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The Avengers Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
16 Episodes 1967 - 1967
Episode 1
From Venus with Love
Fri, Jan 20, 196751 mins
Venus Brown runs the British Venusian Society, whose members believe the planet Venus can be harvested to the good of the Earth but, whilst observing it through their telescopes, one by one they die and their hair turns white on death. Steed joins the society and discovers that, whilst aliens may seem to be responsible for the murders, the real culprit is a vengeful optician.
Episode 2
The Fear Merchants
Fri, Jan 27, 196751 mins
When four executives from leading ceramic companies are driven mad Steed discovers that another pottery owner, Jeremy Raven, had requested that they merger but was refused. He had engaged a consultancy firm, Business Efficiency Bureau, to boost his factory, unaware of their deadly means of eliminating the opposition. Steed poses as a travel agent to trap them, naming Emma as his business rival.
Episode 3
Escape in Time
Fri, Feb 10, 196760 mins
Notorious criminals are escaping but nobody knows where and two agents investigating their last known location, Tudor mansion Mackidockie Court, are both killed. When the avengers link the house to the murders Emma is captured by its owner, Waldo Thyssen, who claims to have built a time machine, through which the miscreants are escaping to previous centuries, and sends her through to the sixteenth century to be tortured by himself in the guise of an Elizabethan ancestor. Steed works out the whereabouts of the house and follows, stepping through time to save Emma.
Episode 4
The See-Through Man
Fri, Mar 3, 196751 mins
The Ministry of Defence had been infiltrated - by an invisible man. The Avengers visit an eccentric professor who claims he sold a formula for invisibility to a pharmaceutical company; actually a front for the Soviets. A pair of spies are in town, and one of them seems to have disappeared. Emma and Steed must discover if he really has the power of invisibility and, if not, how it's being simulated.
Episode 5
The Bird Who Knew Too Much
Fri, Mar 10, 196751 mins
Two spies have obtained information about a secret missile base which they are passing to the other side, via a person known as Captain Caruso, whom the Avengers are charged to locate. In the event the good Captain turns out to be a trained parrot who possesses a photographic memory . . .
Episode 6
The Winged Avenger
Fri, Feb 17, 196751 mins
Several businessmen have been killed, the murderer having apparently clawed them to death so that the initial suspect is an author who owns a bird of prey and had a grudge against a victim who ran a publishing house. However, the discovery of a comic called 'The Winged Avenger' featuring a super-hero is found by the latest victim. And could the invention of Professor Poole, boots that allow the wearer to climb walls and scale ceilings, be involved?
Episode 7
The Living Dead
Fri, Mar 3, 196751 mins
Five years after a mine disaster, Mrs. Peel and Steed are called upon to investigate the spooky goings-on at the local inn. The ghost of the 15th Duke of Benedict, who was reputedly lost in the mine disaster, has been seen wandering the area and Emma joins SMOG and FOG in a ghost hunt. The Duke's ghost supposedly takes Emma with him to his final resting place in the collapsed mine, but Steed descends into the shaft to rescue her. He finds a secret underground city that is being used to stage an invasion of England; the mine disaster was just a cover-up for the plan. Steed rescues Emma and country by cutting off access to the topside elevator.
Episode 8
The Hidden Tiger
Fri, Mar 17, 196751 mins
Sir David Harper, owner of an experimental livestock farm, is killed, apparently mauled by a tiger and when three other men die in the same way Steed finds a link to P. U. R. R. R. , a cats charity of which all the victims were board members and discovers a plot to turn the domestic felines of the country into vicious killers.
Episode 9
The Correct Way to Kill
Fri, Mar 17, 196751 mins
Somebody is systematically killing off foreign agents and Steed, who is initially implicated, declares a truce and calls on his Russian opposite number, Nutski. Along with Soviet agents Anna and Ivan the Avengers discover SNOB, an exceedingly English gentlemen's club with murderously patriotic members.
Episode 10
Never, Never Say Die
Fri, Mar 31, 196751 mins
The Avengers "are needed" after reports that a motorist has repeatedly run over and supposedly killed the same person. Their investigations lead them to the country and the top secret Neoteric Research Unit, which is run by the appropriately-named Dr. Frank N. Stone, who has made a startlingly life-like robot of himself, so much so that Steed finds it hard to tell the two Stones apart.
Episode 11
Epic
Fri, Apr 14, 196751 mins
Z.Z. von Schnerk, a mad Teutonic film director of the Erich von Stroheim variety, along with his has-been leading actor and actress, Stewart Kirby and Damita Syn, capture Mrs. Peel in an effort to make a movie about her life and exciting adventures. Unfortunately it is to end with her violent death so Steed has to follow the clues to find her.
Episode 12
The Superlative Seven
Fri, Apr 21, 196751 mins
Steed is invited to a party on an aeroplane with six other people who include a matador, a cowboy and a circus strong man. As the pilotless , remote-controlled craft takes off, a voice announces that they are bound for a desert island where one of them will be revealed as a super-killer. Mrs. Peel has to work out how to get to her partner as the bodies start to pile up.
Episode 13
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station
Fri, Apr 28, 196751 mins
Whilst travelling on an express train on a quest to find a missing agent, Steed and Mrs. Peel get caught up in an assassination attempt on the life of the British Prime Minister on the part of a disgruntled and murderous ticket collector. They are helped in their efforts to foil him by Mr. Crewe, an eccentric owner of an abandoned station.
Episode 14
Something Nasty in the Nursery
Fri, May 5, 196751 mins
Agent Dobson is pursued by a wheelchair-bound old lady who tosses him a ball. When he picks it up he hallucinates that he is a child in a nursery and then the old lady shoots him. He was investigating the leakage of state secrets and Steed discovers that each of the three suspects had a childhood nanny, Nanny Roberts, who is being held captive for information at a sinister school for nannies whose head plans to destroy the nation's power stations by impersonating nannies and hypnotizing the men into giving him their locations. Steed and Emma pay the school a visit to stop him.
Episode 15
The Joker
Fri, May 12, 196751 mins
Mrs. Peel is invited to a bridge party at a house on Exmoor but when she arrives she discovers that she has been lured there by a man known as 'The joker'. She had once helped to put him in prison, but he has now escaped and with his two crazy accomplices, subjects Mrs. Peel to a series of lethal tricks and traps until Steed arrives to help her.
Episode 16
Who's Who???
Fri, May 19, 196751 mins
Mad scientist Dr. Krelmar is working on a machine that allows two people to swap minds and enemy agents Basil and Lola intend to use it with the Avengers to get them to destroy their network. Basil exchanges personalities with Steed but Mrs. Peel is suspicious that the man who looks like her partner is acting out of character and has to persuade the real Steed what is going on.
