The Avengers : What's New?

What's New?

9 December 2004: Competition time! Our good friends at Universal Pictures Video have given us a copy of the new Avengers 1967 boxed set to give away, and we have to say it's fantastic! Light on paper inserts, but with episode descriptions based on those supplied by dissolute technologies (that is to say, us), 7 shiny discs in squeaky new slipcases and the best photo gallery we've ever seen on a DVD - even we had never seen some of these photos before, and we've seen a lot of Avengers-related photos. The behind the scenes shots are great. Technical overview: image transfer and audio are superior to the A&E sets, but there is still some marks on screen from damage to the original prints - scratches, concrete marks, film grain, but it's pretty minimal. The colour reproduction is good, if occassionally muddy, but that's due to the masters as well. Seeing the Avengers remastered in PAL instead of NTSC is a good thing.
Our advice? Run, don't walk, to your favourite DVD retailer and buy them (especially if you don't win the set we have to give away).
29 November 2004: Region 4 readers, rejoice! Universal's PAL DVD release of the Emma Peel boxset has been released, with a RRP of $99.95 - (or even cheaper! - see here for more information (should have asked me to build the minisite, the guy who did it just did a five minute Dreamweaver job, and I bet he charged them a pretty penny for it!)
17 November 2004: Perusing David's feedback I see that someone has spotted the Oldsmobile from Death at Bargain Prices in the London to Brighton rally.
12 November 2004: Mrs Peel's episode guide has had its makeover to bring it stylistically into line with the others (except for the feature images - maybe next time).
10 November 2004: Finally re-styled the Tara episode guide to look like the actual pages and show 4 randomly selected episode images to pique your interest (à la the Cathy Gale episode guide), can't think why it took me so long - oh yeah, work and new baby, also called Tara!
Now to do some work on Mrs Peel...
1 November 2004: Now that Hallowe'en is out of the way, we can concentrate on Guy Fawkes...
Meanwhile, I've added Ian Duerden's excellent revival Avengers comic site - Avengers ArtLand to our links page.
22 October 2004: We've installed a site icon in place of the company logo, and all our code now conforms and verifies as W3C standard, yours should too!
14 October 2004: News in from NBC Universal has the Avengers DVD set slated for release on November 24^th, and we'll be running a promotion so a lucky reader can win a copy!
12 October 2004: Buy the Avengers Calendar 2005 now!
Been tinkerin' with the look of the The New Avengers section... tell us what you think!
5 October 2004: The Little Wonders - cast & crew has been updated with the bogus clergymen's full titles and the missing image of 'The Coalman'. Elsewhere, the Emma Peel episodes (both seasons) have continued their makeover, so they scale better and have better semi-opaque overlays - if I've broken anything, let me know!
28-9 September 2004: Being quite pleased with the look of our Cathy Gale episodes, I've applied a similar look to the Emma Peel episodes (both seasons) and the Tara King episodes - (five different slightly toned-down flavours, and the pictures moved).
All sections now have funky transparency for a new look, including the Mrs Peel page and the Cathy Gale episodes.
Take a look and tell us what you think!
17 September 2004: The other shows cross-over cast lists have been reworked to included not only the mug shots of the Season Three actors, but also all those who appeared in Seasons 1 & 2, and "The New Avengers".
9 September 2004: The Regular Guests pages have been reworked to included not only the mug shots of the Season Three actors, but also all those who appeared in Seasons 1 & 2, and "The New Avengers".
20 August 2004: Two small changes - the tour buttons are now more purely mod, and the "Page not found" error page now automatically redirects you if you're trying to go to the old location for Emma Peel episode pages.
You might have already noticed that I've changed the available date for the Australian DVD set from today to November 2004...
9 August 2004: Identified one of the guards in The Interrogators as Vincent Wong, a semi-regular in Space: 1999, and discovered along the way that Rhonda Parker appeared in that show as a female Kaldorian as well.
3-4 August 2004: The Cathy Gale episodes have had icons for appearances in other shows added for all cast members. The navigation bar now highlights which episode you're currently looking at, as does the navigation bar for both the Tara King episodes and the Mrs Peel episodes. Javascript is required for all these changes to appear.
Also, stay tuned for our The New Avengers section (but that may be next year).
12 July 2004: New link to Frank Faber's Dutch Avengers site, and a few minor fixes.
28 June 2004: The Avengers on DVD, in Australia, this time for sure!
Universal Video are releasing the Emma Peel colour episodes in November 2004 in an elegant boxed set, priced at AU $99.95 - that's around £35 or US $69, so it's excellent value for money, especially as you can get it for $95 or even only $90 online. Using the 2003 artwork - different images on each box - plus DVD extras as you'd expect (the A&E ones, I think), as well as episode details supplied by us here at dissolute technologies.
Click here to see the box and here to order it from chaosDVD.

In other news, Jenna Clayton contributes more continuity errors for both The Town of No Return and The Winged Avenger, while Nigel Wassell updates us on the trains in A Funny Thing Happened... on the Way to the Station.
17 June 2004: C'est fini! Mrs Gale is complete - lots of minor spelling corrections and image replacements for the earlier episodes, as well as Mandrake, Trojan Horse, The Outside-In Man, The Charmers, Esprit de Corps, Lobster Quadrille all finished and illustrated.
4 June 2004: Nearly there - The Wringer and The Little Wonders have been completed.
Elsewhere, Dead Man's Treasure and its trivia, Mission... Highly Improbable's trivia and The £50,000 Breakfast trivia have been updated, thanks to the eagle-eyed Ringowma.
1 June 2004: Between baby feeds and bouts of sleeplessness, I've managed to work through a couple more Cathy Gale episodes:
The White Elephant and Dressed To Kill are complete, if somewhat verbose. The trivia pages for Death of a Batman and The Gilded Cage have also been updated.