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2004
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Conspiracy theorists have long spoken of the Illuminati, believed to be a secret society with ties to the Freemasons who...
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2004
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With its detailed use of conspiracy theories and art history, The DaVinci Code became one of the biggest best sellers of its...
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2004
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2003
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Patrick Macnee, Daniel Roebuck, and William Sanderson headline this kitschy sci-fi yarn about a trip through time gone...
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2003
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Derek Jacobi won an Emmy award for his performance in this episode as a burned-out Shakespearian actor named Jackson Headley....
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2001
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Amateur sleuths pay attention. In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes presents a rare glimpse into real-life mysteries. The...
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2000
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2000
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2000
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Fans of 20th century TV and movie private eyes and spies like Matt Helm, Honey West, and James Bond may enjoy this...
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1999
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Adapted from a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher, the two-part British miniseries Coming Home re-created the years between 1936 and...
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1998
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Jeremiah Chechick directed this $60 million adaptation of the whimsical 1961 British TV spy series, imported to the United...
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Invisible Jones
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1998
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This is the second in a series of documentaries on ghosts and their encounters with the living. In this episode, six...
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1997
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This is the first in a series of documentaries on ghosts and their encounters with the living. This installment examines the...
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1997
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1997
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This is the third in a series of documentaries on ghosts and their encounters with the living. In this installment, we visit...
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1997
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1997
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The ghost-like images of gunfighters on this video's cover provide a hint to the potentially frightening themes present on...
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1997
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1997
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1996
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Go on location with celebrity host Patrick MacNee as he and other world-renowned experts investigate the world's greatest...
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1996
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Get the scoop on the world's most challenging unsolved mysteries and baffling events in Mysteries, Magic, and Miracles 4, a...
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1996
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Go on location with celebrity host Patrick MacNee as he and other world-renowned experts investigate the world's greatest...
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1996
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1996
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Returning to New York after a brief absence, Jessica learns to her chagrin that she has been introduced in cartoon form as...
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1992
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The fourth of Kenny Rogers' Gambler TV movies, 1991's The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw is regarded by many Western...
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1991
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In this mystery, Holmes and Watson travel to lovely old Vienna to investigate a murder and find themselves embroiled in a...
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1991
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Sir Wilfred
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1991
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Four countries--Great Britain, Belgium, Italy and Luxembourg--were in on the financing of 1991's Sherlock Holmes: Incident at...
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1991
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This tape consists of two episodes from the syndicated children's show. In the plot, a NASA scientist in the 21st century...
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1990
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This time the villains want to rule the world by controlling the weather. Paul Williams plays the obligatory crusading...
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1990
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Blood Sport premiered as a 2-hour installment of the syndicated TV anthology "Mystery Wheel of Adventure." It was one of...
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1989
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In this western, a senator from New Mexico, who was once a marshal, heads for London to find the one who killed his niece, a...
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1989
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This documentary presents interviews and clips with some of cinema's best loved cult figures. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1989
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A wealthy invalid discovers her husband's scheme to have her killed in this made-for-cable thriller--remade from the 1948...
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1989
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This farcical send-up of the movie business borrows a plot from the classic 1968 Mel Brooks film The Producers. It stars...
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Prof. Piocostomos
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1989
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A remake of Roger Corman's 1964 adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe tale was produced by Corman but directed by Larry Brand....
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Machiavel
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1989
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Directed by Arthur Forrest, this program informs viewers of legendary hauntings in Hollywood and its studio backlots, and...
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1989
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Twice Shy was originally telecast on the syndicated anthology "Mystery Wheel of Adventure." It was one of three dramas based...
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1989
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In this horror film, an evil magician creates a wax display of famous monsters and murderers and invites a group of...
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Sir Wilfred
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1988
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In this sci-fi adventure, an intergalactic pilot tries to stop the spread of a deadly virus before it destroys all life in...
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1988
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This surreal British black comedy tells the tale of poor Oliver Shadey, a mechanic who longs to become a woman but lacks the...
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Sir Cyril Landau
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1987
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This romantic made-for-TV movie chronicles episodes from the varied lives of visitors to the popular Mexican seaside resort....
