The Avengers Season 6 Episodes
Season 6 Episode Guide
Episode 1 - GameAn ex-soldier, thought to be dead, takes his revenge on Steed and three other former Army officers, who helped to Court Martial him, by trapping them into participating in a series of deadly games that invariably end in death.
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Episode 2 - Super Secret Cypher SnatchAn espionage ring is stealing secrets from the Government's top secret Cypher HQ, by posing as window cleaners. MI-12 are assigned to the case, but when their man Jarett is murdered Steed takes over, to investigate Classy Glass Cleaning. But Tara, posing as a new secretary inside Cypher HQ, swears no one has penetrated its security.
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Episode 3 - You'll Catch Your DeathEmpty envelopes are delivered to top Government officials, who are then found dead. The only clue is that each man seems to have died from a fit of sneezing. Steed investigates a clinic for researching the common cold, which seems to have purchased some unusual stationery supplies.
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Episode 4 - Split!When agents in Lord Barnes’s department at the Ministry of Top Secret Information are murdered, all the evidence points to an enemy agent named Kartovski. The snag is that Kartovski was killed by Steed five years earlier.
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Episode 5 - Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40?A mystery enemy is targeting Britain's most important government computer with a series of sabotage attempts. Steed investigates the machine's designer, following up a clue the computer has provided, and plants Tara in his household as a spy.
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Episode 6 - False WitnessWhen all the witnesses involved in the prosecution of Lord Edgefield, suspected of blackmailing key security and foreign service personnel, suddenly start lying - including Tara - Steed must discover how they have been got at. Meanwhile, Tara becomes suspicious of DreemyKreem Dairies, but discovers she is literally incapable of telling anyone.
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Episode 7 - All Done with MirrorsSecrets are leaking from a defense research establishment, thanks to a new invention: an eavesdropping device which can use any shiny surface to reflect and amplify sound waves. But with Steed unavailable, Tara must investigate with only an inexperienced new agent for support.
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Episode 8 - Legacy of DeathFor revenge on Steed, an old enemy leaves him a deadly legacy in his Will: a jeweled oriental dagger worth a million dollars, known as the Falcon, which various dangerous men are anxious to acquire. Steed is cast in the role of Sam Spade, in a spoof of the Humphrey Bogart movie The Maltese Falcon, with dead bodies piling up in his apartment as one man after another tries to kill him to get hold of the item. Ronald Lacey guest stars as Mr. Green, and Stratford Johns as Mr. Street, in a homage to Bogart's co-star, Sydney Greenstreet.
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Episode 9 - Noon DoomsdayAn injured Steed is being treated in a top secret hospital, with an assassin named Kafka, the former head of Murder International, on his trail. With the aid of an accomplice on the inside, Kafka penetrates the security guarding the hospital, and Tara finds herself in a race against time to save the helpless Steed.
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Episode 10 - Look, Stop Me If You've Never Heard This OneTwo old-time Music Hall performers dressed as clowns (one played by real life Music Hall star Jimmy Jewel), with assistance from a group of ex-vaudeville acts, are killing the businessmen they blame for closing down the variety theatres which were their livelihood.
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Episode 11 - Have Guns… Will HaggleSteed attends an Underworld auction and bids for three thousand stolen state-of-the art rifles to try to prevent them falling into the wrong hands.
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Episode 12 - They Keep Killing SteedEnemy agents disguised as Steed penetrate a peace conference for which he is in charge of security, to assassinate the delegates. With Steed also present, trying to stop them, chaos supervenes because no one can tell the real Steed from the impostors. As Tara investigates she finds herself falling over dead Steeds wherever she goes!
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Episode 13 - The InterrogatorsAgents in Steed's department are being fooled into giving away secrets, by men posing as Army officers at a fake Government training establishment. And their next victim will be... Tara King.
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Episode 14 - The RottersSteed investigates a firm named WormDoom, whose proprietor, a businessman widely thought a bit of a rotter, is killing off his business competitors, all experts on timber decay. To get at his victims he has stolen a new chemical which, while simulating dry rot, causes wood to rot instantaneously: turning doors, walls and windows all to powder.
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Episode 15 - Invasion of the EarthmenSteed and Tara investigate an unusual school: a military academy for young men and women, that hides a secret astronaut training centre.
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Episode 16 - KillerWhile Tara is on leave, Steed takes on a temporary new partner, the aristocratic Lady Diana Forbes-Blakeney. Together they confront REMAK: the Remote Electro Matic Agent Killer - a computerized assassin.
