The end of season 4 is something of a Clemens-athon, with 5 of the last 6 stories being by the associate producer – a run that included the magnificent A Touch […]

Oh dear. With a plot that effectively portrays all the women in this episode as both bitterly resentful man-haters (“ruination to all men”) and dupes, here’s an episode that undermines the […]

Someone has left Mrs Peel a house. A great big country house. Left by an uncle she didn’t know. Still, if you’re as cool as Mrs Peel, you shrug and […]

Sigh. Moments of humour, in The Avengers, seem to have given way to entire sequences of sixth-form revue style sketches. For example, here, Steed visits officers in the army, navy […]

Mrs Peel. The queen of sin. Gosh. I knew I’d enjoy this episode. I just didn’t remember if it was any good. This is the episode that didn’t make it past the […]

A biker chicken running has a fatal encounter with a truck. But this thrill seeker turns out to be a decorated, 60 year old general. This is much better! As […]

Relentlessly comical, any danger or jeopardy is squeezed out in favour of whimsy. From the opening (comical music as a man pushes a pram) through the ‘comically’ alcoholic band leader, […]

Not a bad story, centred on the unimaginably advanced prospect of a satellite television link, marred somewhat by repeatedly cutting to astonishingly poorly lit studio shots during the many fairway […]

The Tara King era of the show suffers because, obviously, it doesn’t have Diana Rigg in it. But also because the comedic elements – the whimsy – lost their finesse […]

A poke at colonialism and those who hanker after it, this episode is a mix of fun (a tropical jungle in Hampshire) and discomfort (casual references to primitives and savages). […]