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The New Avengers

Series 1

Episode 1: The Eagle's Nest

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Classic British secret agent fantasy adventure series. Investigating the murder of agent Stannard, the team uncover a plot by Nazis to form a new Third Reich. Show more

The New Avengers

Series 1

Episode 2: House of Cards

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Fantasy adventure series. Steed, Purdey and Gambit find themselves fighting people they thought were their friends after a network of sleeper agents is activated. Show more

The New Avengers

Series 1

Episode 3: The Last of the Cybernauts...?

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Espionage adventure series. The creator of the cybernauts is kidnapped by a double agent and reactivates the cybernauts to kill the New Avengers. Show more

The New Avengers

Series 1

Episode 5: Cat Amongst the Pigeons

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

A dying man warns Steed that an ecologist called Rydercroft is going to be killed at midday. Rydercroft is on an air journey and there's a race to save him. Show more

The New Avengers

Series 1

Episode 7: To Catch a Rat

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Classic adventure drama series. A man pushed from a trapeze and a 17-year-old radio message lead Steed and Gambit back into the Cold War of the 1960s. Show more

The New Avengers

Series 1

Episode 9: Faces

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

70s adventure series. A brilliant plastic surgeon has begun to recruit down-and-outs to brainwash and then use to replace high-ranking government officials. Show more

The New Avengers

Series 1

Episode 10: Sleeper

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

1970s action adventure series. Steed and his team are the only people left awake to protect London when a new type of sleeping gas is used to put the city to sleep. Show more

The New Avengers

Series 1

Episode 11: Three Handed Game

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Steed uses three men with photographic memories to deliver top secret security plans to the USA, but an enemy agent finds a way to drain information from the mind. Show more

The New Avengers

Series 1

Episode 12: Dirtier by the Dozen

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

1970s action adventure. Gambit is due to meet an agent but finds him dead, clutching a can of film. A general disappears and a wounded soldier is kidnapped. Show more

Contributors

George Harris:
Alun Armstrong
Colonel 'Mad Jack' Miller:
John Castle
Colonel Elroyd Foster:
Ballard Berkeley

The New Avengers

Series 1

Episode 6: Target

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

When five top agents die of 'natural' causes, Steed suspects foul play. All the deceased had recently undergone a physical check-up and target range practice. Show more

The New Avengers

Series 1

Episode 8: The Tale of the Big Y

Duration: 55 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

1970s crime adventure series. The team are too late to save Bert Brandon, a recently released convict who claims to have evidence naming a master spy. Show more

The New Avengers

Series 1

Episode 4: The Midas Touch

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

The murder of Steed's old adversary Hong Kong Harry leads the team to Professor Turner and his creation Midas, who is a carrier of every disease known to man. Show more

The New Avengers

Series 1

Episode 13: Gnaws

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

When a scientist spills some radioactive isotope and washes it down the sink there are reports of something nasty in the sewers, so Steed, Purdey and Gambit investigate. Show more