From: boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com (The Man from Another Place)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk,soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: The Avengers, Again
Date: 19 Aug 92 13:05:15 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

In article <1992Aug18.122935.14851@husc3.harvard.edu>, koumis@husc4.harvard.edu (Anthony Koumis) writes...

} Having just had cable installed, I am watching "The Avengers" for the
} first time in my life.  Hence, before I ignored stuff about the show.
} Now I am wondering, how long it was shown,

OK, once more, here is my episode guide to THE AVENGERS, but appended to
the end of this article.

} whether John MacNee and Diana Rigg where always the Avengers,

PATRICK Macnee (a.k.a. John Steed) was always in THE AVENGERS. Diana Rigg,
however, wasn't. She didn't appear until the fourth season.

} and what is the deal with Mr. Peel -- did he ever exist?

Yes, he did. He was an explorer who had been lost in the Amazon jungle.
After two seasons, Diana Rigg decided to leave the show, and at the end
of the "crossover" episode that introduced Steed's new partner, Tara
King, it was revealed that Peter Peel was found alive and that he's
returned to England to wife Emma.

} And what is "The New Avengers"?

It was a revival of the series, made in the late 70's. Steed was now
the mentor for two younger partners, one male and one female. Though
many of the same people that worked on the original series came back
to work on THE NEW AVENGERS, the new series didn't have the charm of
the original.

Go to a bookstore and inquire if the book THE COMPLETE AVENGERS by
Dave Rogers and from St. Martin's Press (I don't have the ISBN or price
handy) is still in print and can be ordered. It'll tell you basically
everything you need to know about the series.

In article <16rlkdINN7nf@agate.berkeley.edu>, pete@plutonium.CChem.Berkeley.EDU (Pete Goodeve) writes...

} In article <1992Aug18.184603.18114@cas.org> jac54@cas.org () writes:

}} The first female companion was called Cathy Gale, but she was preceded
}} (even before my time) by Patrick McGoohan as Steeds' companion. 

} No -- as far as I know McGoohan was never associated with the Avengers

That's correct. He wasn't.

} [whaT WAS the original (UK) name of his show?  Escapes me for now...*]

DANGER MAN.

And now for the AVENGERS episode list.

Date listed is first UK airdate. The first season episodes never aired in
the US, and (except for one) are now completely lost, as far as anyone can
determine. The second and third season (with Honor Blackman) episodes did
not air in the US until A&E started running them a year-and-a-half ago.
The one episode not shown by A&E is presumed lost. The Diana Rigg and Linda
Thorson episodes ran on network TV from 1966-1969. THE NEW AVENGERS ran on
late-night network TV starting in 1978.

THE AVENGERS

First Season  (Dr. David Keel/Ian Hendry)

1    07 Jan 61   Hot Snow
2    14 Jan 61   Brought to Book
3    21 Jan 61   Square Root of Evil
4    28 Jan 61   Nightmare
5    04 Feb 61   Crescent Moon
6    11 Feb 61   Girl on the Trapeze
7    18 Feb 61   Diamond Cut Diamond
8    25 Feb 61   The Radioactive Man
9    04 Mar 61   Ashes of Roses
10   18 Mar 61   Hunt the Man Down
11   01 Apr 61   Please Don't Feed the Animals
12   15 Apr 61   Dance with Death
13   29 Apr 61   One for the Mortuary
14   13 May 61   The Springers
15   27 May 61   The Frighteners
16   10 Jun 61   The Yellow Needle
17   24 Jun 61   Death on the Slipway
18   08 Jul 61   Double Danger
19   22 Jul 61   Toy Trap
20   05 Aug 61   The Tunnel of Fear
21   19 Aug 61   The Far Distant Dead
22   02 Sep 61   Kill the King
23   09 Dec 61   Dead of Winter
24   16 Dec 61   The Deadly Air
25   23 Dec 61   A Change of Bait
26   30 Dec 61   Dragonsfield

Second Season  (Catherine Gale/Honor Blackman)
               (Venus Smith/Julie Stevens) [marked "VS"]
               (Dr. Martin King/Jon Rollason) [marked "MK"]

