TV series
The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The Avengers and was developed by Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens. A joint United Kingdom-France-Canada production, the show picks up the adventures of John Steed and his team of Avengers fighting evil plots and world domination. Whereas in the original series Steed had almost always been partnered with a woman, in the new series he had two partners: Mike Gambit, a top agent, crack marksman and trained martial artist, and Purdey, a former trainee with The Royal Ballet who was an amalgam of many of the best talents from Steed's previous female partners.
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The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The Avengers and was developed by Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens. A joint United Kingdom-France-Canada production, the show picks up the adventures of John Steed and his team of Avengers fighting evil plots and world domination. Whereas in the original series Steed had almost always been partnered with a woman, in the new series he had two partners: Mike Gambit, a top agent, crack marksman and trained martial artist, and Purdey, a former trainee with The Royal Ballet who was an amalgam of many of the best talents from Steed's previous female partners.
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Episode 1
Everything Steed cares about is being destroyed or threatened, including his china, his car, and even Purdey. The trio must uncover who would bare such a long-lasting and jealous grudge against the unflappable agent.
Directed by Sidney HayersWritten by Brian ClemensGuest stars Trevor Adams, Richard Murdoch, Roger Avon, Clive Revill, Gabrielle Drake, Terence Taplin, Michael Turner, Gabor Vernon
Episode 2
Senior civil servants, MPs, and intelligence personnel are all dying suddenly of ""natural causes,"" and there seems to be no obvious link. The only lead is the mortally-wounded agent who talks of angels of death that kill from within.
Directed by Ernest DayWritten by Brian Clemens, Terence FeelyGuest stars Lindsay Duncan, Caroline Munro, Pamela Stephenson, Dinsdale Landen, Terence Alexander, Michael Latimer, Richard Gale, Annette Lynton
Episode 3
Mason is the paymaster to a group of informants, but all is not what it seems: the informants are a single man. When Mason suspects this, he is murdered by Wallace, who has been lining his own pockets. Steed begins to investigate, and Wallace decides that the only option left is to frame Steed and kill him.
Directed by Ray AustinWritten by Dennis SpoonerGuest stars Mervyn Johns, Sue Holderness, Jon Finch, Maurice O'Connell, Jeremy Wilkin, Neil Hallett, Diana Churchill, Allen Weston
Episode 4
Paris: Steed captures his nemesis, the Unicorn. But when the Unicorn is accidentally killed by his own men, Steed must use all his cunning to avoid open warfare.
Directed by Ray AustinWritten by John GoldsmithGuest stars Gerald Sim, Raymond Bussières, Jacques Maury, Jean Claudio, Maurice Marsac, Raoul Delfosse, Henri Czarniak, Jean-Pierre Bernard
Episode 5
An old flame of Purdey's reappears when a missile goes missing from an air display. But what's the connection between that, a visiting Arab envoy, and a spy satellite photographing Buckinghamshire?
Directed by Ernest DayWritten by Brian ClemensGuest stars Lewis Collins, Martin Shaw, Terence Longdon, Mark Kingston, Anthony Heaton, Tommy Boyle, Roy Purcell
Episode 6
When the Avengers foil a drug drop arranged by a Chinese overlord, they find themselves on the run from his men, the Oriental being determined to have their heads on plates.
Directed by Ray AustinWritten by Brian ClemensGuest stars Bruce Boa, Robert Rietti, Terry Wood, Ferdy Mayne, Kristopher Kum, Yasuko Nagazumi, Stuart Damon, Barry Lowe
Episode 7
After Purdey is kidnapped, Steed is given the ransom of Allied attack plans. But has the whole thing been a set up to make the Ministry think Steed is a traitor?
Directed by Sidney HayersWritten by Brian ClemensGuest stars Simon Oates, Anna Palk, William Franklyn, Michael Culver, Barry Stanton, Richard Ireson, George Lane Cooper
Episode 8
In 1965, a young Russian soldier guns down a Salvation Army Band and escapes only to fall down dead and grow old. In France, in 1977, a young Russian soldier attacks men wearing uniforms. Then a Russian unit is attacking an empty home. After one of the soldiers dies, he also ages. Why are the Russians attacking old targets and then aging? Steed and company are trying to find answers.
Directed by Yvon Marie CoulaisWritten by Brian ClemensGuest stars Sacha Pitoëff, Kenneth Watson, Pierre Vernier, Maurice Marsac, Charles Millot, Paul-Émile Deiber, Christine Delaroche, Erick Desmarestz
Episode 9
The Russian soldiers attacking in France were just the first wave. Two ""K"" agents are the true key to the plan. One ""K"" assassin is killed while assassinating a retired General. Who is the target for the second ""K"" agent and how might this start World War III? Only Steed, Gambit and Purdey can save the world.
Directed by Yvon Marie CoulaisWritten by Brian ClemensGuest stars Sacha Pitoëff, Pierre Vernier, Maurice Marsac, Paul-Émile Deiber, Christine Delaroche, Charles Millot, Maxence Mailfort, Franck-Olivier Bonnet
Episode 10
Agent X41 (codename ""Scapina"") is the USSR's most effective spy. But a photograph has fallen into the hands of the Avengers which may give a clue to his identity. The trail leads the trio to Toronto.
Directed by Richard GilbertWritten by Dennis SpoonerGuest stars Cec Linder, Harvey Atkin, Vlasta Vrana, Rudy Lipp, Jan Rubeš, Michael Ball, Dave Nichols, Suzette Couture
Episode 11
April 1969: Typhoon Agatha rages causing a new piece of coastline suddenly to appear in Toronto. It's up to the New Avengers to uncover the truth behind it all.
Directed by Claude FournierWritten by Dennis SpoonerGuest stars George Chuvalo, Neil Vipond, Louis Zorich, Peter Boretski, Jack Creley, August Schellenberg, Marilyn Lightstone, Nick Nichols
Episode 12
KGB agent Karl Sminsky is recruiting criminals to train as supremely skilled fighters in order to smash Canada's security system. The Avengers find themselves up against a team of supermen.
Directed by Claude FournierWritten by Brian ClemensGuest stars Louis Zorich, Neil Vipond, Bill Starr, Peter Boretski, Yanci Bukovec, Jan Muszyński, Michael Donaghue, Dwayne McLean
Episode 13
The trio are on the trail of a mysterious agent ""The Fox."" Although he escapes, he leaves a palm print on the roof of a car owned by the aged Miss Daly and the Avengers must preserve the print to make a positive ID on their target.
Directed by Don ThompsonWritten by Dennis SpoonerGuest stars August Schellenberg, Nick Nichols, Jane Mallett, Leslie Carlson, Richard M. Davidson, Briain Petchey, Peter Aykroyd, PJ Torokvei
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Patrick MacneeJohn Steed
Gareth HuntMike Gambit
Joanna LumleyPurdey
Sacha PitoëffKerov
Edward PetherbridgeMullins
Cec LinderBaker
Joyce CareyLady with Dog
Robert GillespieFrank Goff
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