The Avengers: Season 5

1967 · 24 episodes · ★ 7.0

What Season 5 of The Avengers

Season 5 of The Avengers has 24 episodes and premiered on January 14, 1967. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

24episodes

Jan 14, 1967premiered

Nov 18, 1967Latest episode

5.9 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 From Venus with Love
Jan 14, 1967 · ★ 6.8
The strange deaths of several astronomers, left bleached white, pose a problem. Whilst Steed joins the stargazers, Emma chases a bright light, and finds herself in the hot seat.
Directed by Robert Day · Written by Philip Levene · Starring Jeremy Lloyd, Barbara Shelley, Philip Locke, Jon Pertwee
5x02 The Fear Merchants
Jan 21, 1967
Four men involved in the production of ceramics suffer nervous breakdowns in everyday situations. All have recently turned down the opportunity to merge with the British Porcelain Company. Steed and Emma investigate the world of fear, with terrifying consequences.
Directing: Gordon Flemyng · Writing: Philip Levene · Starring: Brian Wilde, Andrew Keir, Patrick Cargill, Garfield Morgan
5x03 Escape in Time
Jan 28, 1967 · 60 min · ★ 7.5
Several notorious criminals have vanished into thin air. A whisper has been received that the escape chain starts in London, but, when agent Paxton follows it, he winds up dead in the Thames with a 300-year-old bullet in him.
Directed by John Krish · Written by Philip Levene · Starring Imogen Hassall, Nicholas Smith, Peter Bowles, Judy Parfitt
5x04 The See-Through Man
Feb 4, 1967
The Ministry has been broken into by, it seems, an invisible man. A trail leads via inventor Quilby to the Eastern Drug Company, a front organisation run by Soviet intelligence. Meanwhile, the crack spies Elena and Alexandre Vazin are in town. But nobody has seen anything of Alexandre....
Directed by Robert Asher · Written by Philip Levene · Starring Warren Mitchell, John Nettleton, Moira Lister, Roy Kinnear
5x05 The Bird Who Knew Too Much
Feb 11, 1967
Emma and Steed investigate the mystery of how top secret things are being photographed from the air. Could it have something to do with the groovy world of fashion photography and a parrot called Captain Crusoe?
Directing: Roy Rossotti · Writing: Alan Pattillo, Brian Clemens · Starring: John Wood, John Lee, Michael Coles, Ilona Rodgers
5x06 The Winged Avenger
Feb 18, 1967
Is a creature that can walk up walls clawing to death ruthless and powerful men? Does it have anything to do with Professor Poole's invention of boots that let you walk on the ceiling, or with cartoon superhero the Winged Avenger?
Directing: Gordon Flemyng, Peter Duffell · Writing: Richard Harris · Starring: John Gorrie, William Fox, Nigel Green, Donald Pickering
5x07 The Living Dead
Feb 25, 1967
When representatives of the two organizations head to a country church to investigate the sudden reappearance of a man long thought dead, Steed and Emma are called in to help. It isn't long, of course, before murder rears its ugly head.
Directed by John Krish · Written by Brian Clemens · Starring Alister Williamson, Vernon Dobtcheff, Howard Marion-Crawford, Jack Watson
5x08 The Hidden Tiger
Mar 4, 1967
The mauling to death of several members of the committee of PURRR (the Philanthropic Union for the Rescue, Relief and Recuperation of Cats) exposes Steed and Emma to a diabolical scheme to take over the entire country.
Directing: Sidney Hayers · Writing: Philip Levene · Starring: Jack Gwillim, Lyndon Brook, John Phillips, Gabrielle Drake
5x09 The Correct Way to Kill
Mar 11, 1967
Foreign agents are being killed, but not by British agents. Steed thinks it terribly unfair, and so does his opposite number, Nutski. They make an arrangement, and Steed and Emma find themselves with Soviet partners in an investigation of a group of very British killers.
Directing: Charles Crichton · Writing: Brian Clemens · Starring: Timothy Bateson, Michael Gough, Terence Alexander, Peter Barkworth
5x10 Never, Never Say Die
Mar 18, 1967
An unfortunate motorist keeps knocking down and killing the same man: a man who's rampaging through the countryside, bulletproof and intent on destruction. A man who just happens to be identical to the urbane Professor Frank N. Stone.
Directing: Robert Day · Writing: Philip Levene · Starring: Peter Dennis, Arnold Ridley, Christopher Benjamin, John Junkin
5x11 Epic
Apr 1, 1967
Three Hollywood veterans, led by an insane director, decide that Emma would be perfect for their latest movie, so they kidnap her and film some surreal and deadly footage.
Directing: James Hill · Writing: Brian Clemens · Starring: David Lodge, Isa Miranda, Peter Wyngarde, Kenneth J. Warren
5x12 The Superlative Seven
Apr 8, 1967
Steed is invited to a party, and finds himself trapped in a remote-controlled aircraft, with six fancy-dressed specialists in various combat styles, en route to a distant island. There, they are pitted against each other in a deadly test.
