The Avengers (series)
- User score: 7.7
- Production country: United Kingdom
- Creator: Sydney Newman
- Production companies: Associated British Picture Corporation, Associated British Corporation, ABC Weekend Television
- Genre: Action & Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Release date: 1/7/1961
- Release date of last episode: 5/21/1969
- Series status: Ended
- Seasons count: 6 ( List of episodes )
- Episodes count: 161
- Run time: 50, 60 min.
Series description
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
