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Posted by Paul LEFEBVRE on 10/04/87 11:31
tabernacle2002@hotmail.com wrote:
>Having just finished my acquisition of two more TV series (Gilligans
>Island & Twilight Zone) and seeing the end of the MASH TV series now
>coming into sight (with season #9 just about to come out) I am now
>looking to start the acquisition process on two or three more TV series
>(I do them 4 or 5 at a time depending on series size, which saves me
>from losing focus on going after too many TV series to quickly)?
>
>Which brings me to the topic at hand namely the Avengers and New
>Avengers TV series (which are put out by A&E), and which from first
>look to last look seems to me to be simply an overpriced MESS!
>
>While the two seasons of the "New Avengers" look to me to be straight
>up season #1 & #2 box sets (with the only objection being on my part a
>high sticker price) The Blackman/Rigg/Thorson/McGee Years look to me to
>be not only overpriced (by at least 40%), but as well a mess in the way
>they were put out (from the first 1963 Set #1 Volume 1&2 to the last
>1968 Set #5 Volume 9&10)!
>
>So with that said can anyone out there who has them (or is in the act
>of getting them) please tell me if it is as bad as it looks to me on
>the outside looking in?
>
>I mean at this point in time I am looking at maybe picking up the New
>Avengers series first, and then maybe picking up the Emma Peel Mega Set
>as a core to build on, and then picking up the rest of the series a set
>or a volume at a time as they come onsale on Ebay in the coming months
>and or years (or if I pick them up from another source) on the cheap?
I am a big fan of The Avengers and watch them all the time when
they're on tv. Bravo (in Canada) aired the whole series some years
back. I bought 5 dvd's on eBay, three from the 1966 series and two
from the 1967 series, and they were only 5$ each i think. maybe you
should scout around eBay instead of getting the A&E sets if you think
they're overpriced.
As a fan, i can tell you that "The New Avengers" series is more like
the way the Avengers used to be before they started to make the series
a tongue-in-cheek spy drama. The very early years with Honor Blackman
were the best IMHO. True, dyed-in-the-wool espionage drama. And
live. Then along came Mrs. Peel, and for the first ten or so
episodes, they played it straight, but after that it was no longer a
drama per se, but more of them having fun while solving mysteries.
Still very entertaining, but nothing like the originals. My advice to
you is to begin with the original black&white live series and the
early black&white Mrs. Peel series, 1966 volumes 1-2-3 to get a feel
of what the show was really like before it went downhill somewhat.
A bit of trivia, maybe you already know, the origin of Mrs. Peel's
name: the producers wanted to add some zing to the series after Honor
Blackman left, they wanted to attract male viewers, they needed
man-appeal. When they auditioned people, the notation they used was
M-appeal. And that became the name of the new character, Emma Peel.
And if you really like this spy stuff from old black&white British TV,
make sure you get the "Secret Agent" series with Patrick McGoohan.
It's really and truly a great honest-to-goodness espionage series.
There are 47 episodes in the series.
PL
Paul LEFEBVRE
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