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The Best Episodes of The New Avengers

Every episode of The New Avengers ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The New Avengers!

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The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The Avengers and was developed by Albert Fennell and Brian

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    The New Avengers Season 1 Episode 6 - Target!
    8.1/10(143 votes)

    #1 - Target!

    S1:E6

    In an attempt to break Steed's perfect shooting-range record, Purdey tackles the range with all her grace and skill. However, it's not enough as she misses one tiny percentage and gets hit with a mark. But other agents begin to die who have performed similarly, and Steed and Gambit start putting the clues together and find that they must work fast to save their friend and colleague before she succumbs to a nasty poison.

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  2. The New Avengers Season 1 Episode 10 - Gnaws
    8.0/10(135 votes)

    #2 - Gnaws

    S1:E10

    2 scientists are developing a new growth drug which could end world famine. Unfortunately some of the drug has been flushed down the sink resulting in something nasty in the sewers.

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  3. The New Avengers Season 1 Episode 3 - The Last of the Cybernauts ...??
    7.7/10(157 votes)

    #3 - The Last of the Cybernauts ...??

    S1:E3

    When a double agent called Kane is horribly disfigured in a chase, he vows vengeance...and calls upon the powers of a force who has tangled with Steed and his associates twice before: the Cybernauts. Creations of a misguided and imbalanced scientist, Dr Armstrong, these metallic menaces in both their attempts were stopped by the suave Steed and the inimitable Mrs Peel. However, this time they are being manipulated by an even more malignant force, and Steed and his friends enter into great danger in an attempt to stop the Cybernauts one last time.

    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  4. The New Avengers Season 2 Episode 2 - Angels of Death
    7.7/10(122 votes)

    #4 - Angels of Death

    S2:E2

    Senior civil servants, MPs, and intelligence personnel are all dying suddenly of ""natural causes,"" and there seems to be no obvious link. The only lead is the mortally-wounded agent who talks of angels of death that kill from within.

    Director:Ernest Day
    Writers:Brian Clemens, Terence Feely

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  5. The New Avengers Season 1 Episode 1 - The Eagle's Nest
    7.4/10(192 votes)

    #5 - The Eagle's Nest

    S1:E1

    When murderous fishermen kill an agent investigating an island, Steed, Gambit, and Purdey go to investigate the man's death and the suspicious monastery there. Apparently in 1945 an airplane carrying 'Germany's Greatest Treasure' made its final stop there, and the monks turn out quite different than perhaps Steed and his crew have anticipated...

    Director:Desmond Davis
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  6. The New Avengers Season 1 Episode 9 - Faces
    7.4/10(112 votes)

    #6 - Faces

    S1:E9

    A bizarre series of deaths of high-ups in the government becomes the business of Steed and his colleagues when a personal friend of his becomes one of the deceased. However, due to suspicion from the delicate nature of the case...apparently people are being duplicated by an unscrupulous firm...Steed, Purdey, and Gambit all go off on their own and make individual progress into the case. However, it seems that the situation is too far-reaching and confusing for each alone. They must work together and figure out quickly, who's who and what's what, before they themselves become the next targets.

    Director:James Hill
    Writers:Dennis Spooner, Brian Clemens

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  7. The New Avengers Season 1 Episode 2 - House of Cards
    7.3/10(143 votes)

    #7 - House of Cards

    S1:E2

    When Steed has a hoard of screaming teenagers rescue his intended victim, spymaster Perov seemingly commits suicide. But days later his system of sleeper agents, the House of Cards, activates, and Steed, Purdy & Gambit find themselves fighting trusted friends.

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  8. The New Avengers Season 1 Episode 7 - To Catch a Rat
    7.3/10(116 votes)

    #8 - To Catch a Rat

    S1:E7

    A strange message alerts Steed, Purdey, and Gambit to something strange going on. While Steed does his own research, Purdey and Gambit set out to help shed some light on the situation. However, the reality of the case is that due to a seventeen-year-old open case and a bout of amnesia, the legendary traitorous White Rat has at last begun to operate again. And Purdey is in imminent danger from her own romance.

    Director:James Hill
    Writer:Terence Feely

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  9. The New Avengers Season 2 Episode 1 - Dead Men are Dangerous
    7.3/10(113 votes)

    #9 - Dead Men are Dangerous

    S2:E1

    Everything Steed cares about is being destroyed or threatened, including his china, his car, and even Purdey. The trio must uncover who would bare such a long-lasting and jealous grudge against the unflappable agent.

    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  10. The New Avengers Season 2 Episode 5 - Obsession
    7.3/10(118 votes)

    #10 - Obsession

    S2:E5

    An old flame of Purdey's reappears when a missile goes missing from an air display. But what's the connection between that, a visiting Arab envoy, and a spy satellite photographing Buckinghamshire?

    Director:Ernest Day
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  11. The New Avengers Season 1 Episode 5 - Cat Amongst the Pigeons
    7.2/10(123 votes)

    #11 - Cat Amongst the Pigeons

    S1:E5

    The warning of a dying man tips Steed off that ecologist Rydercroft is to be killed at noon. All plans are taken to protect the man's aircraft but it still crashes. Soon the Avengers come up against a new breed of enemy.

    Director:John Hough
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  12. The New Avengers Season 1 Episode 12 - Sleeper
    7.2/10(107 votes)

    #12 - Sleeper

    S1:E12

    Having witnessed a test on a new sleeping gas called S-95 & thus made immune to its effects, the Avengers awake one Sunday morning to find the whole city of London asleep and an open house on the city's banks and jewellers.

