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Posted by tabernacle2002 on 10/04/81 11:31
Paul LEFEBVRE wrote:
> 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 show was good but my main interest in the New Avengers had and
still has to do more with the fact that I am a big Joanna
Lumley(Purdey) fan than the show itself!
And in fact I feel that she would most likely have made a better Tara
King than Linda Thorson did and might have kept TOS going a season or
two longer?
The very early years with Honor Blackman
> were the best IMHO. True, dyed-in-the-wool espionage drama.
God I loved her in Goldfinger,which when combined with the main villan
and Odd Job made it IMHO the best Bond movie ever made!
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.
Funny but I prefer the B&W episodes that Rigg was in over the color
ones...Maybe it had more to do with the fact that the best of the best
episodes like "A Touch Of Brimstone""The House That Jack Built" "Honey
For The Prince""The Cybernauts" and half a dozen others were shot in
B&W and maybe they would have been even better in color?
> 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.
Man thats an Oldie! Been years since I saw it although I hear the song
every once in awhile on the radio.
> PL
> Paul LEFEBVRE
> londonpaul@*removethis*sympatico.ca
> My book is now available on Amazon.com. Visit my website for the link.
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