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Episode of The Avengers found.
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JCR
03-10-2016
Season 1 episode 20, Tunnel of Fear, original broadcast date 5th August 1961.

Never really watched the show but it's lovely stuff still turns up.
Michael_Eve
03-10-2016
Originally Posted by JCR:
“Season 1 episode 20, The Tunnel of Fear, original broadcast date 5th August 1961.

Never really watched the show but it's lovely stuff still turns up.”

Woah. The Avengers is really Mrs Peel/Tara King for me, but have seen some of the Honor Blackmans and the first Hendry episode. Another Hendry episode tuns up after all this time...I'm rather delighted and am not even a hardcore fan!

eta Well, I've seen a Hendry episode, anyway. Apparently there's only a part of episode 1 that has been recovered; I've seen a later episode of Season 1, 'The Frighteners'. Said I wasn't hardcore!
Tassium
03-10-2016
http://ianhendry.com/the-avengers-19...fter-55-years/
Hackney1
21-12-2016
been enjoying nightly episodes on True Entertainment. The glimpses of London in the 60s, real and not so real locations, There really was /still isn't any other programme like it.
So out there. and good fun. And can play spot the actor who became famous.
briggsy1
21-12-2016
Was Patrick McNee as John Steed the most suave and sophisticated hero to ever grace our tv screens? Definitely elements of James Bond there. The chemistry with his female emancipated co-stars was something wonderful to behold.
I never liked S1 as much as the later more fantastic episodes though, when the series hit its stride. Don't forget it gave us two equally successful sequel or spin off series too.
simongvs70
21-12-2016
The only two characters whom I can think of that can a hold a candle to Macnee as Steed are Roger Moore's Lord Brett Sinclair & Gerald Harper as Adam Adamant. But yes, Patrick had the field to himself for most of the sixties and latter part of the seventies. Also agree about his relationship with his female co-stars, there was a unique frisson to it that came over well.
dave_windows
22-12-2016
Originally Posted by JCR:
“Season 1 episode 20, Tunnel of Fear, original broadcast date 5th August 1961.

Never really watched the show but it's lovely stuff still turns up.”

Hope they release it soon but what are they going to do with the discovered Jimmy Saville Top of the Pops episodes?
Horace Wimp
22-12-2016
Originally Posted by dave_windows:
“Hope they release it soon but what are they going to do with the discovered Jimmy Saville Top of the Pops episodes?”

Edit him out I suppose, we still have the performances.

Back to the 'Gers, I'm more a lustee of Linda Thorson to be truthful, I don't think the spindly 7 stone Emma Peel could really overpower a Russian bodyguard but the rippling chest and muscled thighs of Linda could easily make mincemeat of any Eastern European bad guy.
ocox
27-12-2016
Originally Posted by Horace Wimp:
“Edit him out I suppose, we still have the performances.

Back to the 'Gers, I'm more a lustee of Linda Thorson to be truthful, I don't think the spindly 7 stone Emma Peel could really overpower a Russian bodyguard but the rippling chest and muscled thighs of Linda could easily make mincemeat of any Eastern European bad guy.”

For me it has to be Honor Blackman all the way
ennui 57
27-12-2016
Originally Posted by Tassium:
“http://ianhendry.com/the-avengers-19...fter-55-years/”


Thank you for this.

I had no idea that Ian Hendry had been in, or so involved with this. He was a heart-throb of my Mom's, and I can see why. Lovely man. (As they might say today, ''He's gorge!''!

I'm of the Emma Peel generation, and I adored her independence. To me, as a young girl, she was the 'coolest' woman on tv.
Verence
27-12-2016
Originally Posted by Hackney1:
“been enjoying nightly episodes on True Entertainment. The glimpses of London in the 60s, real and not so real locations, There really was /still isn't any other programme like it.
So out there. and good fun. And can play spot the actor who became famous.”

The trouble with the repeats on True Entertainement is that they only show the Emma Peel and Tara King episodes and never bother with the Kathy Gale/Martin King/Venus Smith episodes which are all still in existence
Andy2
27-12-2016
I'm old enough to have watched the Hendry ones and even at the time I thought they seemed cheap and 'studio bound'. For me, The Avengers burst into life with the first filmed series which was Diana Rigg in B/W, then the next series in colour. It had real class and looked good. Downhill with Linda Thorson. I can't say I'm too excited about a find from series 1 (apart from the fact that old telly is always interesting).
Markjuk
27-12-2016
I find it fascinating how much of this "lost material" turns up years later. Either stuffed away and forgotten about in someone's loft, found in another country's TV archive, or held in the hands of a private collector for many years.

