Back during the 1960s, it was great to watch Patrick MacNee and Dame Diana Rigg on “The Avengers” every week on ABC. There must have been millions of school boys across England, America, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, who had a huge crush on Dame Diana. Author George R.R. Martin has said that he loved watching Diana Rigg on “The Avengers” as a teenager. I thought that Linda Thorson as the energetic Tara King was also terrific as John Steed’s new partner on the show. And, years later, we finally got to see the wonderful Honor Blackman as Mrs. Cathy Gale (in her pre-Pussy Galore “Goldfinger” days) on American television. As others have already stated, it’s still great fun to watch the exploits of John Steed and his beautiful and highly capable colleagues on “The Avengers” over 50 years later. Requiem aeternam, Mr. MacNee, Dame Diana and and Ms. Blackman.
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I think one of the best shows ever it was about escaping the daily grind,not looking for oozing blood. Patrick Mcnee and all of his lady co stars were and are fabulous. Miss the all.
it first run during the summer months back in the 60's, most stations at the time showed re-runs so they started picking up these British shows during the summer.
I'm too young to have seen the show in its original run (I was born in the middle of Diana Rigg's second series!), but I watched it religiously in re-runs on one of the San Francisco TV stations when I was in college in the mid-1980s.
Ah, the memories of my 13 yr old babysitter who my 7 yr old self thought was grown and was hopelessly in love with. Still have a pic of the two of us sitting together on the sofa holding hands right before my folks left for the evening and anxiously waiting for the Avengers to start. HI NANCY!!!
I loved this show growing up. I used to watch it with my dad, one of the few times I actually enjoyed hanging out with him. Mrs. Peel was my favorite character and I never knew about Cathy Gale until I was an adult and I bought the series on home video. Diana Rigg is just as phenomenal on Game of Thrones. Her tongue is pure acid. Wicked. I love it!
Diana Rigg in this role, 'designed and refined', the new woman ....... Independence,sophistication, confidence,agile,intelligent,fast,furious and beautifully challenging!......AND charming....
if is the idea England it was wonderful. I'm tired of Riggs and John Steed and all the other cast members were so perfectly orchestrated for the American taper British England's super sleuth at that time they were legendary and they could not be touched in 1966 to 69 they had that time slot perfection I enjoyed it and I still watch the reruns today thank you so much for letting me be a part of so much television history gracias always Stephen Cantu
What I love about The Avengers: John Steed's class, the way he dressed, spoke..EVERYTHING.Emma Peel: Sexy and Strong, but still ultra feminine. And of course her outfits and her car.The way Steed and Peel flirted with each other, but didn't cross the boundaries.Even if Peel wanted to bring up sexual assault charges on Steed she couldn't, even with recorded evidence, because he NEVER said anything sexual....everything had a double meaning and it depended on how YOU interpreted it.One of my all time favorite shows and one the best made shows in history!
Outlandish story lines and scenes were what made The Avengers. You always wondered what they would come up with next. Second to this was The Prisoner. The latter had real depth of a true story line.
This is such an awesome and richly-deserved tribute. Sometimes the show was not far off from a British Batman. In the same era, you could say similar about The Wild, Wild West being sometimes a Steampunk Batman LOL.
Perfect timing, along with the Patrick McGoohan, and Roger Moore exploits, etc. Sean Connery for a kid like me whose "Mum" was an English teacher at the time😅Lol. Wish I could have discussed that more with her. British green 🍏💚 things were all the rage back then, not to mention the plaids, kilts etc . I forgot my billed MOD leisure cap. .Love You Mommy.❤
The Dulles Brothers and their higher ups were already in charge of things and we were entertaining and distracting ourselves with these kinds of programs.
now that we really do have evil insane master villains like Klaus Schwab where are the avengers when we need them?? I was a small boy in the early 1960's and though i was not a musician then and am no longer one now it figures, i suppose, that i NEVER forgot that theme music!
Absolutely a magnificent show! Wasn't Patrick in a short-lived series in the 80s..."Empire", or some such thing about business and corporate boardroom doings?
I watched The Avengers when I was a kid in the 80s here in the Philippines. It was the episodes with Diana Rigg as the leading lady which was shown here. I didn' t know back then that Honor Blackman was the first and Thorson was the third and last.
