The Avengers International Fan Forum

In the northern hemisphere at least summer is drawing to its close, so maybe a bit too late for this question this year, but anyway.

I love watching a film or tv series that has the setting and feel of summer during the sunniest months. (I can also...

I just watched this episode of the series. The theme was the works of Henry Mancini and other mid-century songwriters with a similar spirit

I was pleasantly surprised that the start of the 2nd act opened with the Theme from the Avengers. But I was...

The clap board reads as follows...

ABC Television Films

Avengers Tests

Can't make out the rest (perhaps you can??) except to note this is take number 3

And the crew have clearly misspelled the last name of Linda Thorson

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It's been discussed on this board before but not for many years.
I'm intersted hearing members thoughts on the failed Brian Clemens written and produced pilot entitled Escapade. It was shown one time only in 1978 on U.S. television. It was a...

1978

A year after finishing The New Avengers.

Patrick Macnee is cast in an episode of Glen A. Larson's The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries - though they seem to have ditched the Nancy Drew part as it went on.

From season 3 - episode 3 Assault on...

I put together some info on the screentests for Twitter so thought I'd share the information here as well.

The first set of screentests included:

Susan Engel -

Jane Murdoch (was one of Pussy Galore's Flying Circus in Goldfinger) -...

I wonder just how many episodes included a scene or two from the well worn hallway on the studio set?

I get a kick out of discovering yet another scene in the oh-so-familiar hall, that despite the effort of the crew to change wall paper and colour...

The image below is from the closing scene in the episode The Correct Way to Kill.
I was intriqued to see steam rising from the tea pot as Diana prepares a cup for Steed and herself.
What great attemtion to detail!!
Steed didn't touch his beverage...

I think it's fairly standard for movie and television performers that they never - almost never - very seldom look directly into the camera - unless of course the scene calls for it.

The Avengers in all my viewing follows that rule i.e. no direct...

Was just watching Martin Woodhouse’s DVD commentary on “Mr Teddy Bear” (on the new ViaVision set, as I’ve not had access to these special features in the US until now!) and he mentions Verity Lambert as being one of the people involved with helping...

Charlotte Rampling as Hanna Wilde and our Diana in a scene from The Superlative Seven from 1967 is shown below

I have circled what appears to be an actors mark on the studio floor

Lean in and take a good look and let me know if you think X marks...

1. Which Avenger Girl tackled the most female rivals?
2. The best and most difficult female faced by any Avenger Girl ?
3.Which Avenger Girl had the most impressive fighting skills ?
4.Did any of the Avenger Girls display their fighting skills...

Been an while since I've seen it...but watched it today, while partaking in
A & E 's best of the Avengers..DVD..which I found, marked down
75 %..and snapped it up !

I sorta dug it...interesting camera angles and shadows..in lush
monochrome...I...

Oh I see it was an joke ;)

I'd like to know where all those mysterious-named towns in The Saint, Department S and Man In a Suitcase are, none of them show up in any road Atlas.

From The House That Jack Built comes the image below

Diana is slapping the snot out of yet another bad guy & really firing on all cylinders - hair flying & wardrobe all asunder!!

I'm not sure if I noticed but her trousers are those tantilizing...

Here's a colouful and detailed birdseye view of Steeds flat.

What caught my eye was the small area of faux ceiling!

This overhang allows the camera to take a slightly upward angle & gives the illusion of a top to the room.

Am I correct in...

Just finished watching The Big Thinker from season 2. Very enjoyable!!

I mentioned in an earlier post that a local television station in my backyard is showing The Avengers Monday to Friday. WooHoo!!

The four legged friend seen in the image below...

You can imagine how pleased I was to discover that one of my local television stations is carrying episodes of The Avengers.

Todays episode, happily discovered completely by chance while airing in its 4 p.m. time slot is Mission to Montreal. I...

I was wondering if the music tapes of The Avengers and The New Avengers exist?

I have the Laurie Johnson three volume set that was released in 2007.

Any information would be appreciated.

I'm starting on my rework of series 5 and I was struck by the fact that the first three episodes are EXACTLY the same length:
4663 feet and 8 frames - that's exactly 51 minutes and 49 seconds and includes commercial 'bumpers' and id cards which...

I have always admired Joanna Lumley - Purdey - when she performed her own stunts. She seemed fearless. She was obvioulsy quite athletic and very very believable!
One kick from those long legs in the nether region and you'd be in the hospital.
But as...

A 1977 image of Steed from the New Avengers driving the Jaguar Broadspeed XJ12-C

It's my understadning that the car was crafted & modified specially for the series

And was an automatic even though the producers made it sound like a manual shift...

Crossplot (1969)

Any others?

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...

I have no issue with black and white TV and watch a fair few old films in it, but I was thinking it would be interesting to see what series 4 looks like in colour with the clothes and such. Is there any way of doing so?