The WORST episodes of The Avengers
Every episode of The Avengers ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Avengers!
"Always keep your bowler on in time of stress, and watch out for diabolical masterminds." [Mrs Peel] The Avengers is one of the most popular and beloved television series of all time. Its outrageous blend of wit and style and its unique mix of the fantasy and spy genres, coupled with the marvellous characters of John Steed and Emma Peel make it one of television's great classics.
#1 - Homicide and Old Lace
Season 6 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/26/1969
It's Mother's birthday and he is visiting two of his aunts, Harriet and Georgina. To celebrate he tells them a hair-colour changing story, 'The Great Great British Crime'.
#2 - Esprit de Corps
Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/14/1964
The mysterious death of Corporal Craig of the Highland Guards sends both Steed and Cathy undercover into the army ranks. There, Steed finds himself under court-martial and Cathy becomes second in line to the throne.
#3 - The Secrets Broker
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/1/1964
One of Steed's colleagues has been murdered, and the subsequent investigation takes Cathy to a top-secret research establishment and Steed to a wine merchants.
#4 - Concerto
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/7/1964
Soviet-British trade talks are coinciding with the first London concert of the brilliant young pianist, Stefan Veliko. A young girl accuses Veliko of assault, and is then murdered. If someone wants to disrupt the talks by incriminating the pianist, they seem to be going about it in the right way.
#5 - Box of Tricks
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/19/1963
Classified information is finding its way into the wrong hands and Steed feels sure that this has something to do with the death of the magician's assistant at the club where Venus Smith is working. Steed investigates the lethal vanishing cabinet.
#6 - Second Sight
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1963
The cornea grafts that will, hopefully, restore the sight of blind millionaire Marten Halvarssen fascinate Steed: they're rumoured to be coming from a live patient, one Hilda Brauer. Steed suspects that all is not what it seems and so sends Cathy to Switzerland to oversee the operation.
#7 - School for Traitors
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/9/1963
Steed, investigating the suicide of a University tutor, discovers that the man seems to have shot himself with a gun with a silencer attached. Venus is sent a tub of acid 'face-cream', and there is another mysterious suicide.
#8 - Warlock
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/26/1963
Steed is entrusted with the safe-keeping of a new fuel formula when its inventor is found in a coma. The scientist had been involved in a black magic circle which leads Steed and Cathy into the world of hexes and magic powers.
#9 - Don't Look Behind You
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/14/1963
Invited to spend the weekend at the home of medievel costume expert Sir Cavalier Resagne, Cathy finds herself alone in the house, pestered by a young man who claims to be a film director, and haunted by her past. And where is Steed?
#10 - The Decapod
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/1962
Borb, the president of the Balkan Republic, is visiting London to sign a military deal. His private secretary is killed by a masked wrestler, the Decapod. Steed is assigned to augment the president's bodyguards, but the wrestler continues to kill those close to Borb.
#11 - Love All
Season 6 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/19/1969
Security lapses seem to point to top civil servants suddenly falling in love and giving secrets to an enemy agent disguised as a char lady. Steed investigates, but first has to save Tara from killing herself out of unrequited love.
#12 - The Removal Men
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1962
Steed is trying to infiltrate a group of assassins currently based in the South of France. He robs the leader of some jewellery in order to impress him, then waits for them in the local club. It just so happens that Venus Smith is singing there.
#13 - The Mauritius Penny
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1962
The owner of a stamp shop is murdered when excitedly talking on the phone to a contact about the rare Mauritius Penny that has turned up on a list. Cathy Gale applies for a job in the shop, and she and Steed witness another murder in an auction room.
#14 - Conspiracy of Silence
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/2/1963
The Marfia aren't about to let Steed get in the way of their lucrative drug-smuggling operation between Britain and North America, and arrange for him to be assassinated. Steed survives, and tracks his intended killer to a circus, where some of the clowns prove to be anything but figures of fun.
#15 - Build a Better Mousetrap
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/15/1964
What does Cathy joining a motorcycle gang, two elderly ladies who own a watermill and claim to be witches, and all of the clocks stopping at a local atomic research station have in common? They're all present in Brian Clemen's first great step into the bizarre.
#16 - The Man in the Mirror
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/23/1963
Venus has her camera and films stolen whilst taking pictures in a fun fair. One film is missed, however, and when developed a face can be seen in the Hall of Mirrors - that of Trevelyan, the cypher clerk who has committed suicide. But Venus's photograph was taken after the man's death.
#17 - Killer Whale
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/23/1963
Cathy is managing the boxer Joey Frazer, but Pancho Driver's gym, where the man is training, is, Steed suspects, the centre for shipments of illegal ambergris.
#18 - Lobster Quadrille
Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/21/1964
When an agent investigating radioactivity levels in shellfish is killed in a beach hut fire, Steed and Cathy get involved in the heady worlds of nightclubbing, chess and lobster fishermen.
#19 - The Golden Eggs
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/2/1963
A burglar steals two gold-plated eggs from Dr Ashe, not knowing that they contain a deadly virus. The man quickly falls ill, but refuses to indicate where the case containing the eggs is buried.
#20 - The White Dwarf
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/16/1963
Astonomer Professor Richter believes that the sun's stellar companion, a white dwarf, is returning to the solar system. If it does, that's the end of everything. So why on Earth would anybody want to murder him now?
#21 - The Medicine Men
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/1963
Willis-Sopwoth, a top pharmaceutical firm, is being drained by cheap imitations of its products in foreign markets. The death of a member of staff while investigating the fraud brings Steed and Cathy face to face with a deadly artist and a plot to poison children.
#22 - Thingumajig
Season 6 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/2/1969
The Reverend Shelley, a wartime pal of Steed's, seeks his help when archaeologists beneath his church are murdered mysteriously. Do the killing have anything to do with small malevolent mobile metal boxes....?
#23 - The Big Thinker
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/15/1962
Plato, the most advanced computer in the world, which could be used to target intercepting missiles, keeps breaking down. The body of a professor on the team is found within.
#24 - Intercrime
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/5/1963
Steed wants Mrs. Gale to impersonate Hilda Stern, a recently arrested assassin about to be used by the trans-national crime syndicate Intercrime. Things go swimmingly, until the real Hilda Stern breaks out of Holloway and confronts the imposter.
#25 - Traitor in Zebra
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1962
Secrets are finding their way from HMS Zebra, a naval base, to the enemy, rendering the Navy's missile-tracking equipment useless. Steed and Mrs. Gale investigate, and find their attention drawn to the local sweet shop.