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mousemeat · Post by **mousemeat** » Sun Oct 10, 2021 10:40 pm

Frankymole wrote:Are they on a moored boat/ship there?

good question...i think boat....

Post by **dissolute** » Mon Oct 11, 2021 9:52 pm

Yes, on a ship in the Thames. I think it's HQS Wellington but it seems to be moored near Whitehall Gardens where the Hispanola is now.

Post by **dissolute** » Wed Dec 08, 2021 11:52 pm

We return to weekly banners for a month to cover the last four episodes of Series 1.
Today, we have Steed and Keel battling neo-Nazis, strangely not wearing MAGA hats, in Dead of Winter

Franky's Christmas banner will return in four weeks.

Frankymole · Post by **Frankymole** » Thu Dec 09, 2021 3:09 am

dissolute wrote:We return to weekly banners for a month to cover the last four episodes of Series 1.
Today, we have Steed and Keel battling neo-Nazis, strangely not wearing MAGA hats, in Dead of Winter

Franky's Christmas banner will return in four weeks.

A chilling episode (no pun intended). I really enjoyed the Tele-Snap reconstruction and Big Finish's re-enactment. I've read about some cryogenic plots in unused scripts/storylines from the Emma era, and of course it was a side-issue in Invasion of the Earthmen and a major plot hook in The Eagle's Nest. I don't think either of those did it better than here - earliest, and best treatment of the idea. The final showdown is genuinely gripping. I feared for Keel's life.

Frankymole · Post by **Frankymole** » Thu Dec 09, 2021 3:55 am

Tell me again how to clear the banner and get the new one? Ah, done it. Hold down control and refresh. Aww, love Dr Keel. You can't beat Dramatic Eyeglasses.

mousemeat · Post by **mousemeat** » Thu Dec 09, 2021 12:54 pm

Frankymole wrote:Tell me again how to clear the banner and get the new one? Ah, done it. Hold down control and refresh. Aww, love Dr Keel. You can't beat Dramatic Eyeglasses.

exactly...adds a certain aura to the good doctor....and btw, loved this year's banner...one of the very best done..you nailed it, Franky

Frankymole · Post by **Frankymole** » Fri Dec 10, 2021 12:21 am

mousemeat wrote:....and btw, loved this year's banner...one of the very best done..you nailed it, Franky

It will be back in January

Well there are Twelve Days of Christmas, after all! (I intend to watch The Avengers every day over my 2 weeks' Christmas break, again. Was lovely and enjoyable last year and started me on a rewatch of the whole series).

mousemeat · Post by **mousemeat** » Fri Dec 10, 2021 12:31 am

mchousemeat wrote:
dissolute wrote:It's amazing, isn't it, that 1961 had a heavily Asian cast for this episode but in 1977 you have Terry Wood as Soo Choy - and Ronald Lacey as Hong Kong Harry in 1976! (Although neither are as bad as the yellowface guards in Room Without a View).

the era between 60's and 70's, were difficult in terms of casting..and being what was considered to be PC at the time

of course, my all time fave 'mis casting' was Charton Heston as a mexican detective ..in ' Touch of Evil ' (Universal 1958) directed by Orson Welles. his last Hollywood directing gig

Post by **dissolute** » Thu Dec 16, 2021 2:25 am

Sixty years ago, the Avengers had a story about an airborne virus and attempts to develop an effective vaccine in The Deadly Air, which is this week's banner:

mousemeat · Post by **mousemeat** » Thu Dec 16, 2021 7:06 am

dissolute wrote:Sixty years ago, the Avengers had a story about an airborne virus and attempts to develop an effective vaccine in The Deadly Air, which is this week's banner:

6 decades later...and dealing with covid-19.....sorta eerie...