As beautiful as Diana Rigg was -- and she was VERY beautiful -- it was always the effortless style and intelligence of her characters that set her above other beautiful women for me. She was no one's sidekick or damsel in distress, but strong, fearless, and capable. RIP Dame Diana.
This is another aspect of the TV series that made this show great, so watchable. Each episode was sort of ridiculous, but the opening musical score , the closing, and the "Mrs.Peel, We're Needed" scenes were priceless!
Vincent Vega in "Pulp Fiction" mentions her as an example of a woman by whom he wouldn't mind being beaten up. I think that was in the script but did not make it into the final film. I think he is reacting to a question from Mia Wallace.
@Mud fuckles Pisshole His old-fashioned style was meant to contrast with her trendiness. There are hints in some episodes that he fought in WW2, two decades before the show started. So he was probably written as a character to be older than his female companions.
There was something…special..about the two of them. A uniqueness that simply could not be matched or equaled anywhere else. They were charming, witty and throughly…..British. From an American.
My favorite scene in On Her Majesty's Secret Service was when she made her entrance in the gambling casino as the camera panned up after showing only her hands, with her leaning down in the, ahem, low cut formal dress, showing her, ahem, prominent anterior thoracic anatomy.
Ach, ja! 😪. Das war ein Teil meiner Jugend. 👍😀In den 70ern lief das ganze in Deutschland unter dem Titel " Mit Schirm Scharm und Melone".☂️👜🎩 Herrlich, da kommen wieder Erinnerungen hoch. 😀 Und mit Patrick Macnee und Diana Rigg / Mr Steed und Emma Peel auch heute immer noch ein Genuss!!! 😀❣️ War echt eine tolle Serie,👍 mit diesen genialen Schauspielern👋👋. Ruhet in Frieden, Patrick und Emma. ☂️👜🎩🖤
The only Director's note ever needed on this show: "Whenever you two look at each other, just pretend you have a cheeky secret the other one knows nothing about."
This Avengers and The Prisoner were two of my favorite shows when I was growing up. Both had a very cool style along with a macabre sense of the absurd. Emma Peele was absolutely amazing, stylish and sexy all at once and John Steed was somehow cooler than James Bond to me. Kind of a combo of Bond and the old William Powell Thin Man character.
So tall and graceful too...she could become a famous top model She was much prettier and elegant than twiggy and verushka...very overrated beauties,in my opinion
@@annaritaranalli1791 well I think things turned out perfectly. Diana Rigg was such a gifted actress. Pure Class. She was the absolute highlight in any film or tv show she was in and of course on stage. I'm very happy for Edgar Wright that he still was able to work with her one last time.
In the early-mid '70s, Diana Rigg starred in a short-lived TV show titled "Diana". As I recall, it had a premise similar to Mary Tyler Moore's show. Patrick Macnee guest starred on one episode. The episode began with Diana finding a note on her desk reading "Diana [last name], you're needed".
I always found the "Mrs.Peel, we're needed" segments funny. Especially the ridiculous amount of time and effort Steed would have needed to set each one up. And it was always lucky that she was in the right place at the right time to receive them. The wall-paper was my favourite. Steed must have found out she'd be stripping wall-paper, so he would have gone in, and wrote the message on the wall, and re-papered the wall without her knowledge, and then waited for her to appear at exactly the right time to remove it. If she had of decided not to bother decorating her house and do something else it could have gone horribly wrong. Maybe he should have just telephoned her instead.
Who ever pulled this together - Thank You. I just finished season 4 and am half way through season 5. So glad Amazon Prime shows them. On my 4K 85” QLED tv it looks better than ever.
Elegance, charm, good manners, wits, impeccable wardrobes, no violence, no profanity of any kind, cars that don't explode when in an accident, hardly any guns and if there are they are British-made ...
ETERNAL THANKS & LOVE to the one and only Diana Rigg and Patrick MacNee!!! She was and always will be one EXCEEDINGLY BEAUTIFUL AND COOL WOMAN and a FANTASTIC ACTRESS and MacNee was wonderful as Steed. FANTASTIC SHOW....and that's coming from America where they were equally well loved as in the U.K.!!!
