The New Avengers Season 2

If you want action that respects the story underneath it, The New Avengers Season 2 is available on streaming right now. A single, tightly-focused season means there is plenty to get through without ever feeling padded. A 7/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Patrick Macnee's performance is the throughline that holds the set pieces together. Start it whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

The New Avengers Season 2 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. The set pieces are impressive, but it is the story underneath them that gives The New Avengers Season 2 its staying power. Season 2 of The New Avengers includes 13 episodes. It aired from September 1977 to December 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 1977. The geography of every set piece in The New Avengers Season 2 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 2 is not one of those. It does not lean on comparisons to make its case. The complete run is available and best experienced without too much prior knowledge of where it goes. Patrick Macnee anchors the chaos with real screen presence. Every set piece here is doing more than one job at once.

🎬 The New Avengers Season 2 — Episode Guide

Dead Men are Dangerous

1977-09-09

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.

Angels of Death

1977-09-16

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.

Medium Rare

1977-09-23

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 an...

The Lion and the Unicorn

1977-09-30

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.

Obsession

1977-10-07

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?

Trap

1977-10-14

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.

Hostage

1977-10-21

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?

K is for Kill: The Tiger Awakes (1)

1977-10-28

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 Russia...

K is for Kill: Tiger by the Tail (2)

1977-11-04

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...

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Complex

1977-11-11

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.

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Forward Base

1977-11-18

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.

E12

The Gladiators

1977-11-25

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.

E13

Emily

1977-12-17

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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