The Avengers
Square Root of Evil
1963–4
legend:
| Rescues | Mastermind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male lead | Female lead | Both leads | killed | arrested |
| Episode | Rescues | Diabolical Mastermind | Body count (S/C) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concerto | Steed frees himself when tied up by Burns Steed rescues Cathy from Burns, who has tied her up and is going to shoot her |
Peterson and his minions are arrested | 2 |
| Brief for Murder | Steed rescues Cathy from Wescott and Bart, who are holding her at gunpoint | The Larkin brothers and their minions are arrested | 1 (f/-) |
| The Nutshell | - | Venner and his cohorts are arrested | 1 |
| The Golden Fleece | - | Cpt Jason, Mjr Ruse & Sgt-M Wright are arrested | 1 |
| Death à la Carte | Steed and Cathy are locked in a hotel room from which they both escape separately | Mellor and his co-conspirators are arrested | 2 |
| Man with Two Shadows | - | Cummings, Rudi and Sigi are arrested | 2 (1/-) |
| Don’t Look Behind You | Steed rescues Cathy from The Man | Goodman is shot, but his status is undetermined | 1 |
| The Grandeur That Was Rome | Steed and Cathy are both captured. Steed escapes and saves Cathy from being poisoned | Sir Bruno is stabbed by Octavia and Marcus, who are arrested along with the other conspirators | 2 (1/-) |
| The Undertakers | - | Green and Madden are arrested after a gunbattle following Lomax’s death | 2 |
| Death Of A Batman | - | Lord Teale and Van Doren are arrested after Cooper is bribed by Steed to help capture them | 1 |
| Build a Better Mousetrap | Wesker holds Cathy at gunpoint but is interrupted by Steed and Dave | Wesker and his team of agents are arrested | 1 |
| November Five | Mrs. Dove stops Max and Fiona from menacing Cathy | Dyter and the farmer are wounded by Steed while Max and Fiona are arrested by Cathy | 4 (1/-) |
| Second Sight | - | Anstice, Hawn and Steiner are arrested | 3 |
| The Secrets Broker | - | Waller and his gang are arrested | 3 |
| The Gilded Cage | Steed prevents Benham from shooting Cathy | Benham is shot by Steed and the gang, and Spagge, arrested - Fleming initially escapes but Steed reconsiders… | 4 (1/f) |
| The Medicine Men | Steed rescues Cathy from Miss Dowell who wanted to frame her for murder | Geoffrey and Miss Dowell are shot and ther gang rounded up | 2 |
| The White Elephant | Steed is caught by Fitch but escapes. Cathy is first caught by Lawrence and overpowers him, then caught and put into a panther’s cage by Conniston, from which she is rescued by Steed |
The gang are arrested after a gunfight in the zoo | 1 |
| Dressed To Kill | Steed and Cathy are handcuffed together but escape, Cathy later saves Steed from being shot by Newman | Preston and Newman are killed and the barman arrested | 3 (1/1) |
| The Wringer | Cathy rescues Steed from the interrogation cage | The Wringer is apprehended by Anderson and his cohorts arrested | 6 |
| The Little Wonders | Cathy is held at gunpoint by Fingers but escapes in the shoot-out | The surviving villains are arrested | 7 (1/-) |
| Mandrake | - | Hopkins, Macombie and Mrs. Turner are arrested | 2 |
| Trojan Horse | - | Major Pantling and his gang are arrested | 3 |
| The Outside-In Man | - | The conspirators are prevented from assassinating General Sharp — at least while on British soil | 0 |
| The Charmers | Kim saves Steed’s life by killing Keller | Keller is killed and his army arrested | 4 |
| Esprit De Corps | Steed saves himself from death by firing squad by bribing the squad Cathy fights off Trench when he tries to strangle her |
Bollinger, Trench aqnd their cohorts are arrested | 3 (-/1) |
| Lobster Quadrille | Cathy is captured by Mason and finally escapes from Quentin’s inferno when she fights him to escape | Quentin dies in a fire while his gang are arrested | 2 (-/1) |
| Total (Steed/Cathy) |
63 (6/3) |
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