RIP Diana. You were always my idol and hero and your Emma was my favorite Avengers character. Both Diana and Honor broke new ground on TV as a strong female lead. I loved how she was the more athletic and skilled in martial arts than Steed and often saved his hide! I've loved her for all of my adult life and still do. My heart is broken.
I agree with you too. Diana Rigg was my favorite. She was the one I saw mostly. An I remember another lady who came on after Diana. She was a Russian woman, but she didnt become a regular.
I loved Diana Rigg in the Avengers - I was in high school and she showed us that a woman can be feminine and strong all at the same time - she wore slacks, did karotie (spelling) and drove a sports car with the top down. All the things woman mostly didn't do in the movies back then. She didn't faint, swoon, or scream while defending herself - she was strong and beautiful.
Half a century old and The Avengers has become an iconic piece of British television. I'm miles too young to have seen any of the series when they were first broadcast, but I'd like to say this: Joanna Lumley is simply one of the most inspirational women to have ever lived; and I think this shows why. She instantly got the audience on her side and they adored her; her humour and her pride. The Avengers was an iconic piece; but so is she in her own right
This is so outstanding seeing this award presentation on UA-cam right now, since I never saw it previously. The U.S. started with the Diana Rigg episodes, and it was only recently on a Memory TV show that I saw all episodes even going back even prior to the Honor Blackman years. I did watch the New Avengers and had forgotten Patrick Mc Nee appeard on it was well, but I sure remembered Joanna. It was a great TV show, and I guess all part of the reason many years later I liked visiting England in person. Mr. Steed was terrific as the English gentleman. From St. Louis
... and my father got to work with Honor, Diana and Linda in three Avengers appearances. What a shame he didn't get asked back of a New Avengers. Then he would have got the set. Such uniform praise for Pat MacNee. Clearly a wonderful gentleman.
Ohhh!!! Your father was TP Mc Kenna! I adore Noon Doomsday, with Tara King. Hi from France! Your father played great villains in the show. Did he have any particular memory about shooting Noon Doomsday?
I love that it's bookended with Honor and Joanna, the alpha and omega of the Avengers ladies. I was too young for the original run, but I remember watching The New Avengers as it premiered. I will always have a soft spot for it, warts and all, because it introduced me to this great cult classic. ❤️
I found that quite touching. So good to see them all. I think Honor gets (even) more attractive as she ages! All spoke with wit and grace - just what we expect from an Avengers lady! :)
So difficult to pick a favourite from these 4 beautiful ladies as i love them all really . But hard as it is i have to go for the recently departed Diana Rigg. R.I.P. Always had a thing for trim sexy redheads and Mrs Emma Peel certainly fitted the part for me. Great to see the four being honoured for there talents and all mentioning the late Patrick Macnee.
Thanks for sharing this,don't Honor and Joanna look great! I'm glad Joanna was included because a lot of the programmes on The Avengers,don't mention The New Avengers,and no matter what some people's feelings about The New Avengers are,Joanna Lumley was great as Purdey!
Just a little fact....if it hadn't been for Linda Thorsen's huge popularity as Tara King in France, then it would of been very unlikely that the New Avengers would of been made. As in France the Tara King season was regularly re-shown for years, which then led to a Perrier TV advert, with Macnee and Thorson in the mid 70's also being very popular, which then led to the French offering a shed load of money for the Avengers to be reborn. Mind you by Season 2 of the New Avengers, things went pair shaped on the series, which then led to its demise!......anyway the Avengers girls deserved their BAFTA's.
Diana fue la mejor, la sra. Ema Peel, siempre estará en la memoria de nuestra infancia cuando queríamos ser como ella. Q.E.P.D. Diana Rigg forever R.I.P.
Joanna Lumley is one of my idols. I love her so much, she's just unceasingly amazing. She looked absolutely gorgeous in that dress and her speech was so cute and she charmed the hell out of the audience. She is such a fantastic, brilliant woman and I look up to her every day.
