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11. EPIC.
Z.Z. von Schnerk, a mad Teutonic film director of the Erich von Stroheim variety, along with his has-been leading actor and actress, Stewart Kirby and Damita Syn, capture Mrs. Peel in an effort to make a movie about her life and exciting adventures. Unfortunately it is to end with her violent death so Steed has to follow the clues to find her
12. THE SUPERLATIVE SEVEN.
Steed is invited to a party on an aeroplane with six other people who include a matador, a cowboy and a circus strong man. As the pilotless , remote-controlled craft takes off, a voice announces that they are bound for a desert island where one of them will be revealed as a super-killer. Mrs. Peel has to work out how to get to her partner as the bodies start to pile up.
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9. THE CORRECT WAY TO KILL
Somebody is systematically killing off foreign agents and Steed, who is initially implicated, declares a truce and calls on his Russian opposite number, Nutski. Along with Soviet agents Anna and Ivan the Avengers discover SNOB, an exceedingly English gentlemen's club with murderously patriotic members.
10. NEVER NEVER SAY DIE.
The Avengers "are needed" after reports that a motorist has repeatedly run over and supposedly killed the same person. Their investigations lead them to the country and the top secret Neoteric Research Unit, which is run by the appropriately-named Dr. Frank N. Stone, who has made a startlingly life-like robot of himself, so much so that Steed finds it hard to tell the two Stones apart.
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7. THE LIVING DEAD.
Five years after a mine disaster, Mrs. Peel and Steed are called upon to investigate the spooky goings-on at the local inn. The ghost of the 16th Duke of Benedict, who was reputedly lost in the mine disaster, has been seen wandering the area and Emma joins SMOG and FOG in a ghost hunt. The Duke's ghost supposedly takes Emma with him to his final resting place in the collapsed mine, but Steed descends into the shaft to rescue her. He finds a secret underground city that is being used to stage an invasion of England; the mine disaster was just a cover-up for the plan. Steed rescues Emma and country by cutting off access to the topside elevator.
8. THE HIDDEN TIGER.
Sir David Harper, owner of an experimental livestock farm, is killed, apparently mauled by a tiger and when three other men die in the same way Steed finds a link to P. U. R. R. R. , a cats charity of which all the victims were board members and discovers a plot to turn the domestic felines of the country into vicious killers. With Ronnie Barker.
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5. THE BIRD WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
Two spies have obtained information about a secret missile base which they are passing to the other side, via a person known as Captain Caruso, whom the Avengers are charged to locate. In the event the good Captain turns out to be a trained parrot who possesses a photographic memory.
6. THE WINGED AVENGER.
Several businessmen have been killed, the murderer having apparently clawed them to death so that the initial suspect is an author who owns a bird of prey and had a grudge against a victim who ran a publishing house. However, the discovery of a comic called 'The Winged Avenger' featuring a super-hero is found by the latest victim. And could the invention of Professor Poole, boots that allow the wearer to climb walls and scale ceilings, be involved?
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3. ESCAPE IN TIME
Notorious criminals are escaping but nobody knows where and two agents investigating their last known location, Tudor mansion Mackidockie Court, are both killed. When the avengers link the house to the murders Emma is captured by its owner, Waldo Thyssen, who claims to have built a time machine, through which the miscreants are escaping to previous centuries, and sends her through to the sixteenth century to be tortured by himself in the guise of an Elizabethan ancestor. Steed works out the whereabouts of the house and follows, stepping through time to save Emma.
4. THE SEE -THROUGH MAN.
The Ministry of Defence had been infiltrated - by an invisible man. The avengers visit an eccentric professor who claims he sold a formula for invisibility to a pharmaceutical company; actually a front for the Soviets. A pair of spies are in town, and one of them seems to have disappeared. Emma and Steed must discover if he really has the power of invisibility and, if not, how it's being simulated.
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SERIES 5.....into colour we go
1. FROM VENUS WITH LOVE.
Venus Brown runs the British Venusian Society, whose members believe the planet Venus can be harvested to the good of the Earth but, whilst observing it through their telescopes, one by one they die and their hair turns white on death. Steed joins the society and discovers that aliens may seem to be responsible for the murders, and some sort of UFO craft may be on Earth.
Dr Who.#3 Jon Pertwee.