27   29 Sep 62   Mr Teddy Bear
28   06 Oct 62   Propellant 23
29   13 Oct 62   The Decapod            [VS]
30   20 Oct 62   Bullseye
31   27 Oct 62   Mission to Montreal    [MK]
32   03 Nov 62   The Removal Men        [VS]
33   10 Nov 62   The Mauritius Penny
34   17 Nov 62   Death of a Great Dane
35   24 Nov 62   The Sell-Out           [MK]
36   01 Dec 62   Death on the Rocks
37   08 Dec 62   Traitor in Zebra
38   15 Dec 62   The Big Thinker
39   22 Dec 62   Death Dispatch
40   29 Dec 62   Dead on Course         [MK]
41   05 Jan 63   Intercrime
42   12 Jan 63   Immortal Clay
43   19 Jan 63   Box of Tricks          [VS]
44   26 Jan 63   Warlock
45   02 Feb 63   The Golden Eggs
46   09 Feb 63   School for Traitors    [VS]
47   16 Feb 63   The White Dwarf
48   23 Feb 63   Man in the Mirror      [VS]
49   02 Mar 63   Conspiracy of Silence
50   09 Mar 63   A Chorus of Frogs      [VS]
51   16 Mar 63   Six Hands Across a Table
52   23 Mar 63   Killer Whale

Third Season  (Catherine Gale/Honor Blackman)

53   28 Sep 63   Brief for Murder
54   05 Oct 63   The Undertakers
55   12 Oct 63   Man with Two Shadows
56   19 Oct 63   The Nutshell
57   26 Oct 63   Death of a Batman
58   02 Nov 63   November Five
59   09 Nov 63   The Gilded Cage
60   16 Nov 63   Second Sight
61   23 Nov 63   The Medicine Men
62   30 Nov 63   The Grandeur That Was Rome
63   07 Dec 63   The Golden Fleece      [not shown by A&E]
64   14 Dec 63   Don't Look Behind You
65   21 Dec 63   Death a la Carte
66   28 Dec 63   Dressed to Kill
67   04 Jan 64   The White Elephant
68   11 Jan 64   The Little Wonders
69   18 Jan 64   The Wringer
70   25 Jan 64   Mandrake
71   01 Feb 64   The Secrets Broker
72   08 Feb 64   The Trojan Horse
73   15 Feb 64   Build a Better Mousetrap
74   22 Feb 64   The Outside-In Man
75   29 Feb 64   The Charmers
76   07 Mar 64   Concerto
77   14 Mar 64   Esprit de Corps
78   21 Mar 64   Lobster Quadrille

Fourth Season  (Emma Peel/Diana Rigg) (black & white)

79   02 Oct 65   The Town of No Return
80   09 Oct 65   The Gravediggers
81   16 Oct 65   The Cybernauts
82   23 Oct 65   Death at Bargain Prices
83   30 Oct 65   Castle De'ath
84   06 Nov 65   The Master Minds
85   13 Nov 65   The Murder Market
86   20 Nov 65   A Surfeit of H2O
87   27 Nov 65   The Hour That Never Was
88   04 Dec 65   Dial a Deadly Number
89   11 Dec 65   Man-Eater of Surrey Green
90   18 Dec 65   Two's a Crowd
91   25 Dec 65   Too Many Christmas Trees
92   01 Jan 66   Silent Dust
93   08 Jan 66   Room Without a View
94   15 Jan 66   Small Game for Big Hunters
95   22 Jan 66   The Girl from Auntie
96   29 Jan 66   The Thirteenth Hole
97   05 Feb 66   Quick-Quick Slow Death
98   12 Feb 66   The Danger Makers
99   19 Feb 66   A Touch of Brimstone
100  26 Feb 66   What the Butler Saw
101  05 Mar 66   The House that Jack Built
102  12 Mar 66   A Sense of History
103  19 Mar 66   How to Succeed....at Murder
104  23 Mar 66   Honey for the Prince

Fifth Season  (Emma Peel/Diana Rigg) (colour)

