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The Avengers

Mrs Peel, We're Needed!

7.8IMDb151 votesWorth your time
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1961 – 19696 seasons · 161 episodes~50 min per episodeTV-14Ended
Sci-Fi & FantasyCrimeAction & Adventure
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Who's in it

Cast

The principal ensemble across the run of the series.

Patrick Macnee

Patrick Macnee

John Steed

161 eps

Ian Hendry

Ian Hendry

Dr. David Keel

26 eps

Honor Blackman

Honor Blackman

Catherine Gale

52 eps

Linda Thorson

Linda Thorson

Tara King

33 eps

Diana Rigg

Diana Rigg

Emma Peel

51 eps

Gerald Harper

Gerald Harper

Colonel Corf

3 eps

Tenniel Evans

Tenniel Evans

Dr. Hurst

3 eps

Alister Williamson

Alister Williamson

Tom

3 eps

T. P. McKenna

T. P. McKenna

Grant

3 eps

Tom Adams

Tom Adams

Grenville

3 eps

John Crocker

3 eps

Gary Watson

Gary Watson

Kendrick

3 eps

Ronald Radd

Ronald Radd

3 eps

Roy Kinnear

Roy Kinnear

Happychap

3 eps

Valentino Musetti

Valentino Musetti

3 eps

Peter Jeffrey

Peter Jeffrey

Prendergast

3 eps

Richard Leech

Richard Leech

Col. Drew

3 eps

John Sharp

Prewitt

4 eps

Allan Cuthbertson

Allan Cuthbertson

Lord Melford

4 eps

Michael Robbins

Michael Robbins

Henry Farrow

4 eps

Edwin Richfield

Edwin Richfield

Alex

6 eps

Bruno Barnabe

Bruno Barnabe

Farrar

3 eps

Hamilton Dyce

Hamilton Dyce

Camrose

3 eps

John Stone

John Stone

Major George Fancy

3 eps

Frederick Jaeger

Frederick Jaeger

Benson

3 eps

Vernon Dobtcheff

Vernon Dobtcheff

Spencer

3 eps

Ingrid Hafner

Ingrid Hafner

3 eps

Judy Parfitt

Judy Parfitt

Vesta

4 eps

Peter Arne

Peter Arne

3 eps

Howard Marion-Crawford

Howard Marion-Crawford

Geoffrey

3 eps

Alex Scott

Alex Scott

Averman

3 eps

Peter Bowles

Peter Bowles

Thyssen

4 eps

Patricia Haines

Patricia Haines

Lola / Emma Peel

3 eps

Douglas Muir

Douglas Muir

One Ten

3 eps

Jon Rollason

Dr. Martin King

3 eps

Julie Stevens

Julie Stevens

Venus Smith

6 eps

Norman Chappell

Forbes

3 eps

Penelope Keith

Penelope Keith

Nanny Brown (credit only)

3 eps

John Bailey

John Bailey

Ralph Bleech

4 eps

Bernard Horsfall

Bernard Horsfall

Fox

3 eps

The Nutevio profile

TV DNA

How The Avengers actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.

Signature profile

The Avengers reads strongest on Spectacle, Bingeability and World Building.

SpectacleDefining9.0

Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.

BingeabilityVery strong7.1

How hard it is to stop after one episode.

World BuildingVery strong7.0

The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.

Character DepthStrong6.7

How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.

TensionStrong6.5

The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.

Emotional WeightPresent4.8

How much the series is designed to affect you.

Cliffhanger IntensityPresent4.5

How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.

SerializedPresent4.0

How much each hour depends on the one before it.

HumourLight2.5

How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.

The story

What it's about

A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).

The run

Seasons

6 seasons · 161 episodes.

  • Official poster for Specials

    Season 0 · Unannounced

    Specials

    112 episodes

  • Official poster for Season 1

    Season 1 · Complete

    Season 1

    196126 episodes

    5.8IMDb

    "Girl on the Trapeze," "The Frighteners," "Tunnel of Fear" and the first act of "Hot Snow" are the episodes known to exist of the first series.

  • Official poster for Season 2

    Season 2 · Complete

    Season 2

    196226 episodes

    6.7IMDb

    Best episode · S02E09 The Sell-Out

  • Official poster for Season 3

    Season 3 · Complete

    Season 3

    196326 episodes

    7.4IMDb
  • Official poster for Season 4

    Season 4 · Complete

    Season 4

    196526 episodes

    6.4IMDb

    Best episode · S04E01 The Town of No Return

  • Official poster for Season 5

    Season 5 · Complete

    Season 5

    196724 episodes

    6.9IMDb

    Best episode · S05E03 Escape in Time

  • Official poster for Season 6

    Season 6 · Complete

    Season 6

    196833 episodes

    6.2IMDb

    Best episode · S06E01 The Forget-Me-Knot

Where the series peaks

Best Episodes

The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.

Still from Escape in Time

S05E03

Escape in Time

7.4IMDb5 votes

Several notorious criminals have vanished into thin air. A whisper has been received that the escape chain starts in London, but, when agent Paxton follows it, he winds up dead in the Thames with a 300-year-old bullet in him.

28 Jan 196760 min
Still from The Town of No Return

S04E01

The Town of No Return

6.6IMDb5 votes

Four agents have vanished, looking for each other, in Little Bazeley-by-the-Sea. Steed and Emma go in for the man who went in for the man who.... and meet the odd local landlord, blacksmith and vicar. Are they more than they seem?

2 Oct 1965

Recently aired

Latest Episodes

Still from Reconstruction of episode (3) The Yellow Needle (s01e16)

S00E47

Reconstruction of episode (3) The Yellow Needle (s01e16)

20 Oct 20159 min
Still from Reconstruction of episode (5) Tunnel of Fear (s01e20)

S00E49

Reconstruction of episode (5) Tunnel of Fear (s01e20)

20 Oct 20157 min
Still from Reconstruction of episode (1) One for the Mortuary (s01e13)

S00E45

Reconstruction of episode (1) One for the Mortuary (s01e13)

20 Oct 20158 min
Still from Reconstruction of episode (2) The Springers (s01e14)

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Reconstruction of episode (2) The Springers (s01e14)

20 Oct 20158 min
Still from Reconstruction of episode (4) Death on the Slipway (s01e17)

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Reconstruction of episode (4) Death on the Slipway (s01e17)

20 Oct 20157 min
Still from Reconstruction of episode (6) The Far-Distant Dead (s01e21)

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Reconstruction of episode (6) The Far-Distant Dead (s01e21)

20 Oct 20159 min

Behind the series

Created by

Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.

The craft

Key Crew

Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.

Executive production

Writing

Direction

Cinematography

Music

Where to watch

Streaming

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