Avengers/Beatles connections

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I posted this earlier today on Facebook:

The Beatles' iconic Abbey Road album cover was a reference to my father's Avengers episode The Hour That Never Was which they all loved. (For non-Beatles fans, it is the cover with them walking on a zebra crossing). The Beatles were huge Steed and Mrs Peel fans.
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Rodders wrote:I posted this earlier today on Facebook:

I can reveal that The Beatles' iconic Abbey Road album cover was a reference to my father's Avengers episode The Hour That Never Was which they all loved. (For non-Beatles fans, it is the cover with them walking on a zebra crossing). The Beatles were huge Steed and Mrs Peel fans.
Obviously the Beatles had good taste besides music. But help me out. What is the connection between the cover and the episode?
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anti-clockwise wrote:
Rodders wrote:I posted this earlier today on Facebook:

I can reveal that The Beatles' iconic Abbey Road album cover was a reference to my father's Avengers episode The Hour That Never Was which they all loved. (For non-Beatles fans, it is the cover with them walking on a zebra crossing). The Beatles were huge Steed and Mrs Peel fans.
Obviously the Beatles had good taste besides music. But help me out. What is the connection between the cover and the episode?
Has to be the zebra crossing. Remember Emma saying to Steed "Look left, look right, etc" before they cross the zebra crossing at the RAF base. I've had Abbey Road for years, and Hour is my fave Avengers episode, but I had no idea The Beatles were influenced by it. Always interesting to learn something new. You may already know, but Paul's barefoot appearance on the cover of Abbey Road sparked rumours he was dead back in 1969 :!:
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cyberrich wrote:
anti-clockwise wrote:
Rodders wrote:I posted this earlier today on Facebook:

I can reveal that The Beatles' iconic Abbey Road album cover was a reference to my father's Avengers episode The Hour That Never Was which they all loved. (For non-Beatles fans, it is the cover with them walking on a zebra crossing). The Beatles were huge Steed and Mrs Peel fans.
Obviously the Beatles had good taste besides music. But help me out. What is the connection between the cover and the episode?
Has to be the zebra crossing. Remember Emma saying to Steed "Look left, look right, etc" before they cross the zebra crossing at the RAF base. I've had Abbey Road for years, and Hour is my fave Avengers episode, but I had no idea The Beatles were influenced by it. Always interesting to learn something new. You may already know, but Paul's barefoot appearance on the cover of Abbey Road sparked rumours he was dead back in 1969 :!:
One of my fave episodes too and I hope that it is the zebra crossing. I love your dad' episode it is one of his best.
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Yes, that is the image! A wonderful, playfully surreal moment.
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In The Superlative Seven there is a tenuous link to The Beatles. Can anyone tell me what it is?
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MikeR wrote:In The Superlative Seven there is a tenuous link to The Beatles. Can anyone tell me what it is?
Probably a longshot, but Charlotte Rampling was an uncredited dancer in
A Hard Day's Night.
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hatpeg wrote:
MikeR wrote:In The Superlative Seven there is a tenuous link to The Beatles. Can anyone tell me what it is?
Probably a longshot, but Charlotte Rampling was an uncredited dancer in
A Hard Day's Night.
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The Kitchener's Valet reference?
I know the Rolling Stones bought their gear there, so I assume the Sergeant Pepper's era costumes were similarly sourced.
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