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The Avengers

Season: 4

Episode: 1

The Town of No Return

Air Date:02/10/1965

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?

Crew

Name: Roy Ward Baker

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Brian Clemens

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: Alan MacNaughtan

Character: Brandon (as Alan MacNaughton)

Department: Acting

Name: Terence Alexander

Character: 'Piggy' Warren

Department: Acting

Name: Jeremy Burnham

Character: Vicar

Department: Acting

Name: Robert Brown

Character: Saul

Department: Visual Effects

Name: Juliet Harmer

Character: Jill Manson

Department: Acting

Name: Walter Horsbrugh

Character: School Inspector

Department: Acting

Name: Patrick Newell

Character: Smallwood

Department: Acting

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Episode: 2

The Gravediggers

Air Date:09/10/1965

Has the late Dr Marlow's proposed radar-jamming system been tested against British defences? If so, the dead scientist seems to be doing it from his grave. And what's the connection with the local hospital's bizarre operations and a train-crazy philanthropist?

Crew

Name: Malcolm Hulke

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

Name: Quentin Lawrence

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Caroline Blakiston

Character: Cynthia Wentworth-Howe

Department: Acting

Name: Ray Austin

Character:

Department: Directing

Name: Lloyd Lamble

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Bryan Mosley

Character: Armshith

Department: Acting

Name: Wanda Ventham

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 3

The Cybernauts

Air Date:16/10/1965

A vastly strong, bullet-proof killer homes in on and destroys several electronics executives. Could it have something to do with Dr. Armstrong's automated work place? Or with the activities of a nearby karate school...

Crew

Name: Sidney Hayers

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Philip Levene

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: Burt Kwouk

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Ronald Leigh-Hunt

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: John Hollis

Character: Kanwitch

Department: Acting

Name: Frederick Jaeger

Character: Benson

Department: Acting

Name: Bernard Horsfall

Character: Fox

Department: Acting

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Episode: 4

Death at Bargain Prices

Air Date:23/10/1965

When an agent is killed in the lift of Pinter's Department store, Steed and Emma get involved with King Kane, a tycoon who lives in a penthouse above the store. Why is Professor Popple, a missing atomic scientist, being held in the bargain basement?

Crew

Name: Charles Crichton

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Brian Clemens

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: T. P. McKenna

Character: Grant

Department: Acting

Name: Allan Cuthbertson

Character: Lord Melford

Department: Acting

Name: Ronnie Stevens

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: John Cater

Character: Olliphant

Department: Acting

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Episode: 5

Castle De'ath

Air Date:30/10/1965

Why have all the fish vanished from the Scottish coastline? Does it have anything to do with a dead frogman, found stretched as if on a rack? Steed and Emma think so, which is why they're guests of Ian, the 35th Laird of Clan De'ath, and in danger of being caught by the gillies.

Crew

Name: James Hill

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: John Lucarotti

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: Robert Urquhart

Character: Maxwell

Department: Acting

Name: Russell Waters

Character: Pike

Department: Acting

Name: James Copeland

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Jack Lambert

Character: McNab

Department: Acting

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Episode: 6

The Master Minds

Air Date:06/11/1965

A government official, dresssed as one of the Horse-guards, helps in a raid on secret files and is wounded. Recovering, he remembers nothing. Is his crime anything to do with his membership of Ransack, a club for those with high IQs? Emma can join, but Steed may have to cheat....

Crew

Name: Peter Graham Scott

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Robert Banks Stewart

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: Patricia Haines

Character: Lola / Emma Peel

Department: Acting

Name: Ian MacNaughton

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Bernard Archard

Character: Dr. Constantine

Department: Acting

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Episode: 7

The Murder Market

Air Date:13/11/1965

What could an outbreak of motiveless murders have to do with the activities of a marriage bureau called Togetherness Inc.? Well, think of Hitchcock's 'Strangers On A Train' and you'll be close. Steed and Emma seek their ideal partners....

Crew

Name: Peter Graham Scott

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Tony Williamson

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: John Woodvine

Character: Seagrave

Department: Acting

Name: Penelope Keith

Character: Nanny Brown (credit only)

Department: Acting

Name: Edward Underdown

Character: Rupert

Department: Acting

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Episode: 8

A Surfeit of H2O

Air Date:20/11/1965

A poacher drowns in a field during a freak storm, and Jonah, the village carpenter, starts building an ark. But Steed thinks it's all got more to do with the permanent cloud that hangs over Grannie Gregson's Glorious Grog factory.

