The Avengers
Square Root of Evil
1967–8
legend:
| Rescues | Mastermind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male lead | Female lead | Both leads | killed | arrested |
| Episode | Rescues | Diabolical Mastermind | Body count (S/E) |
|---|---|---|---|
| From Venus With Love | Mrs. Peel is strapped to a surgeon’s chair and threatened with death by laser beam | Primble is killed by his laser beam | 6 (1/-) |
| The Fear Merchants | Mrs. Peel is strapped to a lie detector chair and rescued by Steed | - | 3 (1/-) |
| Escape in Time | Mrs. Peel is locked in some stocks by Thyssen | Thyssen and his gang are arrested | 6 |
| The See-Through Man | Mrs. Peel is captured but escapes Brodney and defeats Elena | Probably escape with diplomatic immunity… | 3 |
| The Bird Who Knew Too Much | Mrs. Peel is chloroformed then bound and gagged in a chair facing a revolver which will fire when the door is opened | Cunliffe and his gang are arrested | 3 |
| The Winged Avenger | - | Packer plummets to his death when fighting Mrs. Peel on the ceiling | 7 (1/1) |
| The Living Dead | Mrs. Peel escapes her cell and rescues Steed from the firing squad | The invading army are trapped underground and presumably later captured | 12 (-/9) |
| The Hidden Tiger | Steed is strapped to a chair and rescued by Emma before the cats around him turn into killers | Manx is probably killed in the car crash, the status of Angora and Peters is unknown | 7 |
| The Correct Way to Kill | - | Nutski is killed by Emma’s foil and his ‘army’ rounded up | 9 (-/2) |
| Never, Never Say Die | Mrs. Peel is captured with Dr. James, and freed by Steed but it is Dr. James who saves both of them by jamming the replicants’ electrics | The replicants are disabled with a transistor radio | 2 |
| Epic | Mrs. Peel is kidnapped and eventually rescued by Steed — that’s the plot! | Schnerk and his cast are captured | 3 (2/-) |
| The Superlative Seven | Mrs. Peel saves Steed from being killed by Wade | Jason Wade is killed in duplicate and Jessel arrested after he shoots Kanwitch | 8 (-1/1) |
| A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station | - | The ticket collector and his staff are arrested | 6 (1/1) |
| Something Nasty in the Nursery | - | Goat is shot by Wilmot | 5 |
| The Joker | Mrs. Peel is trapped in an isolated house with an ancient nemesis… | Prendergast and Ola are presumably arrested | 1 |
| Who’s Who??? | - | Basil and Lola, and Krelmar, no doubt, are arrested | 8 |
| Return of the Cybernauts | Steed frees Emma from Beresford’s cybernising watch | Beresford is killed by the cybernaut and Benson is probably arrested | 6 |
| Death’s Door | - | Stapley and his plotters are arrested but Becker dies | 4 (2/1) |
| The £50,000 Breakfast | - | The plotters are all arrested | 3 (-/1) |
| Dead Man’s Treasure | Mrs. Peel is forced to drive an electrified car but is rescued by Steed | Mike is knocked out and arrested | 4 |
| You Have Just Been Murdered | Steed bursts in as Needle is planning to interrogate her | Needle may have died in the explosion, his surviving gang members are arrested | 3 |
| The Positive Negative Man | Mrs. Peel is bound and gagged and strapped to an electrified table, wrapped in foil | Cresswell and Haworth are killed | 6 (1/1) |
| Murdersville | Steed rescues Mrs. Peel after she is dunked in the village pond then chained up in a chastity belt | The villagers are arrested, except Dr. Haymes who is killed by Mrs. Peel | 8 (-/1) |
| Mission: Highly Improbable | Steed and Emma take turns at rescuing each other from the ambassadorial study | Schaeffer and Chivers are miniaturised and captured | 2 |
| The Forget-Me-Knot | - | Burton is arrested when he forgets to escape | 0 |
| Total (Steed/Emma) |
125 (10/17) |
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