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Post by MS on Oct 21, 2010 20:18:32 GMT -5
Noon Doomsday: Season 7, Episode 10. Written by Terry Nation. A enjoyable Western episode without the Western setting with the title obvious an allusion to High Noon. Among the guest stars in this episode is TP McKenna who would later appear in another Terry Nation penned TV episode that of Blake’s 7: Bounty.
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Post by MS on Nov 6, 2010 19:40:11 GMT -5
Fog: Season 7, Episode 24. In the midst of a fog a Jack the Ripper type killer the Gaslight Ghoul targets members of an international disarmament conference. Not as spooky as it should have been.
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Post by MS on Nov 18, 2010 17:55:13 GMT -5
SEPET SUCPRE CNCEHC SYPARE (SUPER SECRET CYPHER SNATCH): Season 7, Episode 3. Not bad intrigue about how secrets from Cypher HQ has been stolen by enemy agents. The guest cast in this episode includes Nicholas Smith (Doctor Who: Dalek Invasion of Earth), Ivor Dean (The Saint) and Simon Oates (Doomwatch).
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Post by MS on Nov 28, 2010 18:10:31 GMT -5
All Done With Mirrors: Season 7, Episode 8. Quite a good use of the Invisible Man plot device. Steed is out of action on this one as he spends most of this episode under arrest. Even though she has been assigned a stand-in partner, Tara does very well on her own here.
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Post by MS on Dec 10, 2010 15:33:57 GMT -5
Invasion of the Earthmen: Season 7, Episode 16. Written by Terry Nation. Quite a wacky episode involving Steed and Tara investigating a strange academy. The Avengers Forever site described this episode as "Plan 9 from Outer Space meets classic Star Trek". In regards to the latter the yellow costumes used for this episode is similar to ones seen in classic Star Trek but it may have been a coincidence. Invasion of the Earthmen was broadcast in the UK on January 15 1969 but classic Star Trek would not begin showing in the UK on the BBC until June 28 five months later when it filled the timeslot left vacant by the end of Doctor Who season 6 the week before. Among the guest stars was Lucy Fleming who is the niece of James Bond creator Ian Fleming. Quite fitting given the James Bond like atmosphere of The Avengers. This is not the only time that Lucy Fleming worked on a script by Terry Nation as she later became a regular of the original series of Survivors created by Nation.
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Post by MS on Jan 6, 2011 14:04:20 GMT -5
The Case of the Countless Clues: Season 7, Episode 19. Interesting spoof on Sherlock Holmes with the sleuths here also being the villains. The character Sir Arthur Doyle wearing a Sherlock Holmes type attire was obviously meant to be a reference to Sherlock Holmes creator himself Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I doubt however that the real Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would appreciate the fictional Sir Arthur Doyle wearing the Sherlock Holmes attire. This is because the real Conan Doyle had grown tired of writing the Sherlock Holmes stories that he killed Holmes off only for Doyle to bring Holmes back due to public demand. Guest stars in this episode include George A Cooper, Kenneth Cope and Edward de Souza.
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Post by MS on May 12, 2012 16:25:42 GMT -5
Girl on the Trapeze: Season 1, Episode 6. The earliest surviving episode in full but this one does not have Patrick Macnee as John Steed. The absence of Steed does not hurt this episode one bit as it works very well with just David Keel along with Carol Wilson. Extremely enjoyable as Keel investigates about the titular girl.
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Post by MS on May 16, 2012 15:57:59 GMT -5
On The Avengers Forever site read about the missing season 1 episode Hunt The Man Down: theavengers.tv/forever/keel-11.htmWritten by site owner David K Smith, it says that the identity of the actor playing Frank Preston remained a mystery. However other websites have stated that Frank Preston was played by Nicholas Selby. The Avengers Forever page on Hunt the Man Down was last modified in 2006 and the site have stopped regular updates in 2008 so perhaps Selby being the actor who played Frank Preston was something that was revealed since then. Incidentally Selby was offered to play Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart before it was eventually given to Nicholas Courtney in Doctor Who: The Web of Fear. Courtney himself appeared on The Avengers shortly before the aforementioned Doctor Who serial, in the season 5 finale Mission: Highly Improbable.
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Post by MS on Jun 7, 2012 22:52:30 GMT -5
The Frighteners: Season 1, Episode 15. Along with the Girl On The Trapeze & the first act of the first episode Hot Snow, The Frighteners is what is left of the first season. Interesting the frighteners using the euphemism of massaging. The Frighteners felt incoherent in places but quite a trick Keel and Steed pulled at the end.
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Post by MS on Jun 28, 2012 16:55:39 GMT -5
Mr Teddy Bear: Season 2 opener. The debut of Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale. Even though this was the first of her episodes it was actually her sixth episode in production order which explained why she looked used to playing her here. In any case this was a pretty good debut episode for Cathy. The title character is the villain of this episode and he is very creepy and it is amazing that when he eventually met his comeuppance he acts like a wimp!
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Post by MS on Aug 14, 2012 19:32:56 GMT -5
Propellant 23: Season 2, Episode 2. Guest stars Nicholas Courtney and Geoffrey Palmer. Originally broadcast on October 1962, Courtney and Palmer would be reunited later for Doctor Who and The Silurians (1970) in which Courtney was in his regular role as the Brigadier and Palmer a guest star. Here in Propellant 23, Courtney does not appear very much but Palmer makes for a good villain. Jolly good fun regarding the episode title propellant which is a flask of a secret new rocket fuel and amusing scene in a lingerie shop.
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Post by MS on Aug 23, 2012 23:48:51 GMT -5
The Decapod: Season 2, Episode 3. Debut of Julie Stevens as Venus Smith. Guest stars Philip Madoc who sadly only passed away in March this year. The premise of a murdered girl and the involvement of the President of a Balkan Republic might looked interesting on paper but it seemed to got muddled on-screen.
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Post by MS on Aug 31, 2012 19:15:25 GMT -5
Bullseye: Season 2, Episode 4. Enjoyable episode concerning gunrunning and stockholders of a prominent British manufacturer being murdered. Considering that she was absent in the previous episode The Decapod, Bullseye was quite an enjoyable episode for Cathy with Steed not appearing very much.
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Post by MS on Sept 9, 2012 18:47:03 GMT -5
Mission To Montreal: Season 2, Episode 5. The first of three appearances by Jon Rollason as Dr Martin King. Guest stars Mark Eden, John Bennett, Malcolm Taylor, Terence Woodfield and Pamela Ann Davy. A rather ho-hum affair involving a famous actress, a microfilm and a cruiseliner. Barely passable as it was quite muddled in a lot of areas.
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Post by MS on Sept 30, 2012 20:16:51 GMT -5
The Removal Men: Season 2, Episode 6. Guest stars Edwin Richfield. The episode title is a euphemism for assassins who are out to kill a woman for knowing too much on a certain information. The episode felt bland with the resolution not very satisfying.
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