Crew

Name: Sidney Hayers

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Albert Lieven

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Sue Lloyd

Character: Joyce Jason

Department: Acting

Name: Geoffrey Palmer

Character: Martin Smythe

Department: Acting

Name: Noel Purcell

Character: Jonah Barnard

Department: Acting

Name: Talfryn Thomas

Character: Eli Barker

Department: Acting

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Episode: 9

The Hour that Never Was

Air Date:27/11/1965

Following a motor crash, Steed and Emma explore the seemingly deserted RAF Hamelin, where they were heading for a party to celebrate the base's closure. Is this surreal landscape all a dream, or is it something worse?

Crew

Name: Gerry O'Hara

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Gerald Harper

Character: Colonel Corf

Department: Acting

Name: Roy Kinnear

Character: Happychap

Department: Acting

Name: John Bennett

Character: Sykes

Department: Acting

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Episode: 10

Dial a Deadly Number

Air Date:04/12/1965

A series of sudden deaths in high finance leads Steed to dabble in shares while Emma investigates the makers of executive paging devices. Are companies being acquired through a simple and subtle form of murder?

Guest Stars

Name: Jan Holden

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Peter Bowles

Character: Thyssen

Department: Acting

Name: John Carson

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: John Bailey

Character: Ralph Bleech

Department: Acting

Name: Gerald Sim

Character: Frederick Yuill

Department: Acting

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Episode: 11

Man-Eater of Surrey Green

Air Date:11/12/1965

Deaf botanist Alan Carter's fiancee walks away from their floral bliss under some strange influence, and is picked up by an entranced chauffeur. Has it got anything to do with the giant seed from outer space that has landed nearby?...

Crew

Name: Sidney Hayers

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Athene Seyler

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: William Job

Character: Lord Edgefield

Department: Acting

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Episode: 12

Two's a Crowd

Air Date:18/12/1965

Colonel Psev, a mysterious and unseen foreign spy with a toy fixation, arrives in London to infiltrate a defence conference. His four aides bully Brodny, the ambassador, until he comes up with a cunning ruse: Gordon Webster, rakish male model, is Steed's double.

Crew

Name: Roy Ward Baker

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Alec Mango

Character: Sica

Department: Acting

Name: Wolfe Morris

Character: Josef Pudeshkin

Department: Acting

Name: John Bluthal

Character: Sergei Ivenko

Department: Acting

Name: Julian Glover

Character: Andrei Vogel

Department: Acting

Name: Alan Harris

Character: Man at Party (uncredited)

Department: Crew

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Episode: 13

Too Many Christmas Trees

Air Date:25/12/1965

Christmas. Steed is having bad, seemingly prophetic, dreams, involving festive themes and a dead agent. Can he find solace at a fancy-dress party in the country home of a Dickens enthusiast?

Crew

Name: Tony Williamson

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

Name: Roy Ward Baker

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Barry Warren

Character: Melville

Department: Acting

Name: Mervyn Johns

Character: Brandon Storey

Department: Acting

Name: Robert James

Character: Jenkins

Department: Acting

Name: Edwin Richfield

Character: Dr. Felix Teasel

Department: Acting

Name: Alex Scott

Character: Martin Trasker

Department: Acting

Name: John Wilder

Character: Frederick David Marshall (uncredited)

Department: Acting

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Episode: 14

Silent Dust

Air Date:01/01/1966

The lack of martens in a pleasant stretch of English countryside alerts Steed to the possible release of a fertiliser that has failed, reducing a landscape to a wasteland. But why is the local farming community so aggressive?

Crew

Name: Roy Ward Baker

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Conrad Phillips

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Aubrey Morris

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Norman Bird

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Jack Watson

Character: Hopper

Department: Acting

Name: William Franklyn

Character: Brinstead

Department: Acting

Name: Charles Lloyd Pack

Character: Dr. Fawcett

Department: Acting

Name: Graham Ashley

Character: Pub Landlord (uncredited)

Department: Acting

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Episode: 15

Room Without a View

Air Date:08/01/1966

A brilliant scientist reappears at the house of his wife. Has he escaped from notorious Manchurian prison camp Ni-San? And why have so many missing people stayed at the Chessman Hotel? Steed and Emma book in.

Crew

Name: Roy Ward Baker

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Peter Jeffrey

Character: Prendergast

Department: Acting

Name: Peter Arne

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Vernon Dobtcheff

Character: Spencer

Department: Acting

Name: Richard Bebb

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Philip Latham

Character: Professor Cartright

Department: Acting

Name: Peter Madden

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Paul Whitsun-Jones

Character: Sanders

Department: Acting

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Episode: 16

Small Game for Big Hunters

Air Date:15/01/1966

When a man is found under Shirenzai, the trance-like Kalayan voodoo, in the heart of Hertfordshire, Steed finds himself amidst the horror of the last days of empire. Are bandits loose in the English countryside?

