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20 July 2008: The fifth season has been updated with the 150² mugshots, and along the way I've added several new extras and removed 27 enlargements and 7 redundant mugshots.
8 July 2008: I've just heard from Spike Heatley again and he's corrected my information for Kenny Powell's trio - the other musicians are Jack Parnell on drums and Lennie Bush on bass.
Jack was the leader of the Jack Parnell Orchestra, with a regular gig at Ronnie Scott's as well as being the conductor and leader of ATV's in-house band for recording television scores - Kenny and Lennie were in both his orchestra and the ATV band so it's odd that Jack wasn't listed as the trio leader (although Kenny and other accompianists were sometimes listed as the leader or conductor of other people's bands at the time).
30 June 2008: Suddenly realised where I'd seen the sheik from A Touch of Brimstone before - it's 30s & 40s film star Garry Marsh in one of his three appearances in The Avengers.
The 1967/8 Emma Peel season has been reworked to only have four pages per episode - the reviews, cars, kills and fashions are now on one page.
23 June 2008: The fourth season has been updated with the 150² mugshots, and along the way I've added ten new extras, removed two duplications and nine redundant mugshots. Ten extras from The Hour that Never Was have been removed until I sort them out properly. I've also verified that Peter Bowles is not the dead MP and Terry Plummer is not the nuffled sentry. The name of Kenneth Benda's character in A Sense of History has been corrected.
The season has been reworked to only have four pages per episode - the cars, trivia, kills and reviews are now on one page.
8 May 2008: The third season has been updated with the 150² mugshots, and along the way I've added an additional 105 extras and identified a few of them - Billy Cornelius and Rick Jones, plus another regular The Prisoner stuntman I can't quite put my finger on.
20 March 2008: The Tara King season has been updated with the 150² mugshots, which resulted in the removal of a few duplicate extras, and the addition of some new ones - all up there's an increase of 13 additional characters.
The calendar has been updated, thanks to Wayne for noticing Gareth's age was wrong.
4 March 2008: Fresh on the heels of the Season Two update, I've been in touch with virtuoso jazz bassist Spike Heatley, who has confirmed he was the bass player in Dave Lee's trio for the Julie Stevens episodes.
3 March 2008: The world keeps turnin' round - UK band Brigadier Ambrose are releasing a new single called Mrs Peel, We're Needed on April 14. You can hear the song on their myspace page and they're getting good airplay on BBC radio as I type this. Caught myself singing the song yesterday while I was out shopping - brilliant!
2 March 2008: Autumn heralds the update of Season Two with the 150² mugshots - including the addition of around 20 extras previously unrecorded, and about another 15 to capture. Notable is the spotting of Ray Browne as the corpse at the beginning of Man in the Mirror.
18 February 2008: Given the paucity of material for the 1961 season, I've made it my starting point for new mugshots, nine times bigger than previously used - 150x150 instead of 50x50. Some have been replaced with better images, and it's uncovered that Dennis Edwards was missing from the list of regular guests.
12 February 2008: They Keep Killing Steed now has a full episode description and new trivia.
8 February 2008: Have Guns, will Haggle now has a full episode description and new trivia.
7 February 2008: Gareth Hunt's birthday coincides with a short outage of the site as my registrar refuses to let go of the domain and forces me to shell out double the renewal cost - avoid AustDomains!
6 February 2008: As a birthday present to Patrick Macnee - 86 today - I present Legacy of Death, Noon Doomsday and Look- (stop me if you've heard this one) but There Were These Two Fellers... with full episode descriptions and new trivia, as well as addenda and corrigenda to the trail of carnage.
As another bonus, the search page has been fixed - Google changed things and I didn't notice.
22 January 2008: Added "This Week in Avengers History" to the home page, which received a bit of restructure as a result.
21 January 2008: False Witness and All Done with Mirrors receive a full episode description and new trivia, and a new mugshot for Nurse Betty.
9-10 January 2008: A new feature added to this page - a calendar of Avengers events over there on the righthand side - either the current week, moth, or the entire year. I'll add more events as I notice them, I've purloined the current list, with a very few additions of my own, from Cal Westray's collation of the Slow Dazzle calendars.
Elsewhere, the fashion guide has been corrected - Emma wears an art nouveau shift over bermuda shorts, not over a tunic.