PATRICK MACNEE WISHES HE'D ASKED DIANA RIGG TO STAY ON "THE AVENGERS"
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2015
- Before “The Avengers” were known as superheroes, they were British secret agents played by Patrick Macnee and a string of female co-stars. He told me in 1992 that his favorite was Diana Rigg, though she wasn't the co-star he hit on. (Rigg currently plays Olenna Tyrell in “Game of Thrones”)
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Patrick Macnee was brilliant. RIP . Diana Rigg and Patrick . What a team ! THe Avengers will live on forever.
Tara King straight out of stage school..... was enticing but they all had their own qualities, OK Dianna was in colour too, who was the boyfriend, must look that up but at the TIME the public assumes they were all `at it`..some were, I believe the old barn corner elstree road was used by some stars..I played there a few times, the rooms upstairs had actors names on them..last we played thrre the dwim pool was mentioned..hygene wise, but when they DID finally rebuild the building with all its glass..I wont forget the previous years we went there, the old wood..the swim pool WAS used in many location shots for ITC studios up the road..why does Peter Wyngarde come to mind..early days MGM was there too..I was told you could see the castle set from the road but I guess...all rebuiolt on..and I`m sure the celeb squares we saw recorded was off what is now Studio Way..I saw Kenny Everett drive off and didnt shout.. he did the voice overs, happy days but tv and film making was...not a steady regular job, I knew a rigger who worked for both when we played at the boreham wood legion later on, but MAYBE if you went in as tea boy or runner, who knows..
No Patrick, someone so kind so gentle a gentle man could only go to Heaven.
A wise and classy man. Thanks for the memories Patrick.
Indeed.
Patrick Macnee, just as you'd hoped he'd be, a gentleman and a very honest one at that.
So no romance for the two but, I understand they were lifelong friends, there was a lot of chemistry there.
Chemistry works wonders!
Isn't it so hard to believe there was nothing physical between them, I think that must have been more down to Patrick's age and experiences. That's so refreshingly respectful of him, I salute your memory sir. I think that created such a bond between them, seeing her as Mr's Peel she is to die for.
After Diana left, the Avengers couldn't get any better they were the perfect team
So true.
Agree. Linda T that followed didn’t really cut it I think.
@@kevinshanahan6064 yeah she also couldn’t act so theres that.
@Peter B Very well said! As much as I loved Diana, there was something about Linda that drew me to her. Since grade 2 ( I'm 58 now ), " Tara" was my favorite because she truly was an " under dog". Her expertise was " finding anything handy" to use as a weapon. I also preferred her fight scenes, as she was a " brawler" who took as much as she gave. The writers did her a great injustice I always felt.
I lost interest after Mrs Peel, just didn't bother watching it again.
Patrick Macnee. Awesome.
At one point, Rigg told McNee, "You and my driver are the only two friends I have on this set." Bad for the series that she left but good for her...
GREAT SERIES.
Made me smile and cry at the same time... ❤😉❤
Diana Rigg as Emma Peel was the sexiest woman ever on tv!! I think Patrick would have been a great choice for James Bond.
No , no . He was far too classy for Bond , who was a dirty fighting , fuck anything that moves guy
Agreed
What a lovely man!
The great Patrick Macnee. Straight talking English Gentleman who unashamedly loved and admired woman, who lived his life fully while giving pleasure and inspiration to others. God bless him.
God has nothing to do with it !
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Oh please! Don't take it so literally. It's just an expression, ffs. 😂
@@gowdsake7103 There are worse things in the world than God.
@@rogerbennett9641 Really ? this would be the god that is all powerful but allows multiple atrocities? The god that people use to make unjust laws ? The churches that cause poverty and hate ? The churches that will let people die rather than change iron age doctrine
@@gowdsake7103 All that and more, God is mans creation as I see it and it's up to us to make him what we want him to be. Christianity was responsible for creating the Britain that fought to end slavery the Britain of the 1960's, the era that had the potential to make Britain as near Utopian as it's possible to get. Unfortunately cultural Marxists had planned from the turn of the 20th Century the destruction of western values and used the opportunities created from the wealth creation of democratic capitalism and the inherent weaknesses in Christian religion such as goodwill to all men, charity and turn the other cheek as chinks in it's armour to discredit vital tenets of the Christian faith and introduce ideas inimical with progress, logic, science, virtue and family life the building blocks necessary for a successful safe society.
Steed and Emma - brilliant forever!!
So much chemistry there
Both missed
I think they were perhaps the most ideal TV couple ever, the perfect Yin & Yang.
I doubt there's anything Patrick could've done to dissuade her from leaving. The producers never even offered her any royalties, even after her enormous success on the show. I also read, that the mainly male crew for some reason hated her. I don't know why and it's something I wish I had the answer to. Perhaps they viewed her as haughty off-screen but she wanted to branch out and do other things, and didn't want to be known only as "Emma Peel" for the rest of her life, though she's still best known for that, at least in the U.S.
RIP Patrick and Diana, two towering talents!
Patrick was lovely as Steed and perfect for the role.....do hope his soul lives on in a better place and not as a rock as he described.