    Director:Graeme Clifford
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  13. The New Avengers Season 2 Episode 3 - Medium Rare
    7.0/10(94 votes)

    #13 - Medium Rare

    S2:E3

    Mason is the paymaster to a group of informants, but all is not what it seems: the informants are a single man. When Mason suspects this, he is murdered by Wallace, who has been lining his own pockets. Steed begins to investigate, and Wallace decides that the only option left is to frame Steed and kill him.

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  14. The New Avengers Season 2 Episode 10 - Complex
    7.0/10(94 votes)

    #14 - Complex

    S2:E10

    Agent X41 (codename ""Scapina"") is the USSR's most effective spy. But a photograph has fallen into the hands of the Avengers which may give a clue to his identity. The trail leads the trio to Toronto.

    Director:Richard Gilbert
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  15. The New Avengers Season 2 Episode 7 - Hostage
    6.9/10(99 votes)

    #15 - Hostage

    S2:E7

    After Purdey is kidnapped, Steed is given the ransom of Allied attack plans. But has the whole thing been a set up to make the Ministry think Steed is a traitor?

    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  16. The New Avengers Season 1 Episode 13 - Three Handed Game
    6.8/10(124 votes)

    #16 - Three Handed Game

    S1:E13

    Steed's plan to have 3 memory experts memorise a third of each of the Allied defence plans for courier purposes seems to have been a perfect success until Juvenator arrives with a machine capable of draining minds.

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writers:Dennis Spooner, Brian Clemens

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  17. The New Avengers Season 2 Episode 9 - K is for Kill: Tiger by the Tail (2)
    6.8/10(90 votes)

    #17 - K is for Kill: Tiger by the Tail (2)

    S2:E9

    The Russian soldiers attacking in France were just the first wave. Two ""K"" agents are the true key to the plan. One ""K"" assassin is killed while assassinating a retired General. Who is the target for the second ""K"" agent and how might this start World War III? Only Steed, Gambit and Purdey can save the world.

    Director:Yvon Marie Coulais
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  18. The New Avengers Season 1 Episode 4 - The Midas Touch
    6.7/10(132 votes)

    #18 - The Midas Touch

    S1:E4

    The terrific trio come up against Professor Turner, a scientist with a lust for gold, and his protege Midas, whose touch is deadly.

    Director:Robert Fuest
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  19. The New Avengers Season 1 Episode 8 - The Tale of the Big Why
    6.7/10(108 votes)

    #19 - The Tale of the Big Why

    S1:E8

    Released from prison after 9 years for spying, Burt Brandon heads straight for an abandoned well near Neverton containing unspecificed secret information. He is soon killed by 2 agents but has managed to post a package to his daughter. Steed recovers the package only to find it contains a pulp Western ""The Tale of the Big Why.""

    Director:Robert Fuest
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  20. The New Avengers Season 1 Episode 11 - Dirtier by the Dozen
    6.5/10(105 votes)

    #20 - Dirtier by the Dozen

    S1:E11

    Gambit tries to meet Travis, a man carrying some secret film, but he is killed before handing it over.

    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  21. The New Avengers Season 2 Episode 8 - K is for Kill: The Tiger Awakes (1)
    6.5/10(96 votes)

    #21 - K is for Kill: The Tiger Awakes (1)

    S2:E8

    In 1965, a young Russian soldier guns down a Salvation Army Band and escapes only to fall down dead and grow old. In France, in 1977, a young Russian soldier attacks men wearing uniforms. Then a Russian unit is attacking an empty home. After one of the soldiers dies, he also ages. Why are the Russians attacking old targets and then aging? Steed and company are trying to find answers.

    Director:Yvon Marie Coulais
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  22. The New Avengers Season 2 Episode 11 - Forward Base
    6.2/10(89 votes)

    #22 - Forward Base

    S2:E11

    April 1969: Typhoon Agatha rages causing a new piece of coastline suddenly to appear in Toronto. It's up to the New Avengers to uncover the truth behind it all.

    Director:Claude Fournier
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  23. The New Avengers Season 2 Episode 13 - Emily
    6.2/10(90 votes)

    #23 - Emily

    S2:E13

    The trio are on the trail of a mysterious agent ""The Fox."" Although he escapes, he leaves a palm print on the roof of a car owned by the aged Miss Daly and the Avengers must preserve the print to make a positive ID on their target.

    Director:Don Thompson
    Writer:Dennis Spooner

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  24. The New Avengers Season 2 Episode 12 - The Gladiators
    6.1/10(96 votes)

    #24 - The Gladiators

    S2:E12

    KGB agent Karl Sminsky is recruiting criminals to train as supremely skilled fighters in order to smash Canada's security system. The Avengers find themselves up against a team of supermen.

    Director:Claude Fournier
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  25. The New Avengers Season 2 Episode 4 - The Lion and the Unicorn
    6.0/10(99 votes)

    #25 - The Lion and the Unicorn

    S2:E4

    Paris: Steed captures his nemesis, the Unicorn. But when the Unicorn is accidentally killed by his own men, Steed must use all his cunning to avoid open warfare.

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writer:John Goldsmith

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Best Episodes Summary

"Target!" is the best rated episode of "The New Avengers". It scored 8.1/10 based on 143 votes. Directed by Ray Austin and written by Dennis Spooner, it aired on 11/26/1976. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Gnaws".