What connects a posh wine merchant's with a secret research establishment? And how much is a case of 1956 Chateau Lafitte anyway?
Patrick Macnee
The Avengers: Series 3, Episode 18 – Mandrake
An episode set largely in a Cornwall cemetery, where people keep winding up buried even though they have no connection with the area. What's going on?
The Avengers: Series 3, Episode 17 – The Wringer
The influence of John le Carré's The Spy Who Came In from the Cold is obvious in this excellent episode, about Steed being interrogated for being a double agent
The Avengers: Series 3, Episode 16 – The Little Wonders
An international cabal of criminals posing as clergymen are what powers this brilliant episode. And Steed and Gale share a screen kiss – their only one
The Avengers: Series 3, Episode 15 – The White Elephant
We're near the end of Mrs Gale reign on The Avengers, and in The White Elephant, set in a zoo, we get a hint as to why her character might have had enough
The Avengers: Series 3, Episode 14 – Dressed to Kill
It's the Christmas episode for 1963, so writer Brian Clemens sends Steed and Gale off on an adventure that's a mix of Agatha Christie and good old British pantomime
The Avengers: Series 3, Episode 13 – Death a la Carte
Steed slaves as a chef while Mrs Gale butters up an ailing emir in Death a la Carte, an episode of the Avengers scoring few points for political correctness
The Avengers: Series 3, Episode 12 – Don’t Look Behind You
In Don't Look Behind You, writer Brian Clemens refits The Old Dark House and turns it into an Avengers episode full of thrills and eccentricity
The Avengers: Series 3, Episode 11 – The Golden Fleece
What connects a chintzy Chinese restaurant with an Army camp miles away? Steed and Gale investigate a high-end gold smuggling racket in The Golden Fleece
The Avengers: Series 3, Episode 10 – The Grandeur That Was Rome
Men in togas, a decorous orgy, a mad plan to wreak eco-armageddon, there's plenty for Steed and Gale to get their teeth into in The Grandeur That Was Rome