Sabotage! Espionage! Military! Chemistry! This is more like it. Despite an unfeasibly elaborate method for passing secrets, via a dartboard and a member of the subspecies canine lupus, this is […]

Diamond smuggling. Despite the exotic allure of the stones themselves, this is back to busting brutal organised crime in a very season one style story. It’s a brutal, brute-force attempt […]

Office politics… Steed doesn’t seem to get on with one of his bosses: One-Twelve. He asks to see One-Ten but the request is refused. It’s significant because this is one […]

A pet cemetery, a mysterious millionaire, a repressed butler… All the ingredients are there; indeed this is the earliest episode of The Avengers that would get remade – under the […]

We’re back to diabolical schemes in this one, in which a rare stamp lead Steed and Cathy discover a planned coup. This is vintage stuff; lots of the action centres […]

Mon dieu! En France à nouveau? I’m starting to think it would be quicker to note the episodes that are set in England… This season is proving to be something […]

The first minute of each of these episodes, running up to the title card, is designed to enthral the viewer, to grab and intrigue us. So it’s a bit of […]

Well this one is utterly, utterly, superb. We’re straight into that action: within a few minutes of the title card, Cathy has not only stormed a shareholder’s meeting, but been […]

The Avengers does wrestling? Well, this is different… There’s also a substantial difference in the interplay between the two leads. Steed’s partnered with Venus Smith in this one, and Steed […]

For a show that became seen as ‘quintessentially’ English it’s a surprise to find The Avengers in France. When it went on location, it was all pretty Buckinghamshire villages, churches, manors […]