I believe the episodes w. Tara King/Linda Thorston are underrated and perhaps the finest of the Avengers. During this 'series' (or interval) of the program, the Avengers became even more fantastic and dream like... and I enjoyed the interaction of young Tara w. John Steed. Too bad there was not an extra season or two...! The opening for the lest series, imo, was the finest....
Diana Rigg was probably the best of the 3 female leads but she left because she was a well trained stage actress and felt her thespian authenticity was a bit restricted on this fantasy show. She wanted more out of her career. Interesting how she didn't make an appearance on this mini documentary.
I grew up as a child watching this with my mother in the late 1960's. The show was absolute "Class" with the fashion, the women, and the Exotic and Classic cars. This was without a doubt , one of the greatest tv series of its time.
absolutely I grew up watching this show as well but I caught it on the reruns 70's and 80's in NZ on the other side of the world. It was amazing to me then and was much loved by me and my sister and our friends we loved the whacky stories
One of the main reasons that the British fell behind in technology in the 1960's was that most of their best scientists were killed on episodes of The Avengers
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For me, the quintessential "Avengers" moment was in one episode where Steed and Tara were walking down a street, when a would-be murderer suddenly leaped down on them from above -- missing them, and going "SPLAT!" on the sidewalk. Without batting an eye, Steed and Tara stopped, looked down at him, and calmly said: TARA: "Rather a third-rate assassin, wouldn't you say?" STEED: "They don't make them like they used to." TARA: "No PRIDE in their craft." On a more serious note: Diana Rigg had been on the show for some time when she learned that she was being paid less than the chief CAMERAMAN on the show. Needless to say, once the mountains of fan mail for Emma Peel started rolling in, she saw to it that THAT situation changed dramatically.
I am 68 and have watched many repeats of this fine show. Steed's immaculate attire, Emma Peel's cat suits and fighting scenes, the humour, the locations, the cars, the daft plots, all put together by a team of experts, and still being shown on tv. It would be very difficult to replicate this today. The world has changed and become a lot more serious. The " Avengers " was a one off mix , of skilled actors and actresses, excellent direction, photography, editing, and script writing.
The Avengers is one of my all time favorite TV Shows, one of those perfect creations that exists in a bubble of time that simply can not exist or be recreated at any other time. Although these shows were somewhat before my time - I was a newborn during the Avengers last season for example, I still find them irresistible and resonate deep inside my being even today. Along with The Avengers I'd add Wild Wild West, the early years of Doctor Who (the rare example of one of these unique series still going strong today,, albeit recreating itself many many times over the years) and a few others. I also find it interesting that these shows I love dearly almost all have a season or two in B&W before switching to glorious color, allowing us to see them in these drastically different means of productions. I could go on for hours but suffice to say if our culture gets anywhere close to leaving ancient myths for the far off future generations, I fully expect Steed and Mrs. Peel to be right up there with the best of them (and I pity future scholars who will be forced to work out why some versions of the Avengers seen to leave out Steed and Peel and Tara even with lesser Avengers present, LOL.
Emma Diana Rigg was the total one! Patrick Mac Nee was a wonderful actor! The true Gentleman! Shows movies would be "The BBC Goon Show", "BBC My Word" and "My Music" I would add , "Lawrence Of Arabia" also!
A more realistic but also incredibly wonderful English 'spy' series at the same time that can be paired as equally brilliant as the Avengers was Danger Man (or Secret Agent Man as it was known in America, in France it was Destination Danger) ; Patrick McGoohan was the 'serious' Steed, he was terrific ; I'm not sure if it was even shot in color for I always watched it on an old B/W set
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I was 11 and had no interest in girls at all. I couldn't understand what was all the fuss about girls among my older mates (I was always the youngest of the class)… then I saw Ms. Emma Peel and life changed for ever...
As a kid I secretly watched The Avengers through the stair banisters because it was shown way past my bedtime, until my mother caught me one time. After that, as a special treat I was allowed to watch it each week with my parents. Happy days.
I didn’t have a bedtime my parents tried but I was a night owl and so I got to watch it at 10:00 because I didn’t go to bed until 11:00 never affected my school work or grades as it turns out both my parents were night owls as kids too but never told me until I was older ,that show was a big deal for me in a small town.
Ha, me too, we had carpeted stairs to the upstairs bedrooms, I would slide myself down about 4 or 5 stairs on my stomach and peek thru the wooden banisters to watch from above.
