“Who Was That Man I Saw You With?” Review
Although a story about framing one of The Avengers as a traitor seems like old hat, after 128 episodes, I’m having trouble putting my figure on where it happened before… I’m […]
“Fog” Review
Fog, Victoriana, Poe. This oddity eschews telling a story in favour of pure atmosphere. Not in the usual Avengers sense of pretty home counties villages, old fashioned pubs and red telephone […]
“Take Me To Your Leader” Review
This is almost like a writing exercise in paring down an Avengers episode to the minimum possible plot to allow a series of vignettes of pleasing eccentrics and enthusiastic spycraft to […]
“Mummy on the Orient Express” Review
Guuh ouh aah guah aaah. When I try to write how I felt while I was watching this episode, I end up doing little more than than transcribing my gurgles of pleasure. It’s […]
“Stay Tuned” Review
We are used to spies tailing one another; keeping out of sight of their target – though passers by can see them, they just see another pedestrian – it’s only […]
“Love All” Review
Yet mark’d I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love’s wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness. The honey-trap […]
“Kill The Moon” Review
Visually, this is an amazing episode – especially the moonscapes and the ultimate ‘hatching’ effect. Watch it with the sound down and it is as beautiful and flawless as… well, […]
“Wish You Were Here” Review
Well, The Prisoner did an episode that was little more than a poorly disguised rip-off of The Avengers, so I guess that it’s only fair that The Avengers does the same to The Prisoner […]
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 […]
“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. […]