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Acknowledgements
Pictures on this site are mostly scans and screen captures by the authors. Please refer to the Copyright Notice page for full details.
This site has been greatly enhanced by reader input, we'd like to extend our thanks to Liz Reber, Yves Lambert, Liz Eggleston, Mike Noon, David K. Smith, Joseph Lloyd, Christian Pamp, Toby Nelson, Richard Clifton, Stephen Brooke, Tony McKay, Christophe Henry, John Shostrom, Michael Carmody, Claudius Ruhe, Jay Laifman, Jenna Clayton, Mike Cheyne, Steve Lefebvre, Zack Smith, Geoff Barlow, John Cokley and all at Strictly Literary, Stefan Kucinski, Réjean Gosselin, David Fakrikian, Philippe Ferrari, Laurent Chanut, Roberto Falappi, Osvaldo Hamer, DMA Design / Rockstar Games, Simon Abbott, Linus Törnqvist, Scott Brockman, Jennifer M Cumming, Alistair McGown, Tom Axtell, Susan Minobe, Mark Dorset, Neil Redding, Osvaldo Harmer, Paul Denyer, Peta Laine, Florian Gilbert, Stephen Vincent, Steve Barnett, Steve Walker and all at Product Enterprise, Debbie, Les Kirkpatrick, Jim Ivers, James Dawe, Robin Hicks, Hendrikus Schumacher, Janne, Jennie, Antonio Capriz, Cliff Mark, Judith Rolls, Kari Belvin, claire Dalton and all at Blackstar, Cody Jarrett, Scotty, Don Mackay, Donald Lee Butler, John Atkinson and all at BFI, Barry, Chris Perry, The Internet Movie database (IMDB); and apologise profusely to anyone we've overlooked, it's been a long time.
Links
I have been very remiss (mainly due to complete lack of time) and haven't maintained this page very much of late.
Helen of Irvine has a wonderful new site, "Avenging Taglines" jam packed with videos and songs, YouTube links and much, much more, which I have sadly neglected to mention. Go to http://www.avengingtaglines.net to see it all.
"Le Monde des Avengers" by Denis Chauvet and ses copins is a wonderful new take on the Avengers en français. Visit their website for a visual feast - including videos - and maybe leave a message on the forum si vous parlez la langue.
Ian Duerden has been producing some excellent revival Avengers comic strips over the last few years,
and now has a brand new site for them : Avengers Artland.
David K. Smith has created a fabulous Avengers site, The Avengers Forever!, which has an episode guide that puts mine to shame, along with production details, cast cross overs and repeat appearances. It's now part of the http://www.theavengers.tv/ family - in fact, the founding member of it. The site is mothballed now, as David doesn't have the time or drive to continue maintaining it, and I don't blame him - I often feel the same. Still well worth a read.
http://www.theavengers.tv/forever/.
Cal Westray has joined the online community of Avengers sites with his Avengers pages - a collection of the finest pickings from all the other site, plus a bit more besides. Be sure to stop by and have a look here.
http://www.westray.org/.
The Guide to Avengerland is Anthony McKay's impressive online version of the old Guide to Avengerland magazine, and goes from strength to strength as he adds more data. A great map, careful cross-referencing and oodles of photographs of the locations as they are now makes this site a must for any Avengerphile planning a visit to the shores of Albion. Now you'll know where to go!
Go to http://avengerland.theavengers.tv/ to look at this burgeoning site.
Thanks to Mike, whose site The Avengers - Noon Doomsday has some of the of the best information I've seen for a long time on an Avengers page - much more than I can supply here, but I'm nowhere near any decent sources of material.
Mike supplied a few pictures for The See-Through Man and The £50,000 Breakfast in my Episode Guide.
Paul Denyer runs a website dedicated to detailing appearances of Mercedes Benz cars in film and television, and has a clip from Dead Man's Treasure as part of it.
You can find it here.
Geoff Barlow's The Avengers stories are available from Strictly Literary, a Brisbane publishing house.
