Sometimes simplicity can be effective, even if it means repeating the most frequently repeated tropes of a TV show. But I have my reservations about this one. The core elements […]

The New Avengers never reaches the same heights that The Avengers achieved at its best, but it manages to equal its lows at its worst. And it’s hard to imagine how this […]

While this opens with a very English country lane car chase, for most of the episode we’re very obviously in France (in a neat inversion of location from Angels of […]

There’s an apparently psychic medium in this, failing to spice up a rather weak traitor-in-the-organisation plot. We get to see lots of the department again. Freddie-the-paymaster is another good chum […]

Opening on the steps of Montmartre, it’s exciting to be abroad. When were we last abroad in The Avengers? Does The Superlative Seven count? If not, was it Second Sight? Anyway, this time, we’ve […]

Steed has yet another close friend – a schoolfriend in this case – and once again we are regaled with stories of how what a high achieving model of perfection […]

Let’s start off with the title: it’s rubbish. The New Avengers? Why the rebrand? What makes this different from The Avengers? Sure, this is a million miles from the Mrs Peel […]

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 […]