Sighs SOUL do get a life
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No, YOU'RE the one who needs to get a life! Stop bitching, ffs.
@@gowdsake7103 One life, live it. But appreciating others differences as long as they don't impact on your life is best IMO.
@@rogerbennett9641 But religion DOES impact my life and everyone else's , if it didnt I would be quite happy to let people wallow in Iron age morality and ignorance
@@gowdsake7103 In what ways does Christian religion impact on your life these days.
Only Pat could have had the balls to make a pass at Honor!
So, what to say? McNee was a gentleman as we do not have anymore....it was a world that changed dramatically every two or three years...
The likes of Di Rigg will never exist again me thinks.
Diana Rigg loved the Avengers but, according to interviews she gave, left after 4 series because she feared she would be so identified with Emma Peel it would seriously limit her future choices. She was a classical and Shakespearean stage actress first. I have always heard it said Honor Blackman had to leave in order to star in Goldfinger and have always wondered if Rigg left for pretty much the same reason, to commit to the Bond movie she was offered, On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Its a shame she was in the worst of the classic Bond films
@@gowdsake7103 whaaaat?
Uh uh, couldn't disagree with you more.
Diana Rigg and Sean Connery would have been a better couple in the movie.
Di Rigg was amazing in OHMSS, but Lazenby was a block of wood.
@@kbc163 To be fair: Lazenby bluffed his way to the shortlist, at which point Broccoli or someone like that said to have got that far, you must be quite an actor, go for it! He'd been a model and it shows somewhat, but I think he's underrated in it. Probably tainted as being the only one (I think) in which there's genuine romance - rather than just sex (nothing against sex of course!), and the "girl" dies. Come to think of it, the only one with a sad ending. So people put it down, and Lazenby with it.
The people involved in the series should have placed roses in Diana's dressing room every day.
😍😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️🌹💐👌🏼
They should’ve paid her better.
Macnee is right about the chauvinism, Diana Rigg was paid less than the cameraman on the show, and when she asked for equal pay the producers wouldn't pay, so they lost her talent. "Being paid equally goes a long to being respected equally" as she once rightly noted.
Sorry to have to contradict but she did receive equal pay after she complained, she left for other reasons. The most amazing woman to me, nothing I know of her opinions do I disagree with.
@@rogerbennett9641 Yes *after* she complained. The problem is once you hit that point the people paying you start to resent you a little bit, and it changes the working relationship.
@@OneAndOnlyMe Supposition? but there is more than likely quite a lot of truth in that. Someone else posted that she said her only friends on the show were Patrick and her driver, wish I could have been there to add my support.
in the series...he shouldhave been knighted forservices to his country "Sir John Steed" a fitting tribute in my opinion!
@cliff It would have made a great ending tothe series
Thanks for posting
I loved her style awesome 😎
Reduced to a sort of corner stone, or a bollard. Love it!
A cornerstone or a bollard? Nah, Patrick, your talents will be put to use making the afterlife more suave and sophisticated. 🙂
I didn't like the ones without Diana Rigg in,it was a mistake she left the show..I love the reruns on TV,.although it looks more menacing in black and white!
Excelente actor no me perdía ningún capitulo jajaja en blanco y negro excelente seria
Emma Peel is such a great name
True.
M. Appeal, for man appeal.
I miss those two. I used to ship them. 😍😍😍😍
They were certainly one of Britain's best exports 🙂
Sublime.
If Diana Rigg had done one more series, until 1968, Alexandra Bastedo would have replaced her in the Avengers. Alexandra B was in 'The Champions' in 1966-67 and became famous just too late to be selected to take over from Diana. Had Diana left one year later than she did Alexandra would have been a shoo-in to take over. One can only dream of an Avengers series with Patrick Macnee and Alexandra Bastedo.
@Gary Dodgson I looked her up. She died from cancer as well, in 2014, at the age of 68. My wife died from cancer a few days ago.
That would have been a very interesting pairing.
If Diana had to go (no, no, no --- why!!!), I always wondered what would have happened if Steed was paired with Charlotte Rampling's character of Hannah Wilde from "The Superlative Seven." That was an interesting woman.
They were "still" super-heroes. :)
Patrick Macnee was brilliant. RIP . Diana Rigg and Patrick . What a team ! THe Avengers will live on forever.
R.I.P Dame Diana
Blame the producers aka the evil bosses who paid her less than other male performers and underrated so no wonder she left due to her being treated like shit. Ps RIP diana rigg aka mrs emma peel. 1 week later my beloved father died, weord enkugh her mentioned the sexy diana xxx
Patrick, once told me a story about when Lorne Greene and he used to act on stage in Toronto, I do not remember the name of the troupe, he told me this around 1988.... Every time they would get a 'pittance' of pay, back then, Lorne would try to cajole Patrick into giving some of Pat's $ to him, to invest in a fledgling company. Patrick would always, politely, decline. Patrick said, to me, that when Lorne went off to Hollywood, for that "silly Bonawnza thing"(trying to get his accent) that Lorne was doing 'quite well'! "You see, Allen, that fledgling company was/is...........................................I.B.M." ! Lovely man, was Patrick Macnee! 🌠🪐
Great story!!
