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Post by MS on Dec 16, 2009 1:40:53 GMT -5
The Big Thinker: Season 2, Episode 12. A John Steed-Cathy Gale episode. Cathy appears in most of this episode without Steed as Steed only appears for a total of less than ten minutes. Not a bad plot involving Cathy investigating sabotage on a super computer known as Plato.
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Post by MS on Feb 4, 2010 0:07:04 GMT -5
There is a reference to The Avengers in the Doctor Who novel To The Slaughter. In a description of a female character, author Stephen Cole wrote: "Like a size 20 Cathy Gale she high-kicked and jabbed her way through the rabid crowd".
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Post by MS on Feb 8, 2010 2:27:16 GMT -5
Death of a Batman: Season 3, Episode 5. Rather a confusing episode. Cathy being undercover as a secretary was the only thing I enjoyed about it.
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Post by MS on Mar 3, 2010 2:28:03 GMT -5
Esprit de Corps: Season 3, Episode 25. Apart from Roy Kinnear (the first of four appearances on the series) and the prospect of Cathy becoming Queen found very little to enjoy of this episode.
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Post by MS on Mar 9, 2010 0:09:34 GMT -5
Mandrake: Season 3, Episode 18. Pretty good episode in which the recent death of a former colleague of Steed may have been the result of foul play. Highlight of the episode is when Cathy had a fight with Sexton in the cemetery!
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Post by MS on Apr 3, 2010 16:08:52 GMT -5
Castle De'ath: Season 4, Episode 5. An Emma Peel episode. De'ath is the name of a Scottish clan and it sees Steed and Emma investigate the clan's castle. Playing the laird is Gordon Jackson which is basically like the opposite to his role as Hudson the butler in Upstairs, Downstairs. Pretty good mystery involving ghosts, torture chambers and submarine bays.
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Post by MS on May 12, 2010 15:40:18 GMT -5
Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40?: Season 7, Episode 6. A Tara King episode. That is quite a title for an episode. George of the title refers to a robot who gets shot and injured for vital information that he possesses. Quite silly the concern shown to George's welfare as he was a real human being. A pretty good episode for Tara especially when she pretends to be an American and I did not see it coming on who the chief villain was here.
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Post by MS on Jun 6, 2010 13:57:39 GMT -5
Look - (Stop Me If You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellers... Season 7, Episode 11. Written by Dennis S(p)ooner. Guest starred John Cleese and Bernard Cribbins. Very very fun episode involving killer clowns.
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Post by MS on Jun 16, 2010 19:19:17 GMT -5
Have Guns - Will Haggle: Season 7, Episode 12. Rifles are being stolen and placed on auction by the female villain Adriana played by Nicola Pagett. Nicola Pagett makes for a good villain but can't help to think of her as being like the villainous version of her Upstairs Downstairs character some years before that show.
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Post by MS on Jun 30, 2010 2:32:53 GMT -5
Wish You Were Here: Season 7, Episode 20. Tara tracks down her missing uncle at a holiday resort where no one is allowed to leave. Yes you guess it this is a parody of Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner. Wish You Were Here was originally aired on November 18 1968, nine months after The Prisoner had concluded on February 4 1968. I sort of guess who the mastermind was here. Linda Thorson as Tara shines brightly here which was helped with Patrick Macnee's limited appearance in this episode as Tara gets all the action here.
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Post by MS on Jul 9, 2010 14:53:06 GMT -5
My Wildest Dream: Season 7, Episode 28. Sleepwalkers are being hypnotised in committing murder. Not a bad premise to this episode and one has to take pity on Edward Fox's character on what he had to go through here.
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Post by MS on Jul 21, 2010 19:29:01 GMT -5
Take-Over: Season 7, Episode 30. Written by Terry Nation. A group of villains holds a couple who just happened to be friends of Steed hostage in their own house for the purpose of sabotaging a peace conference that is about to take place nearby. In a case of bad timing Steed drops by and his life has been placed in danger. This is basically the reverse of Wish You Were Here in the same season. In that episode Tara dominates the action with a very limited appearance by Steed. Here in Take-Over the focus is dominated by Steed and Tara does not appear until the last few minutes. Steed mostly on his own in this episode was quite good. Notable to point out in this episode that it has deadly pills which kills by exploding in a person's system. In fact this method of death was used in the final chapter of the I, Davros audio mini-series, Guilt based on situations that Terry Nation created in Doctor Who.
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Post by MS on Aug 3, 2010 19:46:48 GMT -5
Pandora: Antepultimate episode of the series. Apparently this was Linda Thorson's favourite episode and it is easy to understand why as the suspense has been well played. Tara gets kidnapped because she looked like the long lost love Pandora of the villains' uncle. The brothers hope that their uncle would tell them where the treasure is with him seeng Pandora again. Instead of Steed and Tara, it was the brothers who brought themselves down due to the stupidity from one of them. Cathy and Emma's names can be spotted on files in the file room. Very fitting since the series was about to come to an end.
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Post by MS on Sept 5, 2010 18:55:22 GMT -5
The Rotters: Season 7, Episode 15. Not a bad episode about a wood disintegrator. Very funny scene when Steed had to pretend to be friendly to a couple of villains.
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Post by MS on Oct 2, 2010 16:16:22 GMT -5
The Interrogators: Season 7, Episode 14. Christopher Lee's second and final appearance in the series. Here he plays a Colonel Mannering an enemy agent who gets spies into a special course in order to trick them out of revealing their contacts. An very interesting premise for this episode.
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