Episode guide
The Avengers: Season 1
26 episodes · premiered Jan 7, 1961
"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.
- Episode 1: Hot Snow Jan 7, 1961 Following the death of his fiancee Peggy at the hands of heroin smugglers, Dr David Keel vows to track down the killers and avenge his lost love. He is aided in his quest by a mysterious…
- Episode 2: Brought to Book Jan 14, 1961 Steed has infiltrated a gang, led by Mason, which is implicated in Peggy's murder. Steed asks Keel to establish contact with a rival gang, and the doctor discovers that Vance's hitman…
- Episode 3: Square Root of Evil Jan 21, 1961 Steed impersonates Riordan, a forger soon to be released from prison, and gains the trust of gang-leader Hooper. Things seem to be going well until Hooper's second-in-command, known as the…
- Episode 4: Nightmare Jan 28, 1961 Keel receives a 'phone call from one of his patients, and ends up assuming the identity of her missing husband, a scientist engaged in secret research. Shot in the chest, Keel needs a…
- Episode 5: Crescent Moon Feb 4, 1961 A young girl, Carmelite Mendoza, has been kidnapped from a Caribbean island, but Steed suspects a political motive. His suspicions are confirmed when Vasco, the Mendoza family retainer, is…
- Episode 6: Girl on the Trapeze Feb 11, 1961 · 50m Keel, reviving a young woman who has jumped into the Thames, is led to the Radeck State Circus, where the trapeze girl is guarded, her face covered by bandages because of an accident. The…
- Episode 7: Diamond Cut Diamond Feb 18, 1961 Steed, attempting to break a gang of international diamond smugglers, is living in a bungalow near Heathrow Airport which was once owned by a suicide whom One-Ten suspects of involvement…
- Episode 8: The Radioactive Man Feb 25, 1961 Dr Keel is asked to help in the search for a man who has picked up a radioactive isotope, not knowing that it will quickly kill him and harm anyone else he comes into contact with. But…
- Episode 9: Ashes of Roses Mar 4, 1961 Steed, investigating a number of probable arson cases, is led to the hairdressing salon of Olive and Jacques Beronne. He asks Keel to let Carol investigate the salon, but after she enters…
- Episode 10: Hunt the Man Down Mar 18, 1961 Frank Preston is released from prison and is intent on reclaiming the hidden proceeds of his robbery. So is Steed, who has been ordered to follow the man. So are a couple of thugs, who…
- Episode 11: Please Don't Feed the Animals Apr 1, 1961 Steed trails a blackmailed civil servant to Brinkley House, a private zoo, only to observe the man throwing a package of money into the reptile pit. The package soon vanishes. The man is…
- Episode 12: Dance with Death Apr 15, 1961 Dr. Keel resuscitates Elaine Bateman, the owner of a ballroom dancing school who has narrowly survived a murder attempt by gassing. When he returns to the school after dropping his scarf…
- Episode 13: One for the Mortuary Apr 29, 1961 When Keel attends a health conference in Geneva he is unaware that he is carrying, in microdot form, a vital new medical formula - unaware, that is, until he is arrested for murder.
- Episode 14: The Springers May 13, 1961 Steed is trying to track down the organisers of a group who offer to spring any convict - even the dangerous ones - from prison if they're paid the right money. Keel impersonates a…
- Episode 15: The Frighteners May 27, 1961 · 51m To stop his daughter seeing suspected conman Jeremy de Willoughby, Sir Thomas Waller has hired arch-criminal the Deacon to 'put the frighteners on'. Steed is on the trail of the Deacon…
- Episode 16: The Yellow Needle Jun 10, 1961 After an unsuccessful murder attempt against Sir Wilberforce Lungi, Steed asks Keel, an old friend of the pro-Western African leader, to investigate Lungi's secretary, Jacquetta Brown…
- Episode 17: Death on the Slipway Jun 24, 1961 An agent has been killed at the secret dockyard where submarines are built. Steed investigates, and finds that a foreign spy has been arranging 'accidents' for him.
- Episode 18: Double Danger Jul 8, 1961 Keel, called to deal with a man seriously injured by an accident, quickly discovers that the man is suffering from gunshot wounds, and that he may be implicated in a recent diamond robbery.
- Episode 19: Toy Trap Jul 22, 1961 Keel is asked by the improbably named Bunty to help her find her missing friend. What is the connection between the department store where the women work and a call-girl racket?
- Episode 20: Tunnel of Fear Aug 5, 1961 Top-secret information is finding its way into the wrong hands, and the source seems to be a south coast fairground. Steed succeeds in getting hypnotised and winds up in the ghost-train…
- Episode 21: The Far Distant Dead Aug 19, 1961 Dr Keel, treating the victims of a cyclone struck Mexican village, uncovers a number of food-poisonings; emergency cooking oil is, in fact, hydraulic fluid.
- Episode 22: Kill the King Sep 2, 1961 A visit to London to sign an oil treaty from a monarch whose life is under threat brings Steed and Keel into the world of dissidents and assassinations.
- Episode 23: Dead of Winter Dec 9, 1961 The discovery of the body of Schneider, a wanted Nazi war criminal, deep-frozen in a consignment of meat at London docks brings Steed and Keel into the shadowy world of Phoenix, a new and…
- Episode 24: The Deadly Air Dec 16, 1961 An experimental vaccine is stolen, and the subsequent test proves deadly. Steed and Keel, suspecting that the human 'guinea pig' did not die directly from the vaccine, volunteer to be the…
- Episode 25: A Change of Bait Dec 23, 1961 An unusual and sprawling tale of heart disease, industrial unrest, and a consignment of rotten bananas.
- Episode 26: Dragonsfield Dec 30, 1961 How has a research centre developing radiation-proof material managed to irradiate one of its scientists? Once more, Steed submits himself to scientific testing.