Someone has left Mrs Peel a house. A great big country house. Left by an uncle she didn’t know. Still, if you’re as cool as Mrs Peel, you shrug and […]

Sigh. Moments of humour, in The Avengers, seem to have given way to entire sequences of sixth-form revue style sketches. For example, here, Steed visits officers in the army, navy […]

Mrs Peel. The queen of sin. Gosh. I knew I’d enjoy this episode. I just didn’t remember if it was any good. This is the episode that didn’t make it past the […]

A biker chicken running has a fatal encounter with a truck. But this thrill seeker turns out to be a decorated, 60 year old general. This is much better! As […]

Relentlessly comical, any danger or jeopardy is squeezed out in favour of whimsy. From the opening (comical music as a man pushes a pram) through the ‘comically’ alcoholic band leader, […]

Not a bad story, centred on the unimaginably advanced prospect of a satellite television link, marred somewhat by repeatedly cutting to astonishingly poorly lit studio shots during the many fairway […]

The Tara King era of the show suffers because, obviously, it doesn’t have Diana Rigg in it. But also because the comedic elements – the whimsy – lost their finesse […]

A poke at colonialism and those who hanker after it, this episode is a mix of fun (a tropical jungle in Hampshire) and discomfort (casual references to primitives and savages). […]

Great opening – a woman finds her long lost husband has returned to the house – and he tries to strangle her. During a dinner party. Overall, though, it’s slow […]

This doesn’t start well. Dead birds, comically toppling off branches. It’s the least well realised effect in the whole episode, and they run it up front – intercut with stock […]

Presumably because of its surreal dream-sequence opening, this episode seems to be quite highly regarded, but it’s one of my least favourite. It has a much stronger, far less ambiguous […]