The Avengers Mrs Peel, We're Needed!
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).
- Created By
Sydney Newman
- First Aired on
Jan 07, 1961
- Popularity: 52.0204
- 141 votes
- Networks
- (GB)
- Production
Associated British Picture Corporation (GB)Associated British CorporationABC Weekend Television (GB)
- Status: Ended
Show Ended
6 seaons till May 21, 1969
Last episode: Bizarre
Seasons & episodes
Total 6 seasons, 161 episodes
Specials
Aired
Episode 1Avenging The Avengers min
Get the real story behind the sixties cult series in this definitive TV documentary, never before released in the US.
Episode 2The 'Chess Board' Introduction min
When The Avengers was bought by the ABC network in the United States in 1966, network executives were concerned that the audience might not take to the show if it didn't understand the characters, so they commissioned a short introductory sequence to fill in the perceived gap. The sequence was only ever broadcast in the USA, so when Canal+ remastered the episodes, it was omitted from the DVDs produced for the US market. A&E and Canal+ were surprised at the uproar this caused, so when the Emma Peel episodes were repackaged after the Ian Hendry episodes came to light, it was included as a feature on the disc.
Episode 3The Avengers: A Retrospective min
Series retrospective presented by Patrick Macnee.
Episode 4The Strange Case Of Missing Corpse min
Filmed on the set of Honey for the Prince, this three-minute advertisement for the US market announced that "The Avengers" were switching to colour film - a move entirely motivated by the sale to America as Britain still broadcast in black & white. This is the only time we see Emma Peel is that tight leather catsuit with the zips in colour, and it's revealed to be a deep mahogany instead of the black everyone always assumed it was.
Episode 5Diana Rigg & Patrick McNee interviewed by Joachim Fuchsberger min
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Crew & Team
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