Crew

Name: Gerry O'Hara

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Philip Levene

Role: Teleplay

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: James Villiers

Character: Simon Trent

Department: Acting

Name: Paul Danquah

Character: Razafi

Department: Writing

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Episode: 17

The Girl From Auntie

Air Date:22/01/1966

Steed returns from holiday to find that a quite different Mrs. Peel is inhabiting his old friend's flat. With the aid of actress Georgie Price-Jones, he discovers that Art Incorporated and the Arkwright Knitting Circle are doing more together than just sharing needles.

Crew

Name: Roy Ward Baker

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Liz Fraser

Character: Georgie Price-Jones

Department: Acting

Name: David Bauer

Character:

Department: Acting

Name:

Character:

Department:

Name: Alfred Burke

Character: Gregorio Auntie

Department: Acting

Name: Bernard Cribbins

Character: Arkwright

Department: Acting

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Episode: 18

The Thirteenth Hole

Air Date:29/01/1966

An agent is shot on the thirteenth hole of the Craigleigh golf club, so Steed and Emma join the club. Steed puts his limited skills to use in a murderous tournament, but Emma helps him get a hole in one.

Crew

Name: Tony Williamson

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

Name: Roy Ward Baker

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Peter Jones

Character: Doyle

Department: Acting

Name: Patrick Allen

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Francis Matthews

Character: Chivers

Department: Acting

Name: Donald Hewlett

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Victor Maddern

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Hugh Manning

Character: Max Hardy

Department: Acting

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Episode: 19

Quick-Quick Slow Death

Air Date:05/02/1966

An agent is run over disposing of the body of a man in a dinner suit, while he was pushing him along in a pram. This all has something to do with Terpsichorean Training Techniques, a dance school where Emma teaches and Steed enrols.

Crew

Name: James Hill

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Robert Banks Stewart

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: Eunice Gayson

Character: Lucille Banks

Department: Acting

Name: John Woodnutt

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Carole Gray

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 20

The Danger Makers

Air Date:12/02/1966

Several military figures have been killed in dangerous games of daring. Emma and Steed follow the trail to a secret society of military men with very dangerous aims.

Crew

Name: Charles Crichton

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Moray Watson

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Fabia Drake

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Douglas Wilmer

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Nigel Davenport

Character: Lord Barnes

Department: Acting

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Episode: 21

A Touch of Brimstone

Air Date:19/02/1966

When a group of hoaxsters called the Hellfire Club mix murder with their mischief, Steed and Emma demonstrate a few tricks of their own. The whalebone corset, high laced boots and spiked dog-collar Emma wears as the "Queen of Sin" were designed by Diana Rigg herself, and resulted in A Touch of Brimstone being banned from American TV.

Crew

Name: Brian Clemens

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: Colin Jeavons

Character: Stanton

Department: Acting

Name: Peter Wyngarde

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Carol Cleveland

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Jeremy Young

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Alf Joint

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Steve Plytas

Character: Kartovski

Department: Acting

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Episode: 22

What the Butler Saw

Air Date:26/02/1966

According to Steed's double-agent barber, one of three military men is a traitor. But which one? To find out, Steed becomes a butler, and Emma starts Operation Fascination to trap the woman-hungry Group Captain Miles.

Crew

Name: Bill Bain

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Brian Clemens

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: John Le Mesurier

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Howard Marion-Crawford

Character: Geoffrey

Department: Acting

Name: Denis Quilley

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 23

The House That Jack Built

Air Date:05/03/1966

Emma inherits some property from her deceased Uncle Jack. The property is a very bizaarre house, and when Emma goes to inspect it, she finds herself trapped in a labyrinth of psychological torture.

Crew

Name: Brian Clemens

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: Keith Pyott

Character: Professor Richter

Department: Acting

Name: Michael Goodliffe

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 24

A Sense of History

Air Date:12/03/1966

A death by archery sends Steed and Emma undercover at St. Bodes Academy, where the arguments between staff and hip students, and between different theories of history, seem to have taken on a murderous edge.

Crew

Name: Peter Graham Scott

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: John Barron

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Peter Blythe

Character: Mankin

Department: Acting

Name: John Ringham

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Jacqueline Pearce

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Nigel Stock

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Patrick Mower

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 25

How to Succeed... at Murder

Air Date:19/03/1966

When several top executives die, their secretaries take over their firms. Is it mere chance, or are women trying to take over the world? Steed employs a deadly secretary, and Emma finds sorority down at the gym.

Crew

Name: Brian Clemens

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: Sarah Lawson

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Jerome Willis

Character: Joshua Rudge

Department: Acting

Name: Christopher Benjamin

Character: J. J. Hooter

Department: Acting

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Episode: 26

Honey for the Prince

Air Date:26/03/1966

Steed and Emma return from a party to find a dying agent in Steed's flat. What is the connection between honey, a firm which makes fantasies to order and the oil deal promised by a visiting Bavarian Prince?