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The Best Episodes of The Avengers Season 2

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A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series'

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Avengers Season 2 Episode 1 - Mr Teddy Bear
    7.3/10(269 votes)

    #1 - Mr Teddy Bear

    S2:E1

    A man is murdered whilst being interviewed on live television. one-Ten is sure that it is the work of the ruthless assassin Mr Teddy Bear, and he asks Cathy Gale to trap the man - by arranging for him to murder Steed.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 2 - Propellant 23
    7.1/10(230 votes)

    #2 - Propellant 23

    S2:E2

    At Marseilles airport, Steed and Cathy find the courier they were due to meet dead. His sample of new liquid rocket fuel has been taken. Facing an array of enemy agents, the duo must recover the flask of Propellant 23.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 3 - The Decapod
    6.0/10(219 votes)

    #3 - The Decapod

    S2:E3

    Borb, the president of the Balkan Republic, is visiting London to sign a military deal. His private secretary is killed by a masked wrestler, the Decapod. Steed is assigned to augment the president's bodyguards, but the wrestler continues to kill those close to Borb.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 4 - Bullseye
    7.2/10(206 votes)

    #4 - Bullseye

    S2:E4

    Shareholders in Anderson's, a small-arms manufacturers, are being killed one by one whilst a tycoon plans a take-over. Rifles and other weapons, possibly manufactured by Anderson's, are being smuggled into Africa. Cathy Gale joins the board with a 20 per cent share in order to investigate.

    Director:Peter Hammond
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 5 - Mission to Montreal
    6.3/10(204 votes)

    #5 - Mission to Montreal

    S2:E5

    A film star's stand-in is murdered, and microfilm of North American early warning systems has been stolen. The film star, despite an aversion to travelling by sea, proceeds to Montreal on a luxury liner. In an attempt to find the mocrofilm Dr King is assigned as her personal doctor, and Steed goes under cover as a steward.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 6 - The Removal Men
    6.5/10(180 votes)

    #6 - The Removal Men

    S2:E6

    Steed is trying to infiltrate a group of assassins currently based in the South of France. He robs the leader of some jewellery in order to impress him, then waits for them in the local club. It just so happens that Venus Smith is singing there.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 7 - The Mauritius Penny
    7.3/10(195 votes)

    #7 - The Mauritius Penny

    S2:E7

    The owner of a stamp shop is murdered when excitedly talking on the phone to a contact about the rare Mauritius Penny that has turned up on a list. Cathy Gale applies for a job in the shop, and she and Steed witness another murder in an auction room.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Malcolm Hulke, Terrance Dicks

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  8. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 8 - Death of a Great Dane
    6.9/10(185 votes)

    #8 - Death of a Great Dane

    S2:E8

    A man involved in a car crash is found to have fifty thousand pounds worth of diamonds in his stomach. Steed investigates the man's joke shop, Big Laugh, and then the offices of multi-millionaire Litoff. The burial of one of Litoff's Great Danes is not quite what it seems.

    Director:Peter Hammond
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 9 - The Sell-Out
    6.3/10(178 votes)

    #9 - The Sell-Out

    S2:E9

    Steed's department is guarding M. Roland, A UN negotiator in London for important talks, but cannot prevent an assassination attempt. Indeed, it seems that one of Steed's colleagues is selling secrets - and Steed finds that even he is under suspicion.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Anthony Terpiloff

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  10. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 10 - Death on the Rocks
    6.9/10(178 votes)

    #10 - Death on the Rocks

    S2:E10

    Illegal diamonds are swamping the market. The wife of a diamond merchant is murdered. Time for Steed and Gathy Gale to feign marriage.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 11 - Traitor in Zebra
    7.3/10(172 votes)

    #11 - Traitor in Zebra

    S2:E11

    Secrets are finding their way from HMS Zebra, a naval base, to the enemy, rendering the Navy's missile-tracking equipment useless. Steed and Mrs. Gale investigate, and find their attention drawn to the local sweet shop.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 12 - The Big Thinker
    7.1/10(174 votes)

    #12 - The Big Thinker

    S2:E12

    Plato, the most advanced computer in the world, which could be used to target intercepting missiles, keeps breaking down. The body of a professor on the team is found within.

