The BEST episodes of The Avengers season 5
Every episode of The Avengers season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Avengers season 5!
"Always keep your bowler on in time of stress, and watch out for diabolical masterminds." [Mrs Peel] The Avengers is one of the most popular and beloved television series of all time. Its outrageous blend of wit and style and its unique mix of the fantasy and spy genres, coupled with the marvellous characters of John Steed and Emma Peel make it one of television's great classics.
#1 - The Positive-Negative Man
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 11/4/1967
When a scientist is found embedded in a wall, Steed and Emma pursue a man in make-up and wellies, whose appearance is terribly shocking.
#2 - Death's Door
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 10/7/1967
A European peace conference comes under the threat of sabotage when the British delegates begin to suffer from premonitions and nightmares. After Sir Andrew Boyd, who has witnessd his death in a dream, is killed, Steed and Emma must keep his replacement, Lord Melford, sane and alive.
#3 - Who's Who?
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/6/1967
When one of the Floral Network of agents is found dead atop a pair of stilts, Steed and Emma's interest is piqued. That's the idea, because foreign agents Basil and Lola have a trap prepared for them: a machine that swaps their minds into the pair's bodies.
#4 - Dead Man's Treasure
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 10/21/1967
The search for a small despatch box containing secret information hidden by a dying agent leads Steed and Emma into a race (quite literally) for the 'treasure'. In the process they must face foreign agents, new partners and a car simulator that electrifies its guests.
#5 - Mission: Highly Improbable
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 11/18/1967
When Sir Gerald Bancroft and his Rolls-Royce vanish whilst being escorted at a military base, Steed is called upon to solve the puzzle. But before he can he experiences that old shrinking feeling.
#6 - The Superlative Seven
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/8/1967
Steed is invited to a party, and finds himself trapped in a remote-controlled aircraft, with six fancy-dressed specialists in various combat styles, en route to a distant island. There, they are pitted against each other in a deadly test.
#7 - You Have Just Been Murdered
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 10/28/1967
Various millionaires are withdrawing large sums of money from the bank. Steed suspects blackmail but none of the men is willing to talk. Then he gets a call from Gilbert Jarvis, who tells Steed that he, Jarvis, has 'just been murdered'. Again.
#8 - Murdersville
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 11/11/1967
Emma's old friend, Paul Croft, returns from abroad to retire to Little Storping-in-the Swurf. Unfortunately, the village seems to be run along very strange lines. Threatened by yokels, Emma finds herself outnumbered.
#9 - Never, Never Say Die
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/18/1967
An unfortunate motorist keeps knocking down and killing the same man: a man who's rampaging through the countryside, bulletproof and intent on destruction. A man who just happens to be identical to the urbane Professor Frank N. Stone.
#10 - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/15/1967
When Lucas, an agent investigating something subversive, gets off his train at the wrong station he is murdered. Has the crime got anything to do with a mole at the admiralty, a train ticket and a fiendish plot to kill the Prime Minister? This episode's guest stars include Drewe Henley, who also played Red Leader in Star Wars: Episode IV.
#11 - Epic
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/1/1967
Three Hollywood veterans, led by an insane director, decide that Emma would be perfect for their latest movie, so they kidnap her and film some surreal and deadly footage.
#12 - Something Nasty in the Nursery
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/22/1967
Secrets known only to a small group of trusted men have leaked, and the men are having strange dreams of their childhood, featuring their nannies and a bouncing ball. Emma checks out the toyshop, Steed explores a school for nannies.
#13 - Return of the Cybernauts
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 9/30/1967
The brother of the late Clement Armstrong sets a deadly trap for Steed and Mrs. Peel, whom he blames for his brother's death at the hands of his murderous creations, the Cybernauts.
#14 - Escape in Time
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/28/1967
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.
#15 - The Bird Who Knew Too Much
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/11/1967
Emma and Steed investigate the mystery of how top secret things are being photographed from the air. Could it have something to do with the groovy world of fashion photography and a parrot called Captain Crusoe?
#16 - The Fear Merchants
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/21/1967
Four men involved in the production of ceramics suffer nervous breakdowns in everyday situations. All have recently turned down the opportunity to merge with the British Porcelain Company. Steed and Emma investigate the world of fear, with terrifying consequences.
#17 - The Hidden Tiger
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/4/1967
The mauling to death of several members of the committee of PURRR (the Philanthropic Union for the Rescue, Relief and Recuperation of Cats) exposes Steed and Emma to a diabolical scheme to take over the entire country.
#18 - The See-Through Man
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/4/1967
The Ministry has been broken into by, it seems, an invisible man. A trail leads via inventor Quilby to the Eastern Drug Company, a front organisation run by Soviet intelligence. Meanwhile, the crack spies Elena and Alexandre Vazin are in town. But nobody has seen anything of Alexandre...
#19 - The Living Dead
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/25/1967
When representatives of the two organizations head to a country church to investigate the sudden reappearance of a man long thought dead, Steed and Emma are called in to help. It isn't long, of course, before murder rears its ugly head.
#20 - The £50,000 Breakfast
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/14/1967
The accidental death of a ventriloquist reveals that he had been carrying a fortune in gems inside his stomach. Steed stoops to blackmail and Emma goes shopping for ties in the search through the business community for a rich Borzoi.
#21 - The Winged Avenger
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/18/1967
Is a creature that can walk up walls clawing to death ruthless and powerful men? Does it have anything to do with Professor Poole's invention of boots that let you walk on the ceiling, or with cartoon superhero the Winged Avenger?
#22 - The Joker
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/29/1967
Invited for the weekend to the home of a fellow Bridge Expert, Emma finds herself trapped in a house designed to send her mad. Her tormentor is Max Prendergast, a man she befriended and then betrayed in Berlin some time before. Then Steed came to the rescue but now he's at home nursing a sprained ankle.
#23 - From Venus with Love
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/14/1967
The strange deaths of several astronomers, left bleached white, pose a problem. Whilst Steed joins the stargazers, Emma chases a bright light, and finds herself in the hot seat.
#24 - The Correct Way to Kill
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/11/1967
Foreign agents are being killed, but not by British agents. Steed thinks it terribly unfair, and so does his opposite number, Nutski. They make an arrangement, and Steed and Emma find themselves with Soviet partners in an investigation of a group of very British killers.