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Diana & Patrick at the Emmys 1967
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 11:18 pm
by DiVicenzo
I think this was the 2nd year Diana was robbed of her Emmy by Barbara (Wooden) Bain.
This in found by 'cariheart' at avengers suburbia:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FFV5LK_xyd0
and these found by moi via a Google alert - Diana and Patrick are not in these videos.
http://tinyurl.com/6lu2vt
As Marlene at MoR pointed out:
"IN 1969, a columnist in Look magazine wrote: "there was Barbara Bain
copping her third straight dramatic farce trophy. She who isn't fit to
wear a pair of Diana Rigg's discarded leotards."
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:27 am
by helenofirvine
Always fun to see these clips. Thank you.
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 5:38 am
by Timeless A-Peel
Oh, thanks, I've been looking for a video of one of Diana's Emmy nominations for some time. Too bad she didn't win--I'd have loved to see her speech. I'm actually surprised Patrick and Diana flew all the way out to attend the awards.
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 8:41 am
by Artanis
Thanks for the links, Barry!
Timeless A-Peel wrote:Oh, thanks, I've been looking for a video of one of Diana's Emmy nominations for some time. Too bad she didn't win--I'd have loved to see her speech. I'm actually surprised Patrick and Diana flew all the way out to attend the awards.
Yeah, it's too bad Diana didn't win. Also, was Patrick nominated for an award too?
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 4:47 pm
by Timeless A-Peel
Artanis wrote:Thanks for the links, Barry!
Timeless A-Peel wrote:Oh, thanks, I've been looking for a video of one of Diana's Emmy nominations for some time. Too bad she didn't win--I'd have loved to see her speech. I'm actually surprised Patrick and Diana flew all the way out to attend the awards.
Yeah, it's too bad Diana didn't win. Also, was Patrick nominated for an award too?
As far as I recall, he wasn't. I think Diana was the only one to ever be nominated for a "major" award for the series. Patrick and Honor did win the Variety Club award in 1963, and there was some award the show received in Spain. Patrick flew out to collect it, and then imbued a bit too much on the plane on the way back and left the award onboard. They never did find it.
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 7:41 pm
by Rodney
No surprise that our duo were out there for the awards, bearing in mind how important the US was for the show and that Macnee was an American citizen. Apart from anything else, it was more publicity for The Avengers.
Re: Diana & Patrick at the Emmys 1967
Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 10:20 am
by Avengerholic
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 11:41 am
by widescream
Barbara Bain certainly isn't the actress Dina Rigg is. But to be fair, Bain was very effective in Mission Impossible IMHO. I actually thought she did those characters when going undercover quite well.
After the triumph of UFO, Space 1999 was for the most part a heap of shit, and it made everyone and everything associated with it look bad including Bain and Landau.
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 8:37 pm
by Philippa
Nice video. Too bad Diana didn't win. She deserved it in my opinion!
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 2:14 am
by moorlock2003
Barbara Bain was an emotionless robot on 'Mission: Impossible'. I'm sure it was just a case of Americans wanting to give awards to Americans.
I don't think there is one single scene where her head and shoulders move independantely of each other and that hair 
I swear it's made of concrete