Channel 4 repeats 1995

[MusicalDave]

Hi. Does anyone have transmission details for the Channel 4 UK repeats of series 5&6 in the mid nighties? I think this must have been around 1995.

Does anyone have a list of the episodes they showed and on what dates?

Many thanks in advance. Dave.

[highflyingbird]

I don't have the details you ask for but I'm certain that they showed series 4 before moving on to 5 and then later 6. And I'm fairly certain that they stopped showing these repeats altogether before they had shown all of series 6. I'm just going by memory here, I was only a kid at the time but these were my formative memories of the programme so they feel quite strong.

[mrs_emma_peel]

I know that Channel Four screened the premiere of the uncut version of A Touch of Brimstone on 10th August 1997 at 12.30-1.30am.
Fortunately, I still have the original video-tape recording, dated 10/8/97, in my personal archive collection.
This was series 4, I'm not sure about 5 & 6 - I hope this helps

[Ian Wegg]

These are the listings from The Times for 1995 and 1996. As you can see the amount of details given varies greatly week by week:


10 Oct 95. 6.00. The Avengers: The Town of No Return (b/w) CHOICE.



17 Oct 95. 6.00. The Avengers. With Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee.

24 Oct 95. 6.00. The Avengers: The Cybernaughts. Cult series starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg.

31 Oct 95. 6.00. The Avengers (b/w). Cult-following adventures starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg.

7 Nov 95. 6.00. The Avengers: Castle De'ath. Spoof special agent adventures starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg. In Castle De'ath Steed becomes a strapping jock and Emma lays a ghost.

14 Nov 95. 6.00. The Avengers: From Venus With Love. Camp special agent adventures starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg.

21 Nov 95. 6.00. The Avengers: The Fear Merchants. Camp special agent adventures starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg.

28 Nov 95. 6.00. The Avengers: Escape in Time. Spoof special agent adventures starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg.

5 Dec 95. 6.00. The Avengers. Camp special agent adventures starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg. This week Steed and Mrs Peel are on the trail of a sinister cat rescue operation run by a man known only as Cheshire (Ronnie Barker).

12 Dec 95. 6.00. The Avengers: The Bird Who Knew Too Much. When a secret agent is found dead with birdseed in his pocket the Avengers fly to the rescue.

19 Dec 95. 6.00. The Avengers: The Winged Avenger. Steed and Emma Peel investigate a spate of murders.

2 Jan 96. 6.00 The Avengers. Steed (Patrick Macnee) and Emma (Diana Rigg) fight to prove their innocence after they are framed for murder.

9 Jan 96. 6.00. The Avengers: Never, Never Say Die. Steed and Emma Peel investigate the worrying mystery of waking corpses.

16 Jan 96. 6.00. The Avengers. With Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee.

23 Jan 96. 6.00. The Avengers. With Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Charlotte Rampling, Brian Blessed and Donald Sutherland.

30 Jan 96. 6.00. The Avengers. Steed and Emma Peel have to try to stop an assassin bent on placing a bomb on the Prime Minister's private train.

6 Feb 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

13 Feb 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

20 Feb 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

27 Feb 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

5 Mar 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

12 Mar 96. 6.00. The Avengers. Amateur art enthusiast Peter Cushing causes Patrick Macne and Diana Rigg problems when he unleashes a cybernaught

19 Mar 96. 6.00. The Avengers. Steed and Mrs Peel search for a missing dispatch box.

26 Mar 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

2 Apr 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

9 Apr 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

16 Apr 96. 6.00. The Avengers. Steed and Mrs Peel investigate ghostly goings-on.

23 Apr 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

30 Apr 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

7 May 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

14 May 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

21 May 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

28 May 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

4 Jun 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

11 Jun 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

18 Jun 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

25 Jun 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

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23 Jul 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

30 Jul 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

6 Aug 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

13 Aug 96. 6.00. The Avengers. A REMAK (remote electro-matic agent killer) is depleting the ranks of Steed's agents.

20 Aug 96. 6.00. The Avengers: Invasion of the Earthmen.

27 Aug 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

3 Sep 96. 6.00. The Avengers. Colonel Mannering masterminds a cunning plan to extrct information from secret agents.

10 Sep 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

17 Sep 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

24 Sep 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

1 Oct 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

8 Oct 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

15 Oct 96. 6.00. The Avengers: The Curious Case of Countless Clues. Steed investigates a series of puzzling murders while Tara is laid up in bed after a skiing accident. With Patrick Macnee and Linda Thorson.

