Sunday 8th March 2026 - 1990-1991 ITV Repeats Polished Off... Further updates to the Repeats section, with the 1990-1991 repeats of The New Avengers finished off for now, with Simon Coward's research added to the Anglia, Central, STV and Ulster ITV regions.

Wednesday 4th March 2026 - Back to 1990-1991... Further updates to the Repeats section, with information added for the 1990-1991 repeats of The New Avengers in the Grampian and Granada ITV regions. I've also updated all pages relating to this repeat run to note that six episodes were not included in the package. Thanks as always to Simon Coward for all his research work.

Tuesday 24th February 2026 - Kleine Wunder... A nice update to the Little Wonders section today, specifically to the pages concerning German home media releases: Germany - Blu-ray; Germany - DVD. These now include recent publications.

Monday 23rd February 2026 - 1990-1991 ITV Repeats... Our focus now moves onto the 1990-1991 ITV repeats, with entries so far added for Border, Channel, HTV Wales, HTV West, Thames, TSW, TVS, Tyne Tees and Yorkshire.

Friday 30th January 2026 - The Girl from Auntie (Beeb!)... Taking a step away from ITV repeats for a little while, here are some newly-added BBC2 and BBC Four pages focusing on the mid-1990s and mid- to late 2000s respectively.

Thursday 29th January 2026 - The New Avengers Repeat Information... Just to keep visitors informed, I am slowly working through adding repeat details for The New Avengers, progress slowed somewhat by tennis elbow pain. Over the last few days, new information has been added to the pages for Anglia, ATV, Border, Central, Channel, Grampian, Granada, HTV Wales, HTV West, Scottish, Southern, Thames, TSW, TVS, Tyne Tees, Ulster, Westward and Yorkshire. As before, massive thanks to Simon Coward for his superb researches.

Wednesday 7th January 2026 - The Avengers Declassified Reassigned: Phase Two... You might think that since its relaunch The Avengers Declassified has been quiet. Trust me, the silence has been deceptive, as I've been incredibly busy working on a second phase to November's restructure, and this one's the big one! Celebrating The Avengers' 65th anniversary today, The Avengers Declassified has had a ground-up structural makeover. 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into the eras of the series (Keel / Gale / Peel / King / The New Avengers / etc), but since my print publications had superseded their content (and there was always a far better episode guide out there at Mrs.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!) those sections had diminished in importance. So, they are now gone. Forever! 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 (a recent addition, but all thoroughly rechecked and updated), They Keep Repeating Steed (another recent addition, but now as complete as we can currently make it  up to the mid-1970s), 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 refocussing sets 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. No chance of that now!

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank both Simon Coward and Andrew Pixley for their invaluable researches and help with the various broadcast-centric sections. In fact, "invaluable" doesn't even begin to describe how important their work in helping me compile this section has been and continues to be. Thank you, gents!

Friday 19th December 2025 - What the Viewers Saw... As part of my wish to rethink the structure of The Avengers Declassified, I've launched a new section that brings together the ITV First Transmission information that had previously been spread to the four winds across the site - find it now in What the Viewers Saw. Once again, the process of compiling the information has highlight a good number of presentation faults which have now been corrected (though I may have missed some!). After I've double-checked the new pages, the old ones will be quietly retired.

Wednesday 17th December 2025 - They Keep Fine-Tuning Repeats! Apologies if visitors are facing confusion tonight when they visit The Avengers Declassified, but I'm still working out how I mean the site to move forwards. It's essentially experimentation in public, so please bide with me.

What I have decided is that I rather liked the byline I came up with after the fact for The Reavengers section and have therefore renamed it They Keep Repeating Steed, which seems suitably Avengerish. There will be a top level accompanying section soon comprising UK First Transmissions (it's already on the site but too well hidden IMO).

The First Run information and Repeats up to the end of 1969 has now been thoroughly checked and updated, with invaluable research work from Simon Coward, Andrew Pixley and myself adding swathes of new information. Check it out!

Tuesday 2nd to Thursday 4th December 2025 - They Keep Repeating Steed... Further 1960s repeat listings added for ABC Midlands, ABC North, Anglia Television, ATV, Border Television, Channel Television, Grampian Television, Granada Television, Rediffusion London, Southern Television, Teledu Cymru (WWN), Television Wales & West (TWW), Tyne Tees (1960s), Ulster Television, Westward Television and Yorkshire Television. This rounds off our work on 1960s UK repeats - for the moment.

Monday 1st December 2025 - Not More Repeats! Another 1964 repeat season added today, this time for Rediffusion (London).

Sunday 30th November 2025 - 'Best of The Avengers' Repeat Season... The first Avengers repeat season ever has today been added to The Re-Avengers. Find it in the 1960s section of UK Repeats. Thanks to Simon Coward for his help with the new section.

Saturday 29th November 2025 - New Section: The Re-Avengers... It's early days, but I've added the beginnings of a new section today - The Re-Avengers, which will build into a repeats database. I've kicked it off, with help from Simon Coward and Andrew Pixley, with possibly the most important repeat runs of them all - on Channel 4 (UK).

Friday 28th November 2025 - The Avengers Declassified... Reassigned! Like a phoenix from the ashes, The Avengers Declassified rises today after a two-year absence from the web. Launched in 2009, it was taken down in October 2023 due to copyright worries 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, recently 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 drops the page count a little further to 351. The alternative was to have Declassified continue its slumber — and 351 pages is better than none!

You'll see that the books I've co-written and/or edited are placed front and centre 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.

Those who visited The Avengers Declassified on a regular basis will find this new iteration of the site potentially a little disorientating. Turned on its head, even! That's because I want to highlight the sections which are web-exclusive (the newly monikered Box of Tricks section which is now home for interviews and features that used to be spread to the four winds across the site and therefore not so easy to find, the Little Wonders home media section, and the Avengerweb area that documents the history of The Avengers on the web). I've also made the episode lists section more inclusive in that it now runs chronologically so that it takes in the stage play and the radio series before it closes with The New Avengers. There's still plenty of exclusive material in these sections, so do investigate.

Finally, I plan to add new pages over the coming months, particularly to share repeats information that I have co-researched with Simon Coward and Andrew Pixley.

Welcome to The Avengers Declassified. We've been reassigned!

Alan Hayes