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Subsequently came to light this epithet was only half-right for the future Jason King.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

 

 

14. SOMETHING NASTY IN THE NURSERY.
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.

 

 

 

 

 

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15. THE JOKER

Mrs. Peel is invited to a bridge party at a house on Exmoor but when she arrives she discovers that she has been lured there by a man known as 'The joker'. She had once helped to put him in prison, but he has now escaped and with his two crazy accomplices, subjects Mrs. Peel to a series of lethal tricks and traps as Steed arrives to help her.

 

 

 

 

 

16. WHO'S WHO???
Mad scientist Dr. Krelmar is working on a machine that allows two people to swap minds and enemy agents Basil and Lola intend to use it with the Avengers to get them to destroy their network. Basil exchanges personalities with Steed but Mrs. Peel is suspicious that the man who looks like her partner is acting out of character and has to persuade the real Steed what is going on.

 

 

 

 

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17. THE RETURN OF THE CYBERNAUTS.
Paul Beresford, the brother of Clement Armstrong, the creator of the Cybernauts, blames Steed and Mrs. Peel for his brother's death at the cold hands of his own creations. Aided by Armstrong's assistant Benson, he abducts several scientists who are blackmailed into producing a new batch of Cybernauts. Whilst he is the perfect gentleman towards Mrs. Peel, his aim is to turn her and Steed into human robots.

 

 

18. DEATH'S DOOR
Sir Andrew Boyd, the British delegate at a European peace conference has a dream in which he is run over and killed by a car. The dream comes true. The Avengers are charged with the safety of his successor, Lord Melford. He too is beginning to have bad dreams, involving a sinister man who turns out to be a member of the Eastern bloc. There is a plot afoot to derail the conference and Steed and Mrs. Peel intend to foil it.

 

 

 

 

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19. THE £50,000 BREAKFAST
Ventriloquist Dusty Rhodes dies after a car crash on his way to entertain at a children's home in Switzerland run by reclusive millionaire philanthropist Alex Litoff and £50,000 worth of diamonds are discovered in his stomach. The avengers believe that Litoff is engaged in a smuggling operation but the discovery of dog hairs on Dusty's suit leads to a conspiracy by Litoff's employees.

20. DEAD MAN'S TREASURE.
Agent Danvers dies in Steed's flat before he can give the exact location of a valuable dispatch that he has hidden. The flat is bugged and the avengers are pursued by a number of people taking part in a treasure hunt car rally organized by car-mad George Benstead to find the missing dispatch - the end result being truly shocking in the literal sense.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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21. YOU HAVE JUST BEEN MURDERED
Steed and Mrs. Peel stop a clever blackmailing scheme targeting millionaires. A gang led by Nathaniel Needle, hideout in a haystack ( ouch!) , faces potential murder victims but then just leave a card saying " you have just been murdered " , the next time will be real unless they pay up.

22. THE POSITIVE NEGATIVE MAN.
A scientist is killed by having been hurled through and embedded in a wall. This is the latest death of a person engaged in the government's Project 90, whose documents can also not be found. When the Avengers investigate they discover a bizarre means of murder whereby the killer can carry an electrical charge to the victim without being electrocuted themselves.

 

 

 

 

 

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23. MURDERSVILLE
When Mrs. Peel's friend Major Croft goes missing she traces him to the picture postcard village of Little Storping. Unfortunately the entire population are assassins for hire who lure their victims to the village, kill them and then claim that they have never been there. Croft has been killed, along with his valet to prevent them from exposing the sinister secret and Mrs. Peel is next on the hit list unless Steed can save her. Fortunately, she manages to put in a phone call to her 'husband.'

 

 

 

24. MISSION HIGHLY IMPROBABLE
A car carrying two Ministry officials, enroute to investigate the budget overruns on Professor Rushton's latest project, vanishes under escort. Steed goes to investigate, and discovers the hard way where the money has gone; to build a device capable of shrinking anything to a fraction of its normal size. While Rushton has great science- and industry-oriented plans for the device, his assistant Chivers has plans of his own... to make a profit, and dispose of anyone in his way. Steed, inches tall, manages to telephone Emma with a warning, but she is captured by a co-conspirator of Chivers, and next faces the shrinking machine. How will Steed and Emma get through this one?

