The Avengers - Season 1
Season 1
"The Frighteners," "Girl on the Trapeze" and the first twenty minutes of "Hot Snow" are the known episodes to exist of the first season. All the other episodes of season one were destroyed by the BBC in a bulk wipe, to which many classic shows have been lost [IE: Dr. Who, Dad's Army, The Spies, etc.) We do hope that the rest will pop up someday, somewhere, somehow...
Network
Episodes26
DatesJan 7, 1961 - Dec 30, 1961
Episodes
Season 1Episode 160 min
Hot Snow
Dr. David Keel's fiancée Peggy is murdered by a ruthless gang of drug dealers, and he accidentally receives a consignment of heroin. He believes the heroin was sent by the same gang, and seeks revenge with the help of the mysterious John Steed.
Jan 7, 1961
Season 1Episode 260 min
Brought to Book
Steed has infiltrated a gang, led by Mason, which is implicated in Peggy's murder. Steed asks Keel to establish contact with a rival gang, and the doctor discovers that Vance's hitman, Spicer, has been sent to kill Steed.
Jan 14, 1961
Season 1Episode 360 min
Square Root of Evil
Steed impersonates Riordan, a forger soon to be released from prison, and gains the trust of gang-leader Hooper. Things seem to be going well until Hooper's second-in-command, known as the Cardinal, announces that Riordan's girlfriend is outside waiting to see him.
Jan 21, 1961
Season 1Episode 460 min
Nightmare
Keel receives a 'phone call from one of his patients, and ends up assuming the identity of her missing husband, a scientist engaged in secret research. Shot in the chest, Keel needs a minor operation - but the anaesthetist has tampered with the oxygen.
Jan 28, 1961
Season 1Episode 560 min
Crescent Moon
A young girl, Carmelite Mendoza, has been kidnapped from a Caribbean island, but Steed suspects a political motive. His suspicions are confirmed when Vasco, the Mendoza family retainer, is observed killing the original kidnapper and abducting the girl himself.
Feb 4, 1961
Season 1Episode 660 min
Girl on the Trapeze
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.
Feb 11, 1961
Season 1Episode 760 min
Diamond Cut Diamond
Steed, attempting to break a gang of international diamond smugglers, is living in a bungalow near Heathrow Airport which was once owned by a suicide whom One-Ten suspects of involvement. Steed awakens one morning somewhat the worse for drink, when a phone call advises him to check the morning paper; the police are tracking a hit-and-run driver. Steed checks his car. It is damaged, and the front is covered with dried blood.
Feb 18, 1961
Season 1Episode 860 min
The Radioactive Man
Dr Keel is asked to help in the search for a man who has picked up a radioactive isotope, not knowing that it will quickly kill him and harm anyone else he comes into contact with. But Marko, fearing that the police want to find him because of his forged passport, has already gone into hiding.
Feb 25, 1961
Season 1Episode 960 min
Ashes of Roses
Steed, investigating a number of probable arson cases, is led to the hairdressing salon of Olive and Jacques Beronne. He asks Keel to let Carol investigate the salon, but after she enters, there is an explosion from within
Mar 4, 1961
Season 1Episode 1060 min
Hunt the Man Down
Frank Preston is released from prison and is intent on reclaiming the hidden proceeds of his robbery. So is Steed, who has been ordered to follow the man. So are a couple of thugs, who kidnap Carol. So is Preston's scheming wife, eager to get her hands on the one hundred thousand pounds hidden somewhere in the sewers.
Mar 18, 1961
Season 1Episode 1160 min
Please Don't Feed the Animals
Steed trails a blackmailed civil servant to Brinkley House, a private zoo, only to observe the man throwing a package of money into the reptile pit. The package soon vanishes. The man is then ordered to steal a top secret file.
Apr 1, 1961
Season 1Episode 1260 min
Dance with Death
Dr. Keel resuscitates Elaine Bateman, the owner of a ballroom dancing school who has narrowly survived a murder attempt by gassing. When he returns to the school after dropping his scarf, he is arrested. His scarf has been used to strangle the woman.
Apr 15, 1961
Season 1Episode 1360 min
One for the Mortuary
When Keel attends a health conference in Geneva he is unaware that he is carrying, in microdot form, a vital new medical formula - unaware, that is, until he is arrested for murder.
Apr 29, 1961
Season 1Episode 1460 min
The Springers
Steed is trying to track down the organisers of a group who offer to spring any convict - even the dangerous ones - from prison if they're paid the right money. Keel impersonates a prisoner, and the trail seems to lead to a girl's finishing school.
May 13, 1961
Season 1Episode 1560 min
The Frighteners
To stop his daughter seeing suspected conman Jeremy de Willoughby, Sir Thomas Waller has hired arch-criminal the Deacon to 'put the frighteners on'. Steed is on the trail of the Deacon and, with the aid of Dr. Keel, stops two thugs from seriously wounding de Willoughby. They set a trap for the Deacon and the lovers.
May 27, 1961
Season 1Episode 1660 min
The Yellow Needle
After an unsuccessful murder attempt against Sir Wilberforce Lungi, Steed asks Keel, an old friend of the pro-Western African leader, to investigate Lungi's secretary, Jacquetta Brown. Meanwhile, Steed flies to Africa to meet Lungi's tribalist rival, Shebro.
Jun 10, 1961
Season 1Episode 1760 min
Death on the Slipway
An agent has been killed at the secret dockyard where submarines are built. Steed investigates, and finds that a foreign spy has been arranging 'accidents' for him.
Jun 24, 1961
Season 1Episode 1860 min
Double Danger
Keel, called to deal with a man seriously injured by an accident, quickly discovers that the man is suffering from gunshot wounds, and that he may be implicated in a recent diamond robbery.
Jul 8, 1961
Season 1Episode 1960 min
Toy Trap
Keel is asked by the improbably named Bunty to help her find her missing friend. What is the connection between the department store where the women work and a call-girl racket?
Jul 22, 1961
Season 1Episode 2060 min
Tunnel of Fear
Top-secret information is finding its way into the wrong hands, and the source seems to be a south coast fairground. Steed succeeds in getting hypnotised and winds up in the ghost-train tunnel. With frightening results, of course.
Aug 5, 1961
Season 1Episode 2160 min
The Far Distant Dead
Dr Keel, treating the victims of a cyclone struck Mexican village, uncovers a number of food-poisonings; emergency cooking oil is, in fact, hydraulic fluid.
Aug 19, 1961
Season 1Episode 2260 min
Kill the King
A visit to London to sign an oil treaty from a monarch whose life is under threat brings Steed and Keel into the world of dissidents and assassinations.
Sep 2, 1961
Season 1Episode 2360 min
Dead of Winter
The discovery of the body of Schneider, a wanted Nazi war criminal, deep-frozen in a consignment of meat at London docks brings Steed and Keel into the shadowy world of Phoenix, a new and terrifying Fascist party in Britain.
Dec 9, 1961
Season 1Episode 2460 min
The Deadly Air
An experimental vaccine is stolen, and the subsequent test proves deadly. Steed and Keel, suspecting that the human 'guinea pig' did not die directly from the vaccine, volunteer to be the next subjects.
Dec 16, 1961
Season 1Episode 2560 min
A Change of Bait
An unusual and sprawling tale of heart disease, industrial unrest, and a consignment of rotten bananas.
Dec 23, 1961
Season 1Episode 2660 min
Dragonsfield
How has a research centre developing radiation-proof material managed to irradiate one of its scientists? Once more, Steed submits himself to scientific testing.
Dec 30, 1961
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