Death’s Door
The Killing Fields
of Series 5 (1967–8)
of
The Avengers
Page 3
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).
All the screen grabs on this page are ©1961–9 CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd All Rights Reserved
| 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 | strangled? | ||
| 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 | Alex & Carl | 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 | His insulating boot is removed and he is electrocuted when his foot is forced onto the ground, earthing him | ||
| 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 | ||
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* Strange ways to kill people, but they were miniaturised first. |
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| The Forget-Me-Knot | ||||
| NONE. What a nice episode for Emma’s farewell… | ||||