This was delightful! Thanks! Nice touch finishing it off with Laurie Johnson's wonderful theme. Not all of them were "we're needed." There were two "you're needed" and one "I'm needed." Thanks for putting this together.
Mother: "Steed, there's a crisis on, lives are in danger, we need you here straight away!" Steed: "Just give me a couple of hours to contact Mrs Peel first."
The first season featuring the amazing Diana Rigg (RIP) has aged quite a bit (that's the black & white season) but this one was the summit of this golden TV show.... just breathtaking with stunning episodes like "The fear merchants" (my all-time favorite one.... first one I ever saw from "The avengers" and, being a little kid, I was both terrified and fascinated) or "From Venus with love" (feat. the great Late Barbara Shelley as guest star).
When I was a boy, My Mom would let me stay up till eleven to watch the avengers. I was 10 at the time. She fancied Steed and I liked Emma, a guilty pleasure for both of us. We joked about it for decades.
It’s so depressing to think of how they tried this in the movie and missed by such a wide mark So I will join the rest of the world in admitting the movie never happened and just admire the original
Alan! You are so right. How they could ruin such amazingly creative source material is Beyond me. It makes one wonder if any of the people involved actually ever watched any of the episodes. An absolute travesty of the most heinous kind!
superbe Diana Rigg ! un de mes premier coup de coeur de ma jeunesse et la meilleure actrice dans cette serie......avant de pouvoir voir Diana en Mme Bond....Mme James Bond.....la seule et unique Mme Bond...........sans oublié son personnage dans GoT.......! super travail de réunir tout ces extraits....merci !
Use to watch this show about 50 years ago with my Grandfather.... Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg Born: July 20, 1938, Doncaster, United Kingdom Died: September 10, 2020, London, United Kingdom RIP
I was totally in love with Mrs Peel aka Diana Rigg ... beautiful, smart, sophisticated without being snotty ... and sexy as sin ... she was the entire package, both on & off the screen ...
"That Girl" also had a varied comic word reveal schtick at the beginning of every episode, theirs was soneone pointing at Margo and saying "That girl!"
I see them together and it's mind boggling that they're both gone. They left a legacy no one else can match...R.I.P. Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, DBE, (1938-2020) and Patrick Macnee (1922-2015).
Best show, best chemistry, best writing, best lines, best comedy, best elegance, best music, best uniqueness, best wardrobe, best style, best acting!
I Agree completely
Best Avengers!
I totally agree.
Absolutely
Simply the best …….
well id very much like to drink some champagne with diana rigg, thats for sure.
Steed and Mrs. Peel were needed on the other side I guess. Rest in peace both of you.
Yes!Very Secret Hush Hush Assignment💙💙💙💙
Now they're starring in The Big Sleep.
👁Love Them Too ❤
I was once trapped in a small tent with Emma Peel and Sharon Macready............and then I woke up
@@janetlieb2507 "TOP HUSH"
I love and adore Diana Rigg! 🥰😍 R.I.P. to the late great Diana Rigg!
They had the best chemistry. Loved this show as a kid.
As beautiful as Diana Rigg was -- and she was VERY beautiful -- it was always the effortless style and intelligence of her characters that set her above other beautiful women for me. She was no one's sidekick or damsel in distress, but strong, fearless, and capable. RIP Dame Diana.
This is another aspect of the TV series that made this show great, so watchable. Each episode was sort of ridiculous, but the opening musical score , the closing, and the "Mrs.Peel, We're Needed" scenes were priceless!
Mrs. Peel was the Coolest Woman on Television.
I used to watch the British Avengers just for her.
My fav late mister macknee 's partner in every sense
You and a lot of other people! She was considered one of the most beautiful women on the planet.
