“The Hidden Tiger” Review
One of only a couple of Avengers episodes remaining that I’ve never seen, and with this, I haven’t missed much. The killer’s POV shots are overused to the point of […]
One of only a couple of Avengers episodes remaining that I’ve never seen, and with this, I haven’t missed much. The killer’s POV shots are overused to the point of […]
A dash of Bond villain lair, and a callback to the preoccupations of early in series 4, and finally we have a colour episode that delivers unqualified entertainment. The village […]
There’s a decent (and well executed) gag being saved up which makes it worth limping through the first well-padded 40 minutes. A pastiche of the comic book and contemporary Batman […]
The wonderful wonderful black and white period of The Avengers ends with some of its weaker episodes, then the colour episodes come along and remind you how good even the […]
A comprehensive avian-based espionage scheme underpins this one; and it’s actually a reasonable episode – certainly the best of the colour lot so far. Not so good as to stick […]
The return of Ambassador Brodny makes this a sequel of sorts to the middling season 4 episode Two’s A Crowd. Yes, it’s another Levene story with a sci-fi premise being proved to […]
Another Philip Levene script; another unlikely phenomenon (time travel rather than a Venusian invasion in this one) that turns out to be a clever hoax. There’s an excuse for some […]
Despite the fantastic opening (an agoraphobic man in dressing gown wakes up to find he has been left in empty stadium) this episode fails to excite. The only other decent […]
The Avengers in Colour. Four words that signal the most significant drop in quality in the show’s run. It starts with a downgrade of the titles. (Actually, it starts with […]
The end of season 4 is something of a Clemens-athon, with 5 of the last 6 stories being by the associate producer – a run that included the magnificent A Touch […]
Oh dear. With a plot that effectively portrays all the women in this episode as both bitterly resentful man-haters (“ruination to all men”) and dupes, here’s an episode that undermines the […]
The Avengers go back to University. Still no Impact or REF, but the students are less well behaved than in School for Traitors… It begins with an ambush, masked archers collecting […]