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Steed, Tara and a clever spy awake from a gas induced sleep to find the city evacuated, and search for a nuclear bomb.
Just watching this for the umpteenth time, and I have to see it’s definitely up there with my favourites, especially as it’s...

I've seen Julian Glover in 'Maurice's Jubilee' in 2012 in Edinburgh - very good. Any you remember?
 

Ann Morrish is or was an English actress who among other parts was a in the main cast of Avengers replacement THE PROTECTORS which aired between the Cathy Gale and Emma Peel episodes in the same time slot. That is as good as her connection to The...

From season 2 of The New Avengers comes this screen grab.

Episode 11 that season was entitled The Gladiators and while not a particularly compelling nor memorble episode it did feature a high energy fight scene. Our heroes Steed, Purdy and Mike...

German (voice) actor Elmar Wepper has passed away.
His connection to The Avengers is that he was the (primary) voice of Mike Gambit in the German dubbing.

Lovely!

British chat show host Michael Parkinson passed away August 16th at age 88.

Dame Diana appeared on his show a total of 3 times over the years and Parky as he was known expressed great admiration for her. She was one of his all time favourite...

Calling all fans of Tara King!

Some nice stuff here:

As an adjunct to the Series 3 General Data - the notes that I made in the Canal Plus archives in 2004 in case they're of *any* use at all:

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1: The Town of No Return Dialogue Sheet: September 1965...

Someone sent me some pdfs in June 2013 - The Sleeping Dragon - a New Avengers story from a magazine, and scripts for Dead Men are Dangerous and The Last of the Cybernauts but I find that the pdfs - even the backups on Dropbox - are corrupt. I've...

I just found out that James Belchamber, who played in two Avengers episodes, died on 25 November 2019 in Hampshire. :shock:

James as Arthur Peever (impostor) in the b/w Emma Peel episode Quick-Quick Slow Death...

and as Cedric Bryant in Tara...

Mark Elwes, who played Naval Officer in the Tara King episode The Interrogators, died on 23rd September 2021, aged 90.

Found only one Facebook post about Mark's leaving:

Sheena Randell (22 October)

Just heard today that Mark Elwes who...

Fans may enjoy this short film. Live On Arrival. His daughter Rebecca Lacey also makes an appearance:

The Avengers/TNA: living and possibly living directors and writers.

Directors

Living (data for 2023)

John Hough (1941) The Avengers and TNA
Graeme Clifford (1942) TNA

Possibly Living (data for 2024)

Richard Gilbert (approx. 1924) TNA...

Over the years, there have many several examples of trading cards that featured the series...How many different sets have have y'all come across ? and how many sets do you own ? if any....

Wally Schneiderman, well-known makeup artist, died on 8 April 2021. He worked as a makeup artist for the TNA episode Dirtier by the Dozen.

Sandra Exelby (by 9 April):

What a sad day, news of 2 great Elder statesman passing. Our deepest...

I have been an Emma Peel/John Steed fan from way back in the mid 1960s when ABC Television from New York ran the Emma Peel series prime-time on network television. I clearly remember running up close to the (round) tube of my parent's color TV set...

During a check on my DVD/Blu-ray discs last year I discovered problems with just two titles in my collection - and both were The Avengers!

DVD rot has set in on disc 1 of series 3, taking out the last act of Brief for Murder and all of The...

I would love to see Lions Gate put out the Complete Avengers on DVD..

the whole ball of wax......everything !

plus special items...etc

in one mega set

Just downloaded the latest Vortex issue135 which contains a nice new interview with the cast of the Volume 4 Steed and Peel box set. Interesting to find out Brian Clemens son Sam is directing these and had a great time doing it too. Looking forward...

Does anyone know where this was located? Is it a London high street shop, or one near the ABC studios/offices perhaps?

Former actress Rosemary Donnelly passed away on 21 March 2020 in Toronto, Canada, after a sudden short illness.

She played Miranda in Tara King episode They Keep Killing Steed (1968).

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P.S./ Not so long ago, I worked...

My partner in podcasting and I are going to watch the episode Warlock this Friday at 19:00 UTC (that's 8pm BST). If you're on Twitter, we're going to tweet along to it, so join us if you fancy it.

Tweet-alongs during the lock-in seem to be all the...

Alan Harris, actor of small roles and stand-in died on Friday aged 81.

Alan participated in several Avengers episodes.

IMDb page:

Its as though Lycra was invented with Diana in mind....