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!
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#1 - 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.
#2 - 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....
#3 - 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?
#4 - 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.
#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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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?
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#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?
#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.
#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.
#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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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?
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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?
#18 - 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.
#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.
#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.
#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?
#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.
#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.
#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?
#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.