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The Avengers Season 7 Episodes
Season 7 Episode Guide
33 Episodes 1968 - 1969
Episode 1
The Forget-Me-Knot
Wed, Mar 20, 196851 mins
Steed's colleague Sean Mortimer comes to see him in a very confused state. He knows there is a traitor in the organization, but he has been drugged to put him in an amnesiac state and he can remember little else. Mrs. Peel investigates, but she too falls prey to the drug as she and Sean are abducted by bikers. It is down to trainee agent 69, Tara King, to whom Steed is introduced by spymaster 'Mother', to help save the day. Finally Miss King becomes Steed's new partner, for Mrs. Peel's missing husband reappears and she goes off to join him.
Episode 2
Game
Mon, Sep 23, 196851 mins
A group of ex-army officers are forced to play a series of games which end up with their deaths. Steed realizes that they were all responsible for the court-martial of sergeant Daniel Edwards for black marketeering some twenty years earlier - as indeed was he. Now calling himself Monte Bristow and styling himself the Games Master the murderer abducts Tara to force Steed into surviving a sequence of dangerous games I order to save the pair of them.
Episode 3
Super Secret Cypher Snatch
Mon, Sep 30, 196851 mins
Several operatives from MI12 have gone missing, the latest being Roger Jarret. When the Avengers arrive at his flat they find his corpse but are observed by window cleaner Maskin, who works for the Classy Glass window cleaning agency. The team visit the company's offices to be told that it had given up the contract to clean MI12's windows some time ago. Steed and King soon discover that somebody is using the privileged position of being able to spy on spies undetected, and expose the leader of the gang.
Episode 4
You'll Catch Your Death
Mon, Oct 7, 196851 mins
The Avengers investigate the Anastasia Nursing Academy, whose matron and her partner Glover are developing the ultimate in germ warfare - a virus which causes the victim to literally sneeze themself to death. Their aim is to sell it to the highest bidder and it is the task of Steed and Miss King to protect the doctors who can provide the antidote.
Episode 5
Split!
Wed, Apr 10, 196851 mins
After several British agents are killed the culprit would appear to be the Russian spy Boris Kartovski, who has adopted the identity of English Lord Barnes. However, after Barnes is shot Steed is not convinced since he knows he killed Kartovski five years earlier. He uncovers a plot at a sinister hospital which practises mind transference and puts Tara forward to bait a trap.
Episode 6
Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40?
Mon, Dec 9, 196852 mins
George is the country's top computer but somebody is attempting to sabotage him via shooting, acid corrosion and shutting him down. He is able to send part of a message on a print-out but the Avengers are still none the wiser as to who is trying to disable him and call upon his creator for clues.
Episode 7
False Witness
Mon, Nov 25, 196852 mins
Dying agent Penman instructs Miss King to tell Steed that their colleague Melville is a traitor, leading to the avengers boss mother replacing Melville with Steed into the investigation of suspected blackmailer Lord Edgefield. However none of Edgefield's victims are prepared to give evidence and when Steed arrives at the Dreemykreem dairy he discovers the reason.
Episode 8
All Done with Mirrors
Mon, Dec 2, 196851 mins
Somebody is leaking secrets from the Carmadoc research institute and suspicion falls upon Steed, who has been spending some time there. He is accordingly put under rather luxurious house arrest at Mother's, whilst Miss King and her somewhat incompetent new partner Watney unmask the real traitor.
Episode 9
Legacy of Death
Mon, Nov 4, 196852 mins
Steed comes into possession of a jewelled ornamental dagger, known as the Falcon. It is highly sought after because it will lead to the whereabouts of the world's most valuable black pearl. Unfortunately, everyone who has ever owned the dagger has met an untimely end. Steed and Miss King must find the pearl and break the sequence.
Episode 10
Noon Doomsday
Mon, Oct 28, 196852 mins
Having broken his leg, Steed is now convalescing in a private hospital, where he is visited by Miss King. However, she has been followed - by Gerard Kafka - the driven former head of Murder international. Thanks to Steed he was caught and sent to prison for seven years. Now he is released and swearing vengeance on the man who put him inside. His plan is that Steed will die at exactly twelve noon. With Steed incapacitated, it is down to Miss King to save the day.
Episode 11
Look - (Stop Me If You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellers...
Wed, May 8, 196852 mins
Directors of the Capitol Land and Development Company are being killed. They have the tender for the Cupid project, an underground government headquarters in the event of a nuclear war. Clues such as a red nose and a giant footprint lead the Avengers to a home for retired clowns, irate that the project will flatten a sainted variety theatre and with an agenda of their own.
