Revisiting the mind-transference territory of the disastrous Who’s Who??? there’s a much stronger espionage pretext for the sci-fi element in line with the general New Avengers style. Unfortunately, this is just as contrived as the […]
5am on a Sunday morning and the only people awake in a section of London are The New Avengers and a bus load of looters. Like The Hour That Never Was and The Morning After this […]
After the horror of Gnaws, my faith shaken, I needed to watch another episode straight away – and thankfully, this one seems to get better and better every time I […]
The episode would have got away with just being exceptionally dull, if it weren’t for the ending. It’s clearly a cost-saving episode, set mostly in the sewers (studio) but the […]
This supremely confident but embarrassingly schlocky episode is a guilty pleasure; a favourite that doesn’t disappoint. It retreads a well-worn Avengers plot – the doppelganger – that, even if we discount […]
Unusually, this is a straight procedural, with our heroes tracing a blackmailer’s stash by… interviewing witnesses, retracing the blackmailer’s route, etc. It feels rather slow, and the pursuers are scruffy […]
Flashback to 1960. In Germany, secrets are being smuggled across the Iron Curtain. And in Britain, a half-hour show is goes out on Saturday nights about a police surgeon… Okay, […]
Ah, this is more fun. A clever premise, tightly plotted and directed, centring on the deliberately artificial but highly atmospheric shooting range (it’s a mix of home counties architecture and […]
One of just two episodes of The New Avengers I’ve never seen, this is a disappointment. The plot hasn’t been thought through – but seems, at the very least, to be suggested that […]
The rapid decline of The New Avengers continues with this messy combination of a somewhat implausible form of biological warfare (“Yes Mr Gambit, they died of everything”) and an Auric Goldfinger character […]
According to Bettridge’s Law this title should indicate there’s yet another Cybernaut episode to come – but there isn’t – and on the evidence of this episode (and the last […]
The opening is a silly but satisfying mix of humour and espionage – and the rest of this one’s not bad either. The plot is a little underdeveloped (how and […]