And i agree totally paul blase,and not because she was a famous actress
Vincent Vega in "Pulp Fiction" mentions her as an example of a woman by whom he wouldn't mind being beaten up. I think that was in the script but did not make it into the final film. I think he is reacting to a question from Mia Wallace.
@Mud fuckles Pisshole His old-fashioned style was meant to contrast with her trendiness. There are hints in some episodes that he fought in WW2, two decades before the show started. So he was probably written as a character to be older than his female companions.
These Avengers are the best! They didn't even need superpowers.
They WERE superpowers.
There was something…special..about the two of them. A uniqueness that simply could not be matched or equaled anywhere else. They were charming, witty and throughly…..British.
From an American.
Dianna Rigg's smile. It makes me melt even today. Beauty, charm, wit, elegance, style. Emma and Steed had it all.
Absolutely
What a smile! Even when she poisoned a king. RIP.
Yes they did.
I was 14 years old when this show was televised in the USA. I am now about to turn 70, and I love this show just as much now as I did then.
She had an irresistible allure. Couldn't stop watching her.
And so did her Lotus! Hard to believe she's gone.
My goodness she was a gorgeous woman
My favorite scene in On Her Majesty's Secret Service was when she made her entrance in the gambling casino as the camera panned up after showing only her hands, with her leaning down in the, ahem, low cut formal dress, showing her, ahem, prominent anterior thoracic anatomy.
Diana Rigg's facial expressions were simply exquisite.
Ach, ja! 😪. Das war ein Teil meiner Jugend. 👍😀In den 70ern lief das ganze in Deutschland unter dem Titel " Mit Schirm Scharm und Melone".☂️👜🎩
Herrlich, da kommen wieder Erinnerungen hoch. 😀 Und mit Patrick Macnee und Diana Rigg / Mr Steed und Emma Peel auch heute immer noch ein Genuss!!! 😀❣️ War echt eine tolle Serie,👍 mit diesen genialen Schauspielern👋👋.
Ruhet in Frieden, Patrick und Emma. ☂️👜🎩🖤
no one will ever replace mrs peel everything about her and the avengers was and remains first rate RIP DAME RIGG
He was a good actor,but she was amazingly beautiful,talented and versatile and one of best dressed actresses on the sixtys
I just love this show! 😀
Me too
♥ so classy, never sassy. Always opposite of dysfunction. Always cool, never paranoid or hateful.
Class. That was their superpower. You don't see much of that today.
To see one of my childhood crushes takes me back to better days. They don't make them like this anymore.
Such style, such class - AND they weren't full of themselves.
You could always count on the Brit's for classy shows & with great theme music.
A slice of bygone England . We will never see TV like that again.
Mrs Peel, we need you now more than ever. RIP to Diana and Patty Nee.
The only Director's note ever needed on this show: "Whenever you two look at each other, just pretend you have a cheeky secret the other one knows nothing about."
In memory of 2 wonderful actors , the very fascinating Diana and the very good Patrick 💐💐
This Avengers and The Prisoner were two of my favorite shows when I was growing up. Both had a very cool style along with a macabre sense of the absurd. Emma Peele was absolutely amazing, stylish and sexy all at once and John Steed was somehow cooler than James Bond to me. Kind of a combo of Bond and the old William Powell Thin Man character.
You know i was going to say the prisoner. Great est out of AVENGERS. EVEN TARA KINGS HAD LOT WORK IN THEM. DONE TO PERFECTION
Nice observation!
she’s so g-damn beautiful!
So tall and graceful too...she could become a famous top model
She was much prettier and elegant than twiggy and verushka...very overrated beauties,in my opinion
@@annaritaranalli1791 well I think things turned out perfectly. Diana Rigg was such a gifted actress. Pure Class. She was the absolute highlight in any film or tv show she was in and of course on stage. I'm very happy for Edgar Wright that he still was able to work with her one last time.
Who is Edgard wright?
@@annaritaranalli1791 a successful (edit: and wonderful) film director. He made Last Night in Soho with Diana Rigg.
You can say that again! She could almost turn a gay boy straight!
