Avenging September
September’s episodes have been as variable as Tara’s hair. Two episodes I’d never seen before represented opposite ends of the quality spectrum (The Morning After and Look (Stop Me…)). But I’d […]
Film, TV & Radio
“The Curious Case of the Countless Clues” Review
Blackmailers commit murders in such a way as to be able to frame their victims. The dead are collateral damage. It’s like a more intelligent version of the scheme in You […]
“The Morning After” Review
The teaser to this episode is, quite unusually, a complete red herring. Steed and Tara set a trap for a double agent, which goes wrong… But that’s not a set-up […]
“Killer” Review
When Steed goes on holiday, Tara gets some useless twit who she has to discard at the first opportunity. When Steed goes on holiday, he gets a proper new partner. […]
“Invasion of the Earthmen” Review
So, i believe this is the closes thing we have to an episode as it might have been realised by John Bryce during his abortive stint as producer, before Clemens […]
Death of a Companion
It was announced this morning that Maggie Stables had died. In the years when Doctor Who was not on TV, it lived on through the audios and BBC webcasts. Evelyn […]
“The Rotters” Review
Watching paint dry is, I guess, supposed to be boring because it’s slow. But, then, it wouldn’t be much more interesting if it were faster. So, watching wood rot turns […]
“The Interrogators” Review
Here’s a test for my theory that Charles Crichton always directs an entertaining episode… It’s always a problem when The Avengers fails to take itself seriously. It’s all very well for […]
“The Caretaker” Review
Tonally wonky, this one. It starts out as if it’s an episode of the Sarah Jane Adventures, but Doctor Who has evolved with the recent regeneration, and Capaldi reminds me of […]
“They Keep Killing Steed” Review
Multiple versions of Steed is not a new concept in The Avengers. The Man With Two Shadows and Two’s A Crowd for example, not to mention the duplicates in Never, Never Say Die and probably […]
“Have Guns – Will Haggle” Review
Fencing stolen guns may not sound much like the kind of wild and wacky plots we’ve come to expect from recent episodes of the Avengers. It’s more the mundane criminality […]
“Look – (Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellers” Review
Some of the Tara King episodes are very forgettable, so when I look at the titles, I struggle to remember if I’ve even seen them. There are two reason why […]