The Avengers

Season Six - Tara King

The Forget-Me-Knot
01/12/69

An agent is shot with a dart and immediately begins to suffer from amnesia, and later the same thing happens to Steed and Peel; but with new agent Tara King's help, a traitor in the agency is uncovered. [The episode ends with Steed and Peel saying their "farewells" as Mrs. Peel joins her husband, who has been found alive in the Amazon jungle. As they drive away, Steed realizes that Mr. Peel is the splitting image of himself.]


Game
01/19/69

Army acquaintances of Steed are being killed by real-life versions of games, and Steed and King discover a scheme for revenge by another officer who they helped to courtmartial.


Super Secret Cypher Snatch
01/26/69

Secret documents are being stolen from Cypher HQ, and Steed and King find that a glass cleaning company is using hypnotic gas to disable the HQ staff while they do their dirty work.


You'll Catch Your Death
02/02/69

Ear, nose, and throat doctors are dying after receiving empty envelopes in the mail, and Steed and King discover that a nursing academy is a cover for an unscrupulous doctor's plan to sell a deadly cold virus strain to the highest bidder.


Split
02/09/69

Members of the Ministry of Top Secret Information are exhibiting split personalities, and Steed and King investigate to find an enemy plot to infiltrate the organization by infusing agents' bodies with the mind of a crippled enemy agent.


Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40
02/16/69

A supercomputer named George is shot, and Steed and King find that the computer knows that his inventor is being held hostage by enemy agents.


False Witness
02/23/69

When a key sitnes in a blackmail case recants his story, Steed and King are sent to find corroborating evidence against the accused; but what they find is that the witness was given a potion that makes him reserve truth and falsehood in his mind.


All Done with Mirrors
03/02/69

Secrets are being stolen from a research facility and, while Steed is under house arrest as a suspect, Ms. King uncovers a scheme by a group of enemy agents to eavesdrop on the facility using a listening device based on mirrors.


Legacy of Death
03/09/69

Steed receives the inheritance of an ornate dagger and soon begins to be visited by criminals intent on using the dagger to gain access to a billiard ball-sized black pearl.


Noon Doomsday
03/16/69

Steed is in a secure nursing home recovering from a leg injury, but unbeknownst to him, he's being stalked by a former adversary intent on revenge; but Ms. King saves the day.


Look (Stop Me If You've Head This One) But There Were These Two Fellers ...
03/23/69

Members of the board of directors of a government contractor are being murdered, and Steed and King find that the last surviving director, who was working with a foreign agent, had gotten a troupe of unemployed vaudeville artists to do his dirty work.


Have Gun - Will Haggle
03/30/69

Steed and King investigate the theft of thousands of advanced rifles from a weapons depot, and find that a beautiful weapons dealer plans to auction them to the highest bidder.


They Keep Killing Steed
04/06/69

Steed and King are assigned to guard a peace conference, but enemy agents have hatched a plot to replace Steed with an agent whose face has been altered to look exactly like Steed.


The Interrogators
04/13/69

Steed and King discover that, on the ruse of a course to test their resistance to interrogation, agents are being spirited away and tricked into revealing the identities of their contacts, who are then tracked down and killed.


The Rotters
04/20/69

Former students of the Institute of Timber Technology are being tracked down and murdered, and Steed and King investigate to discover that one of the men intends to use a dry rot spore they had discovered to extort one billion Pounds from world leaders.


Invasion of the Earthmen
04/27/69

When an agent turns up missing, Steed and King investigate to find that an exclusive academy is being used by a madman to train an army of astronaut soldiers he plans to eventually use to conquer space.


Killer
05/04/69

With Ms. King on vacation, Steed and agent Lady Diana Forbes Blakeney try to track down a killer named Remak, who is killing many agents, and find that Remak is a computer designed to kill.


The Morning After
05/11/69

Put to sleep with sleeping gas, Steed and a rival agent awake a day later to find the entire town deserted, and they team up to stop a plot by mercinaries to install an atomic bomb in the town and then demand a ransom to disarm it.


The Curious Case of the Countless Clues
05/18/69

Prominent individuals are being implicated in murders by evidence planted by the real killers, and when Tara becomes an intended murder victim, Steed discovers that the killer's motive is to blackmail the framed individuals for their art treasures.


Wish You Were Here
05/25/69

Ms. King goes to a hotel where her uncle has been incognito for over a month, and she finds that all the guests are being held prisoners to allow unscupulous business partners to take over their businesses.


Stay Tuned
06/08/69

After Steed loses three weeks of his memory and having other strange occurences, Steed and king investigate to find that Steed has been hypnotized in a plot to brainwash Steed into killing Mother.


Take Me to Your Leader
06/15/69

After an "intelligent" briefcase with unknown contents is recovered from an enemy courier, Steed and King follow the courier trail to discover that the leader of the courier group is an associate of Mother.


Fog
06/23/69

Members of an international disarmament delegation are killed by someone impersonating a 19th Century serial killer, and Steed and King discover that an arms dealer is behind the murders to protect his business prospects from the aftermath of world peace.


Homocide and Old Lace
07/06/69

On his birthday, Mother tells his two favorite aunts the story of a case against the Intercrime organization, in which Steed and King infiltrated the organization to stop the theft of Britain's greatest art treasures, including the Crown Jewels. [Note: The flashback story is based on an unaired episode entitled "The Great Great Britain Crime."]


Love All
07/13/69

A member of the Missile Department is caught spilling secrets to the building's cleaning lady, and Steed and King investigate to uncover a spy ring that used microchips embedded in books to make the targets fall in love with the enemy agents.


Get-a-Way
07/27/69

Two of three enemy agents in a maximum security prison mysteriously escape and immediately go to complete their missions by killing two agent friends of Steed; and Steed and King discover, just before the third prisoner manages to escape and kill Steed, that an extract from chameleons allowed them to appear invisible.


Thingumajig
08/01/69

Scientists are dying mysteriously in an archeological dig underneath an old church, and Steed and king uncover the plot of a mad scientist to unleash thousands of electrical killing devices on the country.


Pandora
08/10/69

Ms. king is kidnapped and "transported" to 1915, and Steed's search for her uncovers a scheme by an unscrupulour man to swindle a World War I veteran out of a treasure he had put away as dowry for his once wife to be.


Requiem
08/17/69

Steed takes an important witness again a crime organization to a secret location, and the criminals subject Ms, King to an elaborate ruse in an attempt to find out where Steed and the witness are hiding.


Take Over
08/24/69

When Steed goes to visit friends in the country, he finds them under siege of four strangers, and eventually discovers that the strangers plan to launch a missile at a nearby peace conference from the home of his friends.


Who Was That Man I Saw You With?
08/31/69

Enemy agents lay a trail of evidence implicating Ms. King in a scheme to provide War Room secrets to the enemy, but she later finds that the purpose of the scheme was to make the Defense Ministry doubt the security of its defense early warning system on the eve of an enemy plan to launch missiles against the country.


My Wildest Dream
09/07/69

Based on phone calls from a mysterious woman, Steed and King arrive at the scene of murders just as they happen, and they uncover a plot by a member of a company's board of directors to kill the other directors and take over the company.


Bizarre
09/14/69

A woman found unconscious in the middle of a deserted field leads to Steed and King uncovering a scheme by a travel company to help unscrupulous financiers to fake their deaths and escape prosecution. [Note: The episode ends with Steed and Ms. King being accidentally launched into space aboard a rocket, with Mother promising that they'll "be back."]

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