The New Avengers Season 1

The New Avengers Season 1 has built a real following among viewers who want their action grounded in something real. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. Its 7/10 TMDB score, built from 50 ratings, reflects a title that consistently delivers. Patrick Macnee's performance is the throughline that holds the set pieces together. Available now — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

Part of the current wave of titles people are actually watching, The New Avengers Season 1 earns its spot. The choreography in The New Avengers Season 1 serves the story instead of interrupting it. Season 1 of The New Avengers includes 13 episodes. It aired from October 1976 to January 1977. This season stars Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt and Joanna Lumley. Patrick Macnee and Gareth Hunt lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1976. The geography of every set piece in The New Avengers Season 1 is legible, which is rarer in the genre than it should be. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

The genre has a long history of front-loading its best moments — The New Avengers Season 1 is not one of those. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. Patrick Macnee is the obvious draw, but the supporting cast gives the action the context it needs to land. The action holds up because the character work underneath it never lets up.

🎬 The New Avengers Season 1 — Episode Guide

The Eagle's Nest

1976-10-22

When murderous fishermen kill an agent investigating an island, Steed, Gambit, and Purdey go to investigate the man's death and the suspicious monastery there. Apparently in 1945 an airplane carrying 'Germany's Greatest Treasure' made its final stop there, and the monks turn out quite different tha...

House of Cards

1976-10-29

When Steed has a hoard of screaming teenagers rescue his intended victim, spymaster Perov seemingly commits suicide. But days later his system of sleeper agents, the House of Cards, activates, and Steed, Purdy & Gambit find themselves fighting trusted friends.

The Last of the Cybernauts ...??

1976-11-05

When a double agent called Kane is horribly disfigured in a chase, he vows vengeance...and calls upon the powers of a force who has tangled with Steed and his associates twice before: the Cybernauts. Creations of a misguided and imbalanced scientist, Dr Armstrong, these metallic menaces in both th...

The Midas Touch

1976-11-12

The terrific trio come up against Professor Turner, a scientist with a lust for gold, and his protege Midas, whose touch is deadly.

Cat Amongst the Pigeons

1976-11-19

The warning of a dying man tips Steed off that ecologist Rydercroft is to be killed at noon. All plans are taken to protect the man's aircraft but it still crashes. Soon the Avengers come up against a new breed of enemy.

Target!

1976-11-26

In an attempt to break Steed's perfect shooting-range record, Purdey tackles the range with all her grace and skill. However, it's not enough as she misses one tiny percentage and gets hit with a mark. But other agents begin to die who have performed similarly, and Steed and Gambit start putting t...

To Catch a Rat

1976-12-03

A strange message alerts Steed, Purdey, and Gambit to something strange going on. While Steed does his own research, Purdey and Gambit set out to help shed some light on the situation. However, the reality of the case is that due to a seventeen-year-old open case and a bout of amnesia, the legenda...

The Tale of the Big Why

1976-12-10

Released from prison after 9 years for spying, Burt Brandon heads straight for an abandoned well near Neverton containing unspecificed secret information. He is soon killed by 2 agents but has managed to post a package to his daughter. Steed recovers the package only to find it contains a pulp Wes...

Faces

1976-12-17

A bizarre series of deaths of high-ups in the government becomes the business of Steed and his colleagues when a personal friend of his becomes one of the deceased. However, due to suspicion from the delicate nature of the case...apparently people are being duplicated by an unscrupulous firm...Stee...

E10

Gnaws

1976-12-21

2 scientists are developing a new growth drug which could end world famine. Unfortunately some of the drug has been flushed down the sink resulting in something nasty in the sewers.

E11

Dirtier by the Dozen

1977-01-07

Gambit tries to meet Travis, a man carrying some secret film, but he is killed before handing it over.

E12

Sleeper

1977-01-14

Having witnessed a test on a new sleeping gas called S-95 & thus made immune to its effects, the Avengers awake one Sunday morning to find the whole city of London asleep and an open house on the city's banks and jewellers.

E13

Three Handed Game

1977-01-21

Steed's plan to have 3 memory experts memorise a third of each of the Allied defence plans for courier purposes seems to have been a perfect success until Juvenator arrives with a machine capable of draining minds.

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