At the start this seems to be a much more low-key almost domestic melodrama with no intriguing crime or mystery. It’s almost gritty – there’s a wake, tea, a range, […]

This high-concept World War III bunker story is much better than I remembered. There’s a psychological element in that once again Cathy appears to be confronted with the possibility that […]

Doubles, doubles, doubles. It’s something classic 60s TV shows seem unable to resist. The Prisoner with The Schizoid Man, Doctor Who with, well lots (The Massacre, The Enemy of the World, The […]

Season three continues confidently and this episode has a terrific opening – classic Avengers bizarre – as undertakers arrive for a body that, as they sing in Spamalot, is not […]

Suddenly, there’s a shift. The Avengers has become larger than life. We have a pair of conniving solicitors, gleefully revelling in lawyerly deviance as they sip brandy in front of […]

After the wrestling in The Decapod we’re back in the ring – but boxing this time. Steed has an investigation going and a hopeful boxer seems the perfect undercover man […]

Cathy seems to get rather deeply involved in this tale of murder and big business among Britain’s shipping yard magnates. Her connection appears to be a very close school friend, […]

This is more like it! A colourful and engaging adventure. We have a scientist, a moneyman, a politician. It’s not a subtle allegory, but it allows for some very interesting […]

This is a rehashing of the circus setting of Girl on the Trapeze but as cover for a mafia hitter rather than a gang of spies/kidnappers. It lacks the tension […]

Here’s another somewhat dull and routine melodrama trying to scrape some scary intrigues from an offbeat setting – an amusement arcade featuring a ‘ghost tunnel’. I can’t, however, hold it […]

I’m still not quite sure what the distinction between scifi and other stuff actually is, or why it matters (though I still hope to have it explained to me @fusionpatrol). […]