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The Worst Episodes of The Avengers

Every episode of The Avengers ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of The Avengers!

Worst episode
S2E3 The Decapod
6.1235 votes
Best episode
S4E23 The House That Jack Built
8.7526 votes
Top season
Season 4
7.8avg
Binge time
2d 22h
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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    The Avengers Season 2 Episode 3 - The Decapod
    6.1/10(235 votes)

    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:Don Leaver
    Writer:Eric Paice

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  2. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 23 - Conspiracy of Silence
    6.1/10(153 votes)

    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:Roger Marshall

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  3. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 5 - Mission to Montreal
    6.3/10(216 votes)

    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:Don Leaver
    Writer:Lester Powell

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  4. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 9 - The Sell-Out
    6.3/10(188 votes)

    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:Don Leaver
    Writer:Anthony Terpiloff

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  5. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 22 - The Man in the Mirror
    6.4/10(146 votes)

    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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  6. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 6 - The Removal Men
    6.5/10(190 votes)

    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:Don Leaver
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Avengers Season 3 Episode 10 - The Grandeur That Was Rome
    6.5/10(166 votes)

    S3:E10

    Strange diseases are being reported in various parts of the world, and Steed's suspicion is that somebody has been tampering with the insecticides and fertilisers of United Foods and Dressings. Cathy Gale is captured whilst investigating, and will be the 'guinea pig' for a test on the new strain of bubonic plague.

    Director:Kim Mills
    Writer:Rex Edwards

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  8. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 16 - Immortal Clay
    6.6/10(175 votes)

    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:Richmond Harding
    Writer:James Mitchell

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  9. The Avengers Season 3 Episode 11 - The Golden Fleece
    6.6/10(160 votes)

    S3:E11

    Steed and Cathy eat at a Chinese restaurant, but, as ever, it's not just for fun: Steed suspects the owner, Mr Lo, of gold smuggling. He also seems to be allied with Army types who are smuggling ammunition to support ex-servicemen.

    Director:Peter Hammond
    Writer:Roger Marshall

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  10. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 17 - Box of Tricks
    6.6/10(159 votes)

    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:Kim Mills
    Writer:Peter Ling

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  11. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 26 - Killer Whale
    6.6/10(146 votes)

    S2:E26

    Cathy is managing the boxer Joey Frazer, but Pancho Driver's gym, where the man is training, is, Steed suspects, the centre for shipments of illegal ambergris.

    Director:Kim Mills
    Writer:John Lucarotti

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  12. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 18 - Warlock
    6.7/10(187 votes)

    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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  13. The Avengers Season 3 Episode 13 - Death "à la carte"
    6.7/10(160 votes)

    S3:E13

    Emir Abdulla Akaba is visiting London for his annual medical, and Steed suspects an assassination attempt. Despite Steed assumming the guise of a chef, the Emir seems to have been poisoned while eating a meal.

    Director:Kim Mills
    Writer:John Lucarotti

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  14. The Avengers Season 3 Episode 5 - Death of a Batman
    6.7/10(157 votes)

    S3:E5

    At the reading of the will of Wrightson, Steed's former batman, the man's family are shocked to discover his estate is worth a fortune. Steed and Cathy set out to find out where a twenty pounds per week draughtsman acquired such a huge amount of money, and whether it was legal.

    Director:Kim Mills
    Writer:Roger Marshall

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  15. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 24 - A Chorus of Frogs
    6.7/10(152 votes)

    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:Martin Woodhouse

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  16. The Avengers Season 3 Episode 15 - The White Elephant
    6.7/10(145 votes)

    S3:E15

    The disappearance of an albino elephant from Noah Marshall's zoo seems to be linked to Steed's investigation of ivory dust in a gun shop. Steed sets out to rescue Cathy from the tiger's cage, find Snowy and investigate the ivory smugglers.

    Director:Laurence Bourne
    Writer:John Lucarotti

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  17. The Avengers Season 3 Episode 6 - November Five
    6.8/10(158 votes)

    S3:E6

    Michael Dyter, the newly elected MP for South-East Anglia is shot shortly after making his acceptance speech in which he had threatened to expose a major scandal involving the government. Steed knows that the subject of this was the recent theft of a nuclear warhead near London. So was Dyter killed to keep him quiet, and if so, by whom?

    Director:Bill Bain
    Writer:Eric Paice

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  18. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 20 - School for Traitors
    6.8/10(157 votes)

    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:Jonathan Alwyn
    Writer:James Mitchell

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  19. The Avengers Season 3 Episode 8 - Second Sight
    6.8/10(156 votes)

    S3:E8

    The cornea grafts that will, hopefully, restore the sight of blind millionaire Marten Halvarssen fascinate Steed: they're rumoured to be coming from a live patient, one Hilda Brauer. Steed suspects that all is not what it seems and so sends Cathy to Switzerland to oversee the operation.

    Director:Peter Hammond
    Writer:Martin Woodhouse

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  20. The Avengers Season 3 Episode 20 - Trojan Horse
    6.8/10(146 votes)

    S3:E20

    Jockeys and stable hands are being trained in the use of firearms and poisons, so Steed delves deep in the murky world of horse racing.

    Director:Laurence Bourne
    Writer:Malcolm Hulke

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  21. The Avengers Season 4 Episode 14 - Silent Dust
    6.9/10(411 votes)

    S4:E14

    The lack of martens in a pleasant stretch of English countryside alerts Steed to the possible release of a fertiliser that has failed, reducing a landscape to a wasteland. But why is the local farming community so aggressive?

    Director:Roy Ward Baker
    Writer:Roger Marshall

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  22. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 8 - Death of a Great Dane
    6.9/10(194 votes)

    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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  23. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 10 - Death on the Rocks
    6.9/10(185 votes)

    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:Jonathan Alwyn
    Writer:Eric Paice

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  24. The Avengers Season 1 Episode 6 - Girl on the Trapeze
    6.9/10(165 votes)

    S1:E6

    Keel, reviving a young woman who has jumped into the Thames, is led to the Radeck State Circus, where the trapeze girl is guarded, her face covered by bandages because of an accident. The 'trapeze girl'proves to be the daughter of a defecting scientist, who will be used to force her father to return home. When Keel discovers this, he and Carol are captured by Zibbo the Clown, who will shoot Carol if the police investigation is not called off.

    Director:Don Leaver
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  25. The Avengers Season 2 Episode 19 - The Golden Eggs
    6.9/10(165 votes)

    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:Martin Woodhouse

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Decapod" is the worst rated episode of The Avengers. It scored 6.1/10 from 235 votes. Directed by Don Leaver and written by Eric Paice, it aired on October 13, 1962.

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