Episode 12
Have Guns - Will Haggle
Wed, May 1, 196851 mins
When three thousand army rifles are stolen Steed suspects the visiting Colonel Nsonga, who is planning a revolution in his home country in Africa. Actually a mercenary woman called Adriana has the guns, which she auctions off to the highest bidder. This turns out to be Nsonga and the chase leads to the grounds of Adriana's house where the arms are stored and due to be tested on a human target - Miss King!
Episode 13
They Keep Killing Steed
Mon, Nov 11, 196852 mins
Enemy agent Arcos has invented a form of instant plastic surgery and he uses it to imprison Steed and create a double, who is sent to throw a spanner in the works at an important peace conference at a country house. Although Steed overpowers his jailer and escapes, Miss King still has to deal with the matter of more than one doppelganger for her colleague though none seem to survive for very long. Until Steed arrives she is assisted by a dashing blond German count.
Episode 14
The Interrogators
Mon, Jan 20, 196952 mins
British agents are being tricked by a foreign spy in the guise of Colonel Mannering into believing that they are taking part in an interrogation exercise when they are actually betraying their contacts. When Steed convinces one of them that he has been duped he must locate Mannering and his latest subject - Miss King.
Episode 15
The Rotters
Mon, Dec 16, 196852 mins
Members of the Institute of Timber Technology have been killed to prevent them from standing in the way of a dastardly plot hatched by WormDoom Ltd, a pair of assassins who have perfected a chemical which destroys all kinds of wood and which they plan to release from pillar boxes around the country... unless Steed and Miss King can stop them.
Episode 16
Invasion of the Earthmen
Wed, Mar 27, 196851 mins
Following up a clue found on a dead agent, Steed and Miss King pose as a married couple - which enables them to infiltrate the Alpha Academy, where they claim they wish to enrol their 'son'. The academy is run by Brigadier Brett, and is supposedly for youngsters who possess super-intelligence - but it is in reality a training ground for a force that seeks not global but extra-terrestrial domination.
Episode 17
Killer
Mon, Dec 30, 196852 mins
A succession of British agents have been killed in different ways but each one has been carefully wrapped in polythene before being dumped in a graveyard. With Miss King on her holidays Steed is joined by Lady Diana Forbes- Blakeney to investigate a sinister factory which houses the deadly computer REMAK - Remote Electro- Matic Agent Killer, which must be destroyed.
Episode 18
The Morning After
52 mins
Having been rendered unconscious by knock-out gas in his pursuit of rogue agent Jimmy Merlin, Steed awakes to find that London is deserted and under martial law, headed by Brigadier Hansing. Under cover of a supposed evacuation, the Brigadier, incensed that he is to be retired from the army, has planted an atom bomb to destroy the capital. All Steed has to do is find it.
Episode 19
The Curious Case of the Countless Clues
Wed, Apr 3, 196852 mins
With Miss King out of action nursing a broken ankle, Steed goes it alone when Scotland Yard colleague Sir Arthur Doyle brings him in on a murder enquiry, with an abundance of clues, each one pointing to an illustrious suspect. In fact, bogus cops Earle and Gardiner are operating a racket whereby they deliberately incriminate worthies as murder suspects and then blackmail them. Their latest target is Steed and his supposed victim is Miss King.
Episode 20
Wish You Were Here
Mon, Nov 18, 196852 mins
Miss King's uncle Charles has been staying at the Elizabethan hotel but his return is overdue so she goes to collect him . However she finds the hotel staff have devised ways to stop them and other guests from leaving in a plot to rob and kill them or in Charles' case for his business to be taken over in his absence. Miss King leads a successful revolt of the prisoners just in time for Steed's arrival.
Episode 21
Love All
Mon, Feb 3, 196952 mins
The Ministry of Missile Deployment is suffering from a security leak when its head, Sir Rodney Kellogg, falls for plain, middle-aged cleaner, Martha Roberts, and has told her all his secrets. Needless to say, Martha is not what she seems; and the Avengers must discover her true identity and how she has duped Sir Rodney and other misogynist ministers into betrayal.
Episode 22
Stay Tuned
Mon, Feb 24, 196952 mins
With whole weeks missing from his life and evidence of actions that he simply cannot remember, Steed finds himself in an endless series of 'deja vu' situations. In reality he is slowly being hypnotised and the aim is to mesmerise him into killing 'Mother'.