105  14 Jan 67   From Venus With Love
106  21 Jan 67   The Fear Merchants
107  28 Jan 67   Escape in Time
108  04 Feb 67   The See-Through Man
109  11 Feb 67   The Bird Who Knew Too Much
110  18 Feb 67   The Winged Avenger
111  25 Feb 67   The Living Dead 
112  04 Mar 67   The Hidden Tiger
113  11 Mar 67   The Correct Way to Kill
114  18 Mar 67   Never, Never Say Die
115  01 Apr 67   Epic
116  08 Apr 67   The Superlative Seven
117  15 Apr 67   A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station
118  22 Apr 67   Something Nasty in the Nursery
119  29 Apr 67   The Joker
120  06 May 67   Who's Who???
121  30 Sep 67   Return of the Cybernauts
122  07 Oct 67   Death's Door
123  14 Oct 67   The #50,000 Breakfast   [# = pound Sterling]
124  21 Oct 67   Dead Man's Treasure
125  28 Oct 67   You Have Just Been Murdered
126  04 Nov 67   The Positive Negative Man
127  11 Nov 67   Murdersville
128  18 Nov 67   Mission...Highly Improbable

Sixth Season  (Tara King/Linda Thorson)

129  12 Jan 69   The Forget-Me-Knot
130  19 Jan 69   Game
131  26 Jan 69   Super Secret Cypher Snatch
132  02 Feb 69   You'll Catch Your Death
133  09 Feb 69   Split!
134  16 Feb 69   Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40?
135  23 Feb 69   False Witness
136  02 Mar 69   All Done With Mirrors
137  09 Mar 69   Legacy of Death
138  16 Mar 69   Noon Doomsday
139  23 Mar 69   Look-- (stop me if you've heard this one) But There
                 Were These Two Fellers...
140  30 Mar 69   Have Guns - Will Haggle
141  06 Apr 69   They Keep Killing Steed
142  13 Apr 69   The Interrogators
143  20 Apr 69   The Rotters
144  27 Apr 69   Invasion of the Earthmen
145  04 May 69   Killer
146  11 May 69   The Morning After
147  18 May 69   The Curious Case of the Countless Clues
148  25 May 69   Wish You Were Here
149  08 Jun 69   Stay Tuned
150  15 Jun 69   Take Me to Your Leader
151  22 Jun 69   Fog
152  06 Jul 69   Homicide and Old Lace
153  13 Jul 69   Love All
154  27 Jul 69   Get-a-Way!
155  03 Aug 69   Thingumajig
156  10 Aug 69   Pandora
157  17 Aug 69   Requiem
158  24 Aug 69   Take-Over
159  31 Aug 69   Who Was That Man I Saw You With?
160  07 Sep 69   My Wildest Dream
161  14 Sep 69   Bizarre


THE NEW AVENGERS

First Season  (Purdey/Joanna Lumley & Mike Gambit/Gareth Hunt)

1    22 Oct 76   The Eagles's Nest
2    29 Oct 76   The Midas Touch
3    05 Nov 76   House of Cards
4    12 Nov 76   The Last of the Cybernauts...?
5    19 Nov 76   To Catch a Rat
6    26 Nov 76   Cat Amongst the Pigeons
7    03 Dec 76   Target
8    10 Dec 76   Faces
9    17 Dec 76   Tale of the Big Why
10   07 Jan 77   The Three-Handed Game
11   14 Jan 77   Sleeper
12   21 Jan 77   Gnaws
13   28 Jan 77   Dirtier by the Dozen

Second Season

14   09 Sep 77   Hostage
15   16 Sep 77   Trap
16   23 Sep 77   Dead Men Are Dangerous
17   30 Sep 77   Medium Rare
18   07 Oct 77   Angels of Death
19   14 Oct 77   Obsession
20   21 Oct 77   The Lion and the Unicorn
21   28 Oct 77   K is for Kill [1]: The Tiger Awakes
22   04 Nov 77                 [2]: Tiger by the Tail
23   11 Nov 77   Complex
24   18 Nov 77   The Gladiators
25   25 Nov 77   Forward Base
26          78   Emily

-- 

	"She's my radiation baby.
	 She's my teenage fallout girl."

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, "The Mill", Maynard, MA)

    boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com
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