Avengers '66 - Set 1, Vol. 1 & 2
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List Price: $19.95
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Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Starring: Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Honor Blackman, Linda Thorson, Ian Hendry
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767018661
Format: Box set
ISBN: 0767018664
Label: A&E Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 1999-08-31
Running Time: 340
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1966-03-28
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Summary: Avengers 66 Set 1 Vol.1 & 2
Comment: I have always enjoyed watching the Avengers even in black & white It is
really good to see the old British tv series from the 60's This like all the rest of The Avengers episodes are great to see again Dennis
Customer Rating:
Summary: A pretty good box set overall.
Comment: I enjoyed most of the episodes in this box set. The one I liked the least was Small Game For Big Hunters. I guess it was because Emma didn't really play much of a role in it. My favorite was The Girl From Auntie. Which is funny because Emma didn't have a lot of air time in it. I guess I enjoyed it due to the interaction between Steed and the girl hired to replace Emma.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The Good Old Stuff
Comment: In Italy The Avengers are almost unknown. The only items you can find are the season '67, '68 and '69, all in colour. So when you look for the earlier seasons, the only thing to do is buy these box from A&E Television. Very good stuff, remastered and everything, I'm very happy with this purchase. But when I look at the back of the box, I see when it's been released: 1999. Almost ten years ago. And then you understand why there is so few bonus material. No subtitles, and just a handful of little fotographs. There is a booklet, of course, like there use to be in these days. I said, I'm very happy with these DVD. Only, I don't understand why such a beautiful piece of television can be published only once, so long ago, and cannot be found in a more recent edition, with a little something more. Anyway, I'm glad to have it, and I will purchase more of them.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Diana Rigg. The Avengers. Enough said.
Comment: The Avengers. Hip. cool. suave. sexy. tongue in cheek. Emma Peel. You can't beat it.
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Summary: 2 series with Emma
Comment: The first set of 1966 episodes are still in B & W, third and fourth DVD with Emma.
1) "Silent Dust" Extortionists are threatening the extinction of Britain's birds and beasts by means of a deadly fertilizer, Steed and Emma must ride to the rescue
2) "Room Without a View" An elegant West End hotels - sort of a Hotel California "you can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave". Strange todos are happening and each move is being controlled in a giant chess game by the mastermind Mr. Chessman.
3) "Small Game for Big Hunters" Emma and John search for the secret of the Curse of Sleep. Males will enjoy Emma in a sarong, while Steed swings on a vine ala Tarzan to rescue Mrs. Peel.
4) "The Girl from Auntie" is a quirky take off on the Man from U*N*C*L*E*. A firm specializes in acquiring "one of a kind" and someone has put in an order for Mrs. Peel. Emma finds herself dressed like the bird in the gilded cage and Steed rushes to save Emma before her feathers get ruffled too much. But first, he must get pass the grannies with the knitting needles!
5) "The 13th Hole" it's a sticky wicket troubling Steed and Emma, as a Posh golf club proves there are more "traps" than sand-traps and hazards are truly hazardous.
6) "Quick-Quick-Slow Death" - Emma and Steed are sent to check out a dance studio, which is a front for enemy agents
The banter between Macnee and Rigg have never been duplicated and it makes for a great time. They have settled into their roles by this series, where it allowed them to effortlessly parry and thrust verbally, making the series shine. A large portion of these are directed by Roy Baker's capable hand.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Avengers 66 Set 1 Vol.1 & 2
Comment: I have always enjoyed watching the Avengers even in black & white It is
really good to see the old British tv series from the 60's This like all the rest of The Avengers episodes are great to see again Dennis
Customer Rating:
Summary: A pretty good box set overall.
