So, that’s it. All the Avengers have now been watched. And December’s bunch – the second season of The New Avengers – have been as much of a mixed bag as […]

Christmas eve. There stove is flickering merrily. Time to watch the 163rd, and last, episode of The Avengers I’ll have watched this year. Accompanied, of course, by a glass of bubbly. Emily is […]

The best moments in this episode seem to reference Emma Peel episodes – at the start, where we meet the titular gladiators, it’s shot almost identically to the opening of The Superlative […]

Straight back to Canada (we won’t escape it) with the pretext of following a soviet agent who is entering the country, the (new) Avengers follow this lead to the titular base […]

This is the first episode of The New Avengers I ever saw, back in 1995 – in the 6.25pm Friday slot on BBC 2 (in which, a couple of years […]

Since this is part 2 of a two parter, we get a “Previously on…” from Macnee. Okay, he doesn’t actually say, “Previously on The New Avengers” but his staccato recap covers […]

The first two-parter since episodes 1 & 2  of series 1 of the original show back in 1961 (and even then, the two episodes had different writers, directors). It’s glacially […]

Sometimes simplicity can be effective, even if it means repeating the most frequently repeated tropes of a TV show. But I have my reservations about this one. The core elements […]

The New Avengers never reaches the same heights that The Avengers achieved at its best, but it manages to equal its lows at its worst. And it’s hard to imagine how this […]

While this opens with a very English country lane car chase, for most of the episode we’re very obviously in France (in a neat inversion of location from Angels of […]