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Gilbert Anthony Paige
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1986
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This film follows the adventures of two California surfers as they travel to Australia in search of wealth. ~ Iotis...
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1986
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Secret Agent 007 must stop a megalomaniacal technology mogul from destroying Silicon Valley in this unexceptional entry in...
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Tibbett
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1985
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Angela Lansbury plays a dual role in this episode, as Maine-based mystery writer Jessica Fletcher and as Jessica's...
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1985
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Largely improvised by director Rob Reiner and his cast, This Is Spinal Tap looks and sounds like a "real" documentary, with...
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1984
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While dictating his memoirs, Higgins (John Hillerman) flashes back to 1976, the time of his last meeting with his old friend...
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1984
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1983
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For the Term of His Natural Life, Australian novelist Marcus Clarke's epic tale of the hardships and deprivations of his...
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1983
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1982
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In this comedy, a group of randy young interns turn City Hospital upside down with their romantic liaisons and their...
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Jacobs
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1982
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This painfully dull Alien parody pits an inept spaceship crew against a mutating, one-eyed walking manure pile that grows out...
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Stark
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1981
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This groundbreaking, darkly comic horror film from director Joe Dante changed the look and feel of werewolf movies in ways...
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Dr. George Waggner
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1981
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Set in India during World War II, this fair action drama relies heavily on the good acting talent gathered to convey its...
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1981
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1981
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Vincent Reyblack
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1981
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This made-for-TV espionage thriller was approximately fourteen years too late for TV's "spy cycle". Dale Robinette plays a...
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Horatio Black
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1979
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In the first episode of a two-part story, Patrick MacNee guest stars as Count Iblis, a shipwrecked alien rescued by a...
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1979
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One of two 1979 TV pilot films concerning the exploits of crimefighting movie stuntmen (the other was Stunts Unlimited),...
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1979
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This feature-length movie is a re-edited version of the first few episodes of the TV series. The story line concerns a...
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1979
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, the Colonials have fallen under the spell of godlike alien Iblis (Patrick MacNee), who...
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1979
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A piece of made-for-television hack work that suddenly became sort of topical 23 years later, with the attacks on the New...
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1978
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In this sci-fi adventure, compiled from the Battlestar Galactica TV series, a mysterious alien with strange powers promises...
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1978
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The New Avengers investigate when a high-ranking military officer (Michael Barrington) disappears. Our heroes come across a...
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John Steed
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1977
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Fifty secret agents and civil servants, all apparently healthy and robust, have died of unknown causes over a two-year...
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John Steed
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1977
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Larry Doomer (Martin Shaw), ex-fiancee of New Avenger Purdey (Joanna Lumley), is determined to get even for the death of his...
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John Steed
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1977
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The New Avengers wrapped up its first season with an episode which writer Dennis Spooner has confessed was based on "Attack...
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John Steed
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1977
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Unicorn (Jean Claudio), a top enemy agent, is accidentally killed by his own comrades during a shootout. To fool the Other...
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John Steed
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1977
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The gimmick on this episode is a mind-transfer machine which drains all conscious thoughts from people, leaving them in a...
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John Steed
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1977
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Season two of The New Avengers begins with another revenge-motivated episode. Ten years ago, John Steed (Patrick MacNee) was...
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John Steed
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1977
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In this fourth Canadian-filmed episode of The New Avengers, Steed (Patrick MacNee), Gambit (Gareth Hunt) and Purdey (Joanna...
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John Steed
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1977
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Directed and produced by genre icon Dan Curtis (Dark Shadows, Trilogy of Terror), this trio of terrifying stories from I Am...
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1977
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The title character in this episode is Purdey (Joanna Lumley), who has been abducted by the Other Side. In order to save...
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John Steed
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1977
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An international swindler intends to destroy Steed (Patrick MacNee) by framing him as a turncoat and a murderer. Somehow or...
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John Steed
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1977
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Teaming up with CIA agent Marty Brine (Stuart Damon), the New Avengers foil a huge drug deal engineered by Mandarin crime...
