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The Avengers Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1965 - 1966
Episode 1
The Town of No Return
Thu, Sep 1, 196660 mins
Steed and Emma visit a mysterious coastal town where several agents have vanished, and where the locals are not all they seem.
Episode 2
The Gravediggers
Thu, Aug 4, 196660 mins
Steed and Mrs Peel must find out why an early warning radar is failing. Emma joins the staff of The Sir Horace Winslip Hospital for Ailing Railwaymen - while Steed has lunch with Sir Horace himself aboard his private, indoor train.
Episode 3
The Cybernauts
Mon, Mar 28, 196660 mins
The Avengers investigate a series of murders of Corporate men, who have all been bidding on a new circuit element. Each one of them seems to have been killed by a powerful Karate blow, so Mrs. Peel visits a Karate Dojo, Steed's inquiries lead him to United Automation, where ex-Ministry scientist Dr. Armstrong is working on an electronic brain, not to mention cybernetic men.
Episode 4
Death at Bargain Prices
Mon, Apr 11, 196652 mins
When a colleague is found dead in a large London department store Steed and Mrs. Peel go undercover as staff members, exposing a dastardly plot by the wheelchair-bound Horatio Kane to devastate the capital with a huge bomb housed within the store.
Episode 5
Castle De'ath
Mon, May 2, 196652 mins
When an agent in diving gear is found dead in a Scottish loch yet substantially taller than he was whilst he was alive Steed and Mrs. Peel visit a remote castle owned by the feuding De'ath cousins, Ian and Angus, to investigate the sinister goings-on.
Episode 6
The Master Minds
Mon, Jul 11, 196652 mins
Government minister Sir Clive Todd is wounded as he and other ministers try to steal top secret documents. He has no idea why he did it and hypnosis is suggested. All concerned belonged to a club for people with high I.Q.s called RANSACK, who are about to meet at a school. The Avengers join the club in order to expose the mastermind behind the next heist - the theft of a plane from an R.A.F. base.
Episode 7
The Murder Market
Mon, May 30, 196652 mins
Steed and Mrs. Peel investigate a murder-for-hire organization fronting as a matchmaking bureau.
Episode 8
A Surfeit of H2O
52 mins
After a village poacher drowns in the middle of an open field, The Avengers are soon on the trail of a mad scientist able to control the weather.
Episode 9
The Hour That Never Was
Mon, Apr 25, 196651 mins
On their way to a closing down party at an air base the Avengers' car crashes when they swerve to avoid hitting a dog. The air base proves to be deserted and Steed is knocked out. When he recovers he is back at the car but minus Mrs. Peel and the party, when he gets there, is in full swing. It would seem that he has gone back an hour in time.
Episode 10
Dial a Deadly Number
Thu, Jul 21, 196652 mins
Company chairmen across the city are dropping dead, apparently through natural causes. Can Steed and Mrs Peel discover who is making a killing?
Episode 11
Man-Eater of Surrey Green
Thu, Aug 25, 196652 mins
A man-eating plant from outer space lands in Middle England and takes several top horticulturists as its prisoners in an effort to germinate the Earth. Fortunately for the Earth, Steed just happens to be a herbicidal maniac.
Episode 12
Two's a Crowd
Mon, May 9, 196652 mins
A mysterious Russian called Psev is arriving for a conference at which Steed and Mrs. Peel have been hired to act as the security guards. However, a man called Gordon Webster who is an exact double for Steed turns up and offers his services to Psev's entourage of four people, fooling Mrs. Peel in the process and agreeing to kill Steed. Though he is thwarted it turns out that Psev is also not exactly the man that everybody had expected him to be.
Episode 13
Too Many Christmas Trees
Thu, Aug 11, 196652 mins
Steed has been having bad dreams involving Christmas trees and a man dressed as Santa Claus. At a party given by publisher and Dickens fan Brandon Storey, two telepathic spies attempt to read Steed's mind and make sense of the dream. However, the dream is echoed exactly by the events of the party, enabling Steed to spot the villains in advance and identify the dangerous Santa.
Episode 14
Silent Dust
52 mins
When birds begin to fall from branches in flocks, it seems someone is using the banned chemical Silent Dust in the countryside of Cornwall. Steed and Mrs Peel soon find out a that a small group of local landowners is planning to use the deadly dust to blackmail the country by destroying Dorset.
Episode 15
Room Without a View
Mon, Jun 27, 196652 mins
A missing scientist returns after having disappeared. He's half-mad and attacks his Asian wife. Steed and Peel find out that seven other scientists have also disappeared - none having returned - but all have one thing in common; they were all booked at the Chessman hotel when they vanished.