2. THE FEAR MERCHANTS.
When four executives from leading ceramic companies are driven mad Steed discovers that another pottery owner, Jeremy Raven, had requested that they merger but was refused. He had engaged a consultancy firm, Business Efficiency Bureau, to boost his factory, unaware of their deadly means of eliminating the opposition. Steed poses as a travel agent to trap them, naming Emma as his business rival.
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FINAL STORY..
THE DAY OF THE CLONE ( 6 episodes)
Liz and Simon have escaped the destruction of Earth in the future and returned to 1970. However, Liz has now inexplicably disappeared, and Simon decides to find her; his search takes him to Traynor's newly founded Ministry, where he meets several members of staff who seem to be the originals of the clones staffing the Technocrat headquarters in 1990. Learning of a mysterious research establishment designated R1, Simon decides to investigate; sneaking inside, he soon finds Liz imprisoned in a room without windows, and manages to set her free. Together, the two children explore the complex and find it full of elderly people; however, before they can learn more, Liz and Simon are discovered by Traynor and his men, who try to capture them. With the help of an old lady named Maria, Simon and Liz manage to escape, and, after heading for the abandoned naval base where the time barrier is located, they travel back to the research institute in 1965. Here they learn that R1 was established by Morgan Devereux, and that a number of young people – including Maria - have volunteered for scientific tests. Liz and Simon realise that the volunteers they met in 1970 have all been prematurely aged by an early version of the longevity drug, and that Devereux’s death in 1969 was a result of him trying the experimental drug on himself. The children also meet a younger version of Traynor, who is attempting to learn the truth behind secret operations happening at the institute. Having uncovered explanations for The Ice Box and the Technocrat Masterplan, Simon and Liz are then captured by Devereux, and subjected to a deadly experimental sonic beam. Meanwhile, in 1970, it seems that Commander Traynor’s plans are about to come to fruition - but is he the real Traynor..?
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3. THE YEAR OF THE BURN UP (8 episodes)
After Liz and Simon return to the present, Simon is summoned to Whitehall by Traynor. Although the commander is still interested in the longevity drug that Simon saw in The Ice Box, he warns the boy to stay out of the future; however, this only serves to pique Simon’s interest. Liz realises that she misses Simon, and decides to join him; together they once more travel through the time barrier, this time arriving in an alternate version of 1990, in an England that is a lush, tropical jungle. Here the two children once more encounter Beth, but this alternate version is a much friendlier person because she did not take the intelligence enhancement treatment, and she is the leader of a commune of ‘misfits’ who live a primitive but simple life in the jungle. This version of 1990 is ruled by the Technocrats, a scientifically-advanced elite that has no interest in anyone of a lesser intelligence, and who are carrying out a Masterplan that will re-shape the world into a more ordered state. Unfortunately, these experiments are causing vast global-warming, and the Earth is rapidly drying up. Simon soon encounters a Technocrat known only as ‘2957’ – in truth Simon’s future self; together, the two of them travel to the future version of Whitehall, where they learn that sabotage is disrupting the Masterplan. With time running out Simon tries desperately to discover the identity of the saboteur, and he soon finds that it is none other than another future version of Commander Traynor. This alternate Traynor was the originator of the Technocrat Masterplan - and his scheme is about to cause the destruction of the entire planet in a blanket of fire…
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2. TIME OF THE ICE BOX (6 episodes)
Liz and Simon leave the naval base in World War II and attempt to return to the present via the time barrier; however, they instead arrive in the freezing, snowy wastes of the Antarctic in the year 1990. After passing out from the cold, they are rescued by personnel from an underground research base named The Ice Box, run by a man named Morgan Devereux. Liz and Simon meet scientists Doctor Bukov, Doctor Edith Joynton, and Jean Skinner, who is investigating her telepathic powers. After the two children also encounter Beth Skinner, Liz’s cold and arrogant future self, they decide to leave, and manage to use the barrier to return to 1970. However, they are both soon convinced into returning to 1990 by Commander Traynor, who wants to discover what developments are being researched in the future, particularly a longevity drug called HA57, which the scientists are testing on themselves. Traynor also reveals that he knew Devereux, and that he supposedly died in 1969. Liz and Simon return toThe Ice Box, and learn from Jean that when she and Frank lost their home in the late 1970's, Liz took an intelligence enhancement course which altered her entire personality; she changed her name to Beth and then suggested that they go to The Ice Box. While Liz tries to discover what has happened to her father, Simon learns that Devereux is actually an experimental clone. However, he has become unstable and is now suffering from blackouts - and his mental link with the base computer may result in the destruction of The Ice Box and everyone in it…
