Avengers Revisited: yet another creative idea

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Rodders
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Here is the current state of play for our ‘definitive’ guide, Avengers Revisited.
31 chapters successfully submitted:

The ‘Timeless Appeal’ of The Avengers
Avengerland Revisited Preface
Television, Avengers & Cultural Revolution
The Avengers & the Cold War x 2
Subversive Champagne & The Art of Murder
Graveyards
The Country House Trap
Main Title Sequences
Teasers
Tag scenes
Set Design and Locations
New Avengers Set Design and Locations
Music
Cars
Fashions
Script-writers
Directing The Avengers
Silk and Steel: The Personalities of John Steed
Tara King
Mother
Purdey
Mike Gambit
Eccentric Guest Characters
Hand of the Wind: For Queen and Country - Martial Arts in The Avengers
Miss King, You’re Needed! or Hedonism & Leather Boots: The Avengers’ success in France
An Insider’s View by Roger Marshall
Avengers Remembered by Raymond Austin
Patrick Macnee: ‘The World’s Favourite English Gent’
Monochrome versus Colour; Emma versus Tara; New Avengers or New Avengers: eternal debates
And Soon the Darkness/See No Evil: Brian Clemens’ post-Avengerland

With Emma Peel due to arrive on Friday, the book will hopefully be published before Christmas.
The Avengers: a product of the sixties and a timeless piece of sublime art
Rodders
The Bird Who Wrote Too Much
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Joined: Thu Jan 03, 2013 10:22 pm
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This book has been published and a thread for feedback is now in the merchandise section.
The Avengers: a product of the sixties and a timeless piece of sublime art
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