“Mission… Highly Improbable” Review
My main complaint against this one I’ve already articulated in discussing Who’s Who??? At one end of this season the show took a rational, sceptical approach to sci-fi tropes using them as […]
“Deep Breath” Review
Well, it’s better than The Twin Dilemma, but it’s not as straight-forwardly enjoyable as The Christmas Invasion. In fact, I think it’s going to take quite a few viewings to […]
“Murdersville” Review
Holy Zarquon, this is good. How come it’s been so long since I watched this? No wonder I named my blog after it, I obviously had excellent taste back then… […]
“The Positive Negative Man” Review
Who hasn’t, while wearing rubber souled shoes, linked hands with fellow schoolmates to form a chain with the boy or girl on one end clutching the classroom’s metal doorknob, while […]
“You Have Just Been Murdered” Review
The last of those rare beasts: a Mrs Peel episode I’ve not seen before. The opening’s great, full of tension, as a man is threatened by an intruder. We see […]
“Dead Man’s Treasure” Review
This is basically just an excuse to chase around the countryside in lots of cool cars and have lots of location shots – which is great, because it’s highly entertaining. […]
“The £50,000 Breakfast” Review
The last of the remakes goes the furthest back in The Avengers history for its source – Death of a Great Dane, the only series 2 episode to be remade (the […]
Avenging July
Where June saw a decline in quality, July’s episodes have very gradually started to improve. With Epic and Who’s Who??? taking the show as far as it could go in one direction, […]
“Dance With Death” Lost Episode Review
There’s a scene at the start of Mark Taverner’s wonderful radio comedy In The Chair where the soundscape puts us in a dentists’ surgery. The dentist is reassuring the patient, who […]
“Death’s Door” Review
“How could you rig a dream? I told no one about it.” This is an episode that puts right what Too Many Christmas Trees did wrong in a sense that there’s […]
“Return of the Cybernauts” Review
It’s unusual for an adversary of The Avengers to make a return. The cybernauts return twice (here, and once in The New Avengers). In The Cybernauts a lot of the suspense was derived […]
“Who’s Who???” Review
Early in this colour Peel series, the first stories (all by Philip Levene) inverted sci-fi tropes. There was the alien invasion that was a hoax, the time machine that was […]