TV series
Mrs Peel, We're Needed!
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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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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Episode 1
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 DayWritten by Philip LeveneGuest stars Jeremy Lloyd, Barbara Shelley, Philip Locke, Jon Pertwee, Derek Newark, Adrian Ropes, Arthur Cox, Paul Gillard
Episode 2
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.
Directed by Gordon FlemyngWritten by Philip LeveneGuest stars Brian Wilde, Andrew Keir, Patrick Cargill, Garfield Morgan, Declan Mulholland, Bernard Horsfall, Annette Carell, Jeremy Burnham
Episode 3
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 KrishWritten by Philip LeveneGuest stars Imogen Hassall, Nicholas Smith, Peter Bowles, Judy Parfitt, Geoffrey Bayldon, Ricardo Montez, Clifford Earl, Edward Caddick
Episode 4
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 AsherWritten by Philip LeveneGuest stars Warren Mitchell, John Nettleton, Moira Lister, Roy Kinnear, Jonathan Elsom, Harvey Hall, David Glover
Episode 5
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?
Directed by Roy RossottiWritten by Alan Pattillo, Brian ClemensGuest stars John Wood, John Lee, Michael Coles, Ilona Rodgers, Kenneth Cope, Clive Colin Bowler, Ron Moody, Anthony Valentine
Episode 6
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?
Directed by Gordon Flemyng, Peter DuffellWritten by Richard HarrisGuest stars John Gorrie, William Fox, Nigel Green, Donald Pickering, Colin Jeavons, Jack MacGowran, Neil Hallett, Roy Patrick
Episode 7
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 KrishWritten by Brian Clemens, Anthony MarriottGuest stars Alister Williamson, Vernon Dobtcheff, Howard Marion-Crawford, Jack Watson, Edward Underdown, John Cater, Julian Glover, Pamela Ann Davy
Episode 8
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.
Directed by Sidney HayersWritten by Philip LeveneGuest stars Jack Gwillim, Lyndon Brook, John Phillips, Gabrielle Drake, Ronnie Barker, Michael Forrest, Stanley Meadows, Frederick Treves
Episode 9
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.
Directed by Charles CrichtonWritten by Brian ClemensGuest stars Timothy Bateson, Michael Gough, Terence Alexander, Peter Barkworth, Philip Madoc, Anna Quayle, Graham Armitage, Joanna Vogel
Episode 10
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.
Directed by Robert DayWritten by Philip LeveneGuest stars Peter Dennis, Arnold Ridley, Christopher Benjamin, John Junkin, Philip Madoc, Christopher Lee, Jeremy Young, Patricia English
Episode 11
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.
Directed by James HillWritten by Brian ClemensGuest stars David Lodge, Isa Miranda, Peter Wyngarde, Kenneth J. Warren, Anthony Dawes
Episode 12
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.
Directed by Sidney HayersWritten by Brian ClemensGuest stars Donald Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hollis, James Maxwell, Leon Greene, Hugh Manning, Brian Blessed, Gary Hope
Episode 13
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?
Directed by John KrishWritten by Brian ClemensGuest stars Dyson Lovell, Tim Barrett, James Hayter, Isla Blair, John Laurie, Drewe Henley, Richard Caldicot, Peter J. Elliott
Episode 14
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.
Directed by James HillWritten by Philip LeveneGuest stars Patrick Newell, Trevor Bannister, Yootha Joyce, Penelope Keith, Clive Dunn, Paul Eddington, George Merritt, Dudley Foster
Episode 15
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.
Directed by Sidney HayersWritten by Brian ClemensGuest stars Ronald Lacey, Peter Jeffrey, John Stone, Sally Nesbitt
Episode 16
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.
Directed by John Llewellyn MoxeyWritten by Philip LeveneGuest stars Patricia Haines, Freddie Jones, Arnold Diamond, Campbell Singer, Peter Reynolds, Philip Levene, Malcolm Taylor
Episode 17
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.
Directed by Robert DayWritten by Philip LeveneGuest stars Roger Hammond, Aimi MacDonald, Charles Tingwell, Fulton Mackay, Peter Cushing, Frederick Jaeger, Anthony Dutton, Noel Coleman
Episode 18
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.
Directed by Sidney HayersWritten by Philip LeveneGuest stars William Lucas, Clifford Evans, Allan Cuthbertson, Marne Maitland, Paul Dawkins, Michel Faure, Peter Thomas, William Lyon Brown
Episode 19
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 DayWritten by Jeremy Scott, Roger MarshallGuest stars Cecil Parker, Anneke Wills, David Langton, Cardew Robinson, Richard Owens, Nigel Lambert, Yolande Turner, Pauline Delaney
Episode 20
A missing briefcase full of secrets propels Steed and Emma into a treasure hunt by car.
Directed by Sidney HayersWritten by Jeremy Scott, Michael WinderGuest stars Arthur Lowe, Edwin Richfield, Norman Bowler, Neil McCarthy, Valerie Van Ost, Rio Fanning, Ivor Dean, Penny Bird
Episode 21
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.
Directed by Robert AsherWritten by Philip LeveneGuest stars Robert Flemyng, Barrie Ingham, Frank Maher, George Murcell, Simon Oates, Geoffrey Chater, Leslie French, Clifford Cox
Episode 22
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.
Directed by Robert DayWritten by Tony WilliamsonGuest stars Ray McAnally, Caroline Blakiston, Peter Blythe, Sandor Elès, Michael Latimer, Joanne Dainton, Bill Wallis, Ann Hamilton
Episode 23
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 AsherWritten by Brian ClemensGuest stars Sheila Fearn, John Sharp, Tony Caunter, Ronald Hines, Eric Flynn, Colin Blakely, John Ronane, Norman Chappell
Episode 24
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 DayWritten by Philip LeveneGuest stars Noel Howlett, Nosher Powell, Francis Matthews, Richard Leech, Jane Merrow, Kevin Stoney, Nicholas Courtney, Ronald Radd
Episode information updated Jul 24, 2026
Patrick MacneeJohn Steed
Ian HendryDr. David Keel
Honor BlackmanCatherine Gale
Linda ThorsonTara King
Diana RiggEmma Peel
Gerald HarperColonel Corf
Tenniel EvansDr. Hurst
Alister WilliamsonTom
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