Like the one Ian Hendry remembered being locked inside, in the TV Times Special?Timeless A-Peel wrote: Maybe my opinion of Dr. Keel would go up even more if they gave him a better wardrobe.
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Some reasons:Timeless A-Peel wrote: I understand why he was difficult to accept as a character--he threw off the "Steed and a girl" formula. What I don't get is why he seems to have gone down fairly well in 1976/77, and by the eighties everyone seemed to have a hate-on for both the character and TNA. It seems like a pretty rapid about-face. Or were all the publications just biased?
That's a pretty good explanation, lots of good points there. Of course there were videos in the mid-nineties, and TNA was still taking a lot of abuse by 1998/99 when I was getting into it. But I can see where the resentment toward a remake would come from. I'm just happy it's gotten a reevaluation.Frankymole wrote:Some reasons:Timeless A-Peel wrote: I understand why he was difficult to accept as a character--he threw off the "Steed and a girl" formula. What I don't get is why he seems to have gone down fairly well in 1976/77, and by the eighties everyone seemed to have a hate-on for both the character and TNA. It seems like a pretty rapid about-face. Or were all the publications just biased?
Virtually no-one remembered Dr Keel (and Martin King even less), or that "The Avengers" were originally solely men.
In the early 80s, there was nostalgia for the 60s, but it was hard to get to see the 1960s series - impossible until Channel 4, really. So people who hungered for a dose of Steed and Emma resented that the series had once been brought back but in a different, new form not "more of the same".
Things calmed down in the video age when you could watch whichever pairing/trio/Avengers-show-format took your fancy without being disgruntled that you were watching a "monkeyed about with" retread. Which TNA never was - it was its own show, just as much as the King and Cathy eras are.
It's hard to remember a time when past TV remained in the archive, never to be accessed; it made one resent more modern stuff.
I know--I was really happy to hear all the nice things people has to say during the BBC4 run, but if they followed Emma and did that well, that makes me even happier.Frankymole wrote:Yes, I was really heartened that the recent reruns of TNA on BBC Four have had such a great response, on the other shows' forums that I frequent (Dr Who etc) people loved the TNA episodes and they were seeing them for the first time.
It's especially good since they followed hot on the heels of Season 5 repeats, so the standard was seen as just as good as Emma Peel's most 'popular' episodes (the color ones), though I wish they'd give the B&W ones another run - they've been seen less often though they did show them about 2005/06.
What I'd love most (apart from a run of the Tara King season, to which the BBC seem allergic) is TNA with an Optyimum-style remastering to pristine film print standards... though I already prefer to watch TNA than S5 when I want some Avengering.