There was no woman with the looks of honour Blackman she was absolutely beautiful the other girls were gorgeous but honour Blackman was up there with Raquel Welch x
To me, when mrs peel left, it felt as if the show was over.
Con Los Vengadores ocurre otro tanto que con Colombo pero más complicado. ¿Cuanto hay de Peter Falk en Colombo? ¿Cuanto hay de Patrick Macnee en John Steed y cuanto hay de Diana Rigg en ambos, porque es indudable que la quintaesencia de John Steed se logra solo con la aportación directa y personal de Diana Rigg?
The problem was that after Diana Rigg left, the producers made the show more silly. Suddenly the agency was run by a fat guy on a bus named "Mother" and the stories no longer served the actors the way they had previously. Does anyone collect the Tara King episodes on dvd? Were any of those episodes up there with "Never Never Say Die", "The Winged Avenger" or "The Cybernauts"?
Have to agree with you. They made it too silly. The last episode is ridiculous.
It comes back to me now - yes, the fat man called 'Mother' - ridiculous. People drifted away as the series with Tara King wasn't much good. Forgettable TV, sadly, after being so good with Blackman and Rigg.
Dont get me started on the film with Ralph Fiennes and Uma Therman. Possibly the worst film ive ever seen
Agree
Yes I found mother thing gimmicky
Diana Rigg is most notably known from The Avengers apart from Patrick Macnees hat
His reference to the producers of the show as being "...male chauvinist pigs..." indicates the presence of some dirty personal and sexual politics as being the basis for pressuring her to leave. The fact that she is so fondly remembered and the name or image of her replacement IS NOT speaks volumes of the undeniable reality.
I stopped watching the series soon after she left. All objective eyes looking back readily recognize her two years as the delicious apex of the show.
She discovered that the Cameramen were being paid more than she was...apparently.
softclay4thought Very stupid on their part, Avengers sold globally, huge $$$$$. But, like Honor before her, Rigg may have left for Bond & other films regardless. Avengers were 1st British series sold to American network, supposedly ABC sabotaged it by scheduling it against Laugh-In, so dear Emma for a 3rd season may not have helped.
The issue with the pay was during her first (b&w) series, it was increased in her contract for her second series. In recent interviews she indicated that she just wanted to move on from the role, it was getting too formulaic. Many top British actors feel the need of a challenge to keep their performances fresh. Her first love was always the stage rather than TV or films. How many other (inadvertent) TV sex symbols have played Shakespeare, sung in Sondheim musicals and won a Tony for a classic Greek tragedy? A truly versatile actress and very intelligent woman.
I personally liked Linda Thorson, she was beautiful and a good actress, but not on the level of Diana.
I always thought Linda Thorsen was superb and a very worthy successor to Queen Diana.
Not even close
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Hush up fool. It's an opinion.
She was put in an awful situation. Thank God Patrick stood behind her! Nobody else really did. I have the utmost respect for Linda and have followed her career ever since.
Linda got put into a really unfair situation for someone as young as she was. The production was in complete disarray between the end of season 5 and season 6 and never could recover. It taxed Macnee and he was a seasoned veteran.
Tara was a school crushing girl, the Mrs. before her were adult professionals. Due to other production & creative changes her episodes were inferior also.
Not fair on Tara King
Tara was fresh out of school, in life & on the show, Steed's previous partners were adult professionals, it took several episodes to make Tara his equal, why do you think unlike them she was never hired for a Bond picture?
@@unowen-nh9ov Dunno I thought Tara was better looking
@@ajay999999 Linda Thorson was a very pretty girl, and she became a good actress, but the problem was she was 20 years old, fresh out of drama school, and being asked to carry a torch relayed to her from Honor Blackman and Diana Rigg. Really unfair when you think about. Thorson was done a disservice as an actress and it showed in the final season. It was goofy and insipid and Tara was a Steed fangirl.
pero payrick macnne no le hacia nads a dianna rigg !hueco!....fabrizio guatemala
Sigh..
I've never understood the success of The Avengers.
It's shown regularly on ITV4.
It's *ABSOLUTELY SHIT.*
(P.S. I've changed my mind since watching a few more episodes.)
That's because you are probably from a generation that can't fathom anything with a plot deeper than a video game. No offense but even your critique is typical YT, you offer nothing but emotional incontinence.
@@edmonddantes3640 What an idiotic response.
It's got nothing to do with the complexity of the plot. That's easy to follow.
That's not the only thing that defines quality.
The programme is dreadful.
@@ppuh6tfrz646 You have ZERO taste.....
@@jeffsullivan2044 I've seen some of the episodes with Linda Thorson since my original post and I much prefer those to the ones I've seen with Rigg.
I think Thorson is better suited to her role.
For me, Rigg just looks smug most of the time.
@@edmonddantes3640 I think that they have no taste to be honest. I’m a 2006 baby and I love this programme.
The people involved in the series should have placed roses in Diana's dressing room every day.