The Avengers: Season 2

1962 · 26 episodes · ★ 6.7

What Season 2 of The Avengers

The season kicks off with Steed, a secret agent who works in espionage and needs Cathy Gale's help to set a trap for a hired killer known as Mr Teddy Bear. From there, the pair face a network of enemy agents seeking military secrets, fuel formulas and early warning systems. Their missions take Steed and Cathy to Marseille, Canada, Ireland or Jamaica, and they always have to stay one step ahead of anyone threatening the country. Venus Smith, a nightclub singer, and Dr. King round out a cast that supports the leads across several cases.

26episodes

Sep 29, 1962premiered

Mar 23, 1963Latest episode

22 hrtotal runtime

Season 2 Episodes

2x01 Mr Teddy Bear
Sep 29, 1962 · 51 min
A man is murdered whilst being interviewed on live television. one-Ten is sure that it is the work of the ruthless assassin Mr Teddy Bear, and he asks Cathy Gale to trap the man - by arranging for him to murder Steed.
Directed by: Richmond Harding · Written by: Martin Woodhouse · Starring: Michael Robbins, Douglas Muir, Sarah Maxwell, Michael Collins
2x02 Propellant 23
Oct 6, 1962 · 52 min
At Marseilles airport, Steed and Cathy find the courier they were due to meet dead. His sample of new liquid rocket fuel has been taken. Facing an array of enemy agents, the duo must recover the flask of Propellant 23.
Directed by: Jonathan Alwyn · Written by: Jon Manchip White · Starring: John Crocker, Katherine Woodville, Nicholas Courtney, Geoffrey Palmer
2x03 The Decapod
Oct 13, 1962 · 51 min
Borb, the president of the Balkan Republic, is visiting London to sign a military deal. His private secretary is killed by a masked wrestler, the Decapod. Steed is assigned to augment the president's bodyguards, but the wrestler continues to kill those close to Borb.
Directing: Don Leaver · Writing: Eric Paice · Starring: Philip Madoc, Julie Stevens, Wolfe Morris
2x04 Bullseye
Oct 20, 1962 · 50 min
Shareholders in Anderson's, a small-arms manufacturers, are being killed one by one whilst a tycoon plans a take-over. Rifles and other weapons, possibly manufactured by Anderson's, are being smuggled into Africa. Cathy Gale joins the board with a 20 per cent share in order to investigate.
Directing: Peter Hammond · Writing: Eric Paice · Starring: Ronald Radd, Bernard Kay, Judy Parfitt, John Frawley
2x05 Mission to Montreal
Oct 27, 1962 · 53 min
A film star's stand-in is murdered, and microfilm of North American early warning systems has been stolen. The film star, despite an aversion to travelling by sea, proceeds to Montreal on a luxury liner. In an attempt to find the mocrofilm Dr King is assigned as her personal doctor, and Steed goes under cover as a steward.
Directed by: Don Leaver · Written by: Lester Powell · Starring: John Frawley, Jon Rollason, Iris Russell, Mark Eden
2x06 The Removal Men
Nov 3, 1962 · 52 min
Steed is trying to infiltrate a group of assassins currently based in the South of France. He robs the leader of some jewellery in order to impress him, then waits for them in the local club. It just so happens that Venus Smith is singing there.
Directed by: Don Leaver · Written by: Jeremy Scott · Starring: Edwin Richfield, Donald Tandy, George Roderick, Patricia Denys
2x07 The Mauritius Penny
Nov 10, 1962 · 51 min
The owner of a stamp shop is murdered when excitedly talking on the phone to a contact about the rare Mauritius Penny that has turned up on a list. Cathy Gale applies for a job in the shop, and she and Steed witness another murder in an auction room.
Directing: Richmond Harding · Writing: Terrance Dicks, Malcolm Hulke · Starring: David Langton, Edward Jewesbury, Grace Arnold, Alfred Burke
2x08 Death of a Great Dane
Nov 17, 1962 · 53 min
A man involved in a car crash is found to have fifty thousand pounds worth of diamonds in his stomach. Steed investigates the man's joke shop, Big Laugh, and then the offices of multi-millionaire Litoff. The burial of one of Litoff's Great Danes is not quite what it seems.
Directing: Peter Hammond · Writing: Jeremy Scott · Starring: John Laurie, Frederick Jaeger
2x09 The Sell-Out
Nov 24, 1962 · 51 min
Steed's department is guarding M. Roland, A UN negotiator in London for important talks, but cannot prevent an assassination attempt. Indeed, it seems that one of Steed's colleagues is selling secrets - and Steed finds that even he is under suspicion.
Directed by: Don Leaver · Written by: Anthony Terpiloff · Starring: Arthur Hewlett, Michael Mellinger, Jon Rollason
2x10 Death on the Rocks
Dec 1, 1962 · 52 min
Illegal diamonds are swamping the market. The wife of a diamond merchant is murdered. Time for Steed and Gathy Gale to feign marriage.
Directing: Jonathan Alwyn · Writing: Eric Paice · Starring: Hamilton Dyce
2x11 Traitor in Zebra
Dec 8, 1962 · 51 min
Secrets are finding their way from HMS Zebra, a naval base, to the enemy, rendering the Navy's missile-tracking equipment useless. Steed and Mrs. Gale investigate, and find their attention drawn to the local sweet shop.
Directing: Richmond Harding · Starring: John Sharp, William Gaunt, Richard Leech, Jack Stewart
2x12 The Big Thinker
Dec 15, 1962 · 51 min
Plato, the most advanced computer in the world, which could be used to target intercepting missiles, keeps breaking down. The body of a professor on the team is found within.
Directed by: Kim Mills · Written by: Martin Woodhouse · Starring: Tenniel Evans, Anthony Booth, Walter Hudd, David Garth