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John Steed
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1977
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In the third of four New Avengers episodes filmed in Canada, Steed (Patrick MacNee), Gambit (Gareth Hunt) and Purdey (Joanna...
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John Steed
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1977
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In the conclusion of the two-part story, a malfunctioning Soviet satellite has reactivated Russian "K" agents throughout...
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John Steed
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1977
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The first of four New Avengers episodes filmed in Canada finds our dauntless trio of dogooders in Toronto, on the trail of an...
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John Steed
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1977
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In the second of four New Avengers episodes filmed in Canada, a rogue KGB agent has trained a band of mercenary criminals to...
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John Steed
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1977
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Government scientists develop a knockout gas, designed to peacefully quell terrorist uprisings. The gas, and its antidote,...
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John Steed
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1976
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In exchange for providing valuable information to the government, a convict is set free. But no sooner has the prisoner set...
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John Steed
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1976
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Ian Hendry, who as Dr. David Keel had been one of the original stars of the original Avengers, is here cast as Gunner, an...
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John Steed
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1976
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Purdey (Joanna Lumley) heads to an obstacle-laden firing range in hopes of breaking Steed's (Patrick MacNee) perfect...
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John Steed
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1976
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With only an ancient medallion to guide him, a British explorer launches an adventure-packed expedition to a mysterious lost...
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1976
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Steed (Patrick MacNee) Purdey (Joanna Lumley) and Gambit (Gareth Hunt) go undercover in one of the seamier neighborhoods of...
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John Steed
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1976
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John Steed
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1976
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Previously seen on two episodes of the original Avengers, those malevolent metallic menaces, the Cybernauts, are at large...
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John Steed
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1976
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Steed (Patrick MacNee), Purdy (Joanna Lumley) and Gambit (Gareth Hunt) foil the latest mission of Soviet agent Perov (Peter...
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John Steed
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1976
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Blackballed by his peers, crackpot conservationist Zacardi (Vladek Sheybal) intends to get even with his highly trained...
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John Steed
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1976
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Sherlock Holmes in New York is a topnotch TV movie starring Roger Moore (surprisingly effective as Holmes) and...
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Dr. Watson
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1976
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The touch of Midas (Gilles Millinaire) is hardly golden in this episode. It seems that the young called Midas is a carrier of...
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John Steed
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1976
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In this detective adventure, the pilot episode for the short-livedTV series, suave Matt Helm gets involved with the...
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Shawcross
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1975
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Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) takes one of his rare vacations in the 90-minute mystery Troubled Waters. Even on a cruise ship, he...
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1975
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This badly-dated but interesting variant on the vampire subgenre is loosely based on the Simon Raven novel Doctors Wear...
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1970
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This time the villain is a treacherous double agent named Merlin (Peter Barkworth), who uses sleeping gas to elude his...
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1969
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Steed is assigned to protect a key witness against the other side. Only Tara is informed of Steed's secret whereabouts,...
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1969
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Greeting Steed after his three-week vacation, Tara asks him if he enjoyed himself. Unfortunately, he can't say, because he...
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1969
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The original Avengers series came to an end with this episode. It all begins when a woman clad only in a nightgown is found...
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1969
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Steed pays a visit to some friends at their country estate, only to discover that the house has been taken over by enemy...
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1969
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Steed is held on suspicion when several secrets are smuggled out of a tightly secured communications facility. While Steed is...
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John Steed
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1969
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Steed and Tara investigate the murder of an agent from Cypher HQ. Their progress is stunted by the other Cypher personnel,...
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1969
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Made for TV, Mister Jerico stars Patrick Macnee as smooth con artist Dudley Jerico. Marty Allen, the brillo-haired member of...
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Dudley
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1969
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The title refers to a special course for secret agents, designed to determine how much brutal interrogation the candidates...
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John Steed
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1969
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Several agents and innocent bystanders find themselves at the mercy of a talking briefcase, which barks out orders to deliver...
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John Steed
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1969
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Steed is the latest in a long line of aristocrats who have been accused of crimes thanks to carefully planted evidence. He...
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1969
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While visiting an antique shop, Tara is waylaid and chloroformed. Upon awakening, she finds that she has gone back in time to...
