The Avengers Declassified focuses on the cultural phenomenon of The Avengers. The emphasis is firmly upon research and the sharing of information, particularly focusing on eras and productions that are less well-documented elsewhere. You'll even find an interview or three along the way.

Launched in 2009, The Avengers Declassified was taken down in October 2023 due to copyright issues and at the time the work involved to make it compliant seemed too gargantuan a challenge. Instead, I concentrated my energies on the book I was writing with the brilliant J Z Ferguson, Escapades: An Exploration of Avengers Curiosities. This was based in part on researches conducted for Declassified — and greatly expanded — and the book was published in 2025 by Quoit Media, gaining positive reviews.

As the publication of Escapades rendered a large proportion of the content of Declassified out of date, I realised that if the site was to returned to public view it would have to be trimmed back to a great extent and initially this seemed a shame. However, in November 2025 I took a look through my local copy of The Avengers Declassified and realised that there was a lot of research into regional and international broadcasts, home media releases and the history of The Avengers on the web, plus interviews and features that were worth republishing, along with interesting pages about the stage play and radio series that didn't survive the transition to their Escapades chapters. So, I took the decision to do a second 'nip and tuck' operation on the site, having previously performed similar surgery in 2020 after an updated Two Against the Underworld had been published. At that point, the site was slimmed down massively from 650 to 400 pages, and this new streamlining dropped the page count a little further to 351. The alternative was to have Declassified continue its slumber — and I thought 351 pages was better than none!

A 'phase two' restructure in January 2026 brought that down to 302, but no further content was lost. When I launched the site in 2009, I built it around an episode guide structure, divided into the eras of the series (Keel / Gale / Peel / King / The New Avengers / etc), but since the print publications had superseded their content (and there was always a far better episode guide out there at Mrs. Peel We're Needed; check it out!) I had a second rethink - the biggest to date, certainly. So, those sections are now consigned to history. However, all the interesting, unique content in those sections has been preserved and repurposed in new sections, such as Have Scripts — Will Film (production information), What the Viewers Saw (UK first run transmission information), They Keep Repeating Steed (UK rerun information), Get-A-Way! (international transmissions), Danger Makers (quotes from those who made the series) and Box of Tricks has inherited the Keel Era feature about the Series 1 Reconstructions. This reworking set out my vision for the future, of The Avengers Declassified being a place to visit for top quality Avengers research, information and other things of interest to fans of the series. It also brings to the fore information and research that was previously hidden deep within the site and quite likely got missed by visitors. Hopefully not now!

In addition to these new, initially unfamiliar sections, there are legacy sections which remain essentially as they were: those about The Stage Play and The Radio Series, plus the colourful Little Wonders home media section and Avengerweb, where the history of the series online is documented.

You'll see that the books I've co-written and/or edited are very much highlighted here — that's because they are the culmination of many years of research and writing at Declassified and they remain an important part of what The Avengers Declassified is. Please consider purchasing these titles. The same goes for Bowler and Brolly Books' Stay Tuned to The Avengers books, which celebrate the late, great Dave Rogers' pioneering work in researching the series and building Avengers fandom from nothing.

So dig out your raincoat and take a trip back in time to the grimy and grubby beginnings of the series or pour a perfectly chilled glass of Champagne and stop off in the mid-Sixties for a lesson in style and panache. As was always the case with The Avengers, there's something for everyone and visitors to this site will find many varied flavours and styles to enjoy among our pages. It's a reference work, but above all, it's a bit of fun.

Alan Hayes, Editor

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