John Laurie, John Krish, John Steed! Remember when John was a popular name! In A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station, The Avengers foil a plot to kill the PM (Harold somebody)
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The Avengers: Series 5, Episode 12 – The Superlative Seven
Charlotte Rampling, Donald Sutherland and Brian Blessed add gloss to The Superlative Seven, a title suggesting this episode is going to borrow heavily from The Magnificent Seven – it doesn't
The Avengers: Series 5, Episode 11 – Epic
Epic uses the excess and self-regard of the movie biz for laughs and dastardly plotting in an Emma Peel-focused episode of The Avengers that's almost a classic
The Avengers: Series 5, Episode 10 – Never, Never Say Die
With a guest appearance by a lumbering Christopher Lee you'd be forgiven for assuming that Never, Never Say Die was a quality episode of The Avengers. Wrong!
The Avengers: Series 5, Episode 9 – The Correct Way to Kill
The Correct Way to Kill takes the series 3 episode The Charmers and updates it to the Emma Peel and colour TV era. But is this episode of The Avengers better?
The Avengers: Series 5, Episode 8 – The Hidden Tiger
A feral big cat is on the loose in The Hidden Tiger. Maybe not so feral, or so big. Either way it's a job for The Avengers – and one of their most satisfying
The Avengers: Series 5, Episode 7 – The Living Dead
The supernatural and the sci-fi combine in The Living Dead, an episode of The Avengers that sees Steed and Peel heading underground for an apocalyptic showdown
The Avengers: Series 5, Episode 6 – The Winged Avenger
Borrowing heavily from the Adam West Batman, The Avengers takes pop culture referentiality to new levels in The Winged Avenger. Shame it's so dull
The Avengers: Series 5, Episode 5 – The Bird Who Knew Too Much
Ron Moody, Kenneth Cope and Anthony Valentine are the saving of The Bird Who Knew Too Much, a lousy episode of The Avengers which resolutely fails to take wing
The Avengers: Series 5, Episode 4 – The See-Through Man
The See-Through Man is Classic Avengers – preposterous and intriguing and with an invisible-man plot that's just entertaining enough to cover the fact that the series has jumped the shark