 

 

 

 

 

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          SERIES 6

The final Emma Peel episode is the first episode of series 6, and introduced Tara King
1. THE FORGET- ME- KNOT
Steed's colleague Sean Mortimer comes to see him in a very confused state. He knows there is a traitor in the organization but he has been drugged to put him in an amnesiac state and he can remember little else. Mrs. Peel investigates but she too falls prey to the drug as she and Sean are abducted by bikers. It is down to trainee agent 69, Tara King, to whom Steed is introduced by spymaster 'Mother' to help him save the day. Finally Miss King becomes his new partner as Mrs. Peel's missing husband reappears and she goes off to join him.

 

 

 

 

The final Emma Peel scene, getting in a car with her husband, thought to be dead but found alive in an Amazon jungle , from behind looking a bit like Steed.

2. GAME
A group of ex-army officers are forced to play a series of games which end up with their deaths. Steed realizes that they were all responsible for the court-martial of sergeant Daniel Edwards for black marketeering some twenty years earlier - as indeed was he. Now calling himself Monte Bristow and styling himself the Games Master the murderer abducts Tara to force Steed into surviving a sequence of dangerous games in order to save the pair of them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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3. SUPER SECRET CYPHER SNATCH.
Secrets from Cypher HQ are turning up in enemy hands, in spite of airtight security. Worse, agents sent in to investigate find the assignment terminal. Classy Glass Cleaners, a window cleaning company is a front for something else. Tara is sent to cypher HQ to see what's happening, but she reports her day was an ordinary boring day despite another robbery happening.

Oh look, Mr Rumbold !

4. YOU'LL CATCH YOUR DEATH.
Ear-nose-throat specialists all over the world are dropping dead. The only common factor among the cases, aside from the suddenness of death, is an empty envelope. Conferring with a stationery specialist, Steed learns that a nursing school ordered 10,000 envelopes—and no writing paper!

 

 

 

Mr Mckay

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5. SPLIT!
A murder takes place within the Ministry of Top Secret Information, but the level of security makes it quite impossible for an outsider to do such a thing. Then a handwriting expert confirms that documents written by Ministry personnel match that of an enemy agent slain by Steed years ago.

 

6. WHOEVER SHOT POOR GEORGE OBLIQUE STROKE XR 40 ?
Someone committed cold-blooded murder, firing both barrels of a shotgun at point-blank range—at a computer, one that was in the midst of implicating its creator, Sir Wilfred Pelley, as a traitor. While George undergoes surgery, Tara poses as Pelley's American niece, and finds out that there's more to Pelley's butler than meets the eye.

 

 

 

 

 

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7. FALSE WITNESS.
Dying agent Penman instructs Miss King to tell Steed that their colleague Melville is a traitor, leading to the avengers boss mother replacing Melville with Steed into the investigation of suspected blackmailer Lord Edgefield. However none of Edgefield's victims are prepared to give evidence and when Steed arrives at the Dreemykreem dairy he discovers the reason.

8. ALL DONE WITH MIRRORS
Somebody is leaking secrets from the Carmadoc research institute and suspicion falls upon Steed, who has been spending some time there. He is accordingly put under rather luxurious house arrest at Mother's, whilst Miss King and her somewhat incompetent new partner Watney unmask the real traitor. There's a new invention using reflected surfaces to capture sound.

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9. LEGACY OF DEATH.
Steed comes into possession of a jewelled ornamental dagger, known as the Falcon. It is highly sought after because it will lead to the whereabouts of the world's most valuable black pearl. Unfortunately, everyone who has ever owned the dagger has met an untimely end. Steed and Miss King must find the pearl and break the sequence.

10. NOON-DOOMSDAY
Having broken his leg, Steed is now convalescing in a private hospital, where he is visited by Miss King. However, she has been followed - by Gerard Kafka - the driven former head of Murder international. Thanks to Steed he was caught and sent to prison for seven years. Now he is released and swearing vengeance on the man who put him inside. His plan is that Steed will die at exactly twelve noon. With Steed incapacitated, it is down to Tara to save the day

 

 

 

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11. LOOK( STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE) BUT THEY'RE WERE THESE TWO FELLAS.
The directors of Project Cupid (a program to create an emergency underground facility for the British government in case of war) are being popped off one by one by a bunch of clowns bent on stopping the project before it levels some old vaudeville theatres.
This episode borders on slapstick comedy, O.T.T. scenes a plenty, and a cameo from John Cleese.