Mrs. Peel was the only Avengers girl where there was absolutely no doubt of her equality to Steed in every way. If Steed had left instead of her, she could have taken the lead role without a hiccup! Her acting chops were never in question, which is to this day, evident in her role on "Game of Thrones".
To me as a guy yes she's both beautiful and able to take care of herself, she proved to be pretty good in those action scenes. Very unusual to see a 60's girl that was strong and independent.
An all-time classic full of class, wit, and fun. I have loved it for decades. It was marred only by the return of Peter Peel. And you know it's true. Just why, Brian? 😄
Putting up with having to watch Joan Collins is WAY more than made up for by seeing Patrick MacNee interviewed and Diana Rigg's incomparable figure. The Avengers was fresh and exciting - loved watching it as a child.
I became an Anglophile - I'm French - thanks to "the Avengers", and I watch this excellent series regularly, as well as "the Prisoner". A real soft power...
R.D Bergman yes Patrick was born in 1922 and was 93 when he passed away in 2015 only a few years before his close friend and former James Bond Star Roger Moore whom he co starred with in A View To A Kill.
Godspeed Diana. Thank you for entertaining us. Rest in Peace.
Best TV show ever. I still watch it every week on DVD. Escapism at its finest.
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As Soon as I here the Music it alters my psychy.
Back during the 1960s, it was great to watch Patrick MacNee and Dame Diana Rigg on “The Avengers” every week on ABC.
There must have been millions of school boys across England, America, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, who had a huge crush on Dame Diana. Author George R.R. Martin has said that he loved watching Diana Rigg on “The Avengers” as a teenager.
I thought that Linda Thorson as the energetic Tara King was also terrific as John Steed’s new partner on the show. And, years later, we finally got to see the wonderful Honor Blackman as Mrs. Cathy Gale (in her pre-Pussy Galore “Goldfinger” days) on American television.
As others have already stated, it’s still great fun to watch the exploits of John Steed and his beautiful and highly capable colleagues on “The Avengers” over 50 years later.
Requiem aeternam, Mr. MacNee, Dame Diana and and Ms. Blackman.
Diana Rigg was the best. Always loved the early B&W versions of The Avengers.
Dwight A So was Patrick Mcnee!!!
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I think one of the best shows ever it was about escaping the daily grind,not looking for oozing blood. Patrick Mcnee and all of his lady co stars were and are fabulous. Miss the all.
"One of the best shows ever made" I whole heartedly agree UK TV
I loved Patrick MacNee and my favorite woman was Emma Peel! What a great show that was! ❤️ Diana Rigg and Patrick MacNee made the best episodes!
British movies,novels,culture is smashing!!
Simply loved this serious I was crazy about Emma peel we loved her may she Rest In Peace we miss you and John steed
One of my favorite shows and themes. Ran across it by accident and loved it ever since.
My hero was Mrs. Emma Peel. She was everything I wanted to be.
Dee Green
Me too
It's true what I've heard about lovely Emma Peel.She was the woman every woman wanted to be and every man wanted to be with.:-)
Lady Olenna was as hot as Margery
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I was 10 years old, born and being raised in southern California, and I was sure TheAvengers was exactly how the English were and had always been :)
In the States it was on Friday nights at 10:00 on ABC. I can still remember being 10 years old, and staying up to watch with my older sister.
it first run during the summer months back in the 60's, most stations at the time showed re-runs so they started picking up these British shows during the summer.
Here in formerly Western Germany it was very popular at the end of the 1960's and early 1970's and I looked it every time when it was on the air
I'm too young to have seen the show in its original run (I was born in the middle of Diana Rigg's second series!), but I watched it religiously in re-runs on one of the San Francisco TV stations when I was in college in the mid-1980s.
i guess here it was also on Friday nights at the end of the 1969's .
I seem to remember it was like 8pm, the stations that normally showed re-runs during the summer months would pick up these english tv shows.
Ah, the memories of my 13 yr old babysitter who my 7 yr old self thought was grown and was hopelessly in love with. Still have a pic of the two of us sitting together on the sofa holding hands right before my folks left for the evening and anxiously waiting for the Avengers to start. HI NANCY!!!
What a sweet memory. . ., thanks for sharing.
Along with The Prisoner, The Avengers was just about the most entertaining thing that has ever been on television.
Agree. The depth of The Prisoner was, also amazing, a true illustration of life under an autocratic system that we were heading for.
Two of my favourite shows when I was 7, back when they were first on.