Directing: Sidney Hayers · Writing: Brian Clemens · Starring: Donald Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hollis, James Maxwell
5x13 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station
Apr 15, 1967
When Lucas, an agent investigating something subversive, gets off his train at the wrong station he is murdered. Has the crime got anything to do with a mole at the admiralty, a train ticket and a fiendish plot to kill the Prime Minister?
Directing: John Krish · Writing: Brian Clemens · Starring: Dyson Lovell, Tim Barrett, James Hayter, Isla Blair
5x14 Something Nasty in the Nursery
Apr 22, 1967
Secrets known only to a small group of trusted men have leaked, and the men are having strange dreams of their childhood, featuring their nannies and a bouncing ball. Emma checks out the toyshop, Steed explores a school for nannies.
Directing: James Hill · Writing: Philip Levene · Starring: Patrick Newell, Trevor Bannister, Yootha Joyce, Penelope Keith
5x15 The Joker
Apr 29, 1967 · 52 min
Invited for the weekend to the home of a fellow Bridge Expert, Emma finds herself trapped in a house designed to send her mad. Her tormentor is Max Prendergast, a man she befriended and then betrayed in Berlin some time before. Then Steed came to the rescue but now he's at home nursing a sprained ankle.
Directing: Sidney Hayers · Writing: Brian Clemens · Starring: Ronald Lacey, Peter Jeffrey, John Stone, Sally Nesbitt
5x16 Who's Who???
May 6, 1967
When one of the Floral Network of agents is found dead atop a pair of stilts, Steed and Emma's interest is piqued. That's the idea, because foreign agents Basil and Lola have a trap prepared for them: a machine that swaps their minds into the pair's bodies.
Directing: John Llewellyn Moxey · Writing: Philip Levene · Starring: Patricia Haines, Freddie Jones, Arnold Diamond, Campbell Singer
5x17 Return of the Cybernauts
Sep 30, 1967 · 60 min
The brother of the late Clement Armstrong sets a deadly trap for Steed and Mrs. Peel, whom he blames for his brother's death at the hands of his murderous creations, the Cybernauts.
Directing: Robert Day · Writing: Philip Levene · Starring: Roger Hammond, Aimi MacDonald, Charles Tingwell, Fulton Mackay
5x18 Death's Door
Oct 7, 1967
A European peace conference comes under the threat of sabotage when the British delegates begin to suffer from premonitions and nightmares. After Sir Andrew Boyd, who has witnessd his death in a dream, is killed, Steed and Emma must keep his replacement, Lord Melford, sane and alive.
Directing: Sidney Hayers · Writing: Philip Levene · Starring: William Lucas, Clifford Evans, Allan Cuthbertson, Marne Maitland
5x19 The £50,000 Breakfast
Oct 14, 1967 · 60 min
The accidental death of a ventriloquist reveals that he had been carrying a fortune in gems inside his stomach. Steed stoops to blackmail and Emma goes shopping for ties in the search through the business community for a rich Borzoi.
Directed by Robert Day · Written by Roger Marshall · Starring Cecil Parker, Anneke Wills, David Langton, Cardew Robinson
5x20 Dead Man's Treasure
Oct 21, 1967 · 60 min
A missing briefcase full of secrets propels Steed and Emma into a treasure hunt by car.
Directing: Sidney Hayers · Writing: Michael Winder · Starring: Arthur Lowe, Edwin Richfield, Norman Bowler, Neil McCarthy
5x21 You Have Just Been Murdered
Oct 28, 1967
Various millionaires are withdrawing large sums of money from the bank. Steed suspects blackmail but none of the men is willing to talk. Then he gets a call from Gilbert Jarvis, who tells Steed that he, Jarvis, has 'just been murdered'. Again.
Directing: Robert Asher · Writing: Philip Levene · Starring: Robert Flemyng, Barrie Ingham, Frank Maher, George Murcell
5x22 The Positive Negative Man
Nov 4, 1967 · 60 min
When a scientist is found embedded in a wall, Steed and Emma pursue a man in make-up and wellies, whose appearance is terribly shocking.
Directing: Robert Day · Writing: Tony Williamson · Starring: Ray McAnally, Caroline Blakiston, Peter Blythe, Sandor Elès
5x23 Murdersville
Nov 11, 1967
Emma's old friend, Paul Croft, returns from abroad to retire to Little Storping-in-the Swurf. Unfortunately, the village seems to be run along very strange lines. Threatened by yokels, Emma finds herself outnumbered.
Directed by Robert Asher · Written by Brian Clemens · Starring Sheila Fearn, John Sharp, Tony Caunter, Ronald Hines
5x24 Mission... Highly Improbable Season Finale
Nov 18, 1967
When Sir Gerald Bancroft and his Rolls-Royce vanish whilst being escorted at a military base, Steed is called upon to solve the puzzle. But before he can he experiences that old shrinking feeling.
Directed by Robert Day · Written by Philip Levene · Starring Noel Howlett, Nosher Powell, Francis Matthews, Richard Leech