And all four of them are still attractive. Diana Rigg who was Ema Peel is still very apeeling, Linda Thorsen who was Tara King is still a King of attraction and Joanna Lumley is still a very lumley looking lady. Course when she was in the New Avengers, she looked very Purdy.
I’m only now realising that Emma Peel wasn’t Steed’s original partner. Funny how the replacement became the classic icon, rather than the original. Blackman is far better remembered for her Bond stint than for the Avengers, whereas for Rigg it’s the other way round.
@@filipchung2121 It actually wasn’t the very beginning. She didn’t enter till the second season. The show was originally about a male doctor whose fiancé was murdered in the first episode, hence “Avengers”. Even Steed was a supporting character. The show completely transformed from what it originally was.
@@fromchomleystreet Thank you for lighting up my lantern. I did not know about how this serie started. I started watching Avenger when Diana Rigg appeared and stopped watching it when Joanna Lumley filled in much later. In between these two I love the delightful Linda Thorson. I always hear about Honor Blackman, who I came to know in James Bond's Dr No. I have never seen her in the serie. So I presumed wrongly that she appeared in the first season. I was so young thence. That is my only excuse. You did your homework well since you realised that Diana Rigg was not the original and first partner of "mr Steed."
@@filipchung2121 Ian Hendry was Steed’s first “Avengers girl”. He probably didn’t look quite as good in a leather catsuit as his successors did. There are bits of those first episodes on UA-cam. It’s amazing how utterly different the original show was to what it evolved into. The tone is completely different too - deadly serious (we watch the hero’s fiancé get murdered in the first few minutes).
WOW!!! I didn't even know Mr. Steed had a partner in crime named "Purdy" until today as I'm not familiar with the later episodes that starred Joanna Lumley!! That shows how much I know!! But FORGET the Bond girls!!! Diana and Linda ruled and STILL RULE!!!! :-)
A couple of years ago saw Honor Blackman on an afternoon auction tv show with Britt Ekland (who must be 10 years younger), and she was by far the better looking woman.
it was such a fun show, though the writers went a bit off the rails for a while with the supernatural stuff that really didn't fit the premise of the show. Funny how "Mrs. Peel" is the only one EVERYONE remembers - she was that remarkable for the times (and still is the dream of many a guy!).
Mrs. Peel was on for 4 seasons and was "the girl" when the show debutted in the U.S.. Cathy Gale never appeared "current season" in the U.S., only in reruns later. Linda and Joanna only had 2 seasons each.
Sadly Joanna Lumley and Linda Thorson are the only ones still alive as far as I know. My favourite show in the 1960's when Diana Rigg was the female lead. I cant remember seeing the other shows with the other three ladies perhaps I was working or at school. Can be seen on you tube still.
They all certainly did deserve the award, and how terrific that someone who clearly loves the entire series put together that awesome clip fest, giving equal weight to all the ladies!
@@mckavitt13 I can't compare them, Mrs. Gale was more hard-edged, Emma more playful - since Blackman had to create her role with scripts written for a dude, while Rigg wrote her own dialogue, this is to be expected.
@@unowen-nh9ov Emma Peel was, I just read, also originally written for a man... she & Steed often wrote their own dialogues, but it was not the rule. For me, Cathy Gale had it all. She left to do her Bond film. Later, I learnt that Rigg left because she didn't really enjoy it. The writing, dipped in US ink, was less intelligent, more playful (read seductive), more vapid. She was a Shakespearean, for goodness sake! How long could she see herself as a spy-kitten?
6 episodes make her a guest star. The Avengers didn't become The Avengers until Hendry left during a production strike to make movies, they cast Blackman to replace him without rewriting his role & thus came television's 1st equal & independent female partner.
Venus Smith was not a v good character and she was never really taken into Steed’s confidence about what he was up to. So she doesn’t compare to the others
Just goes to show the casting director on The Avengers knew what was going on. What a classy, talented bunch. Linda Thorson is so underrated - known for being devastatingly sexy, she is also talented and very funny.
