The Avengers : Death's Door : 1

These pages list all the people killed in episodes of the first colour series of The Avengers; as well as the people doing the killing, and their modi operandi. A touch macabre, you say? Well, maybe but there was very rarely any obvious blood on screen (look for the blood spots alongside the victim's name).

Speaking trivially, The Correct Way To Kill is the most bloodthirsty episode, in which nine people are unceremoniously dispatched, closely followed by The Superlative Seven and Who's Who??? with eight unfortunates apiece. You may like to shelter in the relative calm of The Forget-Me-Knot, in which no-one dies at all.

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

Episode	Victim			Method
From Venus With Love		Ernest Cosgrove	Primble or Martin	Laser beam
		Sir Fredrick Hadley	Primble or Martin	Laser beam
		Bertram Fortescue Winthrop Smith	Martin	Laser beam
		Lord Mansford	Martin	Laser beam
		Brigadier Whitehead	Primble or Martin	Laser beam
		Dr Henry Primble	Steed & himself	Deflected laser beam
The Fear Merchants		Crawley's chauffeur??	Gilbert	?
		Gordon White	Gilbert	Scared out a window
		Gilbert	Steed & himself	Crushed by bulldozer during fight
	Shocked!
		Richard Meadows	Gilbert	Left in the middle of Wembley Stadium in his pyjamas
		John Tyler	Gilbert?	Left on a mountain top in his pyjamas
		David Wallace	Gilbert?	Left on raft in English Channel in a dinner suit and cummerbund
		Fox	Gilbert?	Mouse put into his shirt
		Crawley	Gilbert	Passenger of speeding car
		Jeremy Raven	Gilbert	Large spider
Escape In Time		Karl Blechner	Waldo Thyssen?	? [prior to episode]
		Jubert	Waldo Thyssen?	? [prior to episode]
		President Bibigyn	Waldo Thyssen?	? [prior to episode]
		Clyde Paxton	'Bruno' Thyssen	16th Century pistol
		Tubby Vincent	'Edwin' Thyssen	Stabbed with a Jacobean dagger
		Colonel Josino	Waldo Thyssen?	?
The See-Through Man		Lord Daviot	Alexandre Vazin	Shotgun
		Ackroyd	Alexandre Vazin	Strangled?
		Professor Quilby	Alexandre Vazin	?
The Bird Who Knew Too Much		Percy Danvers	Robin	Machine-gun
		Frank Elrick	Robin & Verret	Pushed off scaffold into wet cement
		Mark Pearson	Verret	Pistol
The Winged Avenger		Simon Roberts	Arnie Packer	Clawed to death
		Peter Roberts	Arnie Packer	Clawed to death
		Tay-Ling	Arnie Packer	Clawed to death
		Edward J. Dumayn	Arnie Packer	Clawed to death
		Julian	Arnie Packer	Clawed to death
		Professor Poole	Arnie Packer	Clawed to death
		Arnie Packer	Emma & Steed	Hurled out upstairs window during fight.
The Living Dead		Spencer	Masgard?	Sword
		Kermit the Hermit	Masgard?	Rifle
		Unknown miner	Olliphant & his firing squad	Rifles
		Olliphant	Emma	Machine-gun
		Firing Squad	Emma	Machine-gun
		Firing Squad	Emma	Machine-gun
		Firing Squad	Emma	Machine-gun
		Firing Squad	Emma	Machine-gun
		Firing Squad	Emma	Machine-gun
		Firing Squad	Emma	Machine-gun
		Firing Squad	Emma	Machine-gun
		Firing Squad	Emma	Machine-gun
The Hidden Tiger		Williams	Harper's cat	cat
		Sir David Harper	Harper's cat	cat
		George Erskine	cat	cat
		Major Nesbitt	cat	cat
		Walter Bellamy	cat	cat
		Samuel Jones	Jones' cat	cat
		Dr Manx	himself	crashes van into a tree
* An unusual episode in which no-one is murdered directly, all the deaths (bar the last) being caused by cute, fluffy, enraged moggies.

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Death's Door The Killing Fieldsof Series 5 (1967-8)

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Death's Door
The Killing Fields
of Series 5 (1967-8)