Cathy’s last episode, sadly. Worse, it’s a bit of a whimper, opening with a rather routine sinister murder and conspiracy then shaping up to be a rather boring standard procedural. Worse […]

We’re back in the world of the military – but this is far superior to The Golden Fleece. This time, the conspiracy is on a somewhat grander scale – an […]

Easily the best opening to an episode ever… A woman enters a room, passing Cathy and a tall gentleman. She rips her blouse, picks up the phone, claims she’s been […]

Here’s yet another story that gets remade – it’s another Brian Clemens story – which later became the equally fogettable The Correct Way to Kill. I’d forgotten this original so […]

Jarringly – after the lightweight nonsense of Mousetrap – we’re thrown back into cold war politics in this tale of a general once seen as such a threat to security […]

Another Brian Clemens script which again hints at the future direction of The Avengers, but – unfortunately – even beyond the Mrs Peel era and into the cartoonish excesses of […]

Steed’s looking after another high profile diplomatic visitor – an equine one this time. This is a solid but stolid story from Malcolm Hulke – the central premiss of being […]

Passing secrets at a seance as if from ‘beyond the curtain’ is a splendidly Avengersesque conceit. This is a solid episode with an ebullient performance from Jack May as a […]

This is perfection – charming, eccentric, absurd yet oddly plausible – this could be the blueprint for the very best season 4 episodes. The plot is diabolical yet simple – […]

Brainwashing. Steed is accused of treachery and gets sent off for interrogation; but instead of trying to get stuff out they put stuff in. Although this seems to be a […]