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The Avengers

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The Avengers was a classic, sexy TV series which introduced Emma Peel (played by Diana Rigg) in black leather and a laconic male sidekick in a bowler called John Steed. Fabulously ridiculous spy stories every week, always with big fight scenes.


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Do You Remember The Avengers?

Do You Remember The Avengers?

  • john17021984
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    The Avengers started out as a show called Police Surgeon were steed played an assitant to another star (unknown) it was later updated to The Avengers, with Patrick Macnee as Steed and Honor Blackman as Kathy Gale, she in turn was replaced by Diana Rigg as Emma Peeel, and finally Linda Thorson as Tara King, the later The New Avengers featured John Steed with Gareth Hunt as Mike Gambit and Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous) as Purdy, the story was more expanded in the later version in the mid 1970s.
  • Anonymous user
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    great show