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1969
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Several enemy agents escape from a top-security prison, determined to wreak vengeance against the persons responsible for...
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1969
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Several board members of the Acme Precision Corporation are murdered, and Steed is on hand to witness each killing. The...
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1969
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Despite the security implicit in its name, the Ministry of Top Secret Information is the site of a brutal murder. This leads...
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John Steed
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1969
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A legendary Jack the Ripper-type killer named the Gaslight Ghoul has apparently returned from the dead. Using the London fog...
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1969
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Much of this Avengers episode was comprised of footage from the never-seen installment "Invitation to a Killing," which was...
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1969
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Accused of treason, an agent cannot rely upon the sole witness to his innocence, who insists upon contradicting every one of...
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1969
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A sneezing epidemic claims the lives of several prominent ear-nose-throat specialists. The only clue tying the deaths...
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John Steed
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1969
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Several seemingly unrelated ex-military men are murdered, each while assembling a jigsaw puzzle. Steed and Tara soon discover...
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1969
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Steed and Tara are called in when several forestry experts are murdered. It turns out that the dead men had all stumbled onto...
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John Steed
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1969
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This exotically titled Avengers episode is a working of the 1962 "Cathy Gale" installment "The Big Thinker." The title...
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John Steed
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1969
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Tara investigates when her uncle doesn't return from his vacation. Following the trail of evidence, she finds herself at a...
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John Steed
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1969
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The seventh and final season of The Avengers is distinguished by major changes in the series' cast, production crew and...
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John Steed
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1969
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Someone is leaking confidential information from a top-secret missile department. The culprit would seem to be a beautiful...
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1969
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Tara is accused of being in cahoots with an enemy agent. Given 24 hours to clear her of all charges, Steed runs up against...
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1969
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Mother regales his two elderly aunts with the thrilling story of "The Great Great Britain Crime." It seems that a group of...
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1969
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Filmed in late 1967, this episode wasn't seen on British television until January 15, 1969, and even then it was beaten by...
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John Steed
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1969
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During the excavation of an old Norman church, several top archeologists are killed. Upon further investigation, Steed and...
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1969
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Mother suspects foul play when several of his best agents are found dead -- and neatly gift-wrapped. The villain of the piece...
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John Steed
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1969
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A demented plastic surgeon creates a duplicate of John Steed, who has ostensibly been killed. Meanwhile, the real Steed, held...
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John Steed
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1969
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Filmed during the production break between the sixth and seventh season of The Avengers, this episode served as the swan song...
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1968
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Despite the silliness of its premise, this Avengers episode is a winner all the way, thanks in no small part to its...
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1967
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Steed and Emma attend an auto rally where they participate in a car treasure hunt. But it isn't all fun and games: our hero...
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1967
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During an important conference, a key delegate suddenly runs out of the building and into the street, where he is promptly...
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1967
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An organization specializing in extortion manages to extract money from nervous millionaires by demonstrating how easy it...
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1967
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X-rays of a car crash victim reveal that the man had a stomach full of valuable diamonds. Naturally, Steed and Emma are...
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1967
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Steed is accused of masterminding the murders of several enemy agents. Calling a truce with the "other side," Steed tries to...
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1967
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Steed and Emma are summoned to investigate when several businessmen and a few prize bulls are found mauled to death. The...
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1967
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A top-secret government project to broadcast electricity on radio waves is suddenly cancelled. Even so, several people are...
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1967
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Several notorious criminals have disappeared without a trace. Assigned to get to the bottom of this mystery, Steed and Emma...
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1967
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The Avengers' fifth season came to a rousing finale with this episode. Steed and Emma are impersonated by a pair of enemy...
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1967
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This time around, Steed and Peel come up against an "invisible man." Actually, he only feigns invisibility, but his deception...
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1967
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Having written a book on bridge, Emma is invited to the country home of a fellow bridge enthusiast. It soons becomes...
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1967
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The Avengers' sixth season opened with an exciting harkback to the classic third-season episode "The Cybernauts." The plot is...
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1967
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1967
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The plot of this episode is set in motion by the intense rivalry between FOG ("Friends of Ghosts") and SMOG ("Scientific...