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Episode 17 - The Morning AfterA double-agent, codenamed Merlin, steals a new sleep gas and tries it out on Steed. Awaking 24 hours later, with Merlin his prisoner, Steed can find no one to hand him over to: everywhere he goes the streets are completely deserted.
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Episode 18 - The Curious Case of the Countless CluesIn a spoof of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Doyle (Peter Jones) – equipped with pipe, cape and deerstalker hat – is investigating a seemingly careless criminal, who leaves masses of clues wherever he goes. But no one can solve the crimes, not even Steed - because all the clues are fakes: left behind by a blackmailer, who is planting them to incriminate wealthy men, as part of a sophisticated extortion racket.
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Episode 19 - Wish You Were HereIn a spoof of the 1967 British TV series The Prisoner, Tara finds herself trapped in a posh prison without bars or guards, which, on the surface, appears to be merely an elegant hotel in a quiet English town.
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Episode 20 - Love AllSteed investigates a publishing house which specializes in Romantic fiction, when looking into a mystery in which top Civil Servants are unexpectedly falling in love and betraying military secrets in 'pillow talk'.
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Episode 21 - Stay TunedSteed returns from holiday with no memory of where he has been or what he has been doing for the past three weeks. He is behaving oddly, and seems to have been brainwashed: implanted with a post-hypnotic suggestion to kill someone in the department.
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Episode 22 - Take Me to Your LeaderSteed and Tara are tracking the movements of a red attaché case containing money and documents intended for a top enemy agent. The case also contains taped messages that inform a series of couriers where to take it.
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Episode 23 - FogThe Gaslight Ghoul, a Victorian mass murderer similar to Jack the Ripper, strikes again a century later. In a fog-shrouded London, the Ghoul is intent on assassinating all the foreign delegates attending the international disarmament conference. Steed invents a fictitious additional Gaslight Ghoul murder in order to investigate a Gentlemen’s Club, dedicated to uncovering the identity of the Ghoul, which Steed suspects is involved in the new killings.
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Episode 24 - Who Was That Man I Saw You With?Whilst on a top secret security assignment, Tara comes under suspicion of being a double-agent. She must cast similar suspicion on Steed if she is to prove that she has been framed. An enemy agent, Gregor Zaroff, hopes to put the Government's new anti-missile defense system, code named 'Field Marshall', out of action by convincing Steed and Mother that Tara has betrayed the system's secrets.
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Episode 25 - Homicide and Old LaceMother's two elderly aunties are all a-twitter over an improbable tale that he spins them: a dastardly plot to steal the Crown Jewels, illustrated with clips from earlier episodes.
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Episode 26 - ThingumajigA fiendish, and lethal, device that eats electricity, designed as the ultimate killing machine, gets loose in a rural English village and electrocutes everyone it comes into contact with.
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Episode 27 - My Wildest DreamAcme Precision Combine’s directors are dying. A series of quite ordinary men have been hypnotized into committing the murders - by making them believe it’s all a dream.
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Episode 28 - RequiemTara finds herself attending a Requiem service for Mother, when Steed inaugurates a one-man witness protection program for a key witness against Murder International: taking the witness to Fort Steed, a hiding place supposedly known only to him. But agents bent on murdering the witness booby-trap Steed's apartment. When the bomb explodes, Tara is severely injured - and Mother is killed. Now Tara must find Steed in time to warn him.
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Episode 29 - Take-OverSteed is spending the weekend with two of his oldest friends, Bill and Laura Bassett, who, unknown to him, are being held prisoner in their own home by the other house guests. If they reveal this to Steed, or the reason why, he will be murdered: but he nevertheless begins to suspect something is amiss. Then an unsuspecting Tara blunders in.
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Episode 30 - PandoraTara is kidnapped by two brothers, who drug her and seek to brainwash her into believing that she is Pandora - a young woman she closely resembles, who was once engaged to their elderly father: a retired spy, codenamed the Fierce Rabbit. He had been a British agent in World War One, and Tara has to be convinced that she is now living in the year 1915.
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Episode 31 - Get-a-Way!Three captured Russian spies, one of whom is assigned to assassinate Steed, escape from a seemingly escape-proof prison hidden in Oldhill Monastery. Steed investigates a suspicious consignment of vodka recently delivered there, whilst Tara finds a clue in a magazine article about camouflage.
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Episode 32 - BizarreWhen a man who was buried a year previously is found newly dead, Steed investigates the cemetery where the dead man was supposed to be. One exhumation leads to another, as more and more discrepancies are uncovered. Then Steed has himself buried alive - to see what transpires.
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