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The Avengers - Season Five
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John Steed & Emma Peel are The Avengers...

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??/??/1966       Strange Case of the Missing Corpse (Mrs. Emma Peel)

Steed and Mrs. Peel look for a corpse that isn't there. Disappointed, the two of them describe a spectacular fight scene, then give up and sit on a sofa - only to discover that under the bear-skin rug in front of them contains a rather shapely and very 'live' body, much to Steed's delight...

This short film was shot on the set of 'Honey For the Prince'; it was meant as a colour test for the new series, but ended up being transmitted in America in 1966 as a trailer for season five.

 

14/01/1967      From Venus With Love (Mrs. Emma Peel)

After two amateur astronomers are each found dead with their hair bleached white, Steed and Mrs. Peel investigate the B.V.S. - the British Venusian Society - and meet its eccentric members. After Mrs. Peel has a close encounter with what appears to be a U.F.O., and strange noises are heard on a recording left by another victim, it seems that fear of an invasion from Venus are true. But the odd sounds are soon identified as the noise of a laser, and the trail leads Steed and Emma to Doctor Primble, an optician who has more than just a simple eye exam planned for Mrs. Peel...

 

21/01/1967      The Fear Merchants (Mrs. Emma Peel)

When powerful business tycoons start turning into babbling mental cases, Steed and Mrs. Peel suspect that someone or something is driving the businessmen mad in order to try and corner the ceramics market. They follow the trail to the B.E.B. - the Business Efficiency Bureau - an organisation that uses psychological means to eliminate business competitors, in return for a substantial fee. In order to set a trap for the B.E.B., Steed names Mrs. Peel as his chief competitor, but this ploy may lead to his own burial. Meanwhile Mrs. Peel finds herself put through the wringer...

 

28/01/1967      Escape in Time (Mrs. Emma Peel)

Some of the most notorious criminals are disappearing without a trace, apparently without leaving British soil; meanwhile, an agent is shot by a 16th century bullet. Steed and Mrs. Peel investigate and follow a complex trail via a barbershop owned by T. Sweeney. They discover that a man called Thyssen is running a very profitable scheme by offering villains an escape route through time via a time machine that he has created. Mrs. Peel intercepts the escape route and asks to be sent to the 1790s, but her cover is blown, and Thyssen instead sends her back to the time of his ancestor Matthew, master of torment and the inventor of the rack...

 

04/02/1967      The See-Through Man (Mrs. Emma Peel)

When an apparently invisible raider attempts to steal top-secret ministry files, Steed and Mrs. Peel are called in to investigate. After they discover that the files refer to an invisibility formula created by an eccentric inventor named Professor Quilby, Mrs. Peel sees a ‘headless’ man. Steed visits the home of Quilby, and soon discovers that the Russians have purchased a copy of the formula for £250,000. Meanwhile, Brodny, a Russian official, is visited by a group of agents and their invisible man, unaware that it is all part of a plot to bankrupt the British government by duping people into believing that the formula for invisibility actually works…

 

11/02/1967      The Bird Who Knew Too Much (Mrs. Emma Peel)

Sources indicate that an agent named Captain Crusoe is taking aerial pictures of a top-secret military establishment and then leaking the information to the other side, but no one knows what the Captain looks like. Steed and Mrs. Peel follow the clues to a bird exhibition and a modelling studio, and soon discover that Captain Crusoe is actually a very intelligent parrot. However, but the bird has gone missing, and every time Steed and Mrs. Peel attempt to look for it, things get very complicated...

 

18/02/1967      The Winged Avenger (Mrs. Emma Peel)

Several business executives of a publishing agency are found mysteriously clawed to death in their high-rise flats. At first Steed and Mrs. Peel suspect the culprit to be a large bird of prey owned by an author wronged by the publisher, but then they meet the inventor of a pair of magnetic boots; and when they find a comic book near another victim, they discover that the adventures of its avenging superhero are rather too close with the real-life situation to be mere coincidence…

 

25/02/1967      The Living Dead (Mrs. Emma Peel)

In a remote village, a drunk sees the ghostly form of a miner rise up from his grave. Despite the state of the witness, Steed and Mrs. Peel arrive to investigate and meet the ghost-hunting representatives of two rival agencies - F.O.G. (Friends of Ghosts) and S.M.O.G. (Scientific Measurement of Ghosts). After the two agents encounter Kermit the Hermit, a derelict who hears noises from underground, the S.M.O.G. agent is killed and Mrs. Peel is kidnapped by a ghost. Steed investigates the mining disaster which killed thirty men five years ago, while Mrs. Peel wakes up to find herself in a secret city located directly under the village…

 

04/03/1967      The Hidden Tiger (Mrs. Emma Peel)

When something mauls a number of businessmen to death, Steed suspects that an escaped lion or tiger is on the loose. He calls on the services of Major Nesbit, a safari expert, to track down the ‘big cat’, but Nesbit quickly becomes the animal's next target. Steed discovers that all the victims were on the board of directors for P.U.R.R.R. - the Philanthropic Union for the Rescue, Relief and Recuperation of Cats - a society run by a man named Cheshire. He sends Mrs. Peel to investigate P.U.R.R.R., but Cheshire suspects Mrs. Peel is not what she seems, and despatches a killer cat to play with her…