Geoff's description of his oeuvre is:
I must also admit to being the author of both "The Saga of Happy Valley" and the "Missing Cases". The latter were actually a series of fully authorised fanzines, produced in glossy magazine format with lots of original studio photographs, as an offshoot of Dave Rogers' Stay Tuned magazine. They were printed in Brisbane and sent out to subscribers world-wide at irregular intervals between 1989 and 1994. In all, there were four volumes, namely:
Vol.1 The Weather Merchants (1989) by Dave Rogers and Geoff Barlow
Vol.2 The Monster of the Moor (1990) by Geoff Barlow
Vol.3 Before the Mast.(1991). A Tara short story, produced only in photocopied supplement format
Vol.4 (1994). Contains 2 stories. Moonlight Express and The Spoilsports.
The stories in the first 2 volumes feature Steed and Emma Peel and are set in the 60's - same goes for Moonlight Express, while The Spoilsports features a team-up of all Steed's female associates, who come out of retirement in 1993 to do battle with 90's style diabolical masterminds.
Our review:
Well, Geoff is certainly a fan of the original series, something Don Macpherson (scriptwriter for the movie) could have benefitted from. Geoff know the background and the characters much better than he. Unfortunately, this doesn't exactly translate into world-shattering stories. Alright, the stories are good - plot, setting, etc. but they suffer from the curse of all fan-fiction (for that is what they are). Geoff is too close to his subject. Some of his descriptions of Mrs Peel are schoolboy crush material. Nonetheless, bar Patrick Macnee's Deadline, they are the best Avengers stories in the market place.
The prose is bolstered with some really quite fabulous black & white photographs from the original series (mostly from the Diana Rigg era, but a few others are interspersed throughout), and some somewhat dodgy pen & ink drawings. One oddity with the earliest book is that the protagonists' names are misspelt; (Stede and Peele) because of copyright infringement concerns.
A selection of stories for fans only, as are all books of their sort. I'll give them a carefully considered 9 out of 10 (if you're a fan) - in short, contact Strictly Literary immediately and buy them before the ebay scammers grab the lot!. A distinct improvement on those awful Norman Douglas books.
Mark Dorset has set up an Avengers mailing list - subscription details can be found on the web, here.
Basically, send email to avenger-request@suburbia.com.au with the subject or body of subscribe; you can do this automatically here.
To unsubscribe send email to avenger-request@suburbia.com.au with the subject or body of unsubscribe; you can unsubscribe automatically here.
Hendrikus Schumacher has created a Dutch Avengers site, De Wrekers, which is initially being developed in Dutch, Hendrikus perceiving a gap in the online Avengers library, but will be translated into English soon. He has some great rare images and a Dutch episode listing, which I've added to my International Information guide ("Intercrime"). Great work, Hendrikus!
http://www.hen3kus.nl/wrekers/.<
Frank Faber has also created a Dutch Avengers site, De Wrekers, which was developed in Dutc, and is being translated into English as we speak. He has analogue DVD screen grabs, hand drawings and Dutch broadcast information, plus episode descriptions for all seasons (but only an episode list for season 1, of course).
http://www.wrekers.nl/.
Scott Brookman is an indie musician who's recently put out a four track CD single, one of the tracks entitled "Emma Peel". It costs US$5 plus postage, and you can find out more here.
Judith has set up a Steedophilia site, from which I expect great things. An impressive description of Judith's obsession, i.e. Patrick Macnee's kit. It's ever-expanding, occassionally diminishing if rumours be true, so check back often.
The site's at: http://home.clara.net/jager/. More John Steed than you can poke a finely honed walking stick at...
A&E TV have released four sets of episodes comprising the whole of the 1967/8 series, if you buy all four together over the internet, you'll get a free Avengers t-shirt and poster. DVDs of that series soon to come, and 1966/7 on video too!
Click here to find out about their offerings, and peruse their interesting site.
NOTE: They're only delivering to the USA and Canada, and therefore also only avaliable in NTSC format. (Or DVD...) Even if you order the videos through another retailer, like Amazon, you can still only get them if you live in North America. Damn international copyright - strict or what!
The University of Surrey has a New Avengers site - check it out for a glimpse of Patsy from AbFab as she was in the Seventies (or you can wait for our guide).
Avengers Resources
An Avengers Windows background is here (83k jpg), and the sounds are snarfed from the 'net - one is the Season 4 opening titles theme, you can download it from here (472k).
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