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| dissolute wrote: | | It's amazing, isn't it, that 1961 had a heavily Asian cast for this episode but in 1977 you have Terry Wood as Soo Choy - and Ronald Lacey as Hong Kong Harry in 1976! (Although neither are as bad as the yellowface guards in Room Without a View). |
the era between 60's and 70's, were difficult in terms of casting..and being what was considered to be PC at the time |
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As series 1 is taking a few months' holiday, I've swapped in a banner from the Thames photoshoot with Linda and Patrick.
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| dissolute wrote: | As series 1 is taking a few months' holiday, I've swapped in a banner from the Thames photoshoot with Linda and Patrick.
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nice...i like this....always like to see some Tara graphics.. |
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| dissolute wrote: | As series 1 is taking a few months' holiday, I've swapped in a banner from the Thames photoshoot with Linda and Patrick.
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It looks great. I've always been fascinated by what might have happened during the gap between The Avengers and The New Avengers. In retrospect it's a shame Linda didn't appear as a guest star in a TNA episode. Seeing Tara in action with Steed, Gambit and Purdey would have been fun.
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| paulh wrote: | | dissolute wrote: | As series 1 is taking a few months' holiday, I've swapped in a banner from the Thames photoshoot with Linda and Patrick.
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It looks great. I've always been fascinated by what might have happened during the gap between The Avengers and The New Avengers. In retrospect it's a shame Linda didn't appear as a guest star in a TNA episode. Seeing Tara in action with Steed, Gambit and Purdey would have been fun. |
Glad to hear that....I always wanted the series to run another season, or two...before shutting down...and having Tara appearing in a episode with Steed, etc..would have been too cool... |
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The TV Comic adventures carried on into the early 1970s, probably helped in staying popular due to repeats on television. Andrew Pixley's The Avengers Files covers these as if they're a continuation of the final season on TV, before moving on to The New Avengers; I suspect that Big Finish may make them all as audio dramatisations, as they have done with earlier Emma Peel and Tara King comics. So we get a little closer to TNA.
There are some TNA unmade episodes' scripts published (e.g. by Rodney Marshall) so perhaps these will also get made one day. I wonder who they would cast as Gambit and Purdey?
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| Frankymole wrote: | The TV Comic adventures carried on into the early 1970s, probably helped in staying popular due to repeats on television. Andrew Pixley's The Avengers Files covers these as if they're a continuation of the final season on TV, before moving on to The New Avengers; I suspect that Big Finish may make them all as audio dramatisations, as they have done with earlier Emma Peel and Tara King comics. So we get a little closer to TNA.
There are some TNA unmade episodes' scripts published (e.g. by Rodney Marshall) so perhaps these will also get made one day. I wonder who they would cast as Gambit and Purdey? |
well Big Finish has done a exceptional job with these episodes ..and it's only a matter of time, until they attempt to DO some new avengers scripts |
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| dissolute wrote: | As series 1 is taking a few months' holiday, I've swapped in a banner from the Thames photoshoot with Linda and Patrick.
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I had people question my love for b/w television, but I'll admit: I like seeing a bit of colour in the banner. |
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That's a great photo and reminds me of when we went down to London for a few days. There were so many places to discover and we were tracking down pictures from an old book entitled 'London Lives On'. Also visited Chalcot Terrace and a 1960's exhibition including The Avengers in Tower Bridge! Linda and Patrick are on the south bank just upstream from London Bridge.
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Are they on a moored boat/ship there?
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| Frankymole wrote: | | Are they on a moored boat/ship there? |
good question...i think boat.... |
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Yes, on a ship in the Thames. I think it's HQS Wellington but it seems to be moored near Whitehall Gardens where the Hispanola is now.
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We return to weekly banners for a month to cover the last four episodes of Series 1.
Today, we have Steed and Keel battling neo-Nazis, strangely not wearing MAGA hats, in Dead of Winter
Franky's Christmas banner will return in four weeks.
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| dissolute wrote: | We return to weekly banners for a month to cover the last four episodes of Series 1.
Today, we have Steed and Keel battling neo-Nazis, strangely not wearing MAGA hats, in Dead of Winter
Franky's Christmas banner will return in four weeks. |
A chilling episode (no pun intended). I really enjoyed the Tele-Snap reconstruction and Big Finish's re-enactment. I've read about some cryogenic plots in unused scripts/storylines from the Emma era, and of course it was a side-issue in Invasion of the Earthmen and a major plot hook in The Eagle's Nest. I don't think either of those did it better than here - earliest, and best treatment of the idea. The final showdown is genuinely gripping. I feared for Keel's life.
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Tell me again how to clear the banner and get the new one? Ah, done it. Hold down control and refresh. Aww, love Dr Keel. You can't beat Dramatic Eyeglasses.
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| Frankymole wrote: | | Tell me again how to clear the banner and get the new one? Ah, done it. Hold down control and refresh. Aww, love Dr Keel. You can't beat Dramatic Eyeglasses. |
exactly...adds a certain aura to the good doctor....and btw, loved this year's banner...one of the very best done..you nailed it, Franky |
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| mousemeat wrote: | | ....and btw, loved this year's banner...one of the very best done..you nailed it, Franky |
It will be back in January  Well there are Twelve Days of Christmas, after all! (I intend to watch The Avengers every day over my 2 weeks' Christmas break, again. Was lovely and enjoyable last year and started me on a rewatch of the whole series).
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| mchousemeat wrote: | | dissolute wrote: | | It's amazing, isn't it, that 1961 had a heavily Asian cast for this episode but in 1977 you have Terry Wood as Soo Choy - and Ronald Lacey as Hong Kong Harry in 1976! (Although neither are as bad as the yellowface guards in Room Without a View). |
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of course, my all time fave 'mis casting' was Charton Heston as a mexican detective ..in ' Touch of Evil ' (Universal 1958) directed by Orson Welles. his last Hollywood directing gig |
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Sixty years ago, the Avengers had a story about an airborne virus and attempts to develop an effective vaccine in The Deadly Air, which is this week's banner:
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| dissolute wrote: | Sixty years ago, the Avengers had a story about an airborne virus and attempts to develop an effective vaccine in The Deadly Air, which is this week's banner:
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6 decades later...and dealing with covid-19.....sorta eerie... |
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