The Avengers

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).

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Episodes

1. Avenging The Avengers

Get the real story behind the sixties cult series in this definitive TV documentary, never before released in the US.

2. Armchair Theatre: "The Hothouse"

Harry H Corbett plays a tycoon husband Harry Fender, who has built up the supermarket business from the time he was a delivery boy in his teens - he's now over forty and obsessed with developing the exotic plants in his hothouse. Diana Rigg plays his wife, Anita.

3. The 'Chess Board' Introduction

When The Avengers was bought by the ABC network in the United States in 1966, network executives were concerned that the audience might not take to the show if it didn't understand the characters, so they commissioned a short introductory sequence to fill in the perceived gap. The sequence was only ever broadcast in the USA, so when Canal+ remastered the episodes, it was omitted from the DVDs produced for the US market. A&E and Canal+ were surprised at the uproar this caused, so when the Emma Peel episodes were repackaged after the Ian Hendry episodes came to light, it was included as a feature on the disc.

4. Interview with Diana Rigg

5. Reconstructed John Stamp Trailer for Series 4

6. The Cybernauts (s04e03): Behind the Scenes

7. Death at Bargain Prices (s04e04): Alternative Ending

8. A Touch of Brimstone (s04e21): Color Tests

9. The Strange Case of the Missing Corpse

Filmed on the set of Honey for the Prince, this three-minute advertisement for the US market announced that "The Avengers" were switching to colour film - a move entirely motivated by the sale to America as Britain still broadcast in black & white. This is the only time we see Emma Peel is that tight leather catsuit with the zips in colour, and it's revealed to be a deep mahogany instead of the black everyone always assumed it was.

10. The Avengers - They're Back! (1960s Trailer)

11. ATV Newsreel Footage - Diana Rigg Receives TV Award

12. Deleted scenes (1) From Venus with Love (s05e01)

13. Deleted scenes (2) The Fear Merchants (s05e02)

14. Deleted scenes (3) Escape in Time (s05e03)

15. Deleted scenes (4) The See-Through Man (s05e04)

16. 1967 Color Trailer

17. Series 5 Trailer

18. German Movie Theater Trailer

19. German Opening Credits

20. Interview with Diana Rigg and Patrick McNee

The stars of The Avengers are interviewed for German television by Joachim Fuchsberger.

21. Did you know? (1) From Venus with Love (s05e1)

22. Did you know? (2) The Fear Merchants (s05e2)

23. Did you know? (3) Escape in Time (s05e3)

24. Did you know? (4) The See-Through Man (s05e4)

25. Did you know? (5) The Bird Who Knew Too Much (s05e5)

26. Did you know? (6) The Winged Avenger (s05e6)

27. Did you know? (7) The Living Dead (s05e7)

28. Did you know? (8) The Hidden Tiger (s05e8)

29. Did you know? (9) The Correct Way to Kill (s05e9)

30. Did you know? (10) Never, Never Say Die (s05e10)

31. Did you know? (11) Epic (s05e11)

32. Did you know? (12) The Superlative Seven (s05e12)

33. Did you know? (13) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station (s05e13)

34. Did you know? (14) Something Nasty in the Nursery (s05e14)

35. Did you know? (15) The Joker (s05e15)

36. Did you know? (16) Who's Who??? (s05e16)

37. Did you know? (17) Return of the Cybernauts (s05e17)

38. Did you know? (18) Death's Door (s05e18)

39. Did you know? (19) The £50,000 Breakfast (s05e19)

40. Did you know? (20) Dead Man's Treasure (s05e20)

41. Did you know? (21) You Have Just Been Murdered (s05e21)

42. Did you know? (22) The Positive Negative Man (s05e22)

43. Did you know? (23) Murdersville (s05e23)

44. Did you know? (24) Mission... Highly Improbable (s05e24)

45. Reconstruction of episode (1) One for the Mortuary (s01e13)

46. Reconstruction of episode (2) The Springers (s01e14)

47. Reconstruction of episode (3) The Yellow Needle (s01e16)

48. Reconstruction of episode (4) Death on the Slipway (s01e17)

49. Reconstruction of episode (5) Tunnel of Fear (s01e20)

50. Reconstruction of episode (6) The Far-Distant Dead (s01e21)

51. Reconstruction of episode (7) Kill the King (s01e22)

52. Reconstruction of episode (8) Dead of Winter (s01e23)

53. Reconstruction of episode (9) The Deadly Air (s01e24)

54. Reconstruction of episode (10) Dragonsfield (s01e26)

55. Introduction (1) The Bird Who Knew Too Much (s05e05)

56. Introduction by Brian Clemens (2) The Living Dead (s05e7)

57. Introduction by Brian Clemens (3) The Correct Way to Kill (s05e9)

58. Introduction by Brian Clemens (4) Epic (s05e11)

59. Introduction by Brian Clemens (5) The Superlative Seven (s05e12)

60. Introduction by Brian Clemens (6) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station (s05e13)

61. Introduction by Brian Clemens (7) The Joker (s05e15)

62. Introduction by Brian Clemens (8) Murdersville (s05e23)

63. Actor auditions (1) Lyn Ashley

64. Actor auditions (2) Diane Clare

65. Actor auditions (3) Susan Engel

66. Actor auditions (4) Jane Murdoch

67. Actor auditions (5) Toby Robins

68. Actor auditions (6) Susan Travers

69. Actor auditions (7) Wanda Ventham

70. Actor auditions (8) Valerie Van Ost

71. Actor auditions (9) James Maxwell and Moray Watson

72. Girl About Town promotional trailer

73. Introducing Linda Thorson as Tara King

74. Forget-Me-Knot: American End Credits

75. Textless Closing Credits for Series 6

76. German Opening and Closing Titles

77. Standard Bumper Slate for Commercial Breaks

78. Minikillers (1) Operation Costa Brava

79. Minikillers (2) Heroin

80. Minikillers (3) Macabre

81. Minikillers (4) (Final) Flamenco

82. Invasion of the Earthmen (s06e16): American End Credits

83. Excerpts from The Diadem (Das Diadem) with Diana Rigg (1969)

84. The Diadem (Das Diadem) with Diana Rigg (1969)

85. Did you know? (25) The Forget-Me-Knot (s06e01)

86. Introduction by Cyril Frankel (9) Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40 (s06e06)

87. Filmed Episode Intro by Linda Thorson to The Interrogators

The Tara King actress introduces episode 14 from series 6.

88. Filmed Episode Intro by Linda Thorson to Love All

The Tara King actress introduces episode 21 from series 6.

89. Filmed Episode Intro by Linda Thorson to Take Me To Your Leader

The Tara King actress introduces episode 23 from series 6.

90. Filmed Episode Intro by Linda Thorson to Thingumajig

The Tara King actress introduces episode 27 from series 6.

91. Filmed Episode Intro by Linda Thorson to Pandora

The Tara King actress introduces episode 31 from series 6.

92. Interview with Patrick Macee

93. Interview with Laurence Bourne

94. The Avengers: A Retrospective

Series retrospective presented by Patrick Macnee.

95. Interview with Brian Clemens

96. Special Tara King

97. On the Trail of Tara King

Original German documentary, titled « Auf den spuren von Tara King ».

98. Wish You Were Here? The Top Ten London Locations

99. The Series Of No Return: A Telephone Interview with the Original Mrs Peel

Actress Elizabeth Shepherd discusses her early role in the development of the iconic sixties series and her memories of filming episodes for the show before being replaced by Diana Rigg.