The Avengers International Fan Forum

Watching a Tara King episode recently, which happened to be Killer, it seemed to me the filming was really interestingly done. Of course the use of bright colours (as in the Emma Peel colour series) feels like the directors were having a lot of fun...

My word there's an awful lot of cigarettes smoked in this season. I bet the studio was constantly surrounded in a tobacco haze. I can't recall many cigarettes being smoked in the Rigg film series. Maybe cigarettes were frowned upon in the studio by...

This thread I'd like to devote to items briefly seen which connect with a previous episode(s), but not bloopers.

I've noticed only one so far but surely there are more. I'm referring to Small Game For Big Hunters. The scene is when the native man...

The reason I ask is there is a (afaik) Prisoner Convention every year, numerous Doctor Who conventions, Star Trek, etc... but has there ever been an Avengers-Oriented Convention? If there were, did anybody from this board go to one? Should there be...

Does anyone know the first time Cathy Gale shows us her judo skills? For something that became such an important element in the series, it'd be interesting to know where it began exactly... Anyone got any ideas?

Having lunch today with my father who had just received the new Series 3 dvd, he pointed out to me that the fake writer of Lobster Quadrille (Richard Lucas) was not - as has been suggested in the past - Brian Clemens but was in fact Richard Bates,...

I am interested in this photo of Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg on the beach - was is used in magazines published in the UK? Perhaps the 'TV Times' magazine? Where was the photo shoot?

David Smith informs me this photo ... is one of a series...

So having bought the series 1 and 2 boxset, I've finally seen Dead On Course is it any good, well this is what I think.

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What do other people think of it?

Here's a question that's bothering me: the Season 1 & 2 title sequences and how they did them.

They all seem to have been constructed live in studio - the earliest script pdfs on the recent DVD set indicate that they were shot as captions using...

Does the Elizabeth Shepherd footage still exist? It would be eventually funny to see that. Does anyone know that?

Watched this on my sparkling new Avengers DVD and really enjoyed it.

Not typical of the show - set in Jamaica and Bogota, it could easily have been a Saint or Danger Man episode. It's Honor Blackman's first recorded episode and the lighter...

Brian Clemens was hugely influential in the shape that The Avengers took.

Out of his season 3 episodes, which is your favourite?

I'm only using the ones on which he was directly credited.

I have always felt that some of the Avengers cast detracted from the series more than they added. Mother is at the top of my list (which takes out Rhonda by default), followed by Venus, One-Ten and Dr. King. What's your pleasure?

Today (January 7th 2010) it is exactly 49 years ago that the Avengers was on television for the very first time. On January 7th 1961 HOT SNOW was aired on ITV, starting a decade of the Avengers which would end with BIZARRE on the 21st of May 1969....

There is a review in the new Video Watchdog of the new season sets that Optimum is putting out of the beginning of the Avengers. I think the review by noted author Kim Newsman gets off to a bad start with the opening sentence:
The Avengers is a...

She doesn't represent a partner for me because we never saw her fighting, she's very sensitive (she cries in THE REMOVAL MEN). Moreover she screams in THE DECAPOD.
She's just an element for Steed's enquiries.

She's not learned as Mrs Gale. She...

Looking back on the Thorson era, was ' MOTHER ' really needed ? or could
the role just been a small bit part, from time to time ?

Since ABC (U.S.) was footing the bills, they wanted and got the character of Mother...

Well... sort of. The BBC have just shown a comedy special written by and starring Victoria Wood as part of their Christmas schedules: Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas. The show included a spoof look at fictional actress Bo Beaumont , played...

Finally got to see Man Eater (which wouldn't work on one player, but DID work on a much better player), and was surprised to see Emma and Steed fighting when the alien plants took over her mind.

In this case, it seems that Steed got the better of...

What episodes would have made interesting sequels? Or which villain/diabolical mastermind should have returned to have another go, if any?

I would have liked to see the Cybernauts return in the TK era, perhaps even a prequel with Cathy Gale - a...

Sorting through some old 60s Avengers magazines today I came across this feature which did make me smile :D This magazine, I assume to avoid reader confusion, has altered the well known publicity shot of Linda and Patrick to feature Linda with dark...

I am curious by way of the UK fans, as The Avengers portrays an England that never existed except in the imagination, what are the likely perceptions along class lines of the series in Britain?

For example, was it more likely to appeal to the...

In The Medecine Men from Season 3, I was struck by its portrayal of the evil painter Leeson.

The series seems to take great pains to render artists, occultists, and other bohemians (see also Warlock ) as the lowest-of-the low vermin.
I can't...

Remember the lab of the guy in The See-Through Man who invented an invisibility formula? There was a distinctive prop in the background of those scenes, a silver robot with a clear dome brain . Based on the size, I assume that it was probably a suit...

Still working my way through season 6, and today I watched Have guns will haggle. Definitely in the pile of Tara episodes that doesn't come up to scratch. Thankfully that pile only includes half a dozen episodes. This one takes an age to get going,...