Too Many Christmas Trees is The Avengers episode that families sat down to watch on Christmas Day 1965. It's perhaps the best episode ever made
Patrick Macnee
The Avengers: Series 4, Episode 12 – Two’s a Crowd
John Steed's spitting image turns up to complicate things in Two's a Crowd. Or is Steed impersonating someone who just looks very like him?
The Avengers: Series 4, Episode 11 – Man-Eater of Surrey Green
If you prefer the out-and-out fantastic "spy-fi" side of The Avengers, Man-Eater of Surrey Green is the episode for you
The Avengers: Series 4, Episode 10 – Dial a Deadly Number
Sherry and biscuits, anyone? Steed and Peel breathe rarefied social air in Dial a Deadly Number, a mystery about business magnates who mysteriously keep dying
The Avengers: Series 4, Episode 9 – The Hour That Never Was
An air force base devoid of people in a world where time seems to have stood still, a classic Avengers episode that's one of the very best
The Avengers: Series 4, Episode 8 – A Surfeit of H2O
Peel and Steed battle the weather in A Surfeit of H2O, an Avengers episode stuffed with eccentrics and featuring a granny with a very large comedy cucumber
The Avengers: Series 4, Episode 7 – The Murder Market
The Murder Market was the first Avengers episode that Patrick Macnee shot with his new co-star, Diana Rigg. And it shows…
The Avengers: Series 4, Episode 6 – The Master Minds
The Master Minds is all about mind control, a hot button topic when The Avengers tackled it in November 1965
The Avengers: Series 4, Episode 5 – Castle De’ath
An agent taller in death than in life? Castle De'ath sends John Steed and Emma Peel to Scotland, where the wrack awaits the unwary
The Avengers: Series 4, Episode 4 – Death at Bargain Prices
Charles Crichton directs an excellent episode that's all about bad guys plotting world domination from a department store, improbably