The BEST episodes of The Avengers season 6

Every episode of The Avengers season 6, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Avengers season 6!

"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.

Last Updated: 11/4/2024Network: ITV1Status: Ended
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The Curious Case of the Countless Clues
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9.42
38 votes

#1 - The Curious Case of the Countless Clues

Season 6 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/5/1969

Rich men are being blackmailed by two crime experts who plant clues to them all over the scenes of the crimes that they themselves commit. However, when they try to allege that Steed would murder Tara....

Directors: Don Sharp
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Who Was That Man I Saw You With?
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9.34
38 votes

#2 - Who Was That Man I Saw You With?

Season 6 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/19/1969

Tara has been employed to test the security on the top-secret war-room computer 'The Field Marshall'. But when a strange foreign man starts sending her flowers, Mother suspects that she's doing her job a bit too efficiently.

Directors: Don Chaffey
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Take-Over
star
9.21
42 votes

#3 - Take-Over

Season 6 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/23/1969

The home of Steed's friends Bill and Laura Bassett is invaded by a group of ruthless criminals who implant explosives in their throats. Unfortunately, this is the weekend that Steed is coming to stay.

Directors: Robert Fuest
Writer: Terry Nation
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Bizarre
star
9.15
39 votes

#4 - Bizarre

Season 6 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/21/1969

When a woman is found walking barefoot in a snowy field, complaining of a dead man who wasn't dead, Steed investigates the Happy Meadows funeral parlour, which doesn't seem to be keeping its clients down under. What connection could that business possibly have with Mystic Tours?

Directors: Leslie Norman
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Get-A-Way
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9.12
42 votes

#5 - Get-A-Way

Season 6 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/14/1969

Two invincible foreign agents escape from the ultimate prison, a monastery run by the security services. They resume their mission, to kill one important person each. Steed and Tara set out to catch them, and to find out how they escaped, before their leader follows suit.

Directors: Don Sharpe
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Wish You Were Here
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8.71
38 votes

#6 - Wish You Were Here

Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/12/1969

Tara's uncle is being held against his will in a country hotel. So Tara books in, and finds herself equally discouraged from leaving. Could the place also be home to the agent that Mother is missing?

Directors: Don Chaffey
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Have Guns- Will Haggle
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8.59
37 votes

#7 - Have Guns- Will Haggle

Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/11/1968

The spectacular theft of 3,000 top-secret FF70 rifles from a Government establishment brings Steed and Tara. Steed meets an old 'friend' and is invited to an auction. Tara has other reasons for being there.

Directors: Ray Austin
Writer: Donald James
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Noon Doomsday
star
8.40
42 votes

#8 - Noon Doomsday

Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/1968

Tara visits Steed in a special hospital following an injury to his leg. This is just the backdrop needed by Gerald Kafka, ex-head of Murder International, as he plans his revenge against Steed, who sent him to prison exactly seven years ago. At noon, Steed will die.

Directors: Peter Sykes
Writer: Terry Nation
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Requiem
star
8.35
40 votes

#9 - Requiem

Season 6 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/16/1969

When Steed takes prime witness Miranda Loxton to a safe house to protect her from Murder-International hitmen, Tara is kidnapped. She escapes to find herself in her worst nightmare. A booby-trap in Steed's apartment kills Mother and Tara may be the only one with the hidden knowledge of where Steed has gone.

Directors: Don Chaffey
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Super Secret Cypher Snatch
star
8.30
74 votes

#10 - Super Secret Cypher Snatch

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/1968

Problems of a secret leakage from Cypher HQ and the disappearance of agent Jarret are first handed to rival Department MII2, and then to Mother's group. But why does everybody at Cypher HQ claim never to have seen Jarret and state that the only thing worthy of note that happened yesterday was that it rained?

Directors: John Hough
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Game
star
8.22
77 votes

#11 - Game

Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1968

The sudden deaths of several of Steed's former army colleagues are revealed to be part of an elaborate engine of destruction, devised by a man court-martialled by them all. And now he is playing a deadly game.

Directors: Robert Fuest
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The Forget-Me-Knot
star
8.03
120 votes

#12 - The Forget-Me-Knot

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1968

Steed's colleague Sean Mortimer comes to see him in a very confused state. He knows there is a traitor in the organization but he has been drugged to put him in an amnesiac state and he can remember little else. Mrs. Peel investigates but she too falls prey to the drug as she and Sean are abducted by bikers. It is down to trainee agent 69, Tara King, to whom Steed is introduced by spymaster 'Mother' to help him save the day.