In the early-mid '70s, Diana Rigg starred in a short-lived TV show titled "Diana". As I recall, it had a premise similar to Mary Tyler Moore's show.
Patrick Macnee guest starred on one episode. The episode began with Diana finding a note on her desk reading "Diana [last name], you're needed".
Wow. She was beautiful 😍
Einfach super Das Beste Serien-Duo, das es je gab Rest in Peace, Diana und Patrick
ein volk ein reich ein fuehrer
i agree - ein volk ein reich ein fuehrer
One of the best and original series ever.
Far from true but I was only 7 in 67 and I loved it.
She was my favorite actress. I Liked Patrick Macnee also.
Mrs. Peel, Smart, beautiful, very confident. Diana Rigg, my first actress crush.
My role model when l was in 7th grade.
Fabulous!
Great video tribute to one of the most beautiful woman in the world.
1967 When I was born, Emma was already there. I will not forget her my whole life! ❤️🔥
I always found the "Mrs.Peel, we're needed" segments funny. Especially the ridiculous amount of time and effort Steed would have needed to set each one up. And it was always lucky that she was in the right place at the right time to receive them. The wall-paper was my favourite. Steed must have found out she'd be stripping wall-paper, so he would have gone in, and wrote the message on the wall, and re-papered the wall without her knowledge, and then waited for her to appear at exactly the right time to remove it. If she had of decided not to bother decorating her house and do something else it could have gone horribly wrong. Maybe he should have just telephoned her instead.
Love British show. One of the best!
Ah such happy and pleasant memories of an England that sadly no longer exists, such a shame.
Umm... it never really did. But this affectionate pastiche of mod and trad was fun to watch, regardless.
@@spiralx6249 OK just spoil it, why does reality always seem to trespass on my nostalgia? And do I need to be reminded? Ah NO.
I was in the ninth grade when these first aired, and every horndog in our class was in love with her.
She was so flat chested. But had the face of an Angel.
J'adorais et jadore toujours cette série, un style incomparable 🙂🙂🙂
Norhing like John Steed and Emma Peel to show EVERYONE the definition of QUALITY TELEVISION
Who ever pulled this together - Thank You. I just finished season 4 and am half way through season 5. So glad Amazon Prime shows them. On my 4K 85” QLED tv it looks better than ever.
Fabulous
Elegance, charm, good manners, wits, impeccable wardrobes, no violence, no profanity of any kind, cars that don't explode when in an accident, hardly any guns and if there are they are British-made ...
I have the boxed set of Emma Peel- Avengers…pure heaven ❤
ETERNAL THANKS & LOVE to the one and only Diana Rigg and Patrick MacNee!!! She was and always will be one EXCEEDINGLY BEAUTIFUL AND COOL WOMAN and a FANTASTIC ACTRESS and MacNee was wonderful as Steed. FANTASTIC SHOW....and that's coming from America where they were equally well loved as in the U.K.!!!
My adolescent crushes - Diana Rigg & Suzanne Pleshette. Just gorgeous.
The best theme tune ever!
Meet Dame Diana Rigg in June 94 was a a pleasure and she was a pleasure to meet.
What would Emma Peel do, is a nice way to move through your life. 🦋🌻🦋
Class and beauty.
She did it pretty nice job on Game of Thrones too.
This was delightful! Thanks! Nice touch finishing it off with Laurie Johnson's wonderful theme. Not all of them were "we're needed." There were two "you're needed" and one "I'm needed." Thanks for putting this together.
Loved this show.
Mother: "Steed, there's a crisis on, lives are in danger, we need you here straight away!"
Steed: "Just give me a couple of hours to contact Mrs Peel first."
Hahaha 😂
thank you for john steed and his open-top roadster!!
The first season featuring the amazing Diana Rigg (RIP) has aged quite a bit (that's the black & white season) but this one was the summit of this golden TV show.... just breathtaking with stunning episodes like "The fear merchants" (my all-time favorite one.... first one I ever saw from "The avengers" and, being a little kid, I was both terrified and fascinated) or "From Venus with love" (feat. the great Late Barbara Shelley as guest star).