I love Diana Rigg I find her a very strong individual and actress but Emma Peal was a bit before my time. My experience of the Avengers was Joanna Lumley and I loved the series dearly. Purdy represented a strong woman who was a mans equal and if there was a threat she'd kick their arse as good as any man. Here's to Purdy!
What about Ingrid Hafner as Carol Wilson, the female lead for series 1 and Julie Stevens as Venus Smith, the co-lead for series 2? Airbrushed out of history.
Hafner only appeared as receptionist to Hendry's character, she left when he did, Stevens did half a dozen episodes as a nightclub singer, so neither were Steed's partner & how many of their episodes even still exist to be seen? They're not whitewashed, they didn't make history.
This was actually in 2000. It's too bad they couldn't have all been on stage together with Patrick. I agree Linda looks a fright but the others seem well-preserved, specially Honor.
RIP Diana. You were always my idol and hero and your Emma was my favorite Avengers character. Both Diana and Honor broke new ground on TV as a strong female lead. I loved how she was the more athletic and skilled in martial arts than Steed and often saved his hide! I've loved her for all of my adult life and still do. My heart is broken.
I agree with you too. Diana Rigg was my favorite. She was the one I saw mostly. An I remember another lady who came on after Diana. She was a Russian woman, but she didnt become a regular.
So sad to have lost two terrific avenging actresses in the same year.
Wow, thanks Diana Rigg for charming us all, you live in our hearts forever.
I miss him so much what a classy gentleman he was, and Diana owned that partnership no one could do it like her
I loved Diana Rigg in the Avengers - I was in high school and she showed us that a woman can be feminine and strong all at the same time - she wore slacks, did karotie (spelling) and drove a sports car with the top down. All the things woman mostly didn't do in the movies back then. She didn't faint, swoon, or scream while defending herself - she was strong and beautiful.
The hair style Dianna Rigg had in the Avengers was her most effective....simply beautiful
She looked her best in leather !! She showed that you don't have to be kinky to wear leather.
Rest in peace, Diana Rigg.
A true and everlasting beauty.
Both Mrs Peel and Mrs Bond
There was only one in my youth that was the queen of this series, Mrs. Emma Peel
😃😃😍😍😍😍❤️👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Diana will always be my favorite, but what a great show.
Diana is my favorite too!!!😍😍😍😘👩🏻🦰♥️♥️♥️💋
Half a century old and The Avengers has become an iconic piece of British television. I'm miles too young to have seen any of the series when they were first broadcast, but I'd like to say this: Joanna Lumley is simply one of the most inspirational women to have ever lived; and I think this shows why. She instantly got the audience on her side and they adored her; her humour and her pride. The Avengers was an iconic piece; but so is she in her own right
Joanna is an Icon & National Treasure ! a truly AMAZING Woman !!
RIP Diana ❤️
We must now protect Joanna at all costs
Don't forget Linda Thorson. She must be bricking it right now that the lovely Honor Blackman and Diana Rigg both died in 2020.
@Jack Cashion. And how!
Class acts. Every one of those beautiful ladies.
How wonderful! Such beautiful and talented women! Love the avengers ladies and steed! My favorite is Emma peel!
SUPER SAD TO LOSE THIS SUPER BEAUTIFUL LADY!!
This is so outstanding seeing this award presentation on UA-cam right now, since I never saw it previously. The U.S. started with the Diana Rigg episodes, and it was only recently on a Memory TV show that I saw all episodes even going back even prior to the Honor Blackman years. I did watch the New Avengers and had forgotten Patrick Mc Nee appeard on it was well, but I sure remembered Joanna. It was a great TV show, and I guess all part of the reason many years later I liked visiting England in person. Mr. Steed was terrific as the English gentleman. From St. Louis
... and my father got to work with Honor, Diana and Linda in three Avengers appearances. What a shame he didn't get asked back of a New Avengers. Then he would have got the set. Such uniform praise for Pat MacNee. Clearly a wonderful gentleman.