I still believe there is much lost material still out there waiting to be rediscovered.
Markjuk
27-12-2016
Originally Posted by Verence:
“The trouble with the repeats on True Entertainement is that they only show the Emma Peel and Tara King episodes and never bother with the Kathy Gale/Martin King/Venus Smith episodes which are all still in existence”

There seems to be a reluctance by some TV channels to broadcast B&W episodes of a series. Especially B&W 405 line episodes - later B&W went to 625 lines - or "lost episodes" that have been recovered on "inferior" medium.

I fear it is more to do with "broadcast standard" material. Although channels such as GOLD have shown recovered, fairly poor quality Steptoe and Son episodes. The Horror Channel have showed inferior quality Dr Who episodes from the 60's - again obviously recovered.
Verence
27-12-2016
Originally Posted by Markjuk:
“There seems to be a reluctance by some TV channels to broadcast B&W episodes of a series. Especially B&W 405 line episodes - later B&W went to 625 lines - or "lost episodes" that have been recovered on "inferior" medium.

I fear it is more to do with "broadcast standard" material. Although channels such as GOLD have shown recovered, fairly poor quality Steptoe and Son episodes. The Horror Channel have showed inferior quality Dr Who episodes from the 60's - again obviously recovered.”

I remember C4 showing quite a few Kathy Gale episodes late at night during the early 90s
dave_windows
27-12-2016
Originally Posted by Markjuk:
“There seems to be a reluctance by some TV channels to broadcast B&W episodes of a series. Especially B&W 405 line episodes - later B&W went to 625 lines - or "lost episodes" that have been recovered on "inferior" medium.

I fear it is more to do with "broadcast standard" material. Although channels such as GOLD have shown recovered, fairly poor quality Steptoe and Son episodes. The Horror Channel have showed inferior quality Dr Who episodes from the 60's - again obviously recovered.”

Steptoe ones they mainly showed colour.
ocox
27-12-2016
Originally Posted by Andy2:
“I'm old enough to have watched the Hendry ones and even at the time I thought they seemed cheap and 'studio bound'. For me, The Avengers burst into life with the first filmed series which was Diana Rigg in B/W, then the next series in colour. It had real class and looked good. Downhill with Linda Thorson. I can't say I'm too excited about a find from series 1 (apart from the fact that old telly is always interesting).”

I have the box set and adore the B&W episodes.
Andy2
27-12-2016
Originally Posted by ocox:
“I have the box set and adore the B&W episodes.”

I agree, the b&w Diana Riggs are probably the best of the lot. They had a little old school atmosphere that was lost in the colour series.
harrypalmer
27-12-2016
Originally Posted by simongvs70:
“The only two characters whom I can think of that can a hold a candle to Macnee as Steed are Roger Moore's Lord Brett Sinclair & Gerald Harper as Adam Adamant. But yes, Patrick had the field to himself for most of the sixties and latter part of the seventies. Also agree about his relationship with his female co-stars, there was a unique frisson to it that came over well.”

I suppose Moore's Simon Templar has been completely forgotten? More debonair one cannot get.
swingaleg
27-12-2016
Originally Posted by ennui 57:
“I'm of the Emma Peel generation, and I adored her independence. To me, as a young girl, she was the 'coolest' woman on tv.”

strange that because as a young boy I thought she was the hottest.............
mrbernay
28-12-2016
The original series was called Police Surgeon, so a 60s Quincy MD, or CSI..... There are some episodes left as they were shown IIRC on the original Bravo channel. Saturday nights on ABC = The Avengers Then it changed to Sundays
mrbernay
28-12-2016
Originally Posted by harrypalmer:
“I suppose Moore's Simon Templar has been completely forgotten? More debonair one cannot get.”

As your moniker says, those spy movies and TV series were the best
owen10
28-12-2016
I have got to say Emma Peel was so gorgeous and probably Steeds best sidekick
ennui 57
28-12-2016
Originally Posted by swingaleg:
“strange that because as a young boy I thought she was the hottest.............”

LOL

And that's exactly why she was so 'cool'!

Could've had anyone she wanted, but no; she retained her independence! (Apart from the 'frisson' with Steed, as another poster mentioned previously) And the fact that she was 'Mrs' Peel, rather than a girlish 'miss'. I adored her (I'm straight btw )

I was only a kid really, during her era, but I was also taken with the slightly surreal plots/atmosphere (as I was with The Prisoner) but perhaps I'm misremembering.

Edit: I agree owen 10
Andy2
28-12-2016
Originally Posted by harrypalmer:
“I suppose Moore's Simon Templar has been completely forgotten? More debonair one cannot get.”

I always considered Moore's 'Saint' as a bit too suave and debonair, almost sissy.
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