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TIMESLIP
THE WRONG END OF TIME (6 episodes)
Jean and Frank Skinner take their daughter Liz on holiday to the village of St. Oswalds, in the Midlands; also with them is Simon Randall, whose mother has recently died and whose father, Tom, is Frank’s ‘oldest friend’. Learning that a local girl named Sarah has mysteriously disappeared, Simon and Liz decide to investigate the nearby disused naval base, where the missing girl was last seen. They encounter an invisible energy barrier, and when they pass through it, find themselves on the same base, but now during World War II. After the two children are arrested by the base personnel they encounter a sailor named Frank, and realise that he is Liz’s father; they are then taken to meet the officer in charge, Commander Traynor, who believes them to be enemy spies. Back in 1970, the present version of Traynor prevents Jean and Frank from notifying the police of their daughter’s disappearance; it seems that he has another agenda. Meanwhile, in the Time Bubble in 1940, Liz and Simon watch helplessly as the base is taken over by German troops led by Herr Kapitan Gottfried, who have come to steal a top secret project that Traynor is overseeing. As events in the past play out, the truth behind Frank’s amnesia is revealed - but it may come at the cost of Liz’s life.
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25. HOW TO SUCCEED AT MURDER.
Eleven businessmen and counting have been mysteriously murdered, their affairs taken over by their able secretaries. The smell of perfume lingering over one of the dead bodies leads Mrs Peel to J.J. Hooter, who quickly becomes the next man to die. With secretaries as their only clue, Steed decides to hire one, and Emma to take up the profession.
26. HONEY FOR THE PRINCE
Two undercover agents are shot at Q.Q.F. Incorporated but one survives long enough to clue in Steed and Peel. So, Steed visits the Quite Quite Fantastic office (where fantasies are made to come true) while Emma looks into B. Bumble's honey shop. They soon surmise that someone is aiming for Prince Ali of Barabia, who is visiting London with his harem of 320 wives.
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23. THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT.
Mrs. Peel is bequeathed an old house by an uncle Jack, whom she never knew existed. In the event, he did not exist. The house is a former lunatic asylum and it is all a ruse by a vengeful ex-employee of Mrs. Peel's to submit her to mind games which will drive her insane.
24. A SENSE OF HISTORY
Economist James Broom is shot with an arrow by one of a group dressed as Robin Hood whilst on his way to meet a man opposed to his Utopian vision of a new Europe. The trail leads the Avengers to St. Bode's College, where anarchic students oppose traditional schools of thought. Could one of these have killed Broom? All is revealed at a fancy dress party where everyone is a character from the Robin Hood legend.
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21. A TOUCH OF BRIMSTONE.
Prankster Lord Darcy informs Steed about his concerns for John Cleverly Carney, a suave womanizer who has hi-jacked his innocent pranks and turned them into the means of murder. The avengers discover that Carney has revived the eighteenth century Hellfire Club, a libertine organization advocating orgies and mayhem and infiltrate the club as members. Here they discover Carney's plan to blow up Culverston House whilst an international conference is taking place and set out to stop him.
22. WHAT THE BUTLER SAW
Government secrets are being leaked and there are three prime suspects, Admiral Willows, Brigadier Goddard and Group Captain Miles, all of whose butlers have recently disappeared. Emma sets out to seduce the womanizing Miles whilst Steed enrols at the school that trained the missing butlers , whilst Miles proves to be innocent Steed discovers that one of the gentleman's gentlemen is behaving in a most ungentlemanly way.
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15 hours ago, unapologetic pedant said:
Do we know who this lady is?
On the face of it, worthy of further investigation.
Got her! Her name is Lucille Soong, still alive at 85, appears in episode 3 of The Prisoner.
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19. QUICK QUICK SLOW DEATH.