Ohhh!!! Your father was TP Mc Kenna! I adore Noon Doomsday, with Tara King. Hi from France! Your father played great villains in the show. Did he have any particular memory about shooting Noon Doomsday?
Truly unforgettable actors. Very special.
Agree sadly Patrick McNeely deserved one as well.Diana and Honor.were my favorites RIP.
Gorgeous, brilliant class acts: all of them!
she was magical in that part. The first and for sure the best. Like she was the best Bond actress.
I love that it's bookended with Honor and Joanna, the alpha and omega of the Avengers ladies. I was too young for the original run, but I remember watching The New Avengers as it premiered. I will always have a soft spot for it, warts and all, because it introduced me to this great cult classic. ❤️
Honour Blackman and Diana Rigg both wonderful ladies.
Both died in 2020
I found that quite touching. So good to see them all. I think Honor gets (even) more attractive as she ages! All spoke with wit and grace - just what we expect from an Avengers lady! :)
very happy that the Avengers girls were awarded but felt that Patrick Macnee deserved a BAFTA too!!
so true
He received a BAFTA award for the Avengers in 2000.
Mr
Mcnee showing the angels how to throw a bowler hat
@@filstoy what year was this?
@@filstoy are you sure? I dont found anything in internet (sorry for my english)
So difficult to pick a favourite from these 4 beautiful ladies as i love them all really . But hard as it is i have to go for the recently departed Diana Rigg. R.I.P. Always had a thing for trim sexy redheads and Mrs Emma Peel certainly fitted the part for me. Great to see the four being honoured for there talents and all mentioning the late Patrick Macnee.
Well done Joanna for mentioning Gareth Hunt!
My gran fancied him something rotten.
yes i thought so too !
True class shown by Joanna.
Thanks for sharing this,don't Honor and Joanna look great!
I'm glad Joanna was included because a lot of the programmes on The Avengers,don't mention The New Avengers,and no matter what some people's feelings about The New Avengers are,Joanna Lumley was great as Purdey!
Well deserved loved them all
Just a little fact....if it hadn't been for Linda Thorsen's huge popularity as Tara King in France, then it would of been very unlikely that the New Avengers would of been made. As in France the Tara King season was regularly re-shown for years, which then led to a Perrier TV advert, with Macnee and Thorson in the mid 70's also being very popular, which then led to the French offering a shed load of money for the Avengers to be reborn. Mind you by Season 2 of the New Avengers, things went pair shaped on the series, which then led to its demise!......anyway the Avengers girls deserved their BAFTA's.
that is interesting backstory, thank you
This made me cry.....thank you for this lovely upload xxxx
They're missing Julie Stevens, who was also played Steed's sidekick in some episodes in the 1960s
I agree, Joanna Lumley ROCKS !
A big thank you to all the actors, film makers and producers who made our life easier buy giving is the opportunity to live our dreams.
Hounor Blackman looks absolutly wonderful.Diane is beautiful as always.Tara and Joanna look good ,too. But the best ones were Hounour and Diana.
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️
" Tara" being LINDA THORSON, that is.
Diana fue la mejor, la sra. Ema Peel, siempre estará en la memoria de nuestra infancia cuando queríamos ser como ella. Q.E.P.D. Diana Rigg forever R.I.P.
Joanna Lumley is one of my idols. I love her so much, she's just unceasingly amazing. She looked absolutely gorgeous in that dress and her speech was so cute and she charmed the hell out of the audience. She is such a fantastic, brilliant woman and I look up to her every day.
loved the series as a boy and old man now,still watch it,and ladies oooooooooo
Diana rigg the best
Honor was stately, Sophisticated
Linda was cute (is) cute!..... but oh boy Diana was absolutely freaking BEAUTIFUL! (and sophisticated as well)’
I got a bit teary watching this!
me too !
And all four of them are still attractive. Diana Rigg who was Ema Peel is still very apeeling, Linda Thorsen who was Tara King is still a King of attraction and Joanna Lumley is still a very lumley looking lady. Course when she was in the New Avengers, she looked very Purdy.