Comment: I enjoyed most of the episodes in this box set. The one I liked the least was Small Game For Big Hunters. I guess it was because Emma didn't really play much of a role in it. My favorite was The Girl From Auntie. Which is funny because Emma didn't have a lot of air time in it. I guess I enjoyed it due to the interaction between Steed and the girl hired to replace Emma.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The Good Old Stuff
Comment: In Italy The Avengers are almost unknown. The only items you can find are the season '67, '68 and '69, all in colour. So when you look for the earlier seasons, the only thing to do is buy these box from A&E Television. Very good stuff, remastered and everything, I'm very happy with this purchase. But when I look at the back of the box, I see when it's been released: 1999. Almost ten years ago. And then you understand why there is so few bonus material. No subtitles, and just a handful of little fotographs. There is a booklet, of course, like there use to be in these days. I said, I'm very happy with these DVD. Only, I don't understand why such a beautiful piece of television can be published only once, so long ago, and cannot be found in a more recent edition, with a little something more. Anyway, I'm glad to have it, and I will purchase more of them.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Diana Rigg. The Avengers. Enough said.
Comment: The Avengers. Hip. cool. suave. sexy. tongue in cheek. Emma Peel. You can't beat it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: 2 series with Emma
Comment: The first set of 1966 episodes are still in B & W, third and fourth DVD with Emma.
1) "Silent Dust" Extortionists are threatening the extinction of Britain's birds and beasts by means of a deadly fertilizer, Steed and Emma must ride to the rescue
2) "Room Without a View" An elegant West End hotels - sort of a Hotel California "you can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave". Strange todos are happening and each move is being controlled in a giant chess game by the mastermind Mr. Chessman.
3) "Small Game for Big Hunters" Emma and John search for the secret of the Curse of Sleep. Males will enjoy Emma in a sarong, while Steed swings on a vine ala Tarzan to rescue Mrs. Peel.
4) "The Girl from Auntie" is a quirky take off on the Man from U*N*C*L*E*. A firm specializes in acquiring "one of a kind" and someone has put in an order for Mrs. Peel. Emma finds herself dressed like the bird in the gilded cage and Steed rushes to save Emma before her feathers get ruffled too much. But first, he must get pass the grannies with the knitting needles!
5) "The 13th Hole" it's a sticky wicket troubling Steed and Emma, as a Posh golf club proves there are more "traps" than sand-traps and hazards are truly hazardous.
6) "Quick-Quick-Slow Death" - Emma and Steed are sent to check out a dance studio, which is a front for enemy agents
The banter between Macnee and Rigg have never been duplicated and it makes for a great time. They have settled into their roles by this series, where it allowed them to effortlessly parry and thrust verbally, making the series shine. A large portion of these are directed by Roy Baker's capable hand.
Get your kicks with The Avengers '66. This two-volume set uncorks six sought-after episodes from this cult classic series' fourth season. Patrick Macnee, the umbrella-toting gentleman spy John Steed, and Diana Rigg, the ravishing Mrs. Emma Peel, investigate further extraordinary goings-on in the most ordinary of places, including a swank hotel ("Room Without a View") and a golf course and dance school ("The 13th Hole" and "The Quick-Quick-Slow Death"). Suitable for framing is "The Girl from Auntie," in which an art dealer, who supplies his clients "anything for a price" (including the Mona Lisa!), kidnaps Emma for auction to enemy agents. Perhaps members of Monty Python's Flying Circus got the inspiration for their "Hell's Grannies" sketch from this episode's quaint assassin, an elderly "lady" who does in her victims (including four chaps named John, Paul, George, and... Fred) with knitting needles. For new fans, the episodes found in The Avengers '65 sets are of a better vintage, and The Avengers '67 offerings give more of a campy, effervescent kick. But '66 was still a very good year, and Avengers aficionados will, of course, want to own every episode from the Mrs. Peel era. "What's so special about Mrs. Peel?" a woman asks in "Auntie." "You'd think she was Madame Curie and a half-dozen others all rolled into one." She is, to borrow a phrase, all that. A second Avengers '66 boxed DVD set is also available. --Donald Liebenson
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