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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).
- Created by:
- Sydney Newman
- Cast:
- Patrick Macnee, Linda Thorson
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Network:
- ITV1
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Season 5
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E01
Episode 1
★ 6.8From Venus with Love
1967-01-14The 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.
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E02
Episode 2
★ 6.0The Fear Merchants
1967-01-21Four 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.
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E03
Episode 3
★ 7.5Escape in Time
1967-01-28 · 60mSeveral 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.
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E04
Episode 4
★ 6.5The See-Through Man
1967-02-04The 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....
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E05
Episode 5
★ 7.0The Bird Who Knew Too Much
1967-02-11Emma 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?
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E06
Episode 6
★ 7.5The Winged Avenger
1967-02-18Is 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?
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E07
Episode 7
★ 7.5The Living Dead
1967-02-25When 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.
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E08
Episode 8
★ 6.5The Hidden Tiger
1967-03-04The 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.
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E09
Episode 9
★ 7.0The Correct Way to Kill
1967-03-11Foreign 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.
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E10
Episode 10
★ 7.5Never, Never Say Die
1967-03-18An 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.
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E11
Episode 11
★ 7.5Epic
1967-04-01Three 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.
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E12
Episode 12
★ 7.5The Superlative Seven
1967-04-08Steed 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.
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E13
Episode 13
★ 6.5A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station
1967-04-15When 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?
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E14
Episode 14
★ 6.5Something Nasty in the Nursery
1967-04-22Secrets 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.
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E15
Episode 15
★ 6.0The Joker
1967-04-29 · 52mInvited 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.
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E16
Episode 16
★ 8.0Who's Who???
1967-05-06When 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.
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E17
Episode 17
★ 6.2Return of the Cybernauts
1967-09-30 · 60mThe 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.
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E18
Episode 18
★ 6.5Death's Door
1967-10-07A 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.
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E19
Episode 19
★ 7.0The £50,000 Breakfast
1967-10-14 · 60mThe 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.
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E20
Episode 20
★ 8.0Dead Man's Treasure
1967-10-21 · 60mA missing briefcase full of secrets propels Steed and Emma into a treasure hunt by car.
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E21
Episode 21
★ 6.0You Have Just Been Murdered
1967-10-28Various 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.
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E22
Episode 22
★ 7.5The Positive Negative Man
1967-11-04 · 60mWhen a scientist is found embedded in a wall, Steed and Emma pursue a man in make-up and wellies, whose appearance is terribly shocking.
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E23
Episode 23
★ 8.0Murdersville
1967-11-11Emma'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.
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E24
Episode 24
★ 8.0Mission... Highly Improbable
1967-11-18When 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.
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Patrick Macnee
John Steed
Linda Thorson
Tara King