@@SenileOtakuyou were a very enlightened 7yo! 😊
Totally agree, but as a kid born in the early 60's I also have to add Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlett!
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One of my favorite TV shows.
The scene where Emma is strapped in with the lazer..Diana's acting is incredible, without saying a word the terror on her face phenomenal
One of THE BEST series EVER !
“Be prepared to kill”! ❤️ one of the best shows ever made!
best ever remember it when i was a kid loved tara king
I watched all the episodes on dvd and ENJOYED THEM ALL.
I loved this show growing up. I used to watch it with my dad, one of the few times I actually enjoyed hanging out with him. Mrs. Peel was my favorite character and I never knew about Cathy Gale until I was an adult and I bought the series on home video. Diana Rigg is just as phenomenal on Game of Thrones. Her tongue is pure acid. Wicked. I love it!
Diana Rigg in this role, 'designed and refined', the new woman ....... Independence,sophistication, confidence,agile,intelligent,fast,furious and beautifully challenging!......AND charming....
I adored the Avengers every episode waiting for the message: Mrs Peel you are needed. I also loved Get Smart! Agent 99 too
if is the idea England it was wonderful. I'm tired of Riggs and John Steed and all the other cast members were so perfectly orchestrated for the American taper British England's super sleuth at that time they were legendary and they could not be touched in 1966 to 69 they had that time slot perfection I enjoyed it and I still watch the reruns today thank you so much for letting me be a part of so much television history gracias always Stephen Cantu
Thank you for this post. I adore this show. Have it on dvd. Watch it every day.
Thank God for these shows .
Always great to see Joan Collins.
The Avengers formula was perfected with the chemistry of John Steed & Emma Peel.
They were good friends, off the set as well. In fact, Rigg said her only friend on the show, including the production crew was Macnee.
What I love about The Avengers: John Steed's class, the way he dressed, spoke..EVERYTHING.Emma Peel: Sexy and Strong, but still ultra feminine. And of course her outfits and her car.The way Steed and Peel flirted with each other, but didn't cross the boundaries.Even if Peel wanted to bring up sexual assault charges on Steed she couldn't, even with recorded evidence, because he NEVER said anything sexual....everything had a double meaning and it depended on how YOU interpreted it.One of my all time favorite shows and one the best made shows in history!
Loved this doco and huge fan of the series
I loved this show. Sometimes silly, it was still a lot of fun.
The Avengers was must watch TV back then. I think most of us tuned in to see Diana Rigg. She was a major babe and was perfect in the role.
I loved watching these shows and they certainly don't make them like that anymore.
Outlandish story lines and scenes were what made The Avengers. You always wondered what they would come up with next. Second to this was The Prisoner. The latter had real depth of a true story line.
There has been some amazing themes but my absolute favourite is the Avengers.
The Avengers was the best cult TV series, starring Patrick, and a close second was The Prisoner, starring another Patrick, now how's about that:)
I use to love this show as kid.
This is such an awesome and richly-deserved tribute. Sometimes the show was not far off from a British Batman. In the same era, you could say similar about The Wild, Wild West being sometimes a Steampunk Batman LOL.
George Estremera When people think steam punk is new, I always point to Artemis Gordon!
Looking at it now I can see everything from James Bond to Batman.
The only thing missing is Skippy.
We did enjoy back then.
Emma Peel (Diana Rigg) was by far the best female lead. In fact, the best seasons of the show where with her in it.
Que maravillosa y elegante serie de tv;excelente
I loved the intro with Diana Rigg. She was beautiful. I had a crush on her at the age of 7
Here in America......We had only Emma and Tara.....LOVED THEM BOTH !!!! I wanted to be Steed.....AMERICA LOVED/LOVES #TheAvengers !!!!!
My first ever crush was Emma Peel and when they said she was leaving I cried all night ,,,,,seemed so real when I was 7 years old
I watch that episode, and I STILL get teary eyed--it's like being 15 all over again.
At 22:31 the guy handing the glass to Joan Collins. The young man looks so much like Christopher Reeves! RIP Christopher!
Dianna Rigg (Emma Peel) was not only stunningly beautiful, she drove a Lotus. I mean come on, that's heaven.