Thank you!
I had such an insane crush on this woman growing up, and still do.
So loved this show growing up! Such cool cars. You guys show QE2 around heaven for us.
They are wonderful...!!!
💥🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟💥
Both at their best forever..
Every time I see the catchphrase “Avengers assemble!” I'm always disappointed they don't mean THESE Avengers…
When I was a boy, My Mom would let me stay up till eleven to watch the avengers. I was 10 at the time. She fancied Steed and I liked Emma, a guilty pleasure for both of us. We joked about it for decades.
Marvel can keep their redhead avenger. Give me Dianna Rigg any day. Sheer beauty.
Thank you for this, really enjoyed watching it. One I'll return to I think.
The Best!
Very camp. Divine Dame Diana!
I just now realize what an impact those two had on my becoming an anglophile.
Emma Peel definitely had Man Appeal !!!
Unequalled 👍 🇬🇧
I never actually realized how very rarely he actually *said* the line...
always knock on the door before you enter, someone may be practicing fencing on the other side.
This is what the title The Avengers means to me instead of the Marvel characters.
Diana Rigg and Alexandra Bastedo were the classiest women of the 1960s on telly ....
Avevo 5 anni nel 1970 quando, per la prima volta, mi "innamorai" di una donna ... Emma.
It’s so depressing to think of how they tried this in the movie and missed by such a wide mark
So I will join the rest of the world in admitting the movie never happened and just admire the original
Alan! You are so right. How they could ruin such amazingly creative source material is Beyond me. It makes one wonder if any of the people involved actually ever watched any of the episodes. An absolute travesty of the most heinous kind!
These are just charming!
Whenever repeated it's a must watch !!!
The duck shooting one always makes me laugh out loud.
7:05, the opening musical score.
cooler than cool-no one really compares
Nice couple :)
When she left the Avengers there was no longer any reason to watch it.
superbe Diana Rigg ! un de mes premier coup de coeur de ma jeunesse et la meilleure actrice dans cette serie......avant de pouvoir voir Diana en Mme Bond....Mme James Bond.....la seule et unique Mme Bond...........sans oublié son personnage dans GoT.......! super travail de réunir tout ces extraits....merci !
Use to watch this show about 50 years ago with my Grandfather....
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg
Born: July 20, 1938, Doncaster, United Kingdom
Died: September 10, 2020, London, United Kingdom
RIP
Diana Rigg was five foot eight & one half inches tall according to records. Patrick was five eleven.
he's referred to in the show as 6'2".
@@deviwolf3365 He was 5'11 in real life, with shoes maybe 6 foot. See him on other shows like Columbo in comparison to the other actors.
...and they both fit in that tiny Lotus Elan just fine.
I wish they could have filmed an AVENGERS episode in the beautiful village of Chillingbourne. 🎥🎥🎥
Always envied Mr Peel.
I was totally in love with Mrs Peel aka Diana Rigg ... beautiful, smart, sophisticated without being snotty ... and sexy as sin ... she was the entire package, both on & off the screen ...
Una mejorrs series de la historia
Like a love note to the Avengers.......
Wonderful !
"That Girl" also had a varied comic word reveal schtick at the beginning of every episode, theirs was soneone pointing at Margo and saying "That girl!"
I see them together and it's mind boggling that they're both gone. They left a legacy no one else can match...R.I.P. Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, DBE, (1938-2020) and Patrick Macnee (1922-2015).
Well said.
And it’s Patrick Macnee’s birthday today,
Happy Birthday Steed!
I had such a crush on Mrs. Peel. I always wanted to be John Steed because he dressed well and got to hang out with her.
She was a goddess.
Major childhood crush on Diana Rigg! 😍🤩
Dated but gorgeous script,good dubbing as well soundtrack...if I remember well it was shot on pinewood or elstree 🎙
It's weird how they seldom hired Extras in most episodes and the Streets were always empty.
One thing is certain: she knew what time it is