"The Avengers" - your favorite episode?

[Deja Q]

There are so many, but "Murdersville" comes to mind. It's the classic episode where Emma Peel stumbles across a small village with a nasty secret: A secret that began with the murder of a businessman by a rival. The rival bribed the whole town with a large sum of money. Most of the townspeople took the bribe, and money got the better of them. For a fat sum of money, the village inhabitants would become paid-for assassins, killing and covering up for whoever was wealthy enough to pay for the death of an enemy.

It's a bit campy at times, but overall is a good episode. The campiness is unfortunate, as in 1967 the producers of the show turned to US funds in order to produce it and to show it off to the Americans. As a result, while the series get produced in color, it lost some of its appeal and turned slightly campy. (the preceeding season, season 4, is heralded as the series' best, and with good reason...)

[Jack Rabbit]

1. The Winged Avenger

A wonderful send up of the Batman TV series in the sixties.

[soothsayer]

2. Firstly, all 57 Emma Peel episodes, but in particular

The Joker (creepy house of cards, with that German song and the GREAT crazy chick who lives there); Epic, where that Cecille B. Demille type is filming "the destruction of Emma Peel"; the winged avenger and both cybernaut episodes, just cuz they're cool, and Escape Through Time because it enlisted those cool stuffed animals as props (you exchanged a series of stuffed animals to get into this place where you would then supposedly get sent back into time to run from the law).

[Rick Myers]

3. I remember them from seeing them as a kid

Never really watched them since, so I don't know any of the titles. But, Emma Peel... Only Uma comes close...

Are you going to return the fish???

How are ya tonight, HT???

[Deja Q]

4. Keepin' the fish, I'll even name him after Douglas Adams!

:-)

Uma... oh yes, that dreadful movie that Warner Bros kept locked up, away from movie critics' eyes, somehow knowing it would be a disaster... :D

These modern remakes of old spy shows just don't work. Especially "I Spy" - reduced from a groundbreaking-on-many-levels NBC show to a sleaze-fest of bad jokes and re-tooled premise, hinging on ethnic stereotypes no less. x(

[Diogenes2]

5. "The House That Jack Built"

Emma trapped in that weird maze-like house where every door leads back to the same room.

Actually, any one of the Emma Peel episodes I happen to be watching could happily be offered as my "favorite" at that moment. A consistently brilliant, quirky & original series-- one of the high points in the history of television.

[Dr Fate]

6. The "Hellfire Club" episode was neat...

Any one where Peeel is tied up is fine by me....

[kayleybeth]

7. I love that show

No way I could choose just one favorite! They are all good.

[terrya]

8. The episode when Steed is reduced to a few inches tall.

It sounds like I'm hallucinating. But I remember that episode.

I don't remember the title. But it was fun.

[soothsayer]

9. "Mission....Highly Improbable"

Emma gets shrunk, too!

[MaineDem]

10. "Castle De'ath"

Steed in a kilt.

I was going to say "Murdersville" but someone beat me to it. Little Storping is a neat little village and Emma on the dunking thing was cool.

I love the Catherine Gale spisodes. They're really amateur and you're able to see many errors but Honor Blackman was good!

Did you know that some episodes were redone? The Joker was first done with Catherine Gale and then again with Emma. There are a few like that.