Perfect timing, along with the Patrick McGoohan, and Roger Moore exploits, etc. Sean Connery for a kid like me whose "Mum" was an English teacher at the time😅Lol. Wish I could have discussed that more with her. British green 🍏💚 things were all the rage back then, not to mention the plaids, kilts etc . I forgot my billed MOD leisure cap. .Love You Mommy.❤
Diana Rigg was the Avengers for me:):)
The Dulles Brothers and their higher ups were already in charge of things and we were entertaining and distracting ourselves with these kinds of programs.
I loved that
now that we really do have evil insane master villains like Klaus Schwab where are the avengers when we need them??
I was a small boy in the early 1960's and though i was not a musician then and am no longer one now it figures, i suppose, that i NEVER forgot that theme music!
Game of Thrones. It was Mrs Peel I was thinking of when I last saw Diana Rigg on Game Of Thrones.
Please Please please show more of the old series The Avengers from England. Thank you so much
The one and only Shidori Did anyone else notice that at 21:40 the episode clip they used seems to be poking fun at the 1966 BATMAN series.
R.I.P. Diana Rigg
Beloved Emma Peel.
The Avengers are on now. Nanny Roberts.
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Absolutely brilliant episode
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Absolutely a magnificent show! Wasn't Patrick in a short-lived series in the 80s..."Empire", or some such thing about business and corporate boardroom doings?
Yes, he played Calvin Cromwell in "Empire."
He also playing a baddie in the us science fiction 80s USA
series Battlestar Galactica! But he was living in the us at that time!
I watched The Avengers when I was a kid in the 80s here in the Philippines.
It was the episodes with Diana Rigg as the leading lady which was shown here.
I didn' t know back then that Honor Blackman was the first and Thorson was the third and last.
Early adolescence boy, early morning 'insistence', images of Emma Peele in the mind. Very frequently.
Really cool!
The box set is amazing worth getting not cheap but well worth it if possible
And the Danish "Eeg Chair", by Arne Jacobsen
I wasn't happy Diana left but I never hated Linda. People leave shows, that's just life.
She finds is a huge house full of strange people and astonishing traps.
Mrs. peel still sexy as a kid an now as a adult still cool. Thanks the outfits where great
Mrs. Peel.......my first crush.
I liked the music theme from the new avengers better than the original...
I believe the episodes w. Tara King/Linda Thorston are underrated and perhaps the finest of the Avengers. During this 'series' (or interval) of the program, the Avengers became even more fantastic and dream like... and I enjoyed the interaction of young Tara w. John Steed. Too bad there was not an extra season or two...! The opening for the lest series, imo, was the finest....
Ahhh.. There'll never be another Mrs. Peel.
The New Avengers chineae Translated name ：《三个侦探》1980s Extremely popular
Venus Smith was Steed's first female partner then it was Cathy Gale, but Dame Diana was best of them all!!
Joanna Lumley as Purdy was great too.
You could argue it was carol Wilson, really
RIP Diana Rigg
This was when it was in color .. It was in black & white when it started.. It was better when Emma Peel was in it
Diana Rigg was probably the best of the 3 female leads but she left because she was a well trained stage actress and felt her thespian authenticity was a bit restricted on this fantasy show. She wanted more out of her career. Interesting how she didn't make an appearance on this mini documentary.
I grew up as a child watching this with my mother in the late 1960's.
The show was absolute "Class" with the fashion, the women, and the Exotic and Classic cars. This was without a doubt , one of the greatest tv series of its time.
Not much "Class" in this.
absolutely I grew up watching this show as well but I caught it on the reruns 70's and 80's in NZ on the other side of the world. It was amazing to me then and was much loved by me and my sister and our friends we loved the whacky stories
Diana Rigg and her chemistry with Macnee made this show for me -- a true classic!
Agree 100 % !
I couldn’t agree more. Steed and Peel were magical together. I was sad when Diana Rigg left the show. Tara King would never compare.
Talk about having a serious crush! Diana Rigg was fine for days! There was something about her that made watching that show a quiet experience. 😊
The Avengers was one of the very best shows ever produced. There will never again be such a show.
One of the main reasons that the British fell behind in technology in the 1960's was that most of their best scientists were killed on episodes of The Avengers
Good point.
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Can you imagine being in the shower and the cybernaut coming through the door where in the hell do you run
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I never, ever tire of watching this program. Time and again each episode is consistently entertaining. I love them all.