2x13 Death Dispatch
Dec 22, 1962 · 49 min
A British courier is attacked in Jamaica, and he protects the contents of his diplomatic bag at the expense of his life. But why? The case only contains mundane documents.
Directed by: Jonathan Alwyn · Written by: Leonard Fincham · Starring: Gerald Harper, Caron Gardner
2x14 Dead on Course
Dec 29, 1962 · 51 min
A plane crashes in Ireland in suspicious circumstances, and the bodies are taken to the nearby St. Mary's Convent . Steed calls in Dr. King to check up on the circumstances of death, while he samples Irish hospitality and bad deeds at Shamrock Airport.
Directing: Richmond Harding · Writing: Eric Paice · Starring: Bruce Boa, Edward Kelsey, Donal Donnelly, Jon Rollason
2x15 Intercrime
Jan 5, 1963 · 48 min
Steed wants Mrs. Gale to impersonate Hilda Stern, a recently arrested assassin about to be used by the trans-national crime syndicate Intercrime. Things go swimmingly, until the real Hilda Stern breaks out of Holloway and confronts the imposter.
Directing: Jonathan Alwyn · Writing: Terrance Dicks, Malcolm Hulke · Starring: Alan Browning, Julia Arnall, Patrick Holt, Kenneth J. Warren
2x16 Immortal Clay
Jan 12, 1963 · 51 min
Marling Ceramics, run by Cathy's friends, Richard and Allan Marling, claim to be on the verge of creating an unbreakable china. However, when Steed arrives to investigate, a body is discovered in a tank of clay.
Directing: Richmond Harding · Writing: James Mitchell · Starring: Steve Plytas, Paul Eddington
2x17 Box of Tricks
Jan 19, 1963 · 51 min
Classified information is finding its way into the wrong hands and Steed feels sure that this has something to do with the death of the magician's assistant at the club where Venus Smith is working. Steed investigates the lethal vanishing cabinet.
Directed by: Kim Mills · Written by: Peter Ling · Starring: Royston Tickner, Julie Stevens
2x18 Warlock
Jan 26, 1963 · 50 min
Steed is entrusted with the safe-keeping of a new fuel formula when its inventor is found in a coma. The scientist had been involved in a black magic circle which leads Steed and Cathy into the world of hexes and magic powers.
Directing: Peter Hammond · Writing: Doreen Montgomery · Starring: Douglas Muir, Fred Evans, Peter Arne, John Hollis
2x19 The Golden Eggs
Feb 2, 1963 · 50 min
A burglar steals two gold-plated eggs from Dr Ashe, not knowing that they contain a deadly virus. The man quickly falls ill, but refuses to indicate where the case containing the eggs is buried.
Directing: Peter Hammond · Writing: Martin Woodhouse · Starring: Peter Arne
2x20 School for Traitors
Feb 9, 1963 · 51 min
Steed, investigating the suicide of a University tutor, discovers that the man seems to have shot himself with a gun with a silencer attached. Venus is sent a tub of acid 'face-cream', and there is another mysterious suicide.
Directing: Jonathan Alwyn · Writing: James Mitchell · Starring: John Standing, Reginald Marsh, Richard Thorp, Julie Stevens
2x21 The White Dwarf
Feb 16, 1963 · 51 min
Astonomer Professor Richter believes that the sun's stellar companion, a white dwarf, is returning to the solar system. If it does, that's the end of everything. So why on Earth would anybody want to murder him now?
Directing: Richmond Harding · Writing: Malcolm Hulke · Starring: Keith Pyott, Peter Copley, Philip Latham, Constance Chapman
2x22 The Man in the Mirror
Feb 23, 1963 · 50 min
Venus has her camera and films stolen whilst taking pictures in a fun fair. One film is missed, however, and when developed a face can be seen in the Hall of Mirrors - that of Trevelyan, the cypher clerk who has committed suicide. But Venus's photograph was taken after the man's death.
Directing: Kim Mills · Writing: Anthony Terpiloff, Geoffrey Orme · Starring: Ray Barrett, Julie Stevens, Rhoda Lewis, Michael Gover
2x23 Conspiracy of Silence
Mar 2, 1963 · 51 min
The Mafia aren't about to let Steed get in the way of their lucrative drug-smuggling operation between Britain and North America, and arrange for him to be assassinated. Steed survives, and tracks his intended killer to a circus, where some of the clowns prove to be anything but figures of fun.
Directing: Peter Hammond · Writing: Roger Marshall · Starring: Tommy Godfrey, Sandra Dorne, Alec Mango, Robert Rietti
2x24 A Chorus of Frogs
Mar 9, 1963 · 48 min
A holiday for Steed in Greece is, of course, no straightforward affair. A deep-sea diver dies in mysterious circumstances, whilst bathyscope experiments are taking place on the yacht where Venus is singing.
Directing: Raymond Menmuir · Writing: Martin Woodhouse · Starring: Eric Pohlmann, Julie Stevens, Yvonne Shima, Colette Wilde
2x25 Six Hands Across a Table
Mar 16, 1963 · 50 min
What should have been a quiet weekend at the home of an old friend soon turns into a thick web of treachery and scheming, which throws Cathy into the world of shipbuilding, cross-company romance, mysterious 'accidents' and misguided nationalism.
Directing: Richmond Harding · Writing: Reed De Rouen · Starring: Guy Doleman, Edward de Souza
2x26 Killer Whale Season Finale
Mar 23, 1963 · 48 min
Cathy is managing the boxer Joey Frazer, but Pancho Driver's gym, where the man is training, is, Steed suspects, the centre for shipments of illegal ambergris.
Directed by: Kim Mills · Written by: John Lucarotti · Starring: Morris Perry, John Tate, John Bailey, Patrick Magee