The New Avengers

1976

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EP1 Dead Men are Dangerous Sep 09, 1977

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.

EP2 Angels of Death Sep 16, 1977

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.

EP3 Medium Rare Sep 23, 1977

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.

EP4 The Lion and the Unicorn Sep 30, 1977

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.

EP5 Obsession Oct 07, 1977

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?

EP6 Trap Oct 14, 1977

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.

EP7 Hostage Oct 21, 1977

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?

EP8 K is for Kill: The Tiger Awakes (1) Oct 28, 1977

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.

EP9 K is for Kill: Tiger by the Tail (2) Nov 04, 1977

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.

EP10 Complex Nov 11, 1977

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.

EP11 Forward Base Nov 18, 1977

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.

EP12 The Gladiators Nov 25, 1977

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.

EP13 Emily Dec 17, 1977

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.
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Released: 22 October 1976 Ended
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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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mccabed The box set of New Avengers '76 (season one) has the following episodes: The Eagle's Nest, The Midas Touch, House of Cards, The Last of the Cybernauts...?, To Catch a Rat, Cat Amongst the Pigeons, Target!, Faces, The Tale of the Big Why, Three Handed Game, Sleeper, Gnaws, and Dirtier By the Dozen. A favorite of mine when new, I now give this rejuvenated Avengers series four stars out of five. I have heard Patrick MacNee did not like the way Steed takes a back seat in the new format, but I like the team's new balance. Steed has matured into a team leader with two young field operatives, Mike Gambit (Gareth Hunt) and Purdey (Joanna Lumley, later of Absolutely Fabulous). Wild plots and flirtatious banter abound as the three save the world every week, with high style, good looks, and great wardrobes.Sound and picture quality are fine, although clearly not remastered. Extras are minimal: three "production stills" per episode.There was a second season, cofinanced by France and Canada, with episodes in those countries as well as the UK. When that box set comes out, I will buy it.
edval24 Loved the 60's version a real mind trip and lots of fun with Steed and Emma...the only reason I viewed The New Avengers was to watch the resourceful, witty, beautiful and ultra-feminine Purdey played by Joanna Lumley, plain and simple.
roulette-4 The idea of The New Avengers was to combine the idiosyncrasies of the old show, yet update it to compete with the then current cop show genre. Thereby capture the audience of middle America.Ultimately it failed commercially and where The Avengers, with Steed and Emma Peel, led The New Avengers followed. The strengths were some cracking stories and performances from the three lead actors (special mention to Joanna Lumley - a worthy successor to Emma Peel). Weaknesses were some rushed and hurried plots and a continued lack of funding.By following the trends of the 1970s it became far more dated than it's more stylish predecessor.
gmr-4 Knock me over with a feather! At first I was not sure what I was watching on late night Detroit or Windsor television -- then it dawned. I made it my business every Friday night after the news to catch THE NEW AVENGERS, but probably saw little more than half.No, it was not the old time religion, because the old chemistry would be impossible to create. This programme stood on its own, suffering in comparison only if one wanted the more of same. THE NEW AVENGERS was "bigger" (which does not make it better), less wacky, and to employ the amorphous, less artistic. The budgets of the 1960s were no doubt modest, forcing more creativity.None the less, it was well cast with Steed as more of an elder statesman -- not "old" at 54 as another commentator was unkind enough to allege. Purdy was not Rigg or Blackman, but then she created her own viable character as a woman, much distinguished from the "youth market" Tara of 1968-9.I make no comment upon individual episodes, because it would not be fair given the time elapsed, for me 1980 at latest. Having no cable television, nor being a videophile, I have not seen THE NEW AVENGERS since.