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The Avengers: Too Many Christmas Trees

One thing that has impressed me hugely with this fourth season of The Avengers is the way the opening sequences to each episode draw you into the story and make you want to keep watching. This is one of the … Continue reading

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The Avengers: Two’s a Crowd

Last week, writer Philip Levene gave us killer plants. This week he mines another old favourite trope by introducing a double for Steed. It’s a tricky story to get right, and many attempts over the years at a doppelgänger story … Continue reading

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The Avengers: Man-Eater of Surrey Green

We continue to veer back and forth between crime dramas and science-fiction, and Man-Eater of Surrey Green is very clearly in the latter category. There are not even any human villains that are not victims of possession themselves; no criminals, … Continue reading

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The Avengers: Dial a Deadly Number

We start with a mystery this week: six company chairmen have dropped dead in less than a year, and they were all members of the same bank. What is going on? Steed investigates the world of share dealing, and meets … Continue reading

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The Avengers: The Hour That Never Was

The fourth season of The Avengers has hit new heights of brilliance, and I thought it couldn’t get any better than wonderful episodes like The Town of No Return, The Cybernauts or Death at Bargain Prices, but this series just … Continue reading

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The Avengers: A Surfeit of H2O

Have you ever been caught out in one of those rain storms where the water will find its way through your waterproofs, however good they are, and there’s no point even thinking about keeping up an umbrella? In the most … Continue reading

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The Avengers: The Murder Market

Many years ago, I met my future wife on an online dating website. I was one of the lucky ones. The generation before mine didn’t have that option, and the romantically challenged had to instead join some kind of a … Continue reading

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The Avengers: The Master Minds

Those were the days, when the sight of a face mask was something unusual, worthy of a sinister musical sting. In this instance it is being worn for medical reasons, because Sir Clive Todd has been wounded by a gunshot … Continue reading

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The Avengers: Castle De’ath

We start this week with an excruciatingly slow pan around a castle dungeon to the sound of some excruciating bagpipes music. When the camera lens finally reaches its destination, somebody is having an excruciating time on a rack, being stretched. … Continue reading

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The Avengers: Death at Bargain Prices

Something has clicked into gear for the fourth season of The Avengers and there is a confidence and polish to these episodes that was rarely present before. We’ve gone from a series that was solid, watchable entertainment, to a show … Continue reading

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The Avengers: The Cybernauts

I’m virtually a newcomer to this series, nearly 60 years after it was made, but I do have a vague memory of watching one or two episodes as a child. Just about the only thing that sticks in the mind … Continue reading

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The Avengers: The Gravediggers

We have seen creepy undertakers before. We have also seen people emerging from coffins and turning out to be alive when they were supposed to be dead, so at first it seems like the second episode of the third season … Continue reading

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The Avengers: The Town of No Return

What would you do if a bin bag emerged from the sea and started walking towards you? I think most people would run in the opposite direction, or at least be a little alarmed, but the fisherman at the start … Continue reading

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The Avengers: Lobster Quadrille

This is an oddly unambitious episode to end the third season of The Avengers. There are none of the madcap schemes and grand criminal plans of previous weeks, and instead we have a straightforward smuggling plot that feels like it … Continue reading

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The Avengers: Esprit de Corps

Brigadier General Sir Ian Stuart-Bollinger and his underling Captain Trench have an absurd plan to overthrow the monarchy and replace the Queen with a descendant of the Stuart Dynasty. That descendant happens to be Cathy Gale, thanks to some faked … Continue reading

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The Avengers: Concerto

If there’s one thing I can’t abide, it’s 60s television shows with stock footage. Nigel Stock footage, to be precise. It’s a name that sends shivers down the spine of any Prisoner fan, for a start. In Concerto, he provides … Continue reading

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The Avengers: The Charmers

This episode sees Steed having to work with “the other side” when it seems there is a third party killing off both their organisations’ operatives. That puts Steed in a very interesting situation, and the ease with which he strolls … Continue reading

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The Avengers: The Outside-In Man

In 1959 a British agent turned traitor and defected to an enemy state. Now the countries are at peace, and Britain faces the very odd situation of having to negotiate with the traitor, now “General” Sharp, to broker an arms … Continue reading

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The Avengers: Build a Better Mousetrap

As Season Three has progressed, The Avengers has been moving more and more towards bizarre scenarios and unusual, eccentric characters. This episode seems to be something of a breakthrough for that approach, because it is a huge amount of fun. … Continue reading

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The Avengers: Trojan Horse

This week writer Malcolm Hulke takes us into the world of horse racing and betting, but what are the odds on a good story set in that location? I’ve seen a few crime stories set at racetracks, and it seems … Continue reading

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