I’ll be honest, I didn’t know his name, but he got a story on the lunchtime news today and they listed some of his scores and I could immediately “hear them” in my head. So that proves your point about him being criminally underrated, I guess.
'The Avengers' are coming back. (No not those ones.)
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We already had a New Avengers...
Lets not go there.
Really not sure how Steed goes from driving a vintage Bentley to a modified Jaguar coupe - never seemed his style.
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These ones.
Just be better than that horrible movie and keep it set in the 1960s is all I ask.
I wonder if they can use the name though, or will they have to call it "Steed and Peel" like the comic book revivals did?
https://deadline.com/2024/01/the-av...ry-writers-mickey-down-konrad-kay-1235795963/
I still have nightmares about that movie.
The Avengers seasons two through six are now available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.
Is there a rights thing regarding season 1?
As with Dr. Who, most of season one is either missing or destroyed.
and what exists of the first ep ends just before John Steed enters for the first time.
It's also a verrry different series. A tough crime drama, with none of the humour or weirdness people associate with it.
Big Finish has done audio versions of the first series but in some cases they literally just had a couple of line synopsis from TV listings magazines to go on, since not even the scripts have survived!
The Gale era is underrated, and I like how they keep anything down to flirting or innuendo only, nothing further.
When Honor went to do "Goldfinger", the makers - who already had a hit on their hands - were branching out to the American market due to the spy genre craze there, hence the Peel era being given the full film treatment - as opposed to the 405-line videotape accorded the bulk of UK shows at the time. Not direct-toi-16mm or videotape telecined to 16mm either, but shot true on 35mm and it shows. The difference in quality alone is amazing, that no VT upscale can begin to match. (There's more going on than edge enhancement.) And single-camera filming on location allowed for a lot more than what could be done with multi-camera VT setups while locked inside a studio.
It's a shame series 5 became just borderline outright camp (thanks to the Batman effect, presumably), as series 4 had a terrific balance and a greater flair for suspense. Yes, villains were oddballs, but and this is subjective of course, the feel and atmosphere accorded 4 kept so much more in check. That's not to say there weren't some classics after 4, as "The Superlative Seven" instantly coming to mind as an all-time great and holds up really well, even in 2024... Series 6 did a return to realism and going back to basics (can't imagine why), and is rather underrated, but - as with any major cast and/or tonal changes - it can be hit or miss. There are reasons why Peel's era is the de fecto, and most would point to series 5 being the most popular.
One thing that stood out about Steed's character was what Dennis Spooner once said:
Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/66682533@N07/14689564993
We already had a New Avengers...
It was Purdy good, but it sadly didn't catch on. The Cybernaut story is on blu-ray and it's hit or miss, trying to recapture lighting...
Arguably a better clip from the revived show:
It's a quite good action scene in obviously a training scenario, if not arguably too self-aware... Note the "Kilroy was here", as that was a slogan seen in other shows in the 60s and so forth and has a bit of a longer history...
Yeah, by 1976 it was about the car changes... hmmm, were the cars using unleaded by then? Talk about heavy metal! :P
From the His&Hers product attendant and other one-off appearances from "Are You Being Served?" to Sapphire to Patsy, to an incarnation of the Doctor, how can anyone not like Joanna Lumley?!
James Bond went from driving a Rolls Royce to a BMW and ticket sales went up. He went from playing baccarat to poker and thge franchise was briefly never more popular than ever. May as well have the next incarnation playing Go Fish inside a VW van whose passenger chairs were replaced by several "love rugs" and they'll get the best ticket sales of all time.
https://awesomelyluvvie.com/2016/01/the-love-rug-throwback-thursday.html
It's okay if you smirk or laugh while reading the ad, but try not to be eating and/or drinking anything while you do so. Liquids and keyboard electronics don't mix... it's possible to get the scores of itty-bitty crumbs out, but it's a nightmare to remove all 74 scres from the keyboard to disassemble it beforehand...
As well as Captain Kronos -- Vampire Hunter.
A movie that deserves more recognition.
