Perhaps. Diana was contractually obliged to return, really, and for one more episode than she actually did, but she could have been difficult about coming back, no question. Maybe it was simply a case of not needing it any longer--it would be difficult to reuse as it was identifiably "Emma's" car. So maybe they thought she was the best person to give it to, and a way to free up some storage space to boot.Frankymole wrote:Maybe it was part-payment or even a gift to thank her for returning, she didn't need to, after all. We can almost regard "The Forget-Me-Knot" as a gift to the fans from Diana Rigg.Timeless A-Peel wrote:If it's true, they must have done it after she came back for Forget-Me-Not--otherwise she would have sold it long before it filmed. The book lists Brian Clemens as a source, so perhaps he's the one who said it. I've never heard him mention it elsewhere, though.Dandy Forsdyke wrote:That's a new one on me too.
The Date on the picture.
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Maybe--I've never heard that before, either. Maybe it's just a confusion over which Elan was which. I don't know if Emma's Elan was a loan or owned outright, either.norw27 wrote:I wouldn't have thought that were true, surely they only hired the cars for the series? I have read somewhere that during this time Diana was with Phillip Saville and he had a Lotus Elan so maybe that's where the confusion lies.
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Well, no. The Lotus Elan S3 does not appear in "The Forget-Me-Knot", it was last seen in "Mission... Highly Improbable". so could have been given to her after she endured that awful interview with that German guy.Timeless A-Peel wrote:If it's true, they must have done it after she came back for Forget-Me-Not--otherwise she would have sold it long before it filmed. The book lists Brian Clemens as a source, so perhaps he's the one who said it. I've never heard him mention it elsewhere, though.Dandy Forsdyke wrote:That's a new one on me too.
(By the way, it's not officially powder blue either - SJH 499D is painted in what Lotus marketed as "glacier blue"; Lotus never named a colour "powder blue".)[/i]
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That site is wrong about other details, so don't take it as gospel.Peter Motte wrote:There are some b/w photo's about her Lotus, which clearly show a white Lotus.
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By the way: the Lotus used at the Motor Show was afterwards used extensively as a demo car by Lotus' agent.
I can't imagine the car was used at the same time in the series too.
The actual colour has always been contentious as a b/w picture clearly can't prove a certain colour, just tonality - it might equally have been silver, or aluminium, or glacier blue, or yellow for all we can tell from black and white evidence. I would love to see a colour photograph so we can close that particular debate forever.
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But nevertheless: the pictures here are correct pictures:dissolute wrote:That site is wrong about other details, so don't take it as gospel.Peter Motte wrote:There are some b/w photo's about her Lotus, which clearly show a white Lotus.
See The Avengers Forever
By the way: the Lotus used at the Motor Show was afterwards used extensively as a demo car by Lotus' agent.
I can't imagine the car was used at the same time in the series too.
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I haven't watched The Forget-Me-Not in well over a decade, so my memories are a little hazy. Which car does she drive off with Peter in? I know it was a blueish colour--I assumed it was the Lotus.dissolute wrote:Well, no. The Lotus Elan S3 does not appear in "The Forget-Me-Knot", it was last seen in "Mission... Highly Improbable". so could have been given to her after she endured that awful interview with that German guy.Timeless A-Peel wrote:If it's true, they must have done it after she came back for Forget-Me-Not--otherwise she would have sold it long before it filmed. The book lists Brian Clemens as a source, so perhaps he's the one who said it. I've never heard him mention it elsewhere, though.Dandy Forsdyke wrote:That's a new one on me too.
(By the way, it's not officially powder blue either - SJH 499D is painted in what Lotus marketed as "glacier blue"; Lotus never named a colour "powder blue".)[/i]
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