 

11/03/1967      The Correct Way to Kill (Mrs. Emma Peel)

When two enemy agents are murdered in London by a pair of well-dressed, impeccably-mannered hitmen, Steed immediately falls under suspicion by his rival agents. After he manages to convince the other side that a third party is responsible, an uneasy truce is called and an impromptu agent exchange program drawn up in order to keep an eye on one another. While Steed is partnered with a lethal novice agent named Olga, Mrs. Peel joins agent Ivan. When the two parties attempt to uncover the real killers, the body-littered trail leads to an umbrella shop whose wares are being shipped to a chiropodist, and S.N.O.B. Inc. - Sociability, Nobility, Omnipotence, Breeding, Inc. - a gentlemen's training school whose motto is ‘Seek, hate, kill!’

 

18/03/1967      Never, Never Say Die (Mrs. Emma Peel)

After a man is killed in a car accident, he inexplicably comes back to life. As the indestructible man wanders around destroying radios and shrugging off machine-gun fire, Steed and Mrs. Peel arrive to investigate. After Steed witnesses a gang of white-suited men capture the man and bundle him into an ambulance, he follows them to a Ministry of Technology department called the Neoteric Research Unit, a top-secret government facility where radios are strictly prohibited. Here he meets the facility's director, Professor Stone - the man who will not die! The facility is working on creating robotic duplicates, thr first of which was made in the likeness of Professor Stone; the only trouble is which of them is which?

 

01/04/1967      Epic (Mrs. Emma Peel)

The insane film producer Z. Z. Von Schnerk decides to revive his career by chronicling the actual death of Mrs. Peel on film. He and his two mad assistants kidnap Mrs. Peel and take her to an exact duplicate of her own flat, located in an abandoned film studio; they then proceed to shoot reels of bizarre and pointless footage of her in deadly scenarios inspired by epic movies. Can Steed get to her in time, or will Mrs. Peel receive her final curtain call?

 

08/04/1967      The Superlative Seven (Mrs. Emma Peel)

Steed is invited to a fancy dress party held aboard a plane. But when he and the six other guests discover that they were each invited by a different host, they check the cockpit and find it empty, the plane instead operating on remote control. They soon land on a deserted, uncharted island, and are then told by their mysterious host that one of them is a trained ‘super-killer’; as the partygoers are murdered one by one, Steed must find out who the killer is, before he becomes the next victim…

 

15/04/1967      A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station (Mrs. Emma Peel)

Steed and Mrs. Peel are sent to meet Lucas, a fellow agent, at the train station. But when Lucas never arrives, they soon uncover an organisation that is using the railway system to pass encoded messages on ticket stubs. As Steed and Mrs. Peel investigate derelict train stations and discover a ‘twiddley’ type of signalling, they expose a disgruntled train conductor’s plot to assassinate the Prime Minister…

 

22/04/1967      Something Nasty in the Nursery (Mrs. Emma Peel)

A government agent named Dobson is found dead and sucking his thumb in the home of the Chief of Defence, General Wilmot. Meanwhile, missile sites and other secrets are leaking from high sources, and when one such official mentions the name of his nanny, Steed pays her a visit at a nanny training school known as the G.O.N.N. - the Guild of Noble Nannies. Here Steed uncovers a plot to reduce high-ranking officials to a state of mental childhood using plastic footballs coated in a hallucinogenic drug, leaving them susceptible to questioning by their ‘former’ nanny…

 

29/04/1967      The Joker (Mrs. Emma Peel)

Mrs. Peel receives an invitation to spend a weekend at the home of fellow bridge enthusiast Sir Cavalier Rousicana. When Steed falls down the stairs in his flat, he stays at home nursing his sprained ankle while Mrs. Peel heads off to Sir Cavalier's eccentric mansion. But when Mrs. Peel arrives, she finds that the owner is away, and has left his house in the care of a very strange young woman named Ola. That night, Mrs. Peel encounters bizarre goings-on and even stranger characters; as the disturbing events continue, she discovers that she is being tormented by Prendergast, an old enemy that she helped put away in Berlin using a pretended romance. When he hears that Prendergast has escaped from prison, Steed rushes to Mrs. Peel’s aid, but his errand of mercy is hampered by thick fog. But back at the house, Prendergast finally confronts Mrs. Peel, and he is planning to gaining his revenge by cutting her face to ribbons…

 

06/05/1967      Who's Who??? (Mrs. Emma Peel)

Steed and Mrs. Peel investigate a bizarre death involving an agent and some gigantic stilts; but the clues that lead Steed to the stilt manufacturer have been set up by two enemy agents named Basil and Lola. They knock Steed out, and place his unconscious body inside a mind-swapping machine invented by Doctor Krelmar. After Steed’s body is swapped with Basil’s, ‘Steed’ then lures Mrs. Peel to the same location, and she too is overpowered, and swaps minds with Lola. Leaving the real Steed and Mrs. Peel tied up, Basil and Lola use their perfect disguises to begin the destruction of the ‘floral network’ of agents from the inside...

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