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1967
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An apparent security leak takes on bizarre dimensions when the suspected traitors begin behaving like little children. It...
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1967
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A spoof of the superhero craze of the late 1960s, this episode gets under way when several businessmen are found clawed to...
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1967
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A motor excursion with a childhood friend turns deadly for Emma when she arrives at the remote community of Little Storping...
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John Steed
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1967
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The title sets the tone for what may well be the most incredible episode in the history of The Avengers. Steed and Emma are...
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John Steed
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1967
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Invited to an airborne costume party, Steed and six other guests find themselves stranded on a desert island. The castaways...
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1967
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Steed and Emma investigate when several top executives are murdered, and their secretaries are given major promotions. The...
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1966
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Steed infiltrates a school for butlers in order to unmask a traitor. While he is being drilled in the finer points of silent...
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1966
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Missing for two years, a scientist suddenly returns to his home, only to immediate vanish again. Aware that the poor man had...
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1966
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A golf course turns into a killing ground for an unfortunate British agent. Investigating, Steed and Emma discover that the...
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1966
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The attempted assassination of a Middle Eastern potentate is tied in with a company specializing in making fantasies come...
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1966
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Originally telecast in England on March 5, 1966, this was one of the first Avengers episodes to show up on home video (albeit...
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1966
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Why are a group of otherwise reserved middle-aged military officers suddenly behaving like teenaged delinquents and...
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1966
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A series of elaborate practical jokes result in humilation for a number of top British and Iron Curtain officials. When one...
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1966
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Though its title suggests a spoof of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., this Avengers episode actually concerns a young woman named...
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1966
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Emma goes undercover as a department store clerk when a sales receipt is found on the body of a murdered agent. She is backed...
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1965
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1965
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A series of unusual rainstorms have resulted in several deaths. Sent to investigate this phenomenon, Steed and Emma come...
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1965
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The gap between the British and American telecast of the individual Avengers episodes narrowed considerably during the...
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1965
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Regular viewers were in for a jolt when, early in the proceedings of the December 18, 1965, episode "Two's a Crowd," hero...
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1965
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Future Oliver! costar Ron Moody adds most of the spice to this above-average fifth-season Avengers episode. Moody plays...
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1965
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When a British farmer lapses into a coma, it appears to be the byproduct of a voodoo curse. Sent to the jungles of Kalaya to...
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1965
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Another classic "Emma Peel" installment, this episode was first telecast in England on December 4, 1965. A series of...
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1965
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For reasons unknown, a certain species of birds -- the martlets -- is disappearing from the face of the earth. Investigating...
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1965
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A classic Avengers entry, this episode originally aired in England on October 16, 1965. Several industrialists are murdered...
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1965
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A prestigious university is the site for skullduggery when a noted economist is murdered while working on a plan to eliminate...
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1965
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Recovering from a broken leg at a private convalescent home, Steed soon learns that he is being stalked by a mysterious...
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1965
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Steed and Emma are called on the scene when several members of the British Venusian Society, an astronomical organization,...
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1965
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Originally (and appropriately) telecast in England on December 25, 1965, this episode was written by Tony Williamson. Plagued...
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1965
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Invited to attend a party at an air base, Steed and Emma arrive to find the place deserted. Suddenly, Steed is knocked...
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1965
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While searching for a missing agent, Steed and Emma board a fast-moving train. Little do they know that the conductor harbors...
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1965
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A highly respected government minister is caught trying to steal top-secret documents. Figuring that there's more to the...
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1965
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Diana Rigg made her first Avengers appearance as lissome "amateur agent" Emma Peel in this episode, which was originally...
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1965
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Steed and Emma investigate when several clients of a marriage bureau are suddenly and inexplcably murdered. It turns out that...
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1965
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One of the most famous of all Avengers episodes, this is a loopy send-up of vintage movie serials. It all begins with the...
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1965
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Steed and Emma are put on the case when the body of an agent -- four inches taller than he was in life -- is discovered....
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1965
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No sooner has Steed inherited an ornate dagger from an unknown benefactor than he is besieged by mysterious characters who...