I’m only now realising that Emma Peel wasn’t Steed’s original partner. Funny how the replacement became the classic icon, rather than the original. Blackman is far better remembered for her Bond stint than for the Avengers, whereas for Rigg it’s the other way round.
Sadly. Unjustly, even.
@ fromchomleystreet Honor was in the series for a very short time only and it was at the very beginning. In fact, she was the original Avenger girl.
@@filipchung2121 It actually wasn’t the very beginning. She didn’t enter till the second season. The show was originally about a male doctor whose fiancé was murdered in the first episode, hence “Avengers”. Even Steed was a supporting character. The show completely transformed from what it originally was.
@@fromchomleystreet Thank you for lighting up my lantern. I did not know about how this serie started. I started watching Avenger when Diana Rigg appeared and stopped watching it when Joanna Lumley filled in much later. In between these two I love the delightful Linda Thorson. I always hear about Honor Blackman, who I came to know in James Bond's Dr No. I have never seen her in the serie. So I presumed wrongly that she appeared in the first season. I was so young thence. That is my only excuse. You did your homework well since you realised that Diana Rigg was not the original and first partner of "mr Steed."
@@filipchung2121 Ian Hendry was Steed’s first “Avengers girl”. He probably didn’t look quite as good in a leather catsuit as his successors did. There are bits of those first episodes on UA-cam. It’s amazing how utterly different the original show was to what it evolved into. The tone is completely different too - deadly serious (we watch the hero’s fiancé get murdered in the first few minutes).
WOW!!! I didn't even know Mr. Steed had a partner in crime named "Purdy" until today as I'm not familiar with the later episodes that starred Joanna Lumley!! That shows how much I know!! But FORGET the Bond girls!!! Diana and Linda ruled and STILL RULE!!!! :-)
Diana rigg la mejor ❤Q.E.P.D.
A couple of years ago saw Honor Blackman on an afternoon auction tv show with Britt Ekland (who must be 10 years younger), and she was by far the better looking woman.
Joanna Lumley is truly beautiful.
And has an amazing speaking voice as well.
Juste fabulous i love the Avengers steed Cathy Emma Tara purdey gambite
HONOR BLACKMAN (1925 - 2020)
And now, Diana, too. 2020, what a horrible year ;(
@@debbitage Calma down, missy
I love the 4 avengers girls honor diana Linda Johanna Patrick❤❤❤❤❤.
One of the greatest!
diana rigg all the way
patrick macnee was something esle
Joanna Lumley ROCKS
The music's good Thanks for adding in description.
It fit's well in time with the movements in second montage!
Patrick. What a gent!
it was such a fun show, though the writers went a bit off the rails for a while with the supernatural stuff that really didn't fit the premise of the show.
Funny how "Mrs. Peel" is the only one EVERYONE remembers - she was that remarkable for the times (and still is the dream of many a guy!).
Mrs. Peel was on for 4 seasons and was "the girl" when the show debutted in the U.S.. Cathy Gale never appeared "current season" in the U.S., only in reruns later. Linda and Joanna only had 2 seasons each.
Dianna Rigg. Rocks all around. Athlete
Absolutely great!
Sadly Joanna Lumley and Linda Thorson are the only ones still alive as far as I know. My favourite show in the 1960's when Diana Rigg was the female lead. I cant remember seeing the other shows with the other three ladies perhaps I was working or at school. Can be seen on you tube still.
RIP BEAUTIFUL DIANA.XXX
I remember Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore in "Goldfinger" !! His first name started with AU (gold).
Diana Rigg was the best !!!!!!!
Ninguna como Emma Peel. RIP dame Diana Rigg.
They all certainly did deserve the award, and how terrific that someone who clearly loves the entire series put together that awesome clip fest, giving equal weight to all the ladies!
Diana Riggs was, without a doubt, the best in the role of Emma Peel.
I think Honor Blackman deserves that distinction as Cathy Gale.
