The Avengers - Series 1

"The Frighteners," "Girl on the Trapeze" and the first twenty minutes of "Hot Snow" are the known episodes to exist of the first season. All the other episodes of season one were destroyed by the BBC in a bulk wipe, to which many classic shows have been lost [IE: Dr. Who, Dad's Army, The Spies, etc.) We do hope that the rest will pop up someday, somewhere, somehow...

26 Episodes

Hot Snow

Season 1 - Episode 1

Following the death of his fiancee Peggy at the hands of heroin smugglers, Dr David Keel vows to track down the killers and avenge his lost ...

Brought to Book

Season 1 - Episode 2

Steed has infiltrated a gang, led by Mason, which is implicated in Peggy's murder. Steed asks Keel to establish contact with a rival gang, ...

Square Root of Evil

Season 1 - Episode 3

Steed impersonates Riordan, a forger soon to be released from prison, and gains the trust of gang-leader Hooper. Things seem to be going we...

Nightmare

Season 1 - Episode 4

Keel receives a 'phone call from one of his patients, and ends up assuming the identity of her missing husband, a scientist engaged in secre...

Crescent Moon

Season 1 - Episode 5

A young girl, Carmelite Mendoza, has been kidnapped from a Caribbean island, but Steed suspects a political motive. His suspicions are con...

Girl on the Trapeze

Season 1 - Episode 6

Keel, reviving a young woman who has jumped into the Thames, is led to the Radeck State Circus, where the trapeze girl is guarded, her face ...

Diamond Cut Diamond

Season 1 - Episode 7

Steed, attempting to break a gang of international diamond smugglers, is living in a bungalow near Heathrow Airport which was once owned by ...

The Radioactive Man

Season 1 - Episode 8

Dr Keel is asked to help in the search for a man who has picked up a radioactive isotope, not knowing that it will quickly kill him and harm...

Ashes of Roses

Season 1 - Episode 9

Steed, investigating a number of probable arson cases, is led to the hairdressing salon of Olive and Jacques Beronne. He asks Keel to let C...

Hunt the Man Down

Season 1 - Episode 10

Frank Preston is released from prison and is intent on reclaiming the hidden proceeds of his robbery. So is Steed, who has been ordered to ...

Please Don't Feed the Animals

Season 1 - Episode 11

Steed trails a blackmailed civil servant to Brinkley House, a private zoo, only to observe the man throwing a package of money into the rept...

Dance with Death

Season 1 - Episode 12

Dr. Keel resuscitates Elaine Bateman, the owner of a ballroom dancing school who has narrowly survived a murder attempt by gassing. When he...

One for the Mortuary

Season 1 - Episode 13

When Keel attends a health conference in Geneva he is unaware that he is carrying, in microdot form, a vital new medical formula - unaware, ...

The Springers

Season 1 - Episode 14

Steed is trying to track down the organisers of a group who offer to spring any convict - even the dangerous ones - from prison if they're p...

The Frighteners

Season 1 - Episode 15

To stop his daughter seeing suspected conman Jeremy de Willoughby, Sir Thomas Waller has hired arch-criminal the Deacon to 'put the frighten...

The Yellow Needle

Season 1 - Episode 16

After an unsuccessful murder attempt against Sir Wilberforce Lungi, Steed asks Keel, an old friend of the pro-Western African leader, to inv...

Death on the Slipway

Season 1 - Episode 17

An agent has been killed at the secret dockyard where submarines are built. Steed investigates, and finds that a foreign spy has been arran...

Double Danger

Season 1 - Episode 18

Keel, called to deal with a man seriously injured by an accident, quickly discovers that the man is suffering from gunshot wounds, and that...

Toy Trap

Season 1 - Episode 19

Keel is asked by the improbably named Bunty to help her find her missing friend. What is the connection between the department store where ...

Tunnel of Fear

Season 1 - Episode 20

Top-secret information is finding its way into the wrong hands, and the source seems to be a south coast fairground. Steed succeeds in gett...

The Far Distant Dead

Season 1 - Episode 21

Dr Keel, treating the victims of a cyclone struck Mexican village, uncovers a number of food-poisonings; emergency cooking oil is, in fact,...

Kill the King

Season 1 - Episode 22

A visit to London to sign an oil treaty from a monarch whose life is under threat brings Steed and Keel into the world of dissidents and ass...

Dead of Winter

Season 1 - Episode 23

The discovery of the body of Schneider, a wanted Nazi war criminal, deep-frozen in a consignment of meat at London docks brings Steed and Ke...

The Deadly Air

Season 1 - Episode 24

An experimental vaccine is stolen, and the subsequent test proves deadly. Steed and Keel, suspecting that the human 'guinea pig' did not di...

A Change of Bait

Season 1 - Episode 25

An unusual and sprawling tale of heart disease, industrial unrest, and a consignment of rotten bananas.

Dragonsfield

Season 1 - Episode 26

How has a research centre developing radiation-proof material managed to irradiate one of its scientists? Once more, Steed submits himself ...