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DiVicenzo wrote:If you join the Ministry of Riggism group at Yahoo under the Photos section there are 14 photos from the beach shoot in various outfits. I did have the name of the beach somewhere - if I find it I'll let you know

http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mi ... f_Riggism/

I immediately did!

Some images of Diana Rigg with a horse on the beach may also be found on occasion, even though she never appeared with a horse on the beach in the series; this was part of another photo shoot, used once again for promotional stills. Here's an example: http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/9300000/...

mousemeat wrote: all were needed somewhat..but if I had to select...

then Venus...

My idea too. I didn't like the singing. It put the brake on the story. No to mention that she was a bit of a scream queen too. Quite the contrary to Cathy Gale.

Despite taking away an important layer of mystery - who employs Steed etc. - Yeah, that's ture... It was a bit of a mishap to put Steed in a big organisation when they introduced Tara King. Instead of a bit of a rude gentleman having a nice time and lots of influence, he changed into some kind of t...

I hope the 50th Anniversary will give the possibility to buy The New Avengers with Dutch subtitles.
Unfortunately, I would prefer them on dvd, and I'm afraid they will choose BR instead.

Alan wrote:It's not the same as VHS v. Beta. The real battle was Blu-ray v. HD-DVD

Yes, but as you can notice, people start to think the battle is DVD versus BR.
Odd, isn't it?

MRotten wrote:It seems to me that having two formats is confusing. Remember the battle between VHS and Beta?

There was even a third format: Video 2000 from the Dutch company Philips.

Alan wrote: whereas new DVD titles are inevitably heavily discounted within a couple of months (I'm talking movies here).

Yes. I wonder why...
All in all it are the film companies themselves who drop the prices.
Maybe BR remains expensive because there isn't a lot of choice?

Clearly, we're not looking in the same shops, Peter. :lol: Well, some shops will have them, of course, but certainly not all of the shops. I've just been in a supermarket, and our discussion in mind, I decided to take a look at the audio visual material. Indeed, no BR. They had DVD's, however (The ...

Who would you imagine would win? The answer might surprise you ... http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Emma+Peel&word2=Tara+King Note: This is just a bit of fun! Please take this post in the spirit it was intended. That's impossible! I get Emma Peel 68700 results Tara King...