Every June solstice, as summer stretches ahead, some miserable bastard always say “well, the days are getting shorter”. Is there a more perfect Avengers episode than this? I think there […]

Ah, Mrs Peel, Mrs Peel. The Avengers swaggers back onto the screen after what – at the time – would have been an 18 month gap with a new theme […]

Cathy’s last episode, sadly. Worse, it’s a bit of a whimper, opening with a rather routine sinister murder and conspiracy then shaping up to be a rather boring standard procedural. Worse […]

We’re back in the world of the military – but this is far superior to The Golden Fleece. This time, the conspiracy is on a somewhat grander scale – an […]

Easily the best opening to an episode ever… A woman enters a room, passing Cathy and a tall gentleman. She rips her blouse, picks up the phone, claims she’s been […]

Here’s yet another story that gets remade – it’s another Brian Clemens story – which later became the equally fogettable The Correct Way to Kill. I’d forgotten this original so […]

Jarringly – after the lightweight nonsense of Mousetrap – we’re thrown back into cold war politics in this tale of a general once seen as such a threat to security […]

Another Brian Clemens script which again hints at the future direction of The Avengers, but – unfortunately – even beyond the Mrs Peel era and into the cartoonish excesses of […]

Steed’s looking after another high profile diplomatic visitor – an equine one this time. This is a solid but stolid story from Malcolm Hulke – the central premiss of being […]

Passing secrets at a seance as if from ‘beyond the curtain’ is a splendidly Avengersesque conceit. This is a solid episode with an ebullient performance from Jack May as a […]