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This page list all the people killed in episodes of the first Diana Rigg season of The Avengers; as well as the people doing the killing, and their modi operandi.

Speaking trivially, Man-eater of Surrey Green is the most bloodthirsty episode, in which twenty-three people are unceremoniously dispatched (although mostly by an alien plant), followed by The Girl From Auntie with eleven unfortunates. There is not one episode in which no-one dies at all, although The Gravediggers, The Master Minds, Silent Dust, Room Without A View, and Small Game For Big Hunters only top one a piece.

• A note on my shorthand.
  
• A double question mark [ ?? ] indicates that I'm not entirely sure (or convinced) that the character died.
• A single question mark [ ? ] indicates that I'm either not sure of a characters name, or not sure who committed the crime.

The guide is in three parts, use the links below to navigate them (or use those at the bottom of the pages).

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Episode	Victim		Killer		Method
The Town of No Return		Tom Smallwood		??	??
		Rest of the villagers		??	??
		Jimmy Smallwood		Saul	savaged by dogs
		School Inspector		Saul	savaged by dogs
The Gravediggers		Dr Marlow		Miller	? (off screen, under Johnson's orders)
The Cybernauts		Hammond		Roger the Cybernaut	beaten to death
		Lambert		Roger the Cybernaut	beaten to death
		Jephcott		Roger the Cybernaut	beaten to death
		Dr Armstrong		Cybernauts	beaten to death
Death at Bargain Prices		Moran		Wentworth	shot
		Jarvis		Wentworth?	sickle in back
		Wentworth?		Mrs Peel	shot
		Kane?		Wentworth	pushed down stairs
Castle De'ath		Diver		Angus or McNab?	stretched on rack
		Controller?		Steed (sort of...)	killed by exploding controls
		Ian		Angus	dirk thrown into back
		Roberton		Emma	crossbow bolt
		McNab		Emma	thrown over railing
		Angus		himself	trapped in Iron Maiden
The Master Minds		Sir Clive Todd		Dr Fergus Campbell (while hypnotised)	lethal injection
		Dead MP		himself? (while hypnotised?)	pistol
The Murder Market		Jonathan Stone		Barbara Wakefield	shot
		J.G. Henshaw		Barbara Wakefield	drowned/electrocuted? in bath
A Surfeit of H2O		Ted Barker		Dr Sturm	drowned by weather machine
		Eli Barker		Dr Sturm	drowned by weather machine
		Sir Arnold Kelly		Dr Sturm	drowned by weather machine
		Dr Sturm		himself	drowned by weather machine
The Hour That Never Was		Milkman		?	shot
		Hickey		?	shot? strangled? (off camera)
Dial A Deadly Number		Todhunter		Fitch	needle through heart
		Myers?		Steed and himself	motorcycle crash (caused by gunshot?)
		Frederick Yuill		Fitch	needle through heart
		Fitch		himself and Steed	bicycle pump gun (in fight)
		Henry Boardman?		Ben Jago	shot

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