Overview - The Avengers

Overview

The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.

Seasons

• Name: Specials

  Episode: 7

  Date first aired:

• Name: Series 1

  Episode: 26

  "The Frighteners," "Girl on the Trapeze" and the first twenty minutes of "Hot Snow" are the known episodes to exist of the first season. All the other episodes of season one were destroyed by the BBC in a bulk wipe, to which many classic shows have been lost [IE: Dr. Who, Dad's Army, The Spies, etc.) We do hope that the rest will pop up someday, somewhere, somehow...

  Date first aired: 1961-01-07

• Name: Series 2

  Episode: 26

  Date first aired: 1962-09-29

• Name: Series 3

  Episode: 26

  Date first aired: 1963-09-28

• Name: Series 4

  Episode: 26

  Date first aired: 1965-10-02

• Name: Series 5

  Episode: 24

  Date first aired: 1967-01-14

• Name: Series 6

  Episode: 33

  Date first aired: 1968-09-25