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Avengers '66 - Set 1, Vol. 1 & 2

starring: Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Honor Blackman, Linda Thorson, Ian Hendry

: Avengers '66 - Set 1, Vol. 1 & 2
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767018661
Format: Box set, Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0767018664
Label: A&E Home Video
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 31, 1999
Running Time: 340 minutes
Sales Rank: 15136
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: March 28, 1966



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Amazon.com:
Get your kicks with The Avengers '66. This two-volume set uncorks six sought-after episodes from this cult classic series' fourth season. Patrick Macnee, the umbrella-toting gentleman spy John Steed, and Diana Rigg, the ravishing Mrs. Emma Peel, investigate further extraordinary goings-on in the most ordinary of places, including a swank hotel ('Room Without a View') and a golf course and dance school ('The 13th Hole' and 'The Quick-Quick-Slow Death'). Suitable for framing is 'The Girl from Auntie,' in which an art dealer, who supplies his clients 'anything for a price' (including the Mona Lisa!), kidnaps Emma for auction to enemy agents. Perhaps members of Monty Python's Flying Circus got the inspiration for their 'Hell's Grannies' sketch from this episode's quaint assassin, an elderly 'lady' who does in her victims (including four chaps named John, Paul, George, and... Fred) with knitting needles.

For new fans, the episodes found in The Avengers '65 sets are of a better vintage, and The Avengers '67 offerings give more of a campy, effervescent kick. But '66 was still a very good year, and Avengers aficionados will, of course, want to own every episode from the Mrs. Peel era. 'What's so special about Mrs. Peel?' a woman asks in 'Auntie.' 'You'd think she was Madame Curie and a half-dozen others all rolled into one.' She is, to borrow a phrase, all that. A second Avengers '66 boxed DVD set is also available. --Donald Liebenson



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - A pretty good box set overall.
I enjoyed most of the episodes in this box set. The one I liked the least was Small Game For Big Hunters. ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - The Good Old Stuff
In Italy The Avengers are almost unknown. The only items you can find are the season '67, '68 and '69, all ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Diana Rigg. The Avengers. Enough said.
The Avengers. Hip. cool. suave. sexy. tongue in cheek. Emma Peel. You can't beat it.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - 2 series with Emma
The first set of 1966