For me, the quintessential "Avengers" moment was in one episode where Steed and Tara were walking down a street, when a would-be murderer suddenly leaped down on them from above -- missing them, and going "SPLAT!" on the sidewalk. Without batting an eye, Steed and Tara stopped, looked down at him, and calmly said:
TARA: "Rather a third-rate assassin, wouldn't you say?"
STEED: "They don't make them like they used to."
TARA: "No PRIDE in their craft."
On a more serious note: Diana Rigg had been on the show for some time when she learned that she was being paid less than the chief CAMERAMAN on the show. Needless to say, once the mountains of fan mail for Emma Peel started rolling in, she saw to it that THAT situation changed dramatically.
Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee to me are the best I’ve ever seen.
Agree, they just kew each others reactions, rolled off each other, made it look easy, it was perfect.
And those spartan rural locations...!
I am 68 and have watched many repeats of this fine show. Steed's immaculate attire, Emma Peel's cat suits and fighting scenes, the humour, the locations, the cars, the daft plots, all put together by a team of experts, and still being shown on tv. It would be very difficult to replicate this today. The world has changed and become a lot more serious. The " Avengers " was a one off mix , of skilled actors and actresses, excellent direction, photography, editing, and script writing.
And the daft plots!
The Avengers is one of my all time favorite TV Shows, one of those perfect creations that exists in a bubble of time that simply can not exist or be recreated at any other time. Although these shows were somewhat before my time - I was a newborn during the Avengers last season for example, I still find them irresistible and resonate deep inside my being even today. Along with The Avengers I'd add Wild Wild West, the early years of Doctor Who (the rare example of one of these unique series still going strong today,, albeit recreating itself many many times over the years) and a few others. I also find it interesting that these shows I love dearly almost all have a season or two in B&W before switching to glorious color, allowing us to see them in these drastically different means of productions. I could go on for hours but suffice to say if our culture gets anywhere close to leaving ancient myths for the far off future generations, I fully expect Steed and Mrs. Peel to be right up there with the best of them (and I pity future scholars who will be forced to work out why some versions of the Avengers seen to leave out Steed and Peel and Tara even with lesser Avengers present, LOL.
Emma Diana Rigg was the total one! Patrick Mac Nee was a wonderful actor! The true Gentleman! Shows movies would be "The BBC Goon Show", "BBC My Word" and "My Music" I would add , "Lawrence Of Arabia" also!
The movie remake with Uma and Joephes (Yes, I know, the spelling) very close.
A more realistic but also incredibly wonderful English 'spy' series at the same time that can be paired as equally brilliant as the Avengers was Danger Man (or Secret Agent Man as it was known in America, in France it was Destination Danger) ; Patrick McGoohan was the 'serious' Steed, he was terrific ; I'm not sure if it was even shot in color for I always watched it on an old B/W set
Was there ever a better-dressed man than Patrick MacNee?
Even after five decades, those suits still ooze elegance and class.
Wonderful stuff.
...you noticed that too...!!!...
...and "Gene-Barry-''...-(-Bat-Masterson-)-...song says and he wore a cane and DERBY-HAT''...But What about PALLADIN''...Have-GUN-Will-TRAVEL...in the San-FRANCISCO...HOTEL...He was ...partTIME...pimping them whores in that ...HoteL'''Oh''...now i GET-it ...i wasn't suppose to Notice ...that ...shit...huh..!?
I seem to recall that Bat Masterson dressed very well.
@@maxnullifidian ...so did ...''PaLLadin''...(-HaveGUN-will-TraveL-)-...Richard-Boone...yo''boy ...his personal...Go-Getter ...chinese...MAID...service in that San-Francisco-Hotel-...He was...pimping-''...Lot of people forget that ...part of the SHOW...p.s.'' check out that ...3...pc...suit He ...wore..!!...oh...yes and that ...10-Gallon...Hat-''..!
Was there ever a cooler look? Super charisma and ultra-class.
There's something rather special about that theme tune, it still makes the hairs on the back of my neck prickle!
Agreed.
Diana Rigg was a stunningly beautiful gal. Had major fanboy crush on her.
Mekratrig. Every man loved Emma Peel!!.
@@tigerbay1000 and boys too.
Mekratrig Very beautiful
That's why I enjoyed the show and yes she was a beautiful woman
I was 11 and had no interest in girls at all. I couldn't understand what was all the fuss about girls among my older mates (I was always the youngest of the class)… then I saw Ms. Emma Peel and life changed for ever...
