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    The Avengers Season 4 Episode 23 - The House That Jack Built
    8.7/10(513 votes)

    #1 - The House That Jack Built

    S4:E23

    Emma inherits some property from her deceased Uncle Jack. The property is a very bizaarre house, and when Emma goes to inspect it, she finds herself trapped in a labyrinth of psychological torture.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  2. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 3 - The Cybernauts
    8.5/10(605 votes)

    #2 - The Cybernauts

    S4:E3

    A vastly strong, bullet-proof killer homes in on and destroys several electronics executives. Could it have something to do with Dr. Armstrong's automated work place? Or with the activities of a nearby karate school...

    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:Philip Levene

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  3. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 13 - Too Many Christmas Trees
    8.4/10(513 votes)

    #3 - Too Many Christmas Trees

    S4:E13

    Christmas. Steed is having bad, seemingly prophetic, dreams, involving festive themes and a dead agent. Can he find solace at a fancy-dress party in the country home of a Dickens enthusiast?

    Director:Roy Ward Baker
    Writer:Tony Williamson

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  4. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 21 - A Touch of Brimstone
    8.4/10(484 votes)

    #4 - A Touch of Brimstone

    S4:E21

    When a group of hoaxsters called the Hellfire Club mix murder with their mischief, Steed and Emma demonstrate a few tricks of their own. The whalebone corset, high laced boots and spiked dog-collar Emma wears as the "Queen of Sin" were designed by Diana Rigg herself, and resulted in A Touch of Brimstone being banned from American TV.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  5. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 9 - The Hour that Never Was
    8.3/10(483 votes)

    #5 - The Hour that Never Was

    S4:E9

    Following a motor crash, Steed and Emma explore the seemingly deserted RAF Hamelin, where they were heading for a party to celebrate the base's closure. Is this surreal landscape all a dream, or is it something worse?

    Director:Gerry O'Hara
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 12 - The Superlative Seven
    8.3/10(512 votes)

    #6 - The Superlative Seven

    S5:E12

    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.

    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  7. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 16 - Who's Who???
    8.3/10(371 votes)

    #7 - Who's Who???

    S5:E16

    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.

    Director:John Llewellyn Moxey
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Avengers Season 6 Episode 7 - False Witness
    8.3/10(432 votes)

    #8 - False Witness

    S6:E7

    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?

    Director:Charles Crichton
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 15 - The Joker
    8.2/10(450 votes)

    #9 - The Joker

    S5:E15

    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.

    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  10. The Avengers Season 6 Episode 2 - Game
    8.2/10(365 votes)

    #10 - Game

    S6:E2

    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.

    Director:Robert Fuest
    Writer:Richard Harris

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  11. The Avengers Season 6 Episode 4 - You'll Catch Your Death
    8.2/10(388 votes)

    #11 - You'll Catch Your Death

    S6:E4

    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.

    Director:Paul Dickson
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 4 - Death at Bargain Prices
    8.1/10(499 votes)

    #12 - Death at Bargain Prices

    S4:E4

    When an agent is killed in the lift of Pinter's Department store, Steed and Emma get involved with King Kane, a tycoon who lives in a penthouse above the store. Why is Professor Popple, a missing atomic scientist, being held in the bargain basement?

    Director:Charles Crichton
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  13. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 17 - The Girl From Auntie
    8.1/10(431 votes)

    #13 - The Girl From Auntie

    S4:E17

    Steed returns from holiday to find that a quite different Mrs. Peel is inhabiting his old friend's flat. With the aid of actress Georgie Price-Jones, he discovers that Art Incorporated and the Arkwright Knitting Circle are doing more together than just sharing needles.

    Director:Roy Ward Baker
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 26 - Honey for the Prince
    8.1/10(375 votes)

    #14 - Honey for the Prince

    S4:E26

    Steed and Emma return from a party to find a dying agent in Steed's flat. What is the connection between honey, a firm which makes fantasies to order and the oil deal promised by a visiting Bavarian Prince?

    Director:James Hill
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  15. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 1 - The Town of No Return
    8.0/10(693 votes)

    #15 - The Town of No Return

    S4:E1

    Four agents have vanished, looking for each other, in Little Bazeley-by-the-Sea. Steed and Emma go in for the man who went in for the man who.... and meet the odd local landlord, blacksmith and vicar. Are they more than they seem?

    Director:Roy Ward Baker
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  16. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 6 - The Master Minds
    8.0/10(426 votes)

    #16 - The Master Minds

    S4:E6

    A government official, dresssed as one of the Horse-guards, helps in a raid on secret files and is wounded. Recovering, he remembers nothing. Is his crime anything to do with his membership of Ransack, a club for those with high IQs? Emma can join, but Steed may have to cheat....

    Director:Peter Graham Scott
    Writer:Robert Banks Stewart

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  17. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 7 - The Murder Market
    8.0/10(455 votes)

    #17 - The Murder Market

    S4:E7

    What could an outbreak of motiveless murders have to do with the activities of a marriage bureau called Togetherness Inc.? Well, think of Hitchcock's 'Strangers On A Train' and you'll be close. Steed and Emma seek their ideal partners....

    Director:Peter Graham Scott
    Writer:Tony Williamson

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  18. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 10 - Never, Never Say Die
    8.0/10(403 votes)

    #18 - Never, Never Say Die

    S5:E10

    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.

    Director:Robert Day
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 20 - Dead Man's Treasure
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Dead Man's Treasure

    S5:E20

    A missing briefcase full of secrets propels Steed and Emma into a treasure hunt by car.

    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 22 - The Positive Negative Man
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - The Positive Negative Man

    S5:E22

    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.

    Director:Robert Day
    Writer:Tony Williamson

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  21. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 23 - Murdersville
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Murdersville

    S5:E23

    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.

    Director:Robert Asher
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  22. The Avengers Season 5 Episode 24 - Mission... Highly Improbable
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Mission... Highly Improbable

    S5:E24

    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.

    Director:Robert Day
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Avengers Season 6 Episode 1 - The Forget-Me-Knot
    8.0/10(436 votes)

    #23 - The Forget-Me-Knot

    S6:E1

    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.

    Director:James Hill
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  24. The Avengers Season 6 Episode 18 - The Morning After
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - The Morning After

    S6:E18

    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.

    Director:John Hough
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  25. The Avengers Season 1 Episode 26 - Dragonsfield
    7.9/10(39 votes)

    #25 - Dragonsfield

    S1:E26

    How has a research centre developing radiation-proof material managed to irradiate one of its scientists? Once more, Steed submits himself to scientific testing.

    Director:Peter Hammond
    Writer:Terence Feely

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Best Episodes Summary

"The House That Jack Built" is the best rated episode of "The Avengers". It scored 8.7/10 based on 513 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Brian Clemens, it aired on 3/5/1966. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Cybernauts".