 

 

 

 

Cleese before Monty Python

 

12. HAVE GUNS WILL HAGGLE
When Colonel Nsonga—hot to stage a coup—arrives in Britian on the eve of the theft of several thousand brand new top-secret rifles, Steed positions himself to bid against his "old friend" for the weapons. Little does he know that it's a bid to save Tara's life, as the sellers want to use her in a live demonstration of the product!
This episode was originally 90 minutes long and meant to introduce Tara King, but was deemed so bad the director John Bryce was sacked. Re-edited to standard length and new scenes made it workable. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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13. THEY KEEP KILLING STEED.
In an attempt to wreck a peace conference, a diabolical mastermind utilizes "instant plastic surgery" to create a duplicate of Steed. His only mistake was not keeping a closer eye on the original while he had him in his clutches, as the real Steed knocks out his jail keeper and prepares a little surprise for the army of enemy agents about to descend on the conference.

14. THE INTERROGATORS
Agents are being inducted into a special course—an interrogation course, established to determine the degree to which agents can withstand interrogation. Except that everyone who passes the course soon learns that all of their contacts have been murdered. And then, Tara is called in for a run through the course as well.

 

 

 

 

 

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15. THE ROTTERS.
Members of the Institue of Timber Technology have been killed to prevent them from standing in the way of a dastardly plot hatched by WormDoom Ltd, a pair of assassins who have perfected a chemical which destroys all kinds of wood and which they plan to release from pillar boxes around the country... unless Steed and Miss King can stop them.

16. INVASION OF THE EARTHMEN
One of Steed's colleagues is killed on the grounds of an unusual academy. Posing as man and wife, Steed and Tara investigate a school created to train future astronauts for the purpose of conquering outer space.
Plan 9 from Outer Space meets classic Star Trek, right down to the Trek uniforms and Plan 9's curtained space station control room.

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17. KILLER
Mother's agents are turning up dead, one after another, prepackaged, gift-wrapped and dumped in a graveyard. Remak, a suspected agent-killer, proves to be more efficient than any human ever could—perhaps because he isn't human (Remak: Remote Electro-Matic Agent Killer).

One episode Avengers Girl -Lady Diana Forbes - Blakeney played by Jennifer Croxton.

 

18. THE MORNING AFTER.
In an attempt to escape capture by Steed and Tara, quadruple-agent Merlin releases a new sleeping gas, but is knocked out as well. The three awaken a day later to a deserted town under martial law. But while the outside world thinks that the army is there to de-fuse an old atom bomb found buried in an embassy building, they're actually installing a new one

 

 

 

 

 

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19. THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE COUNTLESS CLUES
With Miss King out of action nursing a broken ankle Steed goes it alone when Scotland Yard colleague Sir Arthur Doyle brings him in on a murder enquiry, with an abundance of clues, each one pointing to an illustrious suspect. In fact bogus cops Earle and Gardiner are operating a racket whereby they deliberately incriminate worthies as murder suspects and then blackmail them. Their latest target is Steed and his supposed victim is Miss King.

 

 

 

20. WISH YOU WERE HERE.
Miss King's uncle Charles has been staying at the Elizabethan hotel but his return is overdue so she goes to collect him . However she finds the hotel staff have devised ways to stop them and other guests from leaving in a plot to rob and kill them or in Charles' case for his business to be taken over in his absence. Miss King leads a successful revolt of the prisoners just in time for Steed's arrival.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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21. LOVE  ALL
The Ministry of Missile Deployment is suffering from a security leak when its head, Sir Rodney Kellogg, falls for plain, middle-aged cleaner, Martha Roberts, and has told her all his secrets. Needless to say, Martha is not what she seems; and the Avengers must discover her true identity and how she has duped Sir Rodney and other misogynist ministers into betrayal.

 

22. STAY TUNED
Steed is all set to leave on three weeks holiday. As he exits his flat, Tara arrives asking how his vacation was. Three weeks had vanished from Steed's mind! As Tara helps him pursue a few tenuous clues, she uncovers a plot to kill Mother.

 

 

 

For this episode Steed's boss isn't the wheelchair bound man Mother, but the blind woman Father.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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23. TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER.
A red suitcase containing a hefty sum of money, not to mention a bomb as a security device, is giving people orders—where to take it and when. Believing it is headed for "Mr. Big," Mother puts Steed and Tara in charge of tracking the case—which leads them straight back to Mother! Great episode, where a talking briefcase guides couriers to their destination. Good supporting cast, see below.

Penelope Keith

Arthur from On The Buses. ( Michael Robbins)

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