grave-Diggers and Death at Bargain Prices). The […]

I do love this episode. The concept of weather as a weapon of war is intriguing, and the factory full of top scientists ostensibly fermenting vegetable wines while the locals […]

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 […]