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1965
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Steed and Emma investigate when several top British horticulturists suddenly vanish. It's all part of a master scheme to take...
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1965
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A runaway baby carriage rolls to a halt, revealing that it carries a dead body. Following the trail of clues, Steed and Emma...
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1965
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Steed and Tara investigate when the directors of Project Cupid, a top-secret construction project, are being systematically...
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1965
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When a country clergyman is found dead with a gun and a roll of microfilm in his possession, Steed poses as the man's...
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1964
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Cathy is informed that she is of royal blood -- and in fact is next in line for the British throne. Unfortunately, her only...
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1964
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Steed suspects that something's amiss when one of his old friends, a wealthy businessman, is buried in an out-of-the-way...
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1964
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Nigel Stock guest stars as a Soviet pianist who has been implicated in an unsavory murder case. In order to save his...
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1964
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Assigned to investigate the disappearance of five fellow agents, Steed ends up being accused of their murders. Alas, the...
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1964
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How could anyone steal a huge albino elephant? To solve the mystery, Cathy poses as a hunter and pays a visit to Noah's Arc,...
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1964
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Unable to assassinate a British traitor, the government is forced to deal with the man in an upcoming round of arms...
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1964
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The murder of a secret agent appears to be tied in with a seemingly normal suburban wine shop. Following the evidence trail,...
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1964
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A horse stable turns out to be the headquarters of a highly sophisticated murder-for-hire service. Hoping to beard the crooks...
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1964
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Producer-writer Brian Clemens was in top form with this episode, which originally aired on February 15, 1964. Cathy Gale adds...
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1964
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First telecast on February 29, 1964, this episode was penned by Avengers stalwart Brian Clemens. Steed finds himself under...
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1964
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Steed is assigned to transport a shipment of live corneas to Switzerland to be used in a delicate eye-graft operation. But...
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1963
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For reasons which remain unclear until the episode's midway point, Steed and Cathy enlist the aid of veteran criminal J. P....
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1963
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Steed and Cathy investigate a rash of mysterious crop failures in Europe, Asia, and England. The trail of clues leads to the...
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1963
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There's a rumor afoot that several top British agents have been replaced by doubles. Sent to investigate, Steed promptly...
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1963
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Someone has broken into an "impenetrable" underground spy headquarters and microfilmed a valuable document. The subsequent...
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1963
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Invited to visit the country estate of a renowned historian, Cathy discovers that her host has vanished and that his highly...
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1963
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Steed searches high and low for Mister Lo (Robert Lee), an infamous gold smuggler. His investigation leads to a group of...
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1963
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The "batman" referred to in the title was not of the Caped Crusader variety, but instead the former valet to John Steed. When...
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1963
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In London for a medical checkup, Emir Abdulla Akaba (Henry Soskin) is murdered by a person or persons unknown. This proves...
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1963
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The third season of The Avengers arrived with the happy news that Cathy Gale would henceforth be John Steed's full-time...
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1963
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The reclusive millionaire whom Steed was assigned to escort to New York has been spirited away to a private nursing home --...
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1963
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Cathy dons an eye-patch when she goes undercover as part of a plan to expose an insidious black-market pharmaceutical ring....
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1963
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One-and-a-half seconds after his election, a muckraking politician is murdered. Hoping to get to the bottom of the mystery,...
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1963
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First telecast in England on December 28, 1963, this episode begins with a missile attack on England, which fortunately...
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1963
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The title refers to a terrifyingly efficient team of professional assassins. Headquartered on the Riviera, the killers...
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1962
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The "gimmick" in this Avengers episode is a rare postage stamp. When a famed stamp collector is killed, Steed and Cathy head...
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1962
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Honor Blackman made her first Avengers appearance as leather-clad "talented amateur" Cathy Gale in this episode, which...
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1962
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Several United Nations delegates have been murdered just before partaking in a round of top-secret mideast negotiations,...
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1962
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Wounded during a robbery, a two-bit thief awakens in Steed's apartment. After intense interrogation, the thief lets slip that...
