A pic of two of the Cinema Daybill Posters for AVENGERS episodes that were screened theatrically in New Zealand in the 1960s or 1970s.
The theatrical screenings of the Avengers were one episode as part of a "double feature" often a comedy or a horror film.
Points to note are (from Neil Lambess)
1. The posters were printed in Sydney, Australia by Robert Burton pty ltd who did most of the artwork for NZ and Australian movie posters up untill the mid 70s (which were often "interpretations" of the international poster art for each film )
2. The Avengers episodes were distributed by "16mm limited a division of photographic wholesalers ltd". Photographic Wholesalers was owned by Kerridge Odeon Ltd one of the two major cinema chains in NZ at the time. "16mm ltd" would also hire prints of full movies on 16mm for home movie buffs for quite reasonable fees, and they were liked a great deal by anybody who owned a 16mm projector.
3. "16mm ltd" as part of the Kerridge group were also a legitimate film distributor to NZ Theatres, and although their distribution of the Avengers
episodes would imply that the Avengers episodes would also be in 16mm ....they may have been 35mm prints (having worked in the NZ cinema industry in the 80s and 90s.
4. "16mm ltd" was still offering a couple of 16mm Avengers prints for hire in their rental catolougue in the 1980s , but they werent episodes that seem to have had cinema screenings in NZ.
5. Some of these may have screened theatrically after NZBC transmissions of season 5 on NZ television (which would have transmitted them in Black and white).
I think only 6 episodes were screened at Cinemas here but as always research is ongoing...
from memory Neil Lambess the theatrical releases here were...
THE FEAR MERCHANTS
ESCAPE IN TIME
RETURN OF THE CYBERNAUTS
THE HIDDEN TIGER
(Possibly) FROME VENUS WITH LOVE.
with respect
Denis
