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Gave this my first viewing last night, yes really! I saved a couple of episodes to have a new one a last time.

This is probably my least favourite of series four. It lacks anything to make it stand out, my guess is this could have been the cheapie...

It was also omitted in the 60s broadcasting in The Netherlands, not surprising as in 1980 an ad with Paul Eddington was banned due to a woman having to provocative red lips.

Just rewatched this one, and obviously terrific. I didn't realize in the earlier poor copy that I saw that the kung-fu expert that Mrs. Peel was investigating as the possible murderer was actually one of the industrialists who got killed by the...

Also, Mrs. Peel's space-esq suit reminded me of the one worn by Doctor Who companion Sara Kingdom (played by Jean Marsh) from the serial The Dalek's Master Plan. Upon research however, it turned out that the Doctor Who episode was first, so Mrs....

Just rewatched this, only my second viewing. On my initial Emma years DVD, this episode wouldn't play, so I only got to see it by renting another disc. The bluray is a major improvement in visual but also specifically sound, so that I was able to...

I gave it a 6. and then re watched it...I dunno, still stick with my original number. 6.

Rewatching this one after some 40 years.
It’s an 8 from me.
Loved the humour and the way Steed and Emma really play off one another both on and off the golf course.
I think one can tell how much fun they are having plus a bit of ad lib thrown in...

Watched this episode the other night, I'm always taken with how genuinely horrific the Man-Eater's final assault on the house is. There's a really wonderfully nasty to edge to a lot of the more overtly horrific flourishes in Season 4 in general but...

It is good episode, but not a great episode. It could almost be a Saint in terms of the somewhat more localized baddies and their economic plot. It's very much a Steed show, with Mrs. Peel as a solid backup, but his investigations and assignations...

the forces of good, of course ! lol....the cheating scene, brought back memories for oui...as I remember in High School, several people resorted to behavior like that...etc...so naughty...Again, I loved the fight at the end...and this is one of my...

Kinky!

true... a lot of rubber going on lol

Mantrap
Shotgun bullets
Bat
Rubber jumpsuit
Boots...

The PVC suit was in A Surfeit of H2O , don't get me started on that outfit...

and why oh why are they all drinking brandy and not a malt whisky in Scotland?!

This.

Yes, some of them are easily obtained, they're on the dvd & blu ray sets as well as shutterstock - Diana is all in black with a ribbed pullover and trousers, holding a gun, it looks like some of them were shot at the farm used in Silent Dust

Two shadows of Diana as she walked down that dune as well.
One of them was left over from Liz Shepherd... ;)

Sorry folks for lowering the average score with my 3 rating.
To be honest for me this is one of the weakest episodes. There is so much wrong with it on so many levels.
Still we all have our views and I respect those scoring higher.

8/10. Some of the best atmosphere the show has to offer. But it is a little too derivative of Don't Look Behind You and, of course, The Joker , to the point where it doesn't hold up quite as well on rewatches (IMO, of course). They also revealed...

The Avengers is a giant pastiche of British culture, so you could surmise the whole Harem bit is just one of generic Arabic culture. But I can understand modern viewers finding it a bit uncomfortable (Mrs. Peel's dance is fun, though). On the plus...

That would be from my website, yes it's definitely Lord Gretton driving the engine.

Love the wealth of info you have on this site and the knowledgeable ’fan base’.
Thanks for confirming it as Lord Gretton 😊

As I said in my review :
Bizarrely, 'Colonel Psev' manages to telephone the Russian quartet at one point, even though they are all his constituents and all in the room together! Why was this arranged, and how? Also, when Brodny is at the fashion...

I just noticed, while revising the episode today, that ALL of Geoffrey Ridsdale's medal ribbons are pinned upside down and back to front, so they're not in the correct order of precedence. Most ribbons are symmetrical so you wouldn't normally...

Steed leaving the cabbie with a somewhat overzealous amount of holiday toys was my first proper peak at series four as I saw this when testing the discs of the dvd box set that had just arrived in the mail. It is a fun scene, but always sticks in my...

it seems that over the years, my opinion on several episodes, has changed since I first viewed 'em..either by U.S. ABC, or yrs later, when A & E put them out on VHS...THEY only looking much better..when they went to DVD..

Hope Patrick Allen didn't find out!!!!
JB

I've finally gotten the old Emma Peel megaset out again and decided to finally finish every episode from her era (I had seen quite a few, but in a mostly random order and not every single one). This particular episode has been the highlight so far!...