The Avengers: Season 1
The first series of The Avengers premiered in 1961 as a British action‑adventure programme that blended crime, science‑fiction and a distinctive sense of humor. Described by the series’ own synopsis as “a quirky spy show of the
Season overview
The first series of The Avengers premiered in 1961 as a British action‑adventure programme that blended crime, science‑fiction and a distinctive sense of humor. Described by the series’ own synopsis as “a quirky spy show of the
Episode Guide
Season 1 Progress Shield
Hot Snow
Jan 7, 1961
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 love. He is aided in his quest by a mys
Brought to Book
Jan 14, 1961
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, and the doctor discovers that Vance's hi
Square Root of Evil
Jan 21, 1961
Steed impersonates Riordan, a forger soon to be released from prison, and gains the trust of gang-leader Hooper. Things seem to be going well until Hooper's second-in-command, kno
Nightmare
Jan 28, 1961
Keel receives a 'phone call from one of his patients, and ends up assuming the identity of her missing husband, a scientist engaged in secret research. Shot in the chest, Keel nee
Crescent Moon
Feb 4, 1961
A young girl, Carmelite Mendoza, has been kidnapped from a Caribbean island, but Steed suspects a political motive. His suspicions are confirmed when Vasco, the Mendoza family re
Girl on the Trapeze
Feb 11, 1961 · 50 min
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 covered by bandages because of an accide
Diamond Cut Diamond
Feb 18, 1961
Steed, attempting to break a gang of international diamond smugglers, is living in a bungalow near Heathrow Airport which was once owned by a suicide whom One-Ten suspects of invol
The Radioactive Man
Feb 25, 1961
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 anyone else he comes into contact with.
Ashes of Roses
Mar 4, 1961
Steed, investigating a number of probable arson cases, is led to the hairdressing salon of Olive and Jacques Beronne. He asks Keel to let Carol investigate the salon, but after sh
Hunt the Man Down
Mar 18, 1961
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 follow the man. So are a couple of thug
Please Don't Feed the Animals
Apr 1, 1961
Steed trails a blackmailed civil servant to Brinkley House, a private zoo, only to observe the man throwing a package of money into the reptile pit. The package soon vanishes. Th
Dance with Death
Apr 15, 1961
Dr. Keel resuscitates Elaine Bateman, the owner of a ballroom dancing school who has narrowly survived a murder attempt by gassing. When he returns to the school after dropping hi
One for the Mortuary
Apr 29, 1961
When Keel attends a health conference in Geneva he is unaware that he is carrying, in microdot form, a vital new medical formula - unaware, that is, until he is arrested for murder
The Springers
May 13, 1961
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 paid the right money. Keel impersonates
The Frighteners
May 27, 1961 · 51 min
To stop his daughter seeing suspected conman Jeremy de Willoughby, Sir Thomas Waller has hired arch-criminal the Deacon to 'put the frighteners on'. Steed is on the trail of the D
The Yellow Needle
Jun 10, 1961
After an unsuccessful murder attempt against Sir Wilberforce Lungi, Steed asks Keel, an old friend of the pro-Western African leader, to investigate Lungi's secretary, Jacquetta Br
Death on the Slipway
Jun 24, 1961
An agent has been killed at the secret dockyard where submarines are built. Steed investigates, and finds that a foreign spy has been arranging 'accidents' for him.
Double Danger
Jul 8, 1961
Keel, called to deal with a man seriously injured by an accident, quickly discovers that the man is suffering from gunshot wounds, and that he may be implicated in a recent diamon
Toy Trap
Jul 22, 1961
Keel is asked by the improbably named Bunty to help her find her missing friend. What is the connection between the department store where the women work and a call-girl racket?
Tunnel of Fear
Aug 5, 1961
Top-secret information is finding its way into the wrong hands, and the source seems to be a south coast fairground. Steed succeeds in getting hypnotised and winds up in the ghost
The Far Distant Dead
Aug 19, 1961
Dr Keel, treating the victims of a cyclone struck Mexican village, uncovers a number of food-poisonings; emergency cooking oil is, in fact, hydraulic fluid.
Kill the King
Sep 2, 1961
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 assassinations.
Dead of Winter
Dec 9, 1961
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 Keel into the shadowy world of Phoenix, a
The Deadly Air
Dec 16, 1961
An experimental vaccine is stolen, and the subsequent test proves deadly. Steed and Keel, suspecting that the human 'guinea pig' did not die directly from the vaccine, volunteer t
A Change of Bait
Dec 23, 1961
An unusual and sprawling tale of heart disease, industrial unrest, and a consignment of rotten bananas.
Dragonsfield
Dec 30, 1961
How has a research centre developing radiation-proof material managed to irradiate one of its scientists? Once more, Steed submits himself to scientific testing.