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From: ksf@security.UUCP (Kieth S. Fung)
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Subject: Re: The Avengers
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Date: Wed, 31-Aug-83 15:55:56 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 31 15:55:56 1983
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			   THE AVENGERS

	Oh come on, this is too easy.

	CHARACTER                               STAR
	=========                               ====

	John Steed                              Patrick Macnee(sp?)
	Emma Peel                               Diana Rigg

	These were the stars during the most successful run of the series.
they starred in the third thru fifth season I believe.

	The replacement of Emma was named Tara something later in the series.

	Steed's companion before Emma showed up was played by Honor Blackman
(remember Pussy Galore from "Goldfinger" ?) and before her was a man.

(Forget trying to see these earlier episodes, they were done very early in the
life of British Broadcasting, and unless you know of someone who had a reel to
reel video tape machine in England during that time, you can forget it. The
studio didn't save them)

	The show progressed from a pair of adventurers to actually having them
work for a government agency headed by "Mother". Of course this was during the
last season.

	Steed always used the phrase "Mrs. Peel, we're needed" in various
classy ways at the beginning of the show.

	There was a "New Avengers" series a few years back that had Steed.
But this time he had two companions, Purdy something and Nick whatshisface.
It wasn't very good, but Steed was in good form.(It had nice title music
though)A few good episodes, but most of it was mediocre to poor.

	I enjoyed the Avengers series, along with "The (original) Saint" with   Roger Moore, "The Champions" (what I remember from it anyway< sorry that I      didn't remember that the series was in color, but we had a B+W set back then>), "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." with Robert Vaughn, "The Green Hornet" with (who cares about the other guy) Bruce Lee,and other mid-late sixties adventure/spy stuff.

	Yes I remember "Secret Agent" with Patrick Magooan(sp?) and loved it.

(Did anyone see the Man from U.N.C.L.E. TV movie? It was fun to see Solo and
Illya again, but wasn't quite up to snuff. BEST SEQUENCE: enter JB !!!!)

	Now come on, let's have more obscure trivia questions like:

		What were the ID numbers of Napoleon Solo and Illya Kururgyn?
		(actually this is pretty easy, but it'll get harder)

		Name the head of T.H.R.U.S.H.

		In what episode was the T.H.R.U.S.H. "buster" used? What is
		it?

		Who starred in "The Girl from U.N.C.L.E."?

		What does S.P.E.C.T.R.E. stand for ?

		Everyone knows Blofield heads S.P.E.C.T.R.E. , but in how many
		Bond films was his character in? What were the films (in
		chronological order of course !)? and WHO played them?

		How many 00 agents can you name that were killed in the line
		of duty? WHERE and HOW?

		Who was the character of Mrs. Bond?, Who played her? What
		happened to her? In what other Bond movie(s) is she mentioned?

	NOW we have something to think about !

								Keith Fung
								Mitre
								Bedford,Mass.