Episode 23
Take Me to Your Leader
Mon, Feb 10, 196952 mins
A red attaché case is being transported by a chain of enemy agents though the avengers are unsure of its contents and its ultimate recipient - believed to be a traitor in the government who will receive a large pay-out on delivery. Having beaten the couriers and obtained the object in question Steed and Miss King must use their musical skills to - literally - crack the case.
Episode 24
Fog
Mon, Feb 17, 196952 mins
A group of foreign delegates visiting a fog-bound London for an international disarmament conference are lured to their deaths by a killer imitating the Victorian mass murderer, the Gaslight Ghoul. Never caught, the ghoul has inspired a number of professional men to start their own Gaslight Ghoul club, one of whom aims is to unmask the original killer. Steed joins the club to discover the identity of the latter-day culprit.
Episode 25
Who Was That Man I Saw You With?
Mon, Mar 3, 196952 mins
Miss King is working with the army to test the invulnerability of a computer, the Field Marshal, which will detect any likely nuclear strike on the country. However she is being wooed by an enemy agent to give the impression that she is a traitor so that the army will believe security has been compromised and the computer dismantled. When Steed realizes this he sets out to clear her name.
Episode 26
Homicide and Old Lace
Mon, Mar 17, 196952 mins
To celebrate his birthday 'Mother' goes to visit two elderly aunts to whom he tells a story from the Avengers' case files. It involves a criminal caper to steal art treasures. The treasures were to be held for safe keeping in an underground vault in the event of a national emergency but the criminals aimed to squirrel them away once in the vault. It is a hair colour changing story indeed.
Episode 27
Thingumajig
Mon, Mar 24, 196952 mins
The vicar of a Norman church asks the Avengers' help when a team of archaeologists excavating a site underneath the church are all killed and their bodies rendered completely devoid of any energy. This is due to a little black box which sends out deadly charges of electricity. Furthermore its charges are nurturing a race of thingumajigs, pure energy creatures which will eat anything and must be stopped before they do great harm.
Episode 28
My Wildest Dream
Mon, Jan 6, 196951 mins
Following a tip-off Steed and Miss King are present when a member of the Acme Precision Combine is stabbed, seemingly by a sleep-walker who has no recollection of the murder. This leads the Avengers to a clinic run by Dr. A. Jaeger who may or may not be programming deadly sleep-walkers.
Episode 29
Requiem
Mon, Mar 31, 196952 mins
Coming home from a costume party, Miranda Loxton witnessed a killing by a member of Murder International, and Steed is assigned to protect her until she gives evidence at the trial. Only Miss King knows that he has taken her to one of his boyhood haunts, but then Tara is caught and wakes up in a sinister hospital where she is pumped for information about Miranda's hideaway.
Episode 30
Take-Over
Mon, Apr 14, 196952 mins
Three men and a woman called Circe politely call on the country home of Steed's friends, married couple Bill and Laura Bassett. Unfortunately their visit turns sinister as they plan to implant explosives into the throats of the couple and send them off to destroy a nearby peace conference. Happily for the Bassetts - and the conference - Steed is coming to visit for the weekend, and he knows what to do.
Episode 31
Pandora
Mon, Mar 10, 196952 mins
Miss King is abducted whilst visiting an antique shop and wakes up in a room beautifully furnished in a style from fifty years earlier. She is addressed as Pandora. Steed follows a lead which takes him to retired World War One agent Lasindell, the love of whose life was called Pandora and bore a strong resemblance to Miss King. It is a plot by his greedy relations to make him divulge the location of his fortune or else Pandora, alias Miss King, comes to harm.
Episode 32
Get-A-Way!
Wed, Apr 24, 196851 mins
Three captured Russian spies are being held at the seemingly escape-proof Oldhill Monastery, but two of them do manage to escape, simply by making themselves seem invisible, thanks to the contents of a bottle of Lizard vodka. They both succeed in eliminating their chosen victim. The third one is about to make his getaway. And his mark is Steed.
Episode 33
Bizarre
Mon, Apr 21, 196952 mins
Found wandering in a snowy field, Helen Pritchard claims to have seen a man who was supposed to have been a corpse but was very much alive. This leads Steed to investigate the Happy Meadows funeral parlour and the cheery Mr. Bagpipes Happychap. Unfortunately the undertakers seem unable to keep their 'stiffs' from walking, and Steed has to arrange his own funeral in order to find out more - though ultimately he and Miss King do get a send-off that is out of this world.
