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Avengers Tidbits
"Extraordinary crimes against the people and the state
have to be avenged by agents extraordinary. Two such people are John Steed, top
professional, and Emma Peel, talented amateur...otherwise known as the
Avengers."
The Avengers ran for five years in the UK before
arriving in the US in 1966. In the early shows, Steed (Patrick Nacnee) helped a
man find his wife's killers. That scenario got abandoned and Steed became a
government agent with a partner, Cathy Gale, played by Honor Blackman who left
the show to become Pussy Galore in "Goldfinger." It would be 25 years before
these early shows would be shown in the US.
The shows aired in the US
were the golden years of the Avengers. America got Emma Peel (Diana Rigg). The
sexy, liberated, bridge playing widow (we thought) of test pilot Peter Peel was
a gifted amateur who assisted Steed. And no, it was never clear what their
relationship was.
"Mrs, Peel, we're needed." Dressed in boots and
leather, Emma Peel was a sharp contrast to Steed, who epitomized the upper
crust English. He wore a three-piece suit, bowler hat and carried a
bumbershoot. He lived at 3 Staple Mews and liked his coffee stirred
counter-clockwise.
After Diana Rigg left the show, farmgirl Tara King
(Linda Thorson) became Steed's sidekick. Although carrying a brick in her purse
was a nice quirk, she was no Emma Peel.
In 1978 they tried to bring the
show back as the New Avengers. Patrick Macnee again played Steed but it was
short-lived.
In 1990 A&E brought back the Rigg episodes and finally
America got to see the Blackman years.
In 1998 the Avengers was made
into a movie starring Uma Thurman and Ralph Fiennes. 'Nuff said.
Passings Patrick Newell died in 1988. |
The Forget-Me-Knot episode
3/20/68 in the US
Emma finds out that her husband Peter is alive and
leaves (the show) to join him. Steed and Emma kiss farewell. And as she passes
Tara King, Emma reminds her that Steed likes his coffee stirred
"anti-clockwise." |
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