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The Avengers: Season 5

24 episodes Premiered Jan 14, 1967 Updated Sep 22, 2026

The Avengers Season 5 continues the overarching saga across 24 episodes.

Previously on The Avengers

Season 5 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of The Avengers Season 4.
  • Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
  • Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
  • Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.

Season overview

The Avengers Season 5 continues the overarching saga across 24 episodes.

Season 5 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 5: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (6): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (18): Character development & subplots
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S5·E1 Mytharc

From Venus with Love

Jan 14, 1967

The strange deaths of several astronomers, left bleached white, pose a problem. Whilst Steed joins the stargazers, Emma chases a bright light, and finds herself in the hot seat.

S5·E2 Core

The Fear Merchants

Jan 21, 1967

Four men involved in the production of ceramics suffer nervous breakdowns in everyday situations. All have recently turned down the opportunity to merge with the British Porcelain

S5·E3 Core

Escape in Time

Jan 28, 1967

Several notorious criminals have vanished into thin air. A whisper has been received that the escape chain starts in London, but, when agent Paxton follows it, he winds up dead in

S5·E4 Core

The See-Through Man

Feb 4, 1967

The Ministry has been broken into by, it seems, an invisible man. A trail leads via inventor Quilby to the Eastern Drug Company, a front organisation run by Soviet intelligence.

S5·E5 Core

The Bird Who Knew Too Much

Feb 11, 1967

Emma and Steed investigate the mystery of how top secret things are being photographed from the air. Could it have something to do with the groovy world of fashion photography and

S5·E6 Core

The Winged Avenger

Feb 18, 1967

Is a creature that can walk up walls clawing to death ruthless and powerful men? Does it have anything to do with Professor Poole's invention of boots that let you walk on the cei

S5·E7 Core

The Living Dead

Feb 25, 1967

When representatives of the two organizations head to a country church to investigate the sudden reappearance of a man long thought dead, Steed and Emma are called in to help. It i

S5·E8 Core

The Hidden Tiger

Mar 4, 1967

The mauling to death of several members of the committee of PURRR (the Philanthropic Union for the Rescue, Relief and Recuperation of Cats) exposes Steed and Emma to a diabolical s

S5·E9 Core

The Correct Way to Kill

Mar 11, 1967

Foreign agents are being killed, but not by British agents. Steed thinks it terribly unfair, and so does his opposite number, Nutski. They make an arrangement, and Steed and Emma

S5·E10 Core

Never, Never Say Die

Mar 18, 1967

An unfortunate motorist keeps knocking down and killing the same man: a man who's rampaging through the countryside, bulletproof and intent on destruction. A man who just happens

S5·E11 Core

Epic

Apr 1, 1967

Three Hollywood veterans, led by an insane director, decide that Emma would be perfect for their latest movie, so they kidnap her and film some surreal and deadly footage.

S5·E12 Core

The Superlative Seven

Apr 8, 1967

Steed is invited to a party, and finds himself trapped in a remote-controlled aircraft, with six fancy-dressed specialists in various combat styles, en route to a distant island.

S5·E13 Mytharc

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station

Apr 15, 1967

When Lucas, an agent investigating something subversive, gets off his train at the wrong station he is murdered. Has the crime got anything to do with a mole at the admiralty, a t

S5·E14 Core

Something Nasty in the Nursery

Apr 22, 1967

Secrets known only to a small group of trusted men have leaked, and the men are having strange dreams of their childhood, featuring their nannies and a bouncing ball. Emma checks

S5·E15 Core

The Joker

Apr 29, 1967

Invited for the weekend to the home of a fellow Bridge Expert, Emma finds herself trapped in a house designed to send her mad. Her tormentor is Max Prendergast, a man she befriend

S5·E16 Core

Who's Who???

May 6, 1967

When one of the Floral Network of agents is found dead atop a pair of stilts, Steed and Emma's interest is piqued. That's the idea, because foreign agents Basil and Lola have a tr

S5·E17 Core

Return of the Cybernauts

Sep 30, 1967

The brother of the late Clement Armstrong sets a deadly trap for Steed and Mrs. Peel, whom he blames for his brother's death at the hands of his murderous creations, the Cybernauts

S5·E18 Core

Death's Door

Oct 7, 1967

A European peace conference comes under the threat of sabotage when the British delegates begin to suffer from premonitions and nightmares. After Sir Andrew Boyd, who has witnessd

S5·E19 Mytharc

The £50,000 Breakfast

Oct 14, 1967

The accidental death of a ventriloquist reveals that he had been carrying a fortune in gems inside his stomach. Steed stoops to blackmail and Emma goes shopping for ties in the sea

S5·E20 Core

Dead Man's Treasure

Oct 21, 1967

A missing briefcase full of secrets propels Steed and Emma into a treasure hunt by car.

S5·E21 Mytharc

You Have Just Been Murdered

Oct 28, 1967

Various millionaires are withdrawing large sums of money from the bank. Steed suspects blackmail but none of the men is willing to talk. Then he gets a call from Gilbert Jarvis,

S5·E22 Core

The Positive Negative Man

Nov 4, 1967

When a scientist is found embedded in a wall, Steed and Emma pursue a man in make-up and wellies, whose appearance is terribly shocking.

S5·E23 Mytharc

Murdersville

Nov 11, 1967

Emma's old friend, Paul Croft, returns from abroad to retire to Little Storping-in-the Swurf. Unfortunately, the village seems to be run along very strange lines. Threatened by y

S5·E24 Mytharc

Mission... Highly Improbable

Nov 18, 1967

When Sir Gerald Bancroft and his Rolls-Royce vanish whilst being escorted at a military base, Steed is called upon to solve the puzzle. But before he can he experiences that old s