take the tour
The Transport Guide
to
The Avengers
(Seasons 3-6 : 1963-9 & The New Avengers, 1976-7)
This page documents the transport used in the Diana Rigg seasons of The Avengers. It is necessarily limited in scope to significant vehicles, so background passers-by are generally ignored.
Season Four of The Avengers was much less car-oriented than Season Five, and vehicle colour has not been recorded for it as the episodes were shot in black and white, so only a few vehicles have complete data.
Trivia
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station is the only episode in which no cars appear whatsoever, and the episode before it, The Superlative Seven only features Mrs Peel's Lotus Elan (and a few aeroplanes).
- The episode with the most vehicles is, predictably, Dead Man's Treasure (20), followed not very closely by Mission Highly Improbable (15).
- In Season Five, only one vehicle, apart from those regularly used by Steed and Mrs Peel, was used more than once in filming, a white Rolls Royce Silver Cloud III, registration number CKP 500C, seen in both The Fear Merchants (external shots of one of the victims' car - see below) and Something Nasty In The Nursery (driven by Sir George Collins).
- Not the same story for other seasons, though!
- The Austin taxi, VGF 345, seen in Epic was also used in the season 4 episode The Girl from Auntie and probably also in What The Butler Saw.
- The Ford Thames truck 2705 VX is seen in Man-eater of Surrey Green and twice in The Danger Makers
- The Rolls Royce Silver Wraith Touring Saloon KXQ 777 appears in both Man-eater of Surrey Green and A Sense of History
- The Triumph motorbike 452 VMF turns up in Dial a Deadly Number, The Danger Makers and Mission ... Highly Improbable
- The Land Rover, 695 EAC, from You Have Just Been Murdered was used in the Tara King episode Invasion of the Earthmen.
- The light blue Rover P6 2000 The Positive-Negative Man, JLL 376D, was used in the Tara episode Homicide and Old Lace.
- The black Citroën DS19/ID19 Safari estate, AYR 141B, in Murdersville, was used in The Curious Case of the Countless Clues (another Tara episode).
- 70 BLX, the yellow Citroën in The Correct Way to Kill is possibly the same as that in The Saint episode "To Kill a Saint".
To change the view of the table, click on the headings. For example, if you wish to see the list sorted according to number plate, click on the "NUMBER PLATE" heading.
