5.17 - Death's Door

peabody · Post by **peabody** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 6:42 am

Discuss, review and rate Death's Door, production completed Thursday 7th June 1967.

Teleplay by Philip Levene
Directed by Sidney Hayers

cyberrich · Post by **cyberrich** » Sun Dec 01, 2013 6:23 pm

Death's door is another of my favourite type of Avengers episode, the psychological thriller. This has a very clever script and is beautifully filmed, particularly the 'dream' sequences. Very Hitchcockian in it's presentation, and slightly ahead of it's time too.

A well earned 10/10

Rich.

Topaze · Post by **Topaze** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 2:39 pm

I watched it again this afternoon, so great episode

Rhonda · Post by **Rhonda** » Sat May 09, 2015 11:33 am

I gave 4

Strange Young Man · Post by **Strange Young Man** » Sun Aug 02, 2015 11:26 am

Just got to this one on the Blu-ray set and this episode is just stellar! I wish more of season five had this tone and were executed as stylishly. All the planets seemed to align with this one; nothing struck me as a weak point and it's actually very revealing of how weak some of the earlier episodes are in series five.

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Sun Aug 02, 2015 1:16 pm

Strange Young Man wrote:Just got to this one on the Blu-ray set and this episode is just stellar! I wish more of season five had this tone and were executed as stylishly. All the planets seemed to align with this one; nothing struck me as a weak point and it's actually very revealing of how weak some of the earlier episodes are in series five.

I completely agree- this is my favorite season 5 episode. Season 5 in my opinion got better as it progressed.

peabody · Post by **peabody** » Tue Aug 04, 2015 2:35 pm

Agreed. Love this one, and the nightmare sequences are terrific! I enjoy the less serious episodes as well, but this one just hits the spot. 9/10 (although I regret not giving it a 10/10 now).

Ian Wegg · Post by **Ian Wegg** » Tue Dec 07, 2021 5:02 pm

I thought I had rated all the S5 episodes when I watched the Blu-rays but evidently not.

I've just watched this on the ITV4 afternoon repeats. Very enjoyable although I found the storyline a little hackneyed.

7/10

I noticed an interesting blooper in the scene where Steed's Bentley runs out of control. I'll look for a thread for goofs).

mousemeat · Post by **mousemeat** » Tue Dec 07, 2021 5:40 pm

one of the better episodes of that season..good pacing..

Frankymole · Post by **Frankymole** » Wed Dec 08, 2021 12:47 pm

Ian Wegg wrote: I noticed an interesting blooper in the scene where Steed's Bentley runs out of control. I'll look for a thread for goofs).

There used to be a whole website for goofs and blunders in The Avengers, but sadly I think it's now defunct? Though might be readable using the Wayback Machine. I lost some bookmarks when an old computer died but will have a look for it.

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