If you thought Mrs Peel in bondage gear (too hot for US TV) was scene stealing, marvel as Peter Wyngarde runs away with Avengers episode A Touch of Brimstone
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The Avengers: Series 4, Episode 20 – The Danger Makers
John Steed and Emma Peel go into battle against men who have gone into battle with a world grown too risk-averse. The Danger Makers could have been made with the 21st century in mind
The Avengers: Series 4, Episode 19 – Quick-Quick Slow Death
Quick-Quick Slow Death is an Avengers episode winding its way towards a finale at a dance school. It's a lot more exicting and fun than it sounds
The Avengers: Series 4, Episode 18 – The Thirteenth Hole
What a stupid episode of The Avengers The Thirteenth Hole is. Still, Patrick Allen, Peter Jones and Francis Matthews – big voiceover guys of the era – lend charm
The Avengers: Series 4, Episode 17 – The Girl from Auntie
The title of The Avengers' Girl from Auntie pays homage a then new US TV show and puts Diana Rigg in a bikini to hide the fact she's barely in this episode
The Avengers: Series 4, Episode 16 – Small Game for Big Hunters
The natives are restless in Small Game for Big Hunters, an Avengers episode with its eye on the British Empire's more absurd wild fringes
The Avengers: Series 4, Episode 15 – Room Without a View
Room Without a View, an Avengers episode parodying the title of EM Forster's opus for no reason, also struggles to assert itself as viable 1960s entertainment
The Avengers: Series 4, Episode 14 – Silent Dust
In an echo of Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring, Avengers episode Silent Dust sees John Steed and Emma Peel tackling a potential eco-catastrophe
The Avengers: Series 4, Episode 13 – Too Many Christmas Trees
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
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?