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Avengers '66 - Set 1, Vol. 1 & 2Rating:
Release Date: 31 August, 1999 Retail Price: $39.95 OUR Price: $35.96 You SAVE: $3.99! Cast: |
Avengers '66 - Set 1, Vol. 1 & 2 Reviews
2 series with Emma
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.
Yet Another Great Set of Episodes.
It is very difficult to review the Avengers DVD sets. Each set of disks has its own set of highlights and just when you think that they must have exhausted all of the clever ideas, they reach out and tap you with yet another inspired script superbly performed by well trained actors.
And this disk is no different. It ranges from the highly interesting Girl from Auntie (with a "costume" for Mrs. Peel which it is hard to believe got by censors from the period) in which Steed steps forward and takes the primary focus to the rather strange "The 13th Hole" which brings a new outlook on the game of golf as a life and death struggle. Not a weak episode in the bunch.
(One of the best parts about these old avengers episodes is seeing future stars of stage and screen in roles unlike those for which they achieved fame. )
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