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Post by MS on Jun 18, 2021 12:03:27 GMT -5
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Post by MS on Jun 29, 2021 15:32:51 GMT -5
The Mad Hatter: The Mad Hatter is the penultimate episode in The Comic Strip Adaptations Volume 2. Adapted by Matt Fitton. Steed and Emma are assigned here to protect the visiting Princess Helga of Varania who has come to England and is the target of an assassination plot. With Terry Molloy and Inspector Corduroy and it is fine with what he has been given here. Princess Helga. whilst being a target of an assassination, is certainly a fun character here including getting English words wrong such as her thinking the word chameleon, which was said by Inspector Corduroy, as being comedian. Enthralling Steed and Emma tracking the assassin down including Emma narrowly escaping an explosion detonated by the assassin himself.
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Post by MS on Jul 8, 2021 12:28:06 GMT -5
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Post by MS on Aug 24, 2021 9:57:48 GMT -5
Saw the movie A Twist of Sand (1968).
This is a bit of a curio for The Avengers fans as it featured Honor Blackman, some years after she was Cathy Gale and it was directed by Don Chaffey.
Chaffey himself had directed on The Avengers but not the Cathy Gale ones.
He instead directed five Tara King episodes which came not long after A Twist of Sand.
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Post by MS on Sept 15, 2021 6:21:27 GMT -5
The Secret Six: The Secret Six is the final episode in The Comic Strip Adaptations Volume 2 from Big Finish. Adapted by John Dorney. Steed and Peel goes to a fancy dress party but this eventually leads them to meet The Secret Six, a group of the world's six deadliest criminals and they play a game with them. The purpose of this game is to see Steed and Peel dead. This is a fun way to end Volume 2 of The Comic Strip Adaptations with this battle of life and death being done with comedic effect especially how the outcome was achieve in the end. Interesting listening to the interviews including Julian Wadham (Steed) recounting reading the original strips themselves back when it was published whilst waiting in the dentist!
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Post by MS on Sept 18, 2021 0:36:11 GMT -5
The Pretenders - Don't Get Me Wrong: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZxZbWmWaG4This is a tribute music video of The Avengers with archive footage of Patrick Macnee as Steed and Diana Rigg as Peel. Emma Peel is also played by Chrissie Hynde in this video as she searches for Steed. Came across this by chance as this was on MTV at a medical centre where I was waiting for my vaccination. Pretty enjoyable.
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Post by MS on Apr 1, 2022 9:47:19 GMT -5
Saw Patrick Macnee in The Hardy Boys episode Assault on the Tower from 1978 which sees him help out the Hardy Boys find their father.
Macnee's character here is known as S with the S to strongly to imply to stand for Steed due to the manner of his appearance including him wearing a bowler hat.
The implication that S is Steed is further emphasised by how S part ways with the Hardys at the end and this was by him suddenly seeing an old female friend whom he went up to greet.
This female friend is strongly implied to be Emma Peel although I am pretty sure that wasn't Diana Rigg in that scene.
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Post by MS on Nov 19, 2022 9:26:41 GMT -5
Was informed that on the DVD release of all the Emma Peel episodes of The Avengers in one set that it includes The Hothouse, an episode of the anthology series Armchair Theatre which starred Diana Rigg, the performance that led to her casting as Emma Peel. As I was unwilling to spent a lot of money to buy a boxset (not that I was unwilling to have any reason to see the Emma Peel episodes again) just to get to see The Hothouse I instead found and saw it on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zoBn-N5bx4
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