January 7, 1961 –
The pilot episode of The Avengers – Hot Snow, starring Ian Hendry and Patrick Macnee premiered in the UK on this date.
The vast majority of the first series of The Avengers is missing from TV archives and likely lost forever – only the first 15 minutes of this first episode and three complete later episodes, The Avengers: Girl on the Trapeze (which incidentally does not feature the character of Steed), The Avengers: The Frighteners, and The Avengers: Tunnel of Fear have been recovered and preserved.
The Haus of Dcaligari 