Unfortunately The Avengers didn't go global until Peel era, we didn't get to enjoy Mrs. Gale here in North America until the '90's.
@@unowen-nh9ov My experience precisely.
@@mckavitt13 I can't compare them, Mrs. Gale was more hard-edged, Emma more playful - since Blackman had to create her role with scripts written for a dude, while Rigg wrote her own dialogue, this is to be expected.
@@unowen-nh9ov Emma Peel was, I just read, also originally written for a man... she & Steed often wrote their own dialogues, but it was not the rule. For me, Cathy Gale had it all. She left to do her Bond film. Later, I learnt that Rigg left because she didn't really enjoy it. The writing, dipped in US ink, was less intelligent, more playful (read seductive), more vapid. She was a Shakespearean, for goodness sake! How long could she see herself as a spy-kitten?
4 elegant lovely women.
Diana! 😍😍
I don't know the lady play absolutely fab
Julie Steven's also deserves a mention her and honor Blackman took turn about in series two.
No mention of Julie Stevens who alternated with Honor Blackman in season 2.
6 episodes make her a guest star. The Avengers didn't become The Avengers until Hendry left during a production strike to make movies, they cast Blackman to replace him without rewriting his role & thus came television's 1st equal & independent female partner.
Venus Smith was not a v good character and she was never really taken into Steed’s confidence about what he was up to. So she doesn’t compare to the others
Honour is 83, Joanna 62. Diana 70, Patrick 86.....YOUTHFUL and DYNAMIC legends all!!!!
Joanna such a lady so adorable ❤
MRS PEEL WAS THE STANDOUT FOR SURE WHAT A DISH!!
Still reeling that Diana has gone.
There's nothing like four gorgeous women each one holding a pistol in her hand.
and praising their man
Just goes to show the casting director on The Avengers knew what was going on. What a classy, talented bunch. Linda Thorson is so underrated - known for being devastatingly sexy, she is also talented and very funny.
J
Poor Julie Stevens (Venus Smith) ignored again.
Amazing
Joanna is great in the movie the cats meow!
What lovely women.
I love Diana Rigg I find her a very strong individual and actress but Emma Peal was a bit before my time. My experience of the Avengers was Joanna Lumley and I loved the series dearly. Purdy represented a strong woman who was a mans equal and if there was a threat she'd kick their arse as good as any man. Here's to Purdy!
WOW! 4 Still beautiful women!
❤HONOR❤ever nr.1
Linda Thorson was unrecognisable there.
Joanna Lumley is a lovely lady.
Diana. She was it. Period.
I loved Emma Peel .Still do...
Great, thank you!!
Diana Riggs my fav
Oh I forgot to say that Honor Blackman is still Honorably attractive.
STILL IS.............10 years later...:)
What about Ingrid Hafner as Carol Wilson, the female lead for series 1 and Julie Stevens as Venus Smith, the co-lead for series 2? Airbrushed out of history.
Hafner only appeared as receptionist to Hendry's character, she left when he did, Stevens did half a dozen episodes as a nightclub singer, so neither were Steed's partner & how many of their episodes even still exist to be seen? They're not whitewashed, they didn't make history.
Diana mi favorita.
Joanna Lumley needs to be the centre of attention
She's had costars in every series she's worked on.
Patrick McNee had a damn sexy voice.
If only they made a movie, with all the partners. No criminal would have been safe.
4 amazing, strong, intelegent, and sexy women.
Okay, at least 2 of them showed up.
Poor old Ian Hendry is completely forgotten, despite being Steed’s original leading lady, so to speak.
How can you plan such an honor when the most important people wern't even there?
Diana Rigg😊
The 👍💯Diana Reed
Now when was this tribute filmed?
2000
This was actually in 2000. It's too bad they couldn't have all been on stage together with Patrick. I agree Linda looks a fright but the others seem well-preserved, specially Honor.
Loved tara king more than the other women felt she was more real
saw Joanne Lumley in are you being served. not so much different, i love the series when she travels