An unidentified corpse is discovered after foreign agent Willi Fehr has tried to dispose of him . A tattoo shows him to have been Arthur Peever and leads the avengers to the Terpsichorean Techniques dance school run by the formidable Lucille Banks where Emma goes undercover as an instructress and Steed poses as a client. Here they discover a plot to kill lonely, unattached punters and replace them with enemy agents, infiltrating the country.
20. THE DANGER MAKERS
The avengers are called in when a 60-year old general is killed in a 'chicken run' motor-cycle accident and another officer, having fallen whilst trying to scale St Paul's cathedral, is murdered in hospital whilst under the care of Dr Long. They discover that they were part of a group of disgruntled military men, members of a secret society of the Black Rose, giving themselves code-names based on Greek gods. Bored with peace-time they engage in dangerous and illegal activities and Steed and Emma must identify their leader before they carry out their next caper, the theft of the Crown Jewels.
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17. THE GIRL FROM AUNTIE
When Steed returns home early from a holiday, he finds Mrs. Peel replaced by an actress, Georgie Price-Jones. Subsequently everyone involved in the hiring of Georgie is stabbed to death with double-O knitting needles. It seems the real Mrs. Peel has become Lot 17 of 'Art Incorporated', an organization which prides itself on being able to obtain any object for any one as long as the price is right.
18. THE THIRTEENTH HOLE.
When agent Ted Murphy is found dead Steed and Mrs Peel discover that he was keeping surveillance on government scientist Peter Reed at the exclusive Cranleigh golf club. The avengers join the club with Steed taking part in a tournament which is literally a matter of life and death should he reach the deadly thirteenth hole.
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15. ROOM WITHOUT A VIEW.
A missing scientist returns after having disappeared. He's half-mad and attacks his Asian wife. Steed and Peel find out that seven other scientists have also disappeared - none having returned - but all have one thing in common; they were all booked at the Chessman hotel when they vanished.
16. SMALL GAME FOR BIG HUNTERS.
A man dressed in Safari clothes is found in Hertfortshire with an arrow in his back, and falls into a coma-like state. All clues lead to a delusional Colonel living nearby. Whilst Emma watches over an increasing number of comatose men, Steed's invited into the Colonel's officers club.
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2 hours ago, unapologetic pedant said:
Do we know who this lady is?
On the face of it, worthy of further investigation.
Just checked, this lady is not credited in the cast list, so no way of figuring out who she is.
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13. TOO MANY CHRISTMAS TREES.
Steed has been having bad dreams involving Christmas trees and a man dressed as Santa Claus. At a party given by publisher and Dickens fan Brandon Storey, two telepathic spies attempt to read Steed's mind and make sense of the dream. However, the dream is echoed exactly by the events of the party, enabling Steed to spot the villains in advance and identify the dangerous Santa.
14. SILENT DUST
When birds begin to fall from branches in flocks, it seems someone is using the banned chemical Silent Dust in the countryside of Cornwall. Steed and Mrs Peel soon find out a that a small group of local landowners is planning to use the deadly dust to blackmail the country by destroying Dorset.
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12. TWO'S A CROWD
A mysterious Russian called Psev is arriving for a conference at which Steed and Mrs. Peel have been hired to act as the security guards. However, a man called Gordon Webster who is an exact double for Steed turns up and offers his services to Psev's entourage of four people, fooling Mrs. Peel in the process and agreeing to kill Steed. Though he is thwarted it turns out that Psev is also not exactly the man that everybody had expected him to be.
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10. DIAL A DEADLY NUMBER.
Company chairmen across the city are dropping dead, apparently through natural causes. Can Steed and Mrs Peel discover who is making a killing? Bleepers/pagers that they carry seem to be the key.
11. MAN-EATER OF SURREY GREEN.
A man-eating plant from outer space lands in Middle England and takes several top horticulturists as its prisoners in an effort to germinate the Earth. Fortunately for the Earth, Steed just happens to be a herbicidal maniac.
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8. A SURFEIT OF H2O
After a village poacher drowns in the middle of an open field, The Avengers are soon on the trail of a mad scientist able to control the weather, who is selling his secret to any country that wants it.
