The milk float is one of my mum's biggest memories of the Avengers. She'll forever associate Macnee's face with being unnerved by weird or creepy things happening.
Murdersville is nasty in that it's quite sadistic. It may get all silly towards the end like with the fight but earlier on there's a nasty edge to proceedings like the characters of Mickle and Hubert. They're presented as everyday country folk and not diabolical masterminds. They show real relish at destroying Paul Croft's personal things and there's something about it that takes it away from the fantasy of The Avengers at that time.
Take-Over: most frightening ever?
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I like how unsettlingly quiet Take-Over is, in direction, acting and sound scape. In many ways I think it is very much reminiscent of a Cathy Gale episode and it certainly wouldn't look out of place in season three. Always surprises me that it's a Terry Nation episode it's so underplayed on some many levels (in a good way), but equally its so Terry Nation it hurts.
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good point...I pretty much concur..Rodney wrote:Also, when Emma discovers Paul's body she contemplates killing the fake doctor, nearly smashing his brains out with the telephone. As the Avengers Dossier observes, it's a rare moment of true sentiment. It is without doubt a nasty episode, and that's coming from someone who likes it.
emotions run high.....it's such a flightly episode..but good as well..
some of Peel's antics, were suspect..
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It's one of the best scenes ever made, for the fifth series.Rodney wrote:Also, when Emma discovers Paul's body she contemplates killing the fake doctor, nearly smashing his brains out with the telephone. As the Avengers Dossier observes, it's a rare moment of true sentiment. It is without doubt a nasty episode, and that's coming from someone who likes it.
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Yes! They're like creepy little neighbor boys, destroying your parents garden,smashing tomatoes as you watch helplessly...Darren wrote:The milk float is one of my mum's biggest memories of the Avengers. She'll forever associate Macnee's face with being unnerved by weird or creepy things happening.
Murdersville is nasty in that it's quite sadistic. It may get all silly towards the end like with the fight but earlier on there's a nasty edge to proceedings like the characters of Mickle and Hubert. They're presented as everyday country folk and not diabolical masterminds. They show real relish at destroying Paul Croft's personal things and there's something about it that takes it away from the fantasy of The Avengers at that time.
That reminds me. I just recently re-watched Agatha Christie's "Evil Under the Sun"(1982) since i was a child. I realized that both Dame Diana And Colin Blakley (Mickle) were both in it. They never share screen time though...
As I'm plowing my way through the Brian Clemens' later 1970's ITV series "Thriller", it's amazing to discover how many Avengers episodes were recycled in "Thriller" and how many "Thriller" episodes were recycled in The New Avengers. Just watching "The Eyes Have It" from "Thriller" season 1 and it's a rehash of "Take Over". Equally sinister in a different way, with blind students replacing Steed & Tara.
Sort of surprised that Clemens got away with this continual rehashing. Maybe TV executives were less fussy in those days!
Sort of surprised that Clemens got away with this continual rehashing. Maybe TV executives were less fussy in those days!
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