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8.3 | TV-14 | en | Crime

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).

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Released: 1961-01-07 | Released Producted By: Associated British Picture Corporation , ABC Weekend Television Country: United Kingdom Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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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).

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Laurie Johnson

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The Avengers Audience Reviews 5o6f18

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
alexanderdavies-99382 In spite of how "The Avengers" series is best known, the opening season was a completely different kettle of fish.The season from 1961 - mainly missing sadly - was more of a conventional police thriller. None of the programme's quirky humour was displayed, there was no female leading character and John Steed was technically the second lead behind Ian Hendry as Dr. David Keel. The general synopsis was usually as follows: Keel would be approached by Steed who would seek the good Drs help in the fight against the latest villains of the show. Dr. Keel was most reticent about becoming involved in Steeds assignments but invariably was.Only 3 episodes from 1961 exist and including the first 15 minutes of the opening episode.Judging by the existing 3, the more gritty and realistic style works very well. Ian Hendry and the only John Steed - Patrick Macnee - compliment each other. After Ian Hendry decided to focus on a film career, Patrick Macnee was made the show's leasing character. In addition, he would be the actor who would appear in more episodes than anyone else. The series seemed to struggle in finding it's form/style. The characters of Dr. Martin King and that of the pop star Venus Smith, aren't all that interesting but one or two episodes they are in are quite good.When Honor Blackman ed the series in 1962 for its second season, everything changed for the better. The series became ground-breaking in having a regular female character who was just as tough, brave, resilient and intelligent as John Steed.The second and third seasons feature some marvellous episodes - too many to list them here. The series was firmly established as a huge success with Britain and the two leading actors became very popular with the viewers.With Honor Blackman leaving in 1964 to appear in "Goldfinger" opposite Sean Connery, major changes were about to occur for "The Avengers" series.Having been shot on video and in whole takes as though filmed live, now the show would be filmed on film and eventually in colour. In particular though, the most popular female character of them all would help tremendously in pushing the series to its peak of popularity - Diana Rigg as Emma Peel.The on-screen chemistry between the characters of John Steed and Emma Peel was both natural and highly effective. The episodes were better than ever - several masterpieces are included and eventually, America became interested in securing the rights in broadcasting "The Avengers."It came as a bit of a shock when Diana Rigg announced she was leaving the series. She had made the Emma Peel character her own.For my money, the series declined in overall quality. The rather eccentric humour from the Emma Peel era worked for those episodes. Now with Linda Thorson was cast as Tara King, the stories became a bit too silly and I find many of the last season's episodes rather irksome.The other problem I find with the last episodes, is that Linda Thorson has neither the acting ability nor the kind of personality that Diana Rigg brought to "The Avengers." 1969 was the right time to bring the series to a close. It had lasted over 180 episodes since 1961 and has earnt its place in British television history.
inframan The best in of plot. The best in of invention. The best in of style. The best in of acting. The best in of direction. The best in of documenting a classic era. The best in of showcasing all kinds of brilliant actors in early stages of their careers (Peter Bowles, John Wood, Donald Sutherland...ad infinitum...) The best in term of originality & freshness. Just the very best!
jackmronner No other woman did more to advance the cause of feminism than Diana Rigg as Mrs. Peel. The presumptive widow was anything but helpless and dependent on men, except as punching bags or targets. She was tougher, smarter, better-educated and usually wittier than the males on the show and let's not even get into her leather jumpsuits (though, I must it that this was not my attitude as a young man in the '60's!). The show itself was one of the first doses of the classy, dry British wit on US TV. However, it tanked for me with the introduction of Tara Thorson, which was tantamount to replacing a Jaguar with a Rambler. I'll never forget a roomful of college males gathered round for the final episode, all shouting "Don't go, Emma!" Imagine how Steed felt.
RNMorton There were three great shows that came out of Britain to American TV in the 60s and early 70's - The Prisoner, Monty Python, and The Avengers. When all is said and done, this is the one that I cherish the most. Patrick Macnee stars as secret agent/counter-spy John Steed along with a series of female sidekicks. Macnee was refined, witty and debonair but with an un-Bondian modesty - he was simply different than Bond, rather than better or worse. The plots were campy, cute and wry with some suspense, the restrained comedy and the drama played about equally. The series has a classic bell curve, the episodes in the middle of the run excelling over the early episodes (low production values and rudimentary scripts) and the later shows (tired concept and no Rigg). The only really rewatchable episodes now are the Rigg episodes, but they are most eminently enjoyable, as good in their way as anything now shown on television and deserving of a lot more cable time than they've gotten (I happen to have the entire Rigg DVD set). Rigg's Emma Peel is a truly unique television character who was ahead of her time - beautiful, adventurous, graceful, fearless, direct, coy, and athletic, among other things. The exact nature of the relationship between Steed (bachelor) and Peel (missing husband) was enchantingly ambiguous without being self-consciously so, and their interplay was always a great joy to watch. In addition to all else, the opening and closing credits were enchanting and elegant. In my top five television shows of all time.

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