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1962
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The Avengers' second season came to a close with this episode, which originally aired on March 23, 1963. Written by...
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1962
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Giving up her career after her stand-in is murdered, alcoholic film star Carla Berotti (Patricia English) takes the first...
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1962
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Investigating a series of student suicides at a prestigious university, Steed soon discovers that the deaths were all...
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1962
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It's possible that a traitor stationed at a top-secret naval base is causing malfunctions every time an experimental tracking...
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1962
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The title of this episode refers to a huge futuristic computer named Plato. When the computer is sabotaged and one of its...
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1962
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After lapsing into a comatose state, a rocket scientist suddenly disappears from view. Investigating the situation, Steed and...
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1962
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Cathy falls in love with the widowed father of one of her oldest friends. Little does she know that her current amour, a...
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1962
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The title of this Avengers episode refers to a new liquid rocket fuel. Assigned to rendezvous with the man delivering the...
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1962
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Discovered lying on the side of a road, an auto crash victim turns out to have a fortune in diamonds hidden in his stomach....
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1962
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Going undercover, Cathy Gale joins the board of directors of a highly suspicious munitions firm. It's all part of a master...
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1962
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Vacationing in Greece, Steed is asked to investigate the death of a deep-sea diver, a member of an elite corps known as the...
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1962
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London's federation of diamond merchants is being plagued by a vicious gang of smugglers. Steed and Cathy pose as...
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1962
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Steed and Cathy are sent to Jamaica to investigate the murder of a British courier. Compounding the mystery is the fact that...
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1962
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While snapping photographs at an amusement park, Steed's erstwhile associate Venus Smith (Julie Stevens) photographs a...
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1962
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Steed's erstwhile assistant Venus Smith (Julie Stevens) is hired as a singer on the same nightclub bill with a mysterious...
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1962
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Steed suspects that there's more than meets the eye when a scientist's lab is broken into but not robbed -- at least, not...
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1962
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An industrial spy is found murdered in an out-of-the-way pottery factory. Posing as an author, Cathy investigates the...
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1962
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"The Decapod" is the professional name of a wrestling champion who the Avengers suspect of being an assassin. When the...
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1962
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There's something fishy about the fact that an airliner crash took place near an Irish convent -- especially since it was...
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1962
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Cathy poses as a journalist to find out why a circus clown (Robert Rietty) is trying to murder Steed. It turns out that the...
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1962
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The title refers to an astronomical phenomenon that might bring about the end of the world. The only scientist who knows for...
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1962
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Keel discovers that vital government secrets are being smuggled out of a seedy funhouse at Southend. Taking a job at the...
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1961
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Still on the trail of drug kingpin Ronnie Vance, Dr. Keel goes undercover to join Vance's gang at the suggestion of secret...
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1961
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Suspecting that he has been slated for murder by his avaricious wife, Caribbean dictator General Mendoza fakes his own death....
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1961
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In London to close an oil deal, middle-eastern potentate King Tenuphon (played by Burt Kwouk of "Pink Panther" fame) is...
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1961
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Originally telecast January 7, 1961, this very first episode of The Avengers was one of the few that "justified" the series'...
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1961
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Accused of murdering one of his patients, Keel turns to Steed for help. The latter suspects that the real culprit is the dead...
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1961
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Steed investigates when African leader Sir Wilbuforce Lungi (Andre Dekar) is nearly assassinated during a diplomatic visit to...
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1961
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Several prison convicts escape within a short space of time, leading Steed to conclude that someone is running an...
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1961
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Having recently left The Avengers, Ian Hendry (aka Dr. Keel) is conspicuous by his absence in this episode. Going it alone...
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1961
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Posing as a crooked airline steward, Steed is able to join an international diamond smuggling ring. After arriving in New...
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1961
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While investigating a series of mysterious fires, Steed's assistant Carol takes time off for a hairdressing appointment....
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1961
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A British secret service agent is killed near a nuclear submarine dry dock. Hoping to solve the murder, Steed poses as a...
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1961
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Keel investigates when the roommate of one of his female patients mysteriously disappears. It turns out that the girl was...
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1961
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This episode was originally telecast May 27, 1961. The title refers to an organization that specializes in "persuading"...
