The Avengers and The Prisoner - shows from the 60's

[hatredisnotavalue]

are now available on Netflix. The Avengers was available on instant download today so we watched a couple of episodes, very campy, but very enjoyable. The Prisoner was only available on DVD...I hope it is as good as I remember it. Should be showing up in the mailbox sometime this week. Any fans of those shows?

[Deja Q]

1. Season 4 of Avengers in the best... IMHO...

I tried itunes video downloads but the jagged quality is just... yuck. I prefer DVDs...

[hatredisnotavalue]

2. I love Diana Rigg

she is just perfect in the role

[dembotoz]

15. saw her naked in a play in london @ 79 or so

wow just fucking wow.

[Fran Kubelik]

3. BIG fan of The Avengers here.

[hatredisnotavalue]

4. Me too!!

Do you remember the laser bean one and the study of Venus? That's the one we watched today.

[supernova]

5. Loved both of them!

I loved Diana Rigg! She was an action heroine long before it was fashionable.

You're in for a treat with The Prisoner. Deja Q is a big fan too. :-)

[hatredisnotavalue]

7. She was so cool!!!

Do you remember the one where she used her lipstick to mark this glass globe and kept winding up in this weird maze. That was 40 years ago and I can remember that episode like it was this afternoon!

[Captain Hilts]

10. Yep. Sure do. nt

[merh]

22. Don't forget about Honey West

[Captain Hilts]

6. MAJOR Avengers fan here. nt

[hatredisnotavalue]

8. do you remember your favorite episode?

I don't remember too many. I was like 10 when I watched it...but the series had a huge impact...as did the prisoner

[Captain Hilts]

9. The Danger Makers, a B&W, and the color one with the car chase and Emma Peele in

the simulator with an electric shock with a death setting.

[Captain Hilts]

11. Hey kids - anybody here read Diana Rigg's "No Stone Unturned." A collection of BAD reviews for VERY

successful plays, books?

It's pretty cool.

[hatredisnotavalue]

12. got a link...sounds wonderful!!! nt.

[bikebloke]

13. I've finished the black & white Avengers

Need to start the colour episodes. I've been nursing the DVD's. As a kid, it was a bit over my head, but I enjoy it now. Though watching Diana Rigg play a girlie-girl in On Her Majesty's Secret Service was hard. I kept waiting for her to kick some ass.

[Captain Hilts]

14. Man, was THAT ever frustrating!!! And that Connery wasn't in it.

I wonder if she'll end up as 'M' when/if Judi tires of it.

[Dr Fate]

16. Yup. Check out Man From U.N.C.L.E. and the original Wild Wild West if you want more.

More surreal, 60's spy-guy fun, that is.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

17. The infamous "Touch Of Brimstone" episode of The Avengers...

The show had a slightly tougher, more serious tone in the black & white episodes. Once it went to color, it still wasn't as campy as the Adam West "Batman," but it was a little more playful.

The first Emma Peel episode...Season 4, Episode 1, "The Town Of No Return," was very moody and atmospheric. One of the best. The DVD (available from NetFlix) has three episodes, including the first one shown in America (Season 4, Episode 3, "The Cybernauts," which spawned the sequel "Return Of The Cybernauts in the color series).

But "Touch Of Brimstone" is the controversial one, and also one of the all-time most popular of the series:

A Touch of Brimstone is an 1966 episode of the television series The Avengers. It is widely known for Diana Rigg's "Queen of Sin" costume. It is the twenty-first episode of the fourth season, and was the most watched episode of the Avengers on its original showing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Touch_of_Brimstone

In this episode, agents John Steed and Emma Peel infiltrate an organization based upon orgiastic rituals. The story is episodic, beginning with a series of pranks on fictional important international figures (an exploding cigar and a collapsing floor under a potentate's box seat in an auditorium) and then continues to Steed's finding a pair of fake scissors made of rubber. But real scissors are used by an unnamed, faceless official opening the "International Friendship Club" on an electrified ribbon, killing him. The young prankster did not expect to be involved in murder and is distraught. He knows Steed and introduces him to the Hellfire Club.

The episode is best known for the scene in which Peel (played by Diana Rigg) dons a revealing "Queen of Sin" costume, complete with spiked dog collar, whalebone corset, and boots. It is the Hellfire club members who dress her this way; she appears for less than ten minutes of show time in this manner, always demure, though ending with fighting a man with a whip. As a result of this and other elements, the episode was not broadcast when The Avengers aired on American network television; it did air, unaltered, on British television.

[Dr Fate]

20. Ripped off wholesale by Chris Claremont, no less.

Then again, you are only as cool as who you steal from...

[Fire Walk With Me]

18. Loved the Prisoner.

KAR120C.

[surrealAmerican]

19. Both were great shows.

The Prisoner won't disappoint you, it's held up pretty well.

[Ikonoklast]

21. "Who is Number One?"

"You are Number Six."

It took me thirty years to figure that out.

And The Avengers was a must-watch at our house. Along with Monty Python.

[ghostsofgiants]

23. The Prisoner was great. It aired 17 years before I was born and I adore it.

[rebel with a cause]

24. Youthful memories......

back when I was one of the cool ones.