There are four remakes in what is, perhaps, the least creative series of The Avengers made, and this is the first. It’s a remake of The Charmers, which I didn’t rate that […]

One of only a couple of Avengers episodes remaining that I’ve never seen, and with this, I haven’t missed much. The killer’s POV shots are overused to the point of […]

A dash of Bond villain lair, and a callback to the preoccupations of early in series 4, and finally we have a colour episode that delivers unqualified entertainment. The village […]

There’s a decent (and well executed) gag being saved up which makes it worth limping through the first well-padded 40 minutes. A pastiche of the comic book and contemporary Batman […]

A comprehensive avian-based espionage scheme underpins this one; and it’s actually a reasonable episode – certainly the best of the colour lot so far. Not so good as to stick […]

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 […]