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1961
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Unbeknownst to Keel, Steed uses him as the courier for a new medical formula, printed on a tiny microdot. Arriving at a Swiss...
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1961
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Although Patrick Macnee was already comfortably installed as erudite, bowler-hatted British secret agent John Steed, the...
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John Steed
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1961
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While ministering to the wounds of a dying diamond thief, Dr. Keel sets a trap for his patient's partner. The plan backfires...
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1961
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Steed swings into action when the janitor (Geroge Pravda) at a medical research lab steals a vial of radiactive material. The...
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1961
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While returning from a vacation in Chile, Dr. Keel tries to help the victims of a cyclone in Mexico. He soon stumbles onto a...
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1961
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Hoping to break up a counterfeiting ring, Steed takes the place of a forger who is about to be released from prison. Steed's...
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1961
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Ian Hendry made his final appearance as Dr. David Keel in this episode, which originally aired on in the December 30, 1961....
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1961
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Originally scheduled as a live telecast on March 18, 1961, this Avengers episode was instead committed to videotape and...
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1961
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A frozen body is discovered in a shipment of beef -- and it's all the handiwork of a neo-Nazi group called the Phoenix....
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1961
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Dr. Keel investigates the disappearance of one of his patients' husbands, a noted scientist working on a hush-hush government...
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1961
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Steed and Keel investigate when tests of an experimental vaccine result in a deadly disease. The two agents learn that a...
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1961
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After six weeks of live telecasts, The Avengers went back to videotape with this episode, which was originally broadcast on...
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1961
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In the second episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, the Redcoats have retaliated against the raids of...
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1959
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1959
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1959
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This poignant playlet is based on a story by A.E.W. Mason, of The Four Feathers fame. After the death of her husband in a...
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1959
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Nehemiah Persoff stars as Lanser, who inexplicably finds himself aboard a British ship in a fogbound sea in the year 1942....
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1st Officer
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1959
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One of producer Walt Disney's more blatant efforts to duplicate the success of his early TV miniseries Davy Crockett, the...
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1959
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This fact-based episode is set in 1912, just before Grace Farley (Barbara Lord) is to embark on her honeymoon with new...
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1959
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The Veil, produced in 1958, was a made-for-television series of creepy, supernatural dramatizations hosted by Boris Karloff....
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1958
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This filmed stage play of Charlotte Bronte's novel features an orphaned governess who begins to love her married employer in...
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1957
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1957
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1957
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One of the most ambitious productions ever undertaken during the era of "live" television, this adaptation of Walter Lord's...
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1956
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Widely regarded as one of the best and most intelligent British war dramas of the 1950s, The Battle of River Plate is the...
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1956
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The British omnibus thriller, Three Cases of Murder includes two supernatural tales and a straight whodunit. The first...
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1955
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Widely considered to be the definitive of the many film versions of Charles Dickens' classic novel is this 1951 British...
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1951
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Three generations of a Scottish clan are chronicled in this melodramatic saga. The film starts with the death of a sickly...
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1951
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1950
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In this costume adventure set in France during the Reign of Terror, a mysterious man known only as the Scarlet Pimpernel...
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1950
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David Phillips (Patrick Macnee) is running down the darkened streets of London's Limehouse district, pursued by two men with...
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1950
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In this strange drama, two Englishmen dare Ferguson to spend the night in a haunted house. He accepts the challenge and...
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Tony
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1948
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Although criticized by Shakespeare devotees upon its release because of director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier's...
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1948
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1943
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The Avengers' sixth season marks the first anniversary of the series' switchover from black-and-white to color -- and alas,...
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John Steed
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By the time its third season rolled around, The Avengers was British television's most popular action-adventure series, and...
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John Steed
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The fourth season of The Avengers was the first season to be telecast in the United States, the first to be filmed rather...
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John Steed
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John Steed
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During its first season on Britain's ITV, The Avengers was by and large a "straight" espionage adventure series, with no...
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John Steed
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Steed
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Steed
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Part of a three-tape set, this video investigates some of the people and places on the frontiers of our understanding....
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