    Director:Kim Mills
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 13 - Death Dispatch
    7.0/10(179 votes)

    #13 - Death Dispatch

    S2:E13

    A British courier is attacked in Jamaica, and he protects the contents of his diplomatic bag at the expense of his life. But why? The case only contains mundane documents.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 14 - Dead on Course
    7.1/10(177 votes)

    #14 - Dead on Course

    S2:E14

    A plane crashes in Ireland in suspicious circumstances, and the bodies are taken to the nearby St. Mary's Convent . Steed calls in Dr. King to check up on the circumstances of death, while he samples Irish hospitality and bad deeds at Shamrock Airport.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 15 - Intercrime
    7.5/10(170 votes)

    #15 - Intercrime

    S2:E15

    Steed wants Mrs. Gale to impersonate Hilda Stern, a recently arrested assassin about to be used by the trans-national crime syndicate Intercrime. Things go swimmingly, until the real Hilda Stern breaks out of Holloway and confronts the imposter.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Malcolm Hulke, Terrance Dicks

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  16. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 16 - Immortal Clay
    6.6/10(162 votes)

    #16 - Immortal Clay

    S2:E16

    Marling Ceramics, run by Cathy's friends, Richard and Allan Marling, claim to be on the verge of creating an unbreakable china. However, when Steed arrives to investigate, a body is discovered in a tank of clay.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 17 - Box of Tricks
    6.5/10(150 votes)

    #17 - Box of Tricks

    S2:E17

    Classified information is finding its way into the wrong hands and Steed feels sure that this has something to do with the death of the magician's assistant at the club where Venus Smith is working. Steed investigates the lethal vanishing cabinet.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Peter Ling

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  18. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 18 - Warlock
    6.7/10(173 votes)

    #18 - Warlock

    S2:E18

    Steed is entrusted with the safe-keeping of a new fuel formula when its inventor is found in a coma. The scientist had been involved in a black magic circle which leads Steed and Cathy into the world of hexes and magic powers.

    Director:Peter Hammond
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 19 - The Golden Eggs
    6.9/10(154 votes)

    #19 - The Golden Eggs

    S2:E19

    A burglar steals two gold-plated eggs from Dr Ashe, not knowing that they contain a deadly virus. The man quickly falls ill, but refuses to indicate where the case containing the eggs is buried.

    Director:Peter Hammond
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 20 - School for Traitors
    6.8/10(149 votes)

    #20 - School for Traitors

    S2:E20

    Steed, investigating the suicide of a University tutor, discovers that the man seems to have shot himself with a gun with a silencer attached. Venus is sent a tub of acid 'face-cream', and there is another mysterious suicide.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 21 - The White Dwarf
    7.1/10(155 votes)

    #21 - The White Dwarf

    S2:E21

    Astonomer Professor Richter believes that the sun's stellar companion, a white dwarf, is returning to the solar system. If it does, that's the end of everything. So why on Earth would anybody want to murder him now?

    Director:Richmond Harding
    Writer:Malcolm Hulke

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  22. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 22 - The Man in the Mirror
    6.4/10(139 votes)

    #22 - The Man in the Mirror

    S2:E22

    Venus has her camera and films stolen whilst taking pictures in a fun fair. One film is missed, however, and when developed a face can be seen in the Hall of Mirrors - that of Trevelyan, the cypher clerk who has committed suicide. But Venus's photograph was taken after the man's death.

    Director:Kim Mills
    Writers:Anthony Terpiloff, Geoffrey Orme

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  23. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 23 - Conspiracy of Silence
    6.1/10(145 votes)

    #23 - Conspiracy of Silence

    S2:E23

    The Mafia aren't about to let Steed get in the way of their lucrative drug-smuggling operation between Britain and North America, and arrange for him to be assassinated. Steed survives, and tracks his intended killer to a circus, where some of the clowns prove to be anything but figures of fun.

    Director:Peter Hammond
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 24 - A Chorus of Frogs
    6.7/10(145 votes)

    #24 - A Chorus of Frogs

    S2:E24

    A holiday for Steed in Greece is, of course, no straightforward affair. A deep-sea diver dies in mysterious circumstances, whilst bathyscope experiments are taking place on the yacht where Venus is singing.

    Director:Raymond Menmuir
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 25 - Six Hands Across a Table
    7.0/10(141 votes)

    #25 - Six Hands Across a Table

    S2:E25

    What should have been a quiet weekend at the home of an old friend soon turns into a thick web of treachery and scheming, which throws Cathy into the world of shipbuilding, cross-company romance, mysterious 'accidents' and misguided nationalism.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Mr Teddy Bear" is the best rated episode of "The Avengers" season 2. It scored 7.3/10 based on 269 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/29/1962. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Propellant 23".