A close-knit group of divers on board a magnate's yacht in Greece – the exotica is beginning to exert itself as series two winds towards a close
Patrick Macnee
The Avengers: Series 2, Episode 23 – Conspiracy of Silence
Steed and Gale go to the circus, where one of the collection of troupers is actually a Mafia hitman trying to keep drugs flowing into the country in spite of the do-gooding duo
The Avengers: Series 2, Episode 22 – The Man in the Mirror
A contender for dullest Avengers episode to date, Man in the Mirror nevertheless has the odd moment and strong support characters provide some interest
The Avengers: Series 2, Episode 21 – The White Dwarf
Is a white dwarf on a collion course with the Earth. And what could a bowler-hatted spy and his leather-clad sidekick do about it?
The Avengers: Series 2, Episode 20 – School for Traitors
Fascinating though flabby, an episode about the recruitment of spies in elite British universities, first transmitted just after Kim Philby had fled to the USSR
The Avengers: Series 2, Episode 19 – The Golden Eggs
Mrs Gale is the focus of this episode, a slightly stodgy episode chiefly notable for pointing out how Victorian values and dress codes were still alive and well in 1960s London
The Avengers: Series 2, Episode 18 – Warlock
The 1960s of letting it all hang out, the occult and the Iron Curtain all coalesce in this faintly Austin Powers-flavoured episode of The Avengers
The Avengers: Series 2, Episode 17 – Box of Tricks
A candidate for most boring episode of The Avengers TV series so far. No sign of Mrs Gale (Honor Blackman), which doesn't help things along at all. Instead two plotlines in search of excitement…
The Avengers: Series 2, Episode 16 – Immortal Clay
It's indestructible ceramic tiles for space rockets, rather than the arts, that's the nominal subject of an episode actually concerned with the dead hand of British industry bosses – again
The Avengers: Series 2, Episode 15 – Intercrime
Making the episode entirely her own, Honor Blackman's Mrs Gale pretends to be a German assassin in the first Avengers episode of 1963