9. THE HOUR THAT NEVER WASSteed and Mrs Peel swerve to avoid a dog and crash into a tree. The clock in the car smashes and stops just before 11 o'clock. Steed knows the area well and the two set out on foot to visit an old RAF base. They enter the lounge and find it set for a party but everyone is absent. They do not yet notice that the clock has stopped at 11 and the fish in the tank have frozen still. Outside they find an unattended car at a petrol pump with petrol flooding from it. The other buildings of the base are empty and a milk cart is abandoned. Seeing the name Geoffrey in the book, they visit his quarters and also find it empty and an electric shaver still running. They find the air control tower empty and then spot the milkman fleeing across the tarmac. He is shot dead.
Looking for the culprit, they find a rabbit alive but unconscious, and later the body of the milkman disappears. Steed and Mrs Peel separate and investigate the base further. Mrs Peel discovers the body of the milkman on his float just as a deafening shrill noise and quake shakes through the base. When the noise eventually stops, Steed returns to the lounge to get himself a drink at the bar, whereupon he discovers the frozen fish and stopped clock. Outside he discovers a vagrant looking in the dustbins. Steed gives him a drink in the lounge and the vagrant says he also experienced the shrill noise. A dog enters which belongs to the gate tender and is known to the vagrant. Steed approaches the gate house and is struck unconscious by a falling barrier.
The scene then returns to the crashed car and Steed emerging from it as if the crash had just happened. Mrs Peel is missing. Steed returns to the base and finds the lounge bustling with activity; he is greeted by old comrades. They tell Steed that Mrs Peel had rung, telling them that she was unable to attend, and they say there is no tramp living on the premises. Outside Steed discovers the dog who leads him to the dead body of the tramp, just as the milkman drives off (with the body of the original milkman on the back). The milkman takes the body into the cook house. When Steed approaches he finds the apparently dead milkman alive and well and busy. The milkman and an accomplice take out new bodies from the medical centre and put them on the back of the float. Steed investigates the clinic. He overpowers a guard and discovers Mrs Peel tied up and unable to recall anything since the accident. Looking at the equipment, Mrs Peel surmises that the people in the airbase had been hypnotized and programmed to potentially create sabotage. As Steed plays with an ultrasonic device, the people in the lounge hear the shrill deafening noise over the speakers as he and Mrs Peel realize what has happened.
One of Steed's old friends and an accomplice show themselves and hold Steed and Mrs Peel at gunpoint. They reveal a plan to auction off the 30 hypnotically programmed military people to the highest bidder. Steed and Mrs Peel overcome these criminals but not before laughing gas is set off leaving them in hysterics.
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6. THE MASTER MINDS.
Government minister Sir Clive Todd is wounded as he and other ministers try to steal top secret documents. He has no idea why he did it and hypnosis is suggested. All concerned belonged to a club for people with high I.Q.s called RANSACK, who are about to meet at a school. The Avengers join the club in order to expose the mastermind behind the next heist - the theft of a plane from an R.A.F. base.
7. THE MURDER MARKET.
Steed and Mrs. Peel investigate a murder-for-hire organization fronting as a matchmaking bureau.
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4. DEATH AT BARGAIN PRICES.
When a colleague is found dead in a large London department store Steed and Mrs. Peel go undercover as staff members, exposing a dastardly plot by the wheelchair-bound Horatio Kane to devastate the capital with a huge bomb housed within the store.
5. CASTLE DE'ATH.
When an agent in diving gear is found dead in a Scottish loch yet substantially taller than he was whilst he was alive Steed and Mrs. Peel visit a remote castle owned by the feuding De'ath cousins, Ian and Angus, to investigate the sinister goings-on.
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13. A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE STATION.
While travelling on an express train on a quest to find a missing agent, Steed and Mrs. Peel get caught up in an assassination attempt on the life of the British Prime Minister on the part of a disgruntled and murderous ticket collector. They are helped in their efforts to foil him by Mr. Crewe, an eccentric owner of an abandoned station.
Agent Dobson is pursued by a wheelchair-bound old lady who tosses him a ball. When he picks it up he hallucinates that he is a child in a nursery and then the old lady shoots him. He was investigating the leakage of state secrets and Steed discovers that each of the three suspects had a childhood nanny, Nanny Roberts, who is being held captive for information at a sinister school for nannies whose head plans to destroy the nation's power stations by impersonating nannies and hypnotizing the men into giving him their locations. Steed and Emma pay the school a visit to stop him.