The Avengers: A Touch of Brimstone (1966)
Season 4, Episode 21
10/10
Fifty years on, and still remarkable.
9 July 2022
A series of childish pranks cause national embarrassment, when dignitaries experience all manner of childish pranks, the stakes are raised a lot higher however, when someone dies.

Quite an extraordinary episode, perhaps the most shocking and jaw dropping one I've seen so far, quite remarkable. I thought the plot was fantastic, like the previous one, it could conceivably have happened. I found the Hellfire club quite intriguing.

The Queen of Sin moment, it's incredible now, so Heaven only knows what audiences back in 1966 must have made for it, I've gone through life imagining all tv back then to be sweet and innocent, how wrong I was, I'm quite stunned they allowed it.

Peter Wyngarde, he's not someone I know too well, and haven't perhaps seen a lot of (Jason King is on the list,) but I thought he was excellent here, cool, subtle, meaning and charming. Colin Jeavons was also lovely as the naive, trusting D'Arcy.

I need a strong coffee after this, that was quite something. 10/10.
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