The Avengers (1961)

Action · Comedy · Crime

A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).

IMDb rating: 8.3 (9,954 votes)
Episode average: 7.4 -0.9 vs IMDb
Seasons: 7
Streaming (US): Amazon Prime Video · Peacock
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 7 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1961)

7.35 avg 26 episodes 6.9 → 7.9 52 min avg

Big finale

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Hot Snow	6.9	158
2	Brought to Book	7.4	45
3	Square Root of Evil	7.4	46
4	Nightmare	7.3	44
5	Crescent Moon	7.3	40
6	Girl on the Trapeze	6.9	163
7	Diamond Cut Diamond	7.7	38
8	The Radioactive Man	7.4	41
9	Ashes of Roses	7.7	39
10	Hunt the Man Down	7.3	37
11	Please Don't Feed the Animals	7.5	36
12	Dance with Death	7.3	42
13	One for the Mortuary	7.1	44
14	The Springers	6.8	42
15	The Frighteners	7.0	162
16	The Yellow Needle	7.2	40
17	Death on the Slipway	7.2	41
18	Double Danger	7.2	42
19	Toy Trap	7.6	41
20	Tunnel of Fear	7.8	92
21	The Far Distant Dead	7.1	40
22	Kill the King	7.4	41
23	Dead of Winter	7.6	41
24	The Deadly Air	7.7	39
25	A Change of Bait	7.3	40
26	Dragonsfield	7.9	42

Season 2 (1962)

6.83 avg 26 episodes 7.4 → 6.6 52 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Mr. Teddy Bear	7.4	285
2	Propellant 23	7.1	243
3	The Decapod	6.1	234
4	Bullseye	7.2	217
5	Mission to Montreal	6.3	213
6	The Removal Men	6.5	190
7	The Mauritius Penny	7.3	203
8	Death of a Great Dane	6.9	193
9	The Sell-Out	6.3	185
10	Death on the Rocks	6.9	184
11	Traitor in Zebra	7.3	181
12	The Big Thinker	7.1	183
13	Death Dispatch	7.0	186
14	Dead on Course	7.2	186
15	Intercrime	7.5	179
16	Immortal Clay	6.6	172
17	Box of Tricks	6.6	157
18	Warlock	6.7	184
19	The Golden Eggs	6.9	163
20	School for Traitors	6.8	154
21	The White Dwarf	7.1	161
22	Man in the Mirror	6.4	144
23	Conspiracy of Silence	6.2	150
24	A Chorus of Frogs	6.7	150
25	Six Hands Across a Table	7.0	147
26	Killer Whale	6.6	144

Season 3 (1963)

7.16 avg 26 episodes 7.8 → 7.3 52 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Brief for Murder	7.8	197
2	The Undertakers	7.2	165
3	Man with Two Shadows	7.6	168
4	The Nutshell	7.6	166
5	Death of a Batman	6.7	156
6	November Five	6.8	157
7	The Gilded Cage	7.4	167
8	Second Sight	6.8	155
9	The Medicine Men	6.9	147
10	The Grandeur That Was Rome	6.5	165
11	The Golden Fleece	6.6	159
12	Don't Look Behind You	7.6	183
13	Death a La Carte	6.7	159
14	Dressed to Kill	7.8	180
15	The White Elephant	6.7	144
16	The Little Wonders	7.1	154
17	The Wringer	7.3	152
18	Mandrake	7.6	156
19	The Secrets Broker	7.1	146
20	Trojan Horse	6.8	145
21	Build a Better Mousetrap	7.2	160
22	The Outside-In Man	7.3	141
23	The Charmers	7.5	160
24	Concerto	7.0	157
25	Esprit De Corps	7.2	150
26	Lobster Quadrille	7.3	160

Season 4 (1965)

7.83 avg 26 episodes 8.0 → 8.1 53 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Town of No Return	8.0	730
2	The Gravediggers	7.8	563
3	The Cybernauts	8.5	638
4	Death at Bargain Prices	8.1	534
5	Castle De'ath	7.7	486
6	The Master Minds	8.0	453
7	The Murder Market	8.0	485
8	A Surfeit of H2O	7.6	466
9	The Hour That Never Was	8.4	501
10	Dial a Deadly Number	7.8	445
11	Man-Eater of Surrey Green	7.7	455
12	Two's a Crowd	7.4	408
13	Too Many Christmas Trees	8.3	531
14	Silent Dust	6.9	406
15	Room Without a View	7.4	394
16	Small Game for Big Hunters	7.1	379
17	The Girl from Auntie	8.1	458
18	The Thirteenth Hole	7.3	389
19	Quick-Quick Slow Death	7.6	415
20	The Danger Makers	7.7	384
21	A Touch of Brimstone	8.4	509
22	What the Butler Saw	7.6	375
23	The House That Jack Built	8.7	523
24	A Sense of History	7.5	371
25	How to Succeed .... At Murder	7.9	380
26	Honey for the Prince	8.1	395

Season 5 (1967)

7.73 avg 16 episodes 7.7 → 8.3 51 min avg

Rebound

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	From Venus with Love	7.7	496
2	The Fear Merchants	7.6	428
3	Escape in Time	7.8	465
4	The See-Through Man	7.1	401
5	The Bird Who Knew Too Much	7.1	397
6	The Winged Avenger	7.7	441
7	The Living Dead	7.5	413
8	The Hidden Tiger	7.5	421
9	The Correct Way to Kill	7.8	392
10	Never, Never Say Die	8.0	423
11	Epic	7.7	456
12	The Superlative Seven	8.3	530
13	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station	7.9	430
14	Something Nasty in the Nursery	7.5	375
15	The Joker	8.2	463
16	Who's Who???	8.3	387

Season 6 (1967)

7.96 avg 8 episodes 8.0 → 7.8 51 min avg

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Return of the Cybernauts	8.0	448
2	Death's Door	8.2	379
3	The £50,000 Breakfast	7.3	337
4	Dead Man's Treasure	8.2	403
5	You Have Just Been Murdered	7.9	368
6	The Positive Negative Man	7.9	367
7	Murdersville	8.4	444
8	Mission... Highly Improbable	7.8	368

Season 7 (1968)

7.23 avg 33 episodes 7.9 → 7.1 52 min avg

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Forget-Me-Knot	7.9	425
2	Game	7.7	273
3	Super Secret Cypher Snatch	7.3	250
4	You'll Catch Your Death	7.1	242
5	Split!	7.0	258
6	Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40?	6.4	256
7	False Witness	7.4	240
8	All Done with Mirrors	7.9	292
9	Legacy of Death	7.2	244
10	Noon Doomsday	7.2	242
11	Look - (Stop Me If You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellers...	7.8	326
12	Have Guns - Will Haggle	6.5	242
13	They Keep Killing Steed	7.1	244
14	The Interrogators	8.0	263
15	The Rotters	6.9	225
16	Invasion of the Earthmen	6.0	267
17	Killer	7.0	261
18	The Morning After	8.1	264
19	The Curious Case of the Countless Clues	7.3	238
20	Wish You Were Here	7.8	261
21	Love All	7.9	245
22	Stay Tuned	7.9	243
23	Take Me to Your Leader	7.6	231
24	Fog	7.5	238
25	Who Was That Man I Saw You With?	7.5	209
26	Homicide and Old Lace	4.8	257
27	Thingumajig	6.5	222
28	My Wildest Dream	7.1	217
29	Requiem	7.2	216
30	Take-Over	7.7	236
31	Pandora	7.0	234
32	Get-A-Way!	7.1	233
33	Bizarre	7.1	236

The Avengers (1961)

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