Directors: James Hill
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All Done with Mirrors
star
7.99
67 votes

#13 - All Done with Mirrors

Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/1968

The leaking of secrets at Carmadoc Research Establishment throws suspicion on to Steed, who must suffer the torment of house arrest while Tara goes in with a new partner.

Directors: Ray Austin
Writer: Leigh Vance
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Look- (stop me if you've heard this one) But There Were These Two Fellers...
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7.88
69 votes

#14 - Look- (stop me if you've heard this one) But There Were These Two Fellers...

Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/4/1968

The directors of the Capital Land and Development Company are being murdered and the only clues Steed and Tara have are a massive footprint and a red nose.

Directors: James Hill
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You'll Catch Your Death
star
7.88
72 votes

#15 - You'll Catch Your Death

Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1968

Ear, nose and throat specialists are sneezing themselves to death, each after receiving a mysterious empty envelope. When Tara is kidnapped, Steed takes great care over his morning mail.

Directors: Paul Dickson
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My Wildest Dream
star
7.82
39 votes

#16 - My Wildest Dream

Season 6 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/7/1969

When one of the Acme Precision Combine is brutally stabbed, Steed and Tara are on hand to witness the crime, thanks to a telephoned warning. But why does somebody want them to see so many killings, and what does it have to do with Dr. Jaeger's aggresso-therapy clinic?

Directors: Robert Fuest
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Take Me to Your Leader
star
7.81
37 votes

#17 - Take Me to Your Leader

Season 6 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/5/1969

The discovery of a talking attache case passed from courier to courier until it finally reaches 'Mr. Big' takes Steed and Tara on a dazzling and surreal romp around London.

Directors: Robert Fuest
Writer: Terry Nation
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Fog
star
7.78
37 votes

#18 - Fog

Season 6 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/12/1969

When a member of the International Disarmament Committee is stabbed with a swordstick on a foggy night, it looks like the Gaslight Ghoul, murderer of the 1890's, has set up in business again. Can Steed and Tara catch him before the committee is severely lacking in personnel?

Directors: John Hough
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They Keep Killing Steed
star
7.71
41 votes

#19 - They Keep Killing Steed

Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/18/1968

To infiltrate a peace conference, Arcos, a brilliant plastic surgeon, uses a new moulding technique to transform an agent into a duplicate Steed. But when the transformation proves to be unstable, Arcos decides they need the real Steed.

Directors: Robert Fuest
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The Interrogators
star
7.70
44 votes

#20 - The Interrogators

Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/1/1969

When agents find themselves in Colonel Mannering's interrogation centre, they think it's a test of their abilities, and relax with drinks when the sessions are over. But who's fooling who. Steed plays catch the pigeon.

Directors: Charles Crichton
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False Witness
star
7.44
68 votes

#21 - False Witness

Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1968

Trusted agent Melville has lost three partners in quick succession, and seems to be lying at every opportunity. Is he really the man to partner Steed in an attempt to convict Lord Edgefield, noted blackmailer? And what is the odd connection between this whole affair and daily milk deliveries?

Directors: Charles Crichton
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The Morning After
star
7.37
67 votes

#22 - The Morning After

Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/29/1969

Steed, attempting to capture super-spy Merlin, is knocked out by a sleeping capsule, and wakes to find London deserted and under martial law. Firing squads are at large, and a nuclear bomb is holding the government to ransom.

Directors: John Hough
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Split!
star
7.29
75 votes

#23 - Split!

Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1968

When an agent at the Ministry of Top-Secret Information is murdered, Steed and Tara have little difficulty in locating the man responsible. But when a handwriting test indicates that he is Boris Kartovski, someone Steed thought he had killed in Berlin 5 years before, our heroes find themselves drawn into the dangerous experiments of Dr. Constantine.

Directors: Roy Ward Baker
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Stay Tuned
star
7.24
38 votes

#24 - Stay Tuned

Season 6 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/26/1969

Steed, packing for a holiday, is knocked unconscious. When he wakes, he continues to pack but is confused when Tara arrives and tells him that he has been away for three weeks. Could it have anything to do with the mysterious man following him whom everybody else but Steed can see?

Directors: Don Chaffey
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The Rotters
star
7.20
40 votes

#25 - The Rotters

Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/8/1969

Members of the Institute of Timber Technology are being killed by a pair of caddish assassins, their advantage being an ability to destroy wood in seconds.

Directors: Robert Fuest
Writer: Dave Freeman
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