RIP Diana Rigg. You will never be forgotten.🥂🌂🥂2020. “Always keep your bowler on in times of stress and watch out for diabolical masterminds”.
As a kid I secretly watched The Avengers through the stair banisters because it was shown way past my bedtime, until my mother caught me one time. After that, as a special treat I was allowed to watch it each week with my parents. Happy days.
I didn’t have a bedtime my parents tried but I was a night owl and so I got to watch it at 10:00 because I didn’t go to bed until 11:00 never affected my school work or grades as it turns out both my parents were night owls as kids too but never told me until I was older ,that show was a big deal for me in a small town.
Ha, me too, we had carpeted stairs to the upstairs bedrooms, I would slide myself down about 4 or 5 stairs on my stomach and peek thru the wooden banisters to watch from above.
I was in love with Linda Thorson. The close-out scenes in Steed's stylish mews flat, with the inevitable glass of champagne were priceless ! 😊
DIANA RIGG, BY FAR THE CLASSIEST MOST BEAUTIFUL OF THE AVENGER WOMEN!
David Kingsbury The only one of the three I watched the last one was just too campy if that’s a word
Modern Woman Forever Young
I saw reruns of The Avengers in the early 80s here in the Philippines. I had a crush then with Diana Rigg. She's so pretty and sexy!
One of the best television themes ever written
It's awesome yes!
Yes but also The persuaders
Department S too
a theme that takes genius, unequaled.A whole era and precious memories.
The theme music used for the first three series was performed by Johnny Dankworth I believe, Cleo Laine's husband and a great jazz musician.
Watched this show in reruns as a kid in the early 1970s. One of the best ever. Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee were so awesome together!!
As a kid in the 60's I loved this show. Thank you.
Just read the tragic news: Ms. Diana Rigg passed away today. RIP.
SIlly GOOSE ...STIO HATING ON PEOPLE. SHE'S ALIVE N WELL!!!!🐜
Every time I here that tune I'm 9years old again Best tv theme of all time...well that and t hunderbirds.
Theme courtesy of Laurie Johnson.
Diana was stunning in the day, none of the other girls ever came close.
Huge Diana Rigg fan -- when she was young on The Avengers and other projects and old too, on Game of Thrones.
Mrs. Peel was the only Avengers girl where there was absolutely no doubt of her equality to Steed in every way. If Steed had left instead of her, she could have taken the lead role without a hiccup! Her acting chops were never in question, which is to this day, evident in her role on "Game of Thrones".
...they were all over WEIGHT according to ...HOLLYWOOD''
She was sweet but... only Honor Blackman was deemed beautiful enough for 007 in the greatest Bond movie ever... GOLDFINGER!!!
To me as a guy yes she's both beautiful and able to take care of herself, she proved to be pretty good in those action scenes. Very unusual to see a 60's girl that was strong and independent.
An all-time classic full of class, wit, and fun. I have loved it for decades. It was marred only by the return of Peter Peel. And you know it's true. Just why, Brian? 😄
Putting up with having to watch Joan Collins is WAY more than made up for by seeing Patrick MacNee interviewed and Diana Rigg's incomparable figure. The Avengers was fresh and exciting - loved watching it as a child.
Emma peel was the best of them all
Purdy x
Nope, Linda Thorson was my favourite - !
Cody DePalma( Ziva) captures much of the Emma Peel personification
It will always be Honor Blackman for me. Ian Hendry was good as well.
I never chased after blondes 'coz of Diana Rigg. Became a life long fan of brunettes & Black hair.....
A true classic with so much style that could never be replicated nowadays ❤️
I became an Anglophile - I'm French - thanks to "the Avengers", and I watch this excellent series regularly, as well as "the Prisoner". A real soft power...
Thank you. Emma Peale was a great role model for millions of us little girls, and she was the first on television.
R.I.P. Patrick MacNee
Beloved John Steed.
Yah, when he passed on here in Palm Springs, I went out and bought every newspaper I could lay my hands on.
Normajean McCracken He died!? Shit..I didn't know that..
I once heard that Patrick MacNee had been a torpedo boat commander during WW2.
@@varanid9 Yes, he left the Royal Navy as a lieutenant at the end of the war, and that wasn't bad considering he came in as an ordinary seaman.
R.D Bergman yes Patrick was born in 1922 and was 93 when he passed away in 2015 only a few years before his close friend and former James Bond Star Roger Moore whom he co starred with in A View To A Kill.