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by darren
Mon May 13, 2024 6:40 pm
Forum: Avengers Games Room and Photo Booth
Topic: Diana.... Random Pics
Replies: 126
Views: 14717

Re: Diana.... Random Pics

The Strange Case of the Missing Fighting Suit Diana Rigg is wearing the second of two fight suits by John Bates in photo. The second was never worn in a episode as far as I know. Was it rejected ? https://i.ibb.co/qpL7khY/b09.png From John Bates Book. Wonderful. I love seeing design sketches. Yeah,...
by darren
Fri May 10, 2024 6:32 pm
Forum: The Avengers on Television
Topic: That Hallway Looks Familiar!
Replies: 10
Views: 254

Re: That Hallway Looks Familiar!

Elstree studios had a scenery store filled with stock elements (usually built for whatever big budget movie came to film there). Solid sets were expensive to build as they included scaffolding to hold them together - as a result they'd get redressed and repainted and used for a couple of episodes. T...
by darren
Fri May 10, 2024 5:50 pm
Forum: The Avengers on home video (DVD/Blu-Ray/VHS/VoD/and others)
Topic: The Avengers: The Cathy Gale Years (Via Vision Entertainment)
Replies: 11
Views: 373

Re: The Avengers: The Cathy Gale Years (Via Vision Entertainment)

If they'd had any restoration, I would be impressed. I do think that being a niche release from within a niche interest makes it unlikely but having subtltles is a step forward.

Oh for a day where the sound gets fixed!!!!
by darren
Sat Mar 30, 2024 8:42 pm
Forum: Series 3 - Cathy
Topic: 3.19 - The Wringer
Replies: 18
Views: 9533

Re: 3.19 - The Wringer

The TV Times sided with the Wringer:)
by darren
Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:13 pm
Forum: The People Behind The Avengers
Topic: Why Elizabeth Shepard Got Cut As Emma
Replies: 14
Views: 498

Re: Why Elizabeth Shepard Got Cut As Emma

When I corresponded with Liz a few years ago, I very much got the impression that the set up and production schedule for "The Avengers" simply didn't allow for cast input and didn't allow for collaboration. By comparison, if you take a look at her in Granada's amazing and extraordinary &q...
by darren
Tue Dec 05, 2023 6:19 pm
Forum: The Avengers on Television
Topic: The early/videotaped seasons
Replies: 15
Views: 1053

Re: The early/videotaped seasons

I could tell the awful wrong pitch-shifting on Legacy of Death in the "corrected" Canal set though... maybe their quality controller had "clothier" ears than me! Well we know from Jaz Wiseman that Canal's "quality control" on the dvd would have included every episode h...
by darren
Tue Dec 05, 2023 2:26 pm
Forum: The Avengers on Television
Topic: The early/videotaped seasons
Replies: 15
Views: 1053

Re: The early/videotaped seasons

I'm certainly no expert on these things but, from what I understand, noise reduction reduces the hiss and crackle of the sound. Yet if it is applied indiscriminately then it takes out all the nuance out of the sound. Sound is made up of different frequencies - high, low and mid and noise reduction c...
by darren
Tue Dec 05, 2023 1:07 pm
Forum: The Avengers on Television
Topic: The early/videotaped seasons
Replies: 15
Views: 1053

Re: The early/videotaped seasons

The sound is desperately in need of a proper restoration - Canal gave the videotape episodes a blanket noise reduction and wrecked them!
by darren
Fri Oct 20, 2023 10:12 pm
Forum: The Avengers on Television
Topic: Look Into My Eye!!
Replies: 19
Views: 2347

Re: Look Into My Eye!!

:D

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by darren
Thu Oct 12, 2023 10:57 am
Forum: The Avengers on Television
Topic: Is This Diana Rigg?
Replies: 11
Views: 1124

Re: Is This Diana Rigg?

Definitely not Diana on location at Allington Castle in Maidstone, Kent. Neither Diana or Patrick went to the location, they just appeared in cut-in shot done at locations near Elstree Studios.

It's a female extra doubling as Emma Peel - her hair is a lot lot thicker than Diana's.