Before Mrs. Emma Peel joined the team and before The Avengers came to America, Mr. Steed (Patrick Macnee) was a familiar figure on the British telly, pursuing his crime-fighting career alongside a shifting cast of sidekicks. 

During The Avengers' second season, Steed was busy at work with Dr. Martin King, a beguiling jazz singer named Venus Smith, and the beautiful anthropologist Mrs. Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman). With Cathy onboard, the chemistry was just right, and The Avengers was on its way to achieving cult phenomenon status. 

Go back to the beginning of The Avengers with these 14 seminal episodes from the show's second season.