The Avengers Series 4 guide

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Series 4 - Mrs Peel's first story.
1. THE TOWN OF NO RETURN.

Steed and Emma visit a mysterious coastal town where several agents have vanished, and where the locals are not all they seem.









 

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2. THE GRAVEDIGGERS
Steed and Mrs Peel must find out why an early warning radar is failing. Emma joins the staff of The Sir Horace Winslip Hospital for Ailing Railwaymen - while Steed has lunch with Sir Horace himself aboard his private, indoor train.








 

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3. THE CYBERNAUTS.
The Avengers investigate a series of murders of Corporate men, who have all been bidding on a new circuit element. Each one of them seems to have been killed by a powerful Karate blow, so Mrs. Peel visits a Karate Dojo, Steed's inquiries lead him to United Automation, where ex-Ministry scientist Dr. Armstrong is working on an electronic brain, not to mention cybernetic men









 

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4. DEATH AT BARGAIN PRICES.
When a colleague is found dead in a large London department store Steed and Mrs. Peel go undercover as staff members, exposing a dastardly plot by the wheelchair-bound Horatio Kane to devastate the capital with a huge bomb housed within the store.







 

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5. CASTLE DE'ATH.
When an agent in diving gear is found dead in a Scottish loch yet substantially taller than he was whilst he was alive Steed and Mrs. Peel visit a remote castle owned by the feuding De'ath cousins, Ian and Angus, to investigate the sinister goings-on.







 

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6. THE MASTER MINDS.
Government minister Sir Clive Todd is wounded as he and other ministers try to steal top secret documents. He has no idea why he did it and hypnosis is suggested. All concerned belonged to a club for people with high I.Q.s called RANSACK, who are about to meet at a school. The Avengers join the club in order to expose the mastermind behind the next heist - the theft of a plane from an R.A.F. base.







 

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8. A SURFEIT OF H2O
After a village poacher drowns in the middle of an open field, The Avengers are soon on the trail of a mad scientist able to control the weather, who is selling his secret to any country that wants it.







 

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9. THE HOUR THAT NEVER WAS
On their way to a closing down party at an air base the Avengers' car crashes when they swerve to avoid hitting a dog. The air base proves to be deserted and Steed is knocked out. When he recovers he is back at the car but minus Mrs. Peel and the party, when he gets there, is in full swing. It would seem that he has gone back an hour in time.












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10. DIAL A DEADLY NUMBER.
Company chairmen across the city are dropping dead, apparently through natural causes. Can Steed and Mrs Peel discover who is making a killing? Bleepers/pagers that they carry seem to be the key.







 

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11. MAN-EATER OF SURREY GREEN.
A man-eating plant from outer space lands in Middle England and takes several top horticulturists as its prisoners in an effort to germinate the Earth. Fortunately for the Earth, Steed just happens to be a herbicidal maniac.









 

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12. TWO'S A CROWD
A mysterious Russian called Psev is arriving for a conference at which Steed and Mrs. Peel have been hired to act as the security guards. However, a man called Gordon Webster who is an exact double for Steed turns up and offers his services to Psev's entourage of four people, fooling Mrs. Peel in the process and agreeing to kill Steed. Though he is thwarted it turns out that Psev is also not exactly the man that everybody had expected him to be.







 

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13. TOO MANY CHRISTMAS TREES.
Steed has been having bad dreams involving Christmas trees and a man dressed as Santa Claus. At a party given by publisher and Dickens fan Brandon Storey, two telepathic spies attempt to read Steed's mind and make sense of the dream. However, the dream is echoed exactly by the events of the party, enabling Steed to spot the villains in advance and identify the dangerous Santa.









 

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14. SILENT DUST
When birds begin to fall from branches in flocks, it seems someone is using the banned chemical Silent Dust in the countryside of Cornwall. Steed and Mrs Peel soon find out a that a small group of local landowners is planning to use the deadly dust to blackmail the country by destroying Dorset.







 

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15. ROOM WITHOUT A VIEW.
A missing scientist returns after having disappeared. He's half-mad and attacks his Asian wife. Steed and Peel find out that seven other scientists have also disappeared - none having returned - but all have one thing in common; they were all booked at the Chessman hotel when they vanished.







 

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16. SMALL GAME FOR BIG HUNTERS.
A man dressed in Safari clothes is found in Hertfortshire with an arrow in his back, and falls into a coma-like state. All clues lead to a delusional Colonel living nearby. Whilst Emma watches over an increasing number of comatose men, Steed's invited into the Colonel's officers club.









 

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17. THE GIRL FROM AUNTIE
When Steed returns home early from a holiday, he finds Mrs. Peel replaced by an actress, Georgie Price-Jones. Subsequently everyone involved in the hiring of Georgie is stabbed to death with double-O knitting needles. It seems the real Mrs. Peel has become Lot 17 of 'Art Incorporated', an organization which prides itself on being able to obtain any object for any one as long as the price is right.











 

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18. THE THIRTEENTH HOLE.
When agent Ted Murphy is found dead Steed and Mrs Peel discover that he was keeping surveillance on government scientist Peter Reed at the exclusive Cranleigh golf club. The avengers join the club with Steed taking part in a tournament which is literally a matter of life and death should he reach the deadly thirteenth hole.













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19. QUICK QUICK SLOW DEATH.
An unidentified corpse is discovered after foreign agent Willi Fehr has tried to dispose of him . A tattoo shows him to have been Arthur Peever and leads the avengers to the Terpsichorean Techniques dance school run by the formidable Lucille Banks where Emma goes undercover as an instructress and Steed poses as a client. Here they discover a plot to kill lonely, unattached punters and replace them with enemy agents, infiltrating the country.







 

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20. THE DANGER MAKERS
The avengers are called in when a 60-year old general is killed in a 'chicken run' motor-cycle accident and another officer, having fallen whilst trying to scale St Paul's cathedral, is murdered in hospital whilst under the care of Dr Long. They discover that they were part of a group of disgruntled military men, members of a secret society of the Black Rose, giving themselves code-names based on Greek gods. Bored with peace-time they engage in dangerous and illegal activities and Steed and Emma must identify their leader before they carry out their next caper, the theft of the Crown Jewels.







 
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