Episode 16
Small Game for Big Hunters
Wed, May 4, 196651 mins
A man dressed in Safari clothes is found in Hertfortshire with an arrow in his back, and falls into a coma-like state. All clues lead to a delusional Colonel living nearby. Whilst Emma watches over an increasing number of comatose men, Steed's invited into the Colonel's officers club.
Episode 17
The Girl from Auntie
Mon, Jun 6, 196652 mins
When Steed returns home early from a holiday, he finds Mrs. Peel replaced by an actress, Georgie Price-Jones. Subsequently everyone involved in the hiring of Georgie is stabbed to death with double-O knitting needles. It seems the real Mrs. Peel has become Lot 17 of 'Art Incorporated', an organization which prides itself on being able to obtain any object for any one as long as the price is right.
Episode 18
The Thirteenth Hole
Thu, Aug 18, 196651 mins
When agent Ted Murphy is found dead Steed and Mrs Peel discover that he was keeping surveillance on government scientist Peter Reed at the exclusive Cranleigh golf club. The avengers join the club with Steed taking part in a tournament which is literally a matter of life and death should he reach the deadly thirteenth hole.
Episode 19
Quick-Quick Slow Death
51 mins
An unidentified corpse is discovered after foreign agent Willi Fehr has tried to dispose of him . A tattoo shows him to have been Arthur Peever and leads the avengers to the Terpsichorean Techniques dance school run by the formidable Lucille Banks where Emma goes undercover as an instructress and Steed poses as a client. Here they discover a plot to kill lonely, unattached punters and replace them with enemy agents, infiltrating the country.
Episode 20
The Danger Makers
Mon, Jul 4, 196652 mins
The avengers are called in when a 60-year old general is killed in a 'chicken run' motor-cycle accident and another officer, having fallen whilst trying to scale St Paul's cathedral, is murdered in hospital whilst under the care of Dr Long. They discover that they were part of a group of disgruntled military men, members of a secret society of the Black Rose, giving themselves code-names based on Greek gods. Bored with peace-time they engage in dangerous and illegal activities and Steed and Emma must identify their leader before they carry out their next caper, the theft of the Crown Jewels.
Episode 21
A Touch of Brimstone
52 mins
Prankster Lord Darcy informs Steed about his concerns for John Cleverly Carney, a suave womanizer who has hi-jacked his innocent pranks and turned them into the means of murder. The Avengers discover that Carney has revived the eighteenth century Hellfire Club, a libertine organization advocating orgies and mayhem and infiltrate the club as members. Here they discover Carney's plan to blow up Culverston House whilst an international conference is taking place and set out to stop him.
Episode 22
What the Butler Saw
Thu, Jul 28, 196652 mins
Government secrets are being leaked and there are three prime suspects, Admiral Willows, Brigadier Goddard and Group Captain Miles, all of whose butlers have recently disappeared. Emma sets out to seduce the womanizing Miles whilst Steed enrols at the school that trained the missing butlers and is run by their replacements. Whilst Miles proves to be innocent Steed discovers that one of the gentleman's gentlemen is behaving in a most ungentlemanly way.
Episode 23
The House That Jack Built
Mon, May 16, 196652 mins
Mrs. Peel is bequeathed an old house by an uncle Jack, whom she never knew existed. In the event, he did not exist. The house is a former lunatic asylum and it is all a ruse by a vengeful ex-employee of Mrs. Peel's to submit her to mind games which will drive her insane.
Episode 24
A Sense of History
Mon, Jun 20, 196652 mins
Economist James Broom is shot with an arrow by one of a group dressed as Robin Hood whilst on his way to meet a man opposed to his Utopian vision of a new Europe. The trail leads the Avengers to St. Bode's College, where anarchic students oppose traditional schools of thought. Could one of these have killed Broom? All is revealed at a fancy dress party where everyone is a character from the Robin Hood legend.
Episode 25
How to Succeed .... At Murder
Mon, Jun 13, 196652 mins
Eleven businessmen and counting have been mysteriously murdered, their affairs taken over by their able secretaries. The smell of perfume lingering over one of the dead bodies leads Mrs Peel to J.J. Hooter, who quickly becomes the next man to die. With secretaries as their only clue, Steed decides to hire one, and Emma to take up the profession.
Episode 26
Honey for the Prince
52 mins
Two undercover agents are shot at Q.Q.F. Incorporated but one survives long enough to clue in Steed and Peel. So, Steed visits the Quite Quite Fantastic office (where fantasies are made to come true) while Emma looks into B. Bumble's honey shop. They soon surmise that someone is aiming for Prince Ali of Barabia, who is visiting London with his harem of 320 wives.
