The Avengers - series 6 (set 5) DVD special features

jaz · Post by **jaz** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 2:16 pm

The Avengers - series 6 special features

• Exclusive audio commentary on Split! with director Roy Ward Baker and scriptwriter/producer Brian Clemens
• Exclusive audio commentary on Love All with scriptwriter Jeremy Burnham and guest star Veronica Strong
• Exclusive audio commentary on Killer with guest star Jennifer Croxton
• Exclusive audio commentary on The Morning After with director John Hough
• Exclusive audio commentary on Game with director Robert Fuest
• Exclusive audio commentary on Noon Doomsday with Linda Thorson stunt double Cyd Child
• Filmed introduction by Linda Thorson for the episodes The Interrogators, Love All, Take Me To Your Leader, Thingumajig, Requiem and Pandora
• Introducing Linda Thorson promotional trailer
• Girl About Town promotional trailer
• American shooting gallery opening credits on Split!
• American end credits for Invasion of The Earthmen
• Variant end credits for The Forget-Me-Knot
•Filmed introduction by director Cyril Frankel for Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40
• Artists test footage to find the replacement for Diana Rigg.
Featuring Lyn Ashley, Diane Clare, Susan Engel, Jane Murdoch, Valerie Van Ost, Toby Robins, Susan Travers and Wanda Ventham. Also featuring James Maxwell and Moray Watson in the role of Steed.
• Episode reconstructions for series 1 scripts The Springers, The Yellow Needle, The Far-Distant Dead and The Deadly Air
• UK animated bumper
• Granada + points for The Forget-Me-Knot
• Textless extended closing credits
• German opening and closing credits
• Insert reprint of series 6 promotional brochure
• Stills galleries
• PDF material

Dandy Forsdyke · Post by **Dandy Forsdyke** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 2:30 pm

Artists test footage to find the replacement for Diana Rigg.
Featuring Lyn Ashley, Diane Clare, Susan Engel, Jane Murdoch, Valerie Van Ost, Toby Robins, Susan Travers and Wanda Ventham. Also featuring James Maxwell and Moray Watson in the role of Steed.

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oneknightsteed · Post by **oneknightsteed** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 2:37 pm

Thanks, Jaz! The test footage to replace Diana, with all those actresses, seems like quite a treat!

norw27 · Post by **norw27** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 2:56 pm

Wow! Excellent features, really looking forward to this set. Shame there's no new interview with Linda but I think there's definitely more than enough to compensate, excellent work!

Dandy Forsdyke · Post by **Dandy Forsdyke** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 3:39 pm

But-but-but "James Maxwell and Moray Watson in the role of Steed"!

Was this for screen test purposes, so that these actress had someone to bounce off, and Pat unavailable?

Patrick wasn't leaving with Diana at one point was he?

Quick google says James Maxwell was in The Superlative Seven as Jason Wade and The Outside-In Man as Mark Charter

Moray Watson was in The Danger Makers as Peters

jaz · Post by **jaz** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 4:11 pm

Dandy Forsdyke wrote:But-but-but "James Maxwell and Moray Watson in the role of Steed"!

Was this for screen test purposes, so that these actress had someone to bounce off, and Pat unavailable?

Patrick wasn't leaving with Diana at one point was he?

Quick google says James Maxwell was in The Superlative Seven as Jason Wade and The Outside-In Man as Mark Charter

Moray Watson was in The Danger Makers as Peters

James and Moray were used as Patrick wasn't available. Linda Thorson did one of her tests opposite Jeremy Burnham. It was just to see how the ladies tested against a male lead.

darren · Post by **darren** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 4:21 pm

Fantastic, I was really hoping for a commentary with either John Hough or Robert Fuest, brilliant to get both. I bet that Jeremy Burnham has got some great stories (if he's got a good memory with his perspective of writer and actor), wonderful to include Veronica Strong (who was also in Burnham's Children of the Stones).

Saddened that Linda Thorson isn't taking part in anything new. But the test footage will be fascinating.

Timeless A-Peel · Post by **Timeless A-Peel** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 7:15 pm

Dandy Forsdyke wrote:
Artists test footage to find the replacement for Diana Rigg.
Featuring Lyn Ashley, Diane Clare, Susan Engel, Jane Murdoch, Valerie Van Ost, Toby Robins, Susan Travers and Wanda Ventham. Also featuring James Maxwell and Moray Watson in the role of Steed.

WW!

Ditto. This will be fascinating to watch. Not only do we get to see the Tara prospects in action, but a couple people filling in for Steed. As someone who loved Donald Monat in the role, I'm interested to see how they fare.

Jennifer Croxton's commentary has me excited, too. Once again, I love how these sets go beyond the usual suspects and bring in people with fresh takes on the series that haven't been rehashed so many times. But it is sad Linda isn't popping up.

Dandy Forsdyke · Post by **Dandy Forsdyke** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 7:28 pm

The Wanda Ventham test will be interesting to watch. We know her best from UFO and she was also Nurse Spray in The Gravediggers.

Her son Bendedict Cumberpatch is currently in BBC's brilliant Sherlock.

Mr S · Post by **Mr S** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 7:50 pm

Question for Jaz....were Linda's filmed introductions used as Granada Plus Points for the Tara episodes? I seem to remember that the Tara series had Pluspoints as well as series 5.