22 Oct 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

29 Oct 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

5 Nov 96. 6.00. The Avengers. The Gasligh Ghoul of 1888

12 Nov 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

19 Nov 96. 6.00. The Avengers.

[darren]

They stuck the rest of the black and white episodes (once they skipped them to go for season 5) in a late night sunday/monday morning slot. And I think My Wildest Dream also got a showing at that time.

[MusicalDave]

Thanks so much!

That means the first episode of the Avengers I'd have seen would have been somewhere between Something Funny Happened on the way to the station and return of the cybernauts in early 96. Shame those entries aren't listed by episode title.

Thanks. Dave.

[Ian Wegg]

The Guardian lists episode titles:

02/1/96: The Correct way To Kill
09/1/96: Never, Never Say Die
16/1/96: Epic
23/1/96: The Superlative Seven
30/1/96: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station
06/2/96: Something Nasty in the Nursery
13/2/96: The Joker
20/2/96:
27/2/96: The £50,000 Breakfast
05/3/96: Death's Door
12/3/96: The Return of the Cybernauts

For some reason the issue of 20 Feb isn't online so that title remains to be found.

~iw

[MikeR]

I hope this listing of the original Channel 4 screenings compiled by Alan Hayes is of interest.

The Avengers on Channel Four:

Series 5 (Colour Emma Peel):

From Venus With Love - Sun 07/11/82 00:55
The Fear Merchants - Sun 14/11/82 00:55
Escape in Time - Sun 21/11/82 00:55
The Hidden Tiger - Sun 28/11/82 00:55
The Bird Who Knew Too Much - Sun 05/12/82 00:55
The Winged Avenger - Sun 12/12/82 00:55
The Correct Way to Kill - Sun 19/12/82 00:55
Never, Never Say Die - Sat 08/01/83 23:00
Epic - Sat 15/01/83 23:00
The Superlative Seven - Sat 22/01/83 23:00
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station - Sat 29/01/83 23:00
Something Nasty in the Nursery - Sun 06/02/83 19:15
The Joker - Sun 13/02/83 19:15
Who's Who??? - Sun 20/02/83 19:15
The £50,000 Breakfast - Sun 27/02/83 19:15
Death's Door - Sun 06/03/83 19:15
Return of the Cybernauts - Sun 13/03/83 19:15
Dead Man's Treasure - Sun 20/03/83 19:15
You Have Just Been Murdered - Sun 27/03/83 19:15
Murdersville - Sat 01/10/83 21:00
Mission...Highly Improbable - Sat 08/10/83 21:00
The Living Dead - Sat 15/10/83 21:00
The See-Through Man - Sat 22/10/83 21:00
The Positive-Negative Man - Sat 29/10/83 21:00

Series 6 (Tara King):

The Forget-Me-Knot - Sat 12/11/83 21:00
Game - Sat 19/11/83 21:00
The Super Secret Cypher Snatch - Sat 26/11/83 21:00
You'll Catch Your Death - Sat 03/12/83 21:00
Split - Sat 10/12/83 21:00
All Done With Mirrors - Sat 17/12/83 21:00
Legacy of Death - Sat 07/01/84 21:25
Noon-Doomsday - Sat 14/01/84 21:30
Look, (Stop Me If You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellers... - Sat 21/01/84 21:30
Have Guns...Will Haggle - Sat 28/01/84 21:30
They Keep Killing Steed - Sat 04/02/84 21:30
Killer - Sat 11/02/84 21:35
Invasion of the Earthmen - Sat 18/02/84 22:00
Wish You Were Here - Sat 25/02/84 21:30
The Interrogators - Sat 03/03/84 21:30
Whoever Shot Poor George/XR40 - Sat 10/03/84 21:30
False Witness - Sat 24/03/84 21:35
The Rotters - Sat 31/03/84 21:45
Love All - Sat 14/04/84 21:35
The Morning After - Sat 21/04/84 21:45
The Curious Case of the Countless Clues - Sat 28/04/84 21:00
Stay Tuned - Sat 05/05/84 20:55
Take Me To Your Leader - Sat 12/05/84 21:00
Fog - Sat 19/05/84 21:00
Who Was That Man I Saw You With - Sat 26/05/84 21:00
Homicide and Old Lace - Sat 02/06/84 21:00
(run interrupted)

Series 4 (B/W Emma Peel):

The Town of No Return - Tue 06/11/84 18:00
The Gravediggers - Tue 13/11/84 18:00
The Cybernauts - Tue 20/11/84 18:00
Death at Bargain Prices - Tue 27/11/84 18:00
Castle De'ath - Tue 04/12/84 18:00
The Master Minds - Tue 11/12/84 18:00
The Murder Market - Tue 18/12/84 18:00
A Surfeit of H2O - Tue 08/01/85 18:00
The Hour That Never Was - Tue 15/01/85 18:00
Dial a Deadly Number - Tue 22/01/85 18:00
Man-Eater of Surrey Green Tue 29/01/85 18:00
Two's a Crowd - Tue 05/02/85 18:00
Too Many Christmas Trees - Tue 12/02/85 18:00
Silent Dust - Tue 19/02/85 18:00
Room Without a View - Tue 26/02/85 18:00
Small Game for Big Hunters - Tue 12/03/85 18:00
The Girl From Auntie - Tue 19/03/85 18:00
The Thirteenth Hole - Tue 26/03/85 18:00
Quick-Quick-Slow Death - Tue 02/04/85 18:00
The Danger Makers - Tue 23/04/85 18:00
A Touch of Brimstone - Tue 30/04/85 18:00
What the Butler Saw - Tue 07/05/85 18:00
The House That Jack Built - Tue 14/05/85 18:00
A Sense of History - Tue 21/05/85 18:00
How to Succeed...At Murder - Tue 28/05/85 18:00
Honey for the Prince - Tue 04/06/85 18:00

Series 6 (Tara King) concluded:

Thingumajig - Tue 11/06/85 18:00
My Wildest Dream - Tue 18/06/85 18:00
Requiem - Tue 25/06/85 18:00
Take-Over - Tue 02/07/85 18:00
Pandora - Tue 09/07/85 18:00
Get-A-Way - Tue 16/07/85 18:00
Bizarre - Tue 23/07/85 18:00

The Best of Seasons 1, 2 and 3):

The Gilded Cage (as part of TV Heaven) - 15.2.1992
The Frighteners - 7.1.1993
Immortal Clay - 14.1.1993
November Five - 21.1.1993
Death of a Batman - 28.1.1993
The Little Wonders - 4.2.1993
The Undertakers - 11.2.1993
Second Sight - 18.2.1993
The Charmers - 25.2.1993
Don't Look Behind You - 4.3.1993
The Wringer - 11.3.1993
Esprit de Corps - 18.3.1993
The Medicine Men - 25.3.1993
Intercrime - 1.4.1993

[MusicalDave]

Great thanks again. That means (mystery Feb episode notwithstanding) my first episode was Death's Door. Makes sense as it's my all time favourite episode - so no surprise I got hooked on the show!

Ta. D.

[dissolute]

The Guardian lists episode titles:

02/1/96: The Correct way To Kill
~iw

thanks for that, I would never have worked that out from the description in The Times:

2 Jan 96. 6.00 The Avengers. Steed (Patrick Macnee) and Emma (Diana Rigg) fight to prove their innocence after they are framed for murder.

When I was researching Australian TX dates I had to cross-reference between 5 different newspapers as the consistency of record was so poor.
The Sydney Morning Herald was the best but I had to use the Sun, Telegraph, Age, Mercury and others to fill the gaps.