The return of Ambassador Brodny makes this a sequel of sorts to the middling season 4 episode Two’s A Crowd. Yes, it’s another Levene story with a sci-fi premise being proved to […]

Another Philip Levene script; another unlikely phenomenon (time travel rather than a Venusian invasion in this one) that turns out to be a clever hoax. There’s an excuse for some […]

Despite the fantastic opening (an agoraphobic man in dressing gown wakes up to find he has been left in empty stadium) this episode fails to excite. The only other decent […]

The Avengers in Colour. Four words that signal the most significant drop in quality in the show’s run. It starts with a downgrade of the titles. (Actually, it starts with […]

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, […]