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The purpose of this thread is to deal with the last seasons—shot on 35 mm film—of the eccentric and witty spy series The Avengers
Why these seasons only?
Is it because these were the ones broadcast in the U.S.?
Is it because they were shot on 35 mm film and not on videotape as the previous 3 seasons were?
Or, simply, because this is new on Blu-ray?
Anyway, I love the 4th season. I'll post faves in a following post. I like a lot of scripts from seasons 3 & 2 as well as season 6's Tara King series.
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To me, the series always started with Mrs. Peel.
Understandable. I don't think the 3 American networks would have ever broadcast the videotaped segments simply because they weren't done on film.
I hope the appreciation for Mrs. Peel does not hinder watching the Cathy Gale episodes.
[IMO, season 3 had the most impressive roster of regular scriptwriters for the show. By the time of the season 5 color segments, it seems to me that Philip Levene and Brian Clemens dominated with too many outlandish (and silly) stories]
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my favorite season 4 episodes are either directed by Peter Graham Scott (or James Hill) and written by scriptwriters who worked on the prior seasons (Woodhouse, Lucarotti, Roger Marshall, etc.)
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Apr 15, 2015 - 1:56 AM
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Rollin Hand
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¶ Notes from season 4
Item #3
The Op Art masterpiece The House That Jack Built highlights the family past of Mrs. Emma Peel aka Miss Emma Knight, chairman and director of an industrial empire given by her late father. Both the house’s interior design and Mrs. Emma Peel’s fashion design encapsulate the art line.
Item #4
The exquisite pleasure of watching this unique series lies in the colourful performances of the guest actors because of their personas and idiosyncrasies, for instance: the jolly bartender Piggy Warren (actor Terrence Alexander) with his long mustache and his raucous laughs in The Town of No Return or the vicious sadistic leader John Cartney (actor Peter Wyngarde) in A Touch of Brimstone.
Item #5
A lot of guest actors show up in Patrick McGoohan’s ITC series The Prisoner, for instance: David Bauer (The Girl from Auntie), Peter Bowles (Dial a Deadly Number), Patrick Cargill (The Murder Market), Clifford Evans (Dial a Deadly Number), Peter Howell (Death at Bargain Prices), Nigel Stock (A Sense of History), Peter Wyngarde (A Touch of Brimstone).
Item #6
Even actor Patrick Newell—playing the chief of the British Secret Service named Mother from season 6—appears in The Town with No Return and ends up hunted down and murdered on a desolate beach.
Item #7
John Steed knows two Soviet big shots: ambassador Brodny (Two’s a Crowd) and Colonel Ivanoff (The Girl from Auntie). And he investigates twice in the world of military officials: The Danger Makers and What The Butler Saw in which he disguises as three high-ranking militaries. In two episodes from the end of the season, Steed is particularly nasty: A Sense of History with St-Bode’s student Duboys and How To Succeed.... At Murder with ventriloquist Henry Throgbottom.
Item #8
There is a veiled reference to the James Bond film Goldfinger in Too Many Christmas Trees when Steed receives a post-card written by Cathy Gale from Fort Knox.
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