“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 […]
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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, […]
“Death’s Door” Review
“How could you rig a dream? I told no one about it.” This is an episode that puts right what Too Many Christmas Trees did wrong in a sense that there’s […]
“Return of the Cybernauts” Review
It’s unusual for an adversary of The Avengers to make a return. The cybernauts return twice (here, and once in The New Avengers). In The Cybernauts a lot of the suspense was derived […]
“Who’s Who???” Review
Early in this colour Peel series, the first stories (all by Philip Levene) inverted sci-fi tropes. There was the alien invasion that was a hoax, the time machine that was […]
“The Radioactive Man” Lost Episode Review
This is the fourth episode for which the script exists but the video recording doesn’t, so there’s a logic to suggesting it should have been the fourth episode on the […]
“The Joker” Review
This is a remake that gets my unqualified approval. Don’t Look Behind You was an excellent episode, and this is a relatively faithful adaptation with such small changes as there are […]
“Please Don’t Feed The Animals” Lost Episode Review
Another excellent piece of stylish nonsense revived by Big Finish on audio here. There’s a leak in the cypher department at the admiralty, and the twist is that secrets are being delivered […]
“Something Nasty In The Nursery” Review
1960s psychedelia and senior civil servants with a serious nanny fixation – all taken seriously, as it should be, making for a well-crafted and satisfying episode that is better than […]
“A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Station” Review
I guess I’m a sucker for anything with a train in it, but even allowing for that this is a rather wonderful episode – with a diabolical scheme and proper […]
“The Superlative Seven” Review
So, we come to the second remake. This is both an episode based on one I thought excellent and so worthy of being remade, and an episode that I enjoyed […]
“Ashes of Roses” Lost Episode Review
The superb audio productions of four of the lost Avengers episodes from series 1 that were released back in January by Big Finish (and prompted this Avengers frenzy of mine) were […]