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Post by matthewsee on Jun 10, 2010 10:08:00 GMT -5
Get-A-Way!: Penultimate episode of the series. Enemy agents have escaped from a high security prison and carrying out their assignments in assassinating their targets which include Steed. The methods of their escape I have to say is very implausible. Playing Steed's would-be assassin is Peter Bowles and he and Patrick Macnee play off well against each other. The high security prison is disguised as a monastery and one of the fake monks was played by Michael Culver. Three decades later he played a real monk in the TV series Cadfael.
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Post by matthewsee on Jun 20, 2010 1:50:15 GMT -5
Have Guns - Will Haggle: Season 7, Episode 12. Rifles are being stolen and placed on auction by the female villain Adriana played by Nicola Pagett. Nicola Pagett makes for a good villain but can't help to think of her as being like the villainous version of her Upstairs Downstairs character some years before that show.
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Post by matthewsee on Jun 30, 2010 2:39:38 GMT -5
Wish You Were Here: Season 7, Episode 20. Tara tracks down her missing uncle at a holiday resort where no one is allowed to leave. Yes you guess it this is a parody of Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner. Wish You Were Here was originally aired on November 18 1968, nine months after The Prisoner had concluded on February 4 1968. I sort of guess who the mastermind was here. Linda Thorson as Tara shines brightly here which was helped with Patrick Macnee's limited appearance in this episode as Tara gets all the action here.
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Post by matthewsee on Jul 9, 2010 15:22:03 GMT -5
My Wildest Dream: Season 7, Episode 28. Sleepwalkers are being hypnotised in committing murder. Not a bad premise to this episode and one has to take pity on Edward Fox's character on what he had to go through here.
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Post by matthewsee on Jul 22, 2010 19:09:31 GMT -5
Take-Over: Season 7, Episode 30. Written by Terry Nation. A group of villains holds a couple who just happened to be friends of Steed hostage in their own house for the purpose of sabotaging a peace conference that is about to take place nearby. In a case of bad timing Steed drops by and his life has been placed in danger. This is basically the reverse of Wish You Were Here in the same season. In that episode Tara dominates the action with a very limited appearance by Steed. Here in Take-Over the focus is dominated by Steed and Tara does not appear until the last few minutes. Steed mostly on his own in this episode was quite good. Notable to point out in this episode that it has deadly pills which kills by exploding in a person's system. In fact this method of death was used in the final chapter of the I, Davros audio mini-series, Guilt based on situations that Terry Nation created in Doctor Who.
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Post by matthewsee on Aug 3, 2010 19:52:15 GMT -5
Pandora: Antepultimate episode of the series. Apparently this was Linda Thorson's favourite episode and it is easy to understand why as the suspense hs been well played. Tara gets kidnapped because she looked like the long lost love Pandora of the villains' uncle. The brothers hope that their uncle would tell them where the treasure is with him seeng Pandora again. Instead of Steed and Tara, it was the brothers who brought themselves down due to the stupidity from one of them. Cathy and Emma's names can be spotted on files in the file room. Very fitting since the series was about to come to an end.
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Post by matthewsee on Aug 13, 2010 1:37:08 GMT -5
Thingumajig: Season 7, Episode 27. Written by Terry Nation. This episode is about a very deadly little black box. The suspense was minimal and it is not really one of Terry Nation's best scripts.
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Post by matthewsee on Sept 5, 2010 19:37:37 GMT -5
The Rotters: Season 7, Episode 15. Not a bad episode about a wood disintegrator. Very funny scene when Steed had to pretend to be friendly to a couple of villains.
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Post by boies00 on Sept 5, 2010 21:47:30 GMT -5
Look - (Stop Me If You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellers... Season 7, Episode 11. Written by Dennis Spooner. Guest starred John Cleese and Bernard Cribbins. Very very fun episode involving killer clowns. One of my favorite Avengers episode
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 2, 2010 17:32:03 GMT -5
Thanks boies00.
The Interrogators: Season 7, Episode 14. Christopher Lee's second and final appearance in the series. Here he plays a Colonel Mannering an enemy agent who gets spies into a special course in order to trick them out of revealing their contacts. An very interesting premise for this episode.
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 21, 2010 20:39:11 GMT -5
Noon Doomsday: Season 7, Episode 10. Written by Terry Nation. A enjoyable Western episode without the Western setting with the title obvious an allusion to High Noon. Among the guest stars in this episode is TP McKenna who would later appear in another Terry Nation penned TV episode that of Blake’s 7: Bounty. Other Who guest stars in Noon: Doomsday were Ray Brooks, Peter Halliday and Anthony Ainley.
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 6, 2010 19:47:50 GMT -5
Fog: Season 7, Episode 24. In the midst of a fog a Jack the Ripper type killer the Gaslight Ghoul targets members of an international disarmament conference. Not as spooky as it should have been.
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 18, 2010 19:50:45 GMT -5
SEPET SUCPRE CNCEHC SYPARE (SUPER SECRET CYPHER SNATCH): Season 7, Episode 3. Not bad intrigue about how secrets from Cypher HQ has been stolen by enemy agents. The guest cast in this episode includes Nicholas Smith (Doctor Who: Dalek Invasion of Earth), Ivor Dean (The Saint) and Simon Oates (Doomwatch).
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 28, 2010 19:16:00 GMT -5
All Done With Mirrors: Season 7, Episode 8. Quite a good use of the Invisible Man plot device. Steed is out of action on this one as he spends most of this episode under arrest. Even though she has been assigned a stand-in partner, Tara does very well on her own here.
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Post by matthewsee on Dec 10, 2010 15:35:23 GMT -5
Invasion of the Earthmen: Season 7, Episode 16. Written by Terry Nation. Quite a wacky episode involving Steed and Tara investigating a strange academy. The Avengers Forever site described this episode as "Plan 9 from Outer Space meets classic Star Trek". In regards to the latter the yellow costumes used for this episode is similar to ones seen in classic Star Trek but it may have been a coincidence. Invasion of the Earthmen was broadcast in the UK on January 15 1969 but classic Star Trek would not begin showing in the UK on the BBC until June 28 five months later when it filled the timeslot left vacant by the end of Doctor Who season 6 the week before. Among the guest stars was Lucy Fleming who is the niece of James Bond creator Ian Fleming. Quite fitting given the James Bond like atmosphere of The Avengers. This is not the only time that Lucy Fleming worked on a script by Terry Nation as she later became a regular of the original series of Survivors created by Nation.
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