The Avengers
Square Root of Evil
1965–6
legend:
| Rescues | Mastermind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male lead | Female lead | Both leads | killed | arrested |
| Episode | Rescues | Diabolical Mastermind | Body count (S/E) |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Town of No Return | Mrs. Peel is bound and gagged, strapped to a saddle in the smithy from which she is untied by Steed | The invading army are trapped below ground | 4+ |
| The Gravediggers | Mrs. Peel is bound to a railway line and rescued by Steed | Johnson and his gang are arrested | 1 |
| The Cybernauts | - | Armstrong is killed by a cybernaut and Benson is arrested | 4 |
| Death at Bargain Prices | Mrs. Peel is bound and gagged, and trussed inside a carpet, from which she is freed by Steed | Kane and some of his gang are killed, and the rest arrested | 4 (-/1) |
| Castle De’Ath | Mrs. Peel is locked in the basement for the night | Angus is killed and his surving gang members arrested | 6 (1/2) |
| The Master Minds | - | Holly Trent and her co-conspirators are arrested | 2 |
| The Murder Market | Mrs. Peel is buried alive — or so we think… | Mrs. Stone and her gang are arrested | 2 |
| A Surfeit of H2O | Mrs. Peel is bound and gagged, and trapped inside a wine press from which Steed rescues her | Sturm and his plotters are arrested | 4 |
| The Hour that Never Was | Mrs. Peel is bound and gagged and tied to a dentist chair from which Steed rescues her | Lees is unmasked and captured | 2 |
| Dial a Deadly Number | - | Harvey, Jago and their accomplices are arrested | 5 (2/-) |
| Man-eater of Surrey Green | Mrs. Peel is hypnotised by the plant and rescued by Steed dousing her in pesticide | The man-eater is poisoned | 22 |
| Two’s a Crowd | - | PSEV are killed | 5 (4/-) |
| Too Many Christmas Trees | - | Jenkins and Storey are killed, and the rest are presumably captured | 4 (1/1) |
| Silent Dust | Mrs. Peel is tied to a tree and horsewhipped by Juggins; Steed rescues her by clobbering him with an anti-violence placard. | The farmers are arrested | 1 |
| Room without a View | Steed rescues Mrs. Peel from an interrogation cell | - | 1 |
| Small Game for Big Hunters | - | The colonialists are arrested | 1 |
| The Girl from Auntie | Mrs. Peel is abducted and put up for auction, she’s rescued by Steed | Gregorio Auntie and his gang are arrested | 11 |
| The Thirteenth Hole | Mrs. Peel is cuffed to a chair and rescued by Steed | Dr. Adams and the conspirators are arrested | 2 |
| Quick-Quick Slow Death | - | The dance school is closed down for good | 5 |
| The Danger Makers | Mrs. Peel is forced to walk along an electrified course, but emerges unscathed | Dr. Long is killed and his gang surrender | 6 (-/1) |
| A Touch of Brimstone | - | Cartney dies when he tries to take on Mrs. Peel | 3 (-/1) |
| What the Butler Saw | - | Moran is arrested | 4 |
| The House That Jack Built | Mrs. Peel is trapped in the house — that’s the plot! | Keller was already dead | 3 |
| A Sense of History | - | Grindley and his young fascists are arrested | 3 |
| How to Succeed .... at Murder | - | Henry is shot and his early girl power experiment is halted | 14 (1/-) |
| Honey for the Prince | - | Arkadi is arrested | 5 (-/1) |
| Total (Steed/Emma) |
124 (9/7) |
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