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The Avengers (1961 – 1969)

1961 • 6 seasons • Crime, Action & Adventure • TV-14
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The AvengersSeries 1

26 episodes · Jan 7, 1961

A tantalizing glimpse into the lost world of a groundbreaking television show emerges with four recovered episodes – “Girl on the Trapeze,” “The Frighteners,” “Tunnel of Fear,” and the initial installment of “Hot Snow.” These fragments offer a captivating, albeit incomplete, introduction to what could have been a truly remarkable first series, leaving viewers eager to piece together the full story behind this enigmatic production.

1. Hot Snow
Jan 7, 1961

The death of his fiancée, Peggy, at the hands of heroin smugglers ignited in Dr. David Keel a fierce resolve: he would hunt down those responsible and exact vengeance for his lost love. In this pursuit, he finds an unlikely ally in a man na

2. Brought to Book
Jan 14, 1961

Steed has embedded himself within a gang commanded by Mason, a group suspected of involvement in Peggy’s death. He tasks Keel with making contact with a rival faction, and the doctor learns that Spicer, Vance’s assassin, has been dispatched

3. Square Root of Evil
Jan 21, 1961

Steed assumes the identity of Riordan, a man recently incarcerated and soon to be released, and quickly earns the confidence of gang leader Hooper. Their arrangement appears to be proceeding smoothly until the Cardinal, Hooper’s right hand,

4. Nightmare
Jan 28, 1961

A phone call from one of his patients leads Keel down an unexpected path. He finds himself assuming the identity of her missing husband, a scientist working on clandestine research. The deception takes a dangerous turn when he is shot in th

5. Crescent Moon
Feb 4, 1961

Carmelite Mendoza, a girl barely into her teens, vanished from a Caribbean island. Steed, however, sensed something deeper than simple abduction; he believed politics lay at the heart of it. His unease solidified when Vasco, the Mendoza fam

6. Girl on the Trapeze
Feb 11, 1961 · 50m · 6.5

Keel pulls a young woman from the Thames, reviving her. He is taken to the Radeck State Circus, where the trapeze artist is kept under guard, her face concealed by bandages following an accident. The performer, known as the 'trapeze girl,'

7. Diamond Cut Diamond
Feb 18, 1961

Steed, pursuing a ring of international diamond smugglers, now resides in a bungalow near Heathrow Airport, a property formerly owned by someone who took their own life – a detail One-Ten finds suspicious. He stirs one morning with a linger

8. The Radioactive Man
Feb 25, 1961

Dr. Keel is summoned to assist in locating a man who has inadvertently acquired a radioactive isotope, unaware of its swift and lethal effects, as well as the danger it poses to others. Meanwhile, Marko, suspecting the police seek him out b

9. Ashes of Roses
Mar 4, 1961

While pursuing several suspected arson cases, Steed finds himself drawn to the hair salon owned by Olive and Jacques Beronne. He requests that Keel grant Carol permission to examine the premises, but moments after she steps inside, a sudden

10. Hunt the Man Down
Mar 18, 1961

Upon his release from prison, Frank Preston sets his sights on recovering the ill-gotten gains from his past robbery. He is not alone in this pursuit; Steed has been tasked with tracking him. A pair of unsavory characters share the same obj

11. Please Don't Feed the Animals
Apr 1, 1961

Steed shadowed the compromised civil servant to Brinkley House, a secluded menagerie. There, he watched the man discard a package of money into the reptile enclosure; it disappeared quickly into the murky depths. Moments later, the man rece

12. Dance with Death
Apr 15, 1961

Dr. Keel brought Elaine Bateman back from the brink. The owner of a ballroom dancing school, she had barely escaped a fatal attack – a gassing meant to end her life. Returning to the school after a forgotten scarf, however, Dr. Keel found h

13. One for the Mortuary
Apr 29, 1961

At a health conference in Geneva, Keel carries a secret: a vital new medical formula, miniaturized to the size of a microdot. He remains ignorant of its presence until his arrest for murder.

14. The Springers
May 13, 1961

Steed sought the orchestrators of a shadowy enterprise: a group rumored to liberate any convict – regardless of their peril – for a sufficient price. Keel, assuming the guise of an inmate, followed a thread that unexpectedly led him to a gi

15. The Frighteners
May 27, 1961 · 51m · 5.0

Sir Thomas Waller, determined to shield his daughter from the clutches of the dubious Jeremy de Willoughby, has engaged the notorious Deacon to instill a healthy dose of apprehension. Meanwhile, Steed, pursuing the Deacon’s own illicit acti

16. The Yellow Needle
Jun 10, 1961

Following the failed assassination attempt on Sir Wilberforce Lungi, Steed turned to Keel, an old acquaintance of the influential African leader. He requested that Keel look into Lungi’s secretary, Jacquetta Brown. Simultaneously, Steed arr

17. Death on the Slipway
Jun 24, 1961

The death of an agent at the clandestine submarine dockyard drew Steed into the investigation. He soon discovered a pattern of orchestrated mishaps, evidence pointing to the work of a foreign spy who had been meticulously engineering misfor

18. Double Danger
Jul 8, 1961

Called to the scene of an accident involving a man with serious injuries, Keel swiftly realizes the man's wounds are not the result of the crash. Instead, he finds evidence of gunshot wounds, and a troubling possibility emerges: the injured

19. Toy Trap
Jul 22, 1961

Keel found himself accosted by Bunty, a name that seemed utterly out of place on anyone he knew. She needed his assistance; her friend had vanished. The question lingered in the air: what possible link existed between the department store w

20. Tunnel of Fear
Aug 5, 1961

Sensitive information is leaking, its path traced back to a fairground on the south coast. Steed, in a desperate attempt to uncover the truth, is hypnotized and finds himself within the confines of the ghost train tunnel. The consequences a

21. The Far Distant Dead
Aug 19, 1961

In a Mexican village ravaged by a cyclone, Dr. Keel attends to the injured and discovers a disturbing pattern of food poisoning. The source of the illness, it turns out, is a horrifying deception: the emergency cooking oil distributed to th

22. Kill the King
Sep 2, 1961

The summons to London, a city hosting the signing of a vital oil treaty, thrusts Steed and Keel into a dangerous world of dissent and potential assassination, all while the monarch whose presence demands their service faces a grave peril.

23. Dead of Winter
Dec 9, 1961

The frozen corpse of Schneider, a Nazi war criminal sought by justice, was unearthed from a shipment of meat at the London docks, drawing Steed and Keel into the unsettling realm of Phoenix, a burgeoning and ominous Fascist movement taking

24. The Deadly Air
Dec 16, 1961

The experimental vaccine vanished, and the trials that followed yielded a grim result. Steed and Keel, convinced the subject’s demise stemmed from something beyond the vaccine itself, offered themselves as the next candidates.

25. A Change of Bait
Dec 23, 1961

A strangely expansive story encompassing heart disease, labor disputes, and a shipment of spoiled bananas.

26. Dragonsfield
Dec 30, 1961

The question lingered: how could a research facility dedicated to radiation-resistant materials have exposed one of its own personnel to radiation? Again, Steed willingly subjected himself to the demands of scientific inquiry.

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