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

of

The Avengers

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These pages list all the people killed in episodes of the first colour season 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.

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

All the screen grabs on this page are ©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd All Rights Reserved

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Episode	Victim		Killer		Method
Return of the Cybernauts		Dr Russell		Cybernaut	Beaten to death
		John Hunt		Cybernaut	Beaten to death
		Dr Garnett		Paul Beresford	Tampers with the control to blow his mind.
		Professor Chadwick??		Cybernaut	Clubbed in fight at end
		Dr Neville??		Cybernaut	Clubbed in fight at end
		Paul Beresford		Cybernaut	Crushed to death
Death's Door		Sir Andrew Boyd		Jepson	Run down by car
		Jepson??		Emma	Karate blow (this is according to the original synopsis).
		Alfred Becker		Steed	Fires bullet through hole in target.
		Stapley		(Steed, Emma, Haynes & himself, sort of)	Crushed by falling chandelier
The £50,000 Breakfast		Dusty Rhodes		First Assistant	Lethal injection
		Mrs Rhodes		First Assistant & unnamed thug	?
		First Assistant		Emma	Karate, and a car boot
Dead Man's Treasure		Bobby Danvers		Alex & Carl	Gunshot wounds
		Sir George Benstead		Mike	Electrocuted
		Carl		Alex/Penelope Plain	Alex shoots him accidentally when Penelope is hitting Carl with Steed's umbrella, causing the car to lurch.
		Alex		Carl/himself	Carl crashes the car into a tree
You Have Just Been Murdered		Gilbert Jarvis		Skelton	Pistol
		Nicholls		Emma	Impaled on a sickle
		Needle??		(Unwin)	Bomb in suitcase
The Positive-Negative Man		Mr Bryant		Peter Haworth(?)	Electrocuted/thrown out 12th storey window [prior to episode]
		Charles Grey		Peter Haworth	Electrocuted
		Maurice Jubert		Peter Haworth	Electrocuted
		James Mankin		Peter Haworth	Electrocuted
		Peter Haworth		Steed, Emma & himself	Ground self and is electrocuted
		Creswell??		Steed	Thrown out window (according to original script)
Murdersville		Unknown man		Unknown man	Pistol
		Unknown victim (off screen)		Sunglasses-wearing assassin	Shotgun
		Forbes		Hubert & Mickle	Sickle
		Samuel Morgan		Frederick Williams	Silenced Pistol
		Major Paul Croft		Hubert & Mickle?	?
		Unknown man		Trilby-wearing assassin	Tommy gun
		Unknown man		Unknown killers	Body thrown from passing car (Humber Sceptre, maybe), but probably already dead.
		Dr Haymes		Emma	Spear
Mission Highly Improbable		Sir Gerald Bancroft		Chivers	Thrown into garbage bin
		Captain Gifford		Chivers	Hosed down the drain
* Strange ways to kill people, but they were miniaturised first.
The Forget-Me-Knot	NONE. What a nice episode for Emma's farewell...

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