Best Avengers / New Avengers Car chase!?!?!

roboman1984 · Post by **roboman1984** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:16 pm

Hey guys, this is my first thread so still quite new to this. the clue is in the thread title really. I was wondering if you guys could tell me where I can find the best Avengers car chase?!?!?

Dandy Forsdyke · Post by **Dandy Forsdyke** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:29 pm

Not a fan of car chases myself, but I do like the one in The Midas Touch. Gambit, Purdey crashing through orange boxes, Purdey peeling an orange, both arguing over who directed The Treasure of The Sierra Madre ...

oneknightsteed · Post by **oneknightsteed** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 12:05 am

At the beginning of 'The Lion And The Unicorn' you have the multi car, winding road, up the hill and dangerous cliff side car chase. Steed shows off his driving skills, Purdey enjoys the ride.

Post by **dissolute** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 11:11 am

Almost the entirety of "Dead Man's Treasure" could be considered a car chase, and there's the rather sedate one in "Legacy of Death".

I'd pick "The Midas Touch" as well though. The Avengers didn't really do car chases...

mousemeat · Post by **mousemeat** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 11:18 am

Dandy Forsdyke wrote:Not a fan of car chases myself, but I do like the one in The Midas Touch. Gambit, Purdey crashing through orange boxes, Purdey peeling an orange, both arguing over who directed The Treasure of The Sierra Madre ...

that was funny and sorta bizzare...

darren · Post by **darren** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 12:05 pm

Welcome to forum, roboman1984

The Midas Touch is always the one that comes to mind when I think of brilliant car chases. I love that Gambit and Purdey are so casual throughout the whole thing.

Another vote for the pre-titles sequence of The Lion and the Unicorn (which was apparently a promotional film for the show that they wrote into the episode).

Homicide and Old Lace - the chase is the car park is very dynamic.
Have Guns - Will Haggle - the John Bryce episodes clearly had some great car chases, the one of Tara leaving the weapons testing, the cars overtaking one another and narrowly missing destroying the camera in the middle of the road

Super Secret Sypher Snatch - Steed being chased by a ladder is so well shot.

Timeless A-Peel · Post by **Timeless A-Peel** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:20 pm

dissolute wrote:Almost the entirety of "Dead Man's Treasure" could be considered a car chase, and there's the rather sedate one in "Legacy of Death".

I'd pick "The Midas Touch" as well though. The Avengers didn't really do car chases...

That was my first thought--the Avengers was never really a car chase show. The "live" tapings of the first three seasons weren't conducive to driving scenes at all, and even when we got to season four and beyond, it was more common to have them exchanging dialogue while driving somewhere, or having something happen to them while driving.

TNA was more car chasey, but then that was a seventies phenomenon, and they were trying their darnedest to make the best of the whole British Leyland fiasco. I have to go with The Midas Touch, too. I'm not a hugr car chase fan, but it's so well done you can't help but love it. The Purdey/Gambit exchanges are classic, there's the lovely little saga of the orange (from crate, to Purdey, to peeled, then fed to Gambit, all without a break in the action or any sort of reference to it from the characters). It's doubly good because it segues neatly from a car chase to a foot chase. I like to think of it as Brian Clemens' way of getting his money's worth from all that fitness training he put them through. "Let's have them run, and climb fences, and tuck and roll, and jump over things, and did I mention the running? Oh, and let's have them do it in impractical footwear." Genius.

XR40 · Post by **XR40** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:08 pm

Hi. Only one car chase does it for me - Have guns will haggle - Tara shows how to do it in an Elan +2 vs Jaguar MkII...Go Tara!!!!

Post by **dissolute** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:32 pm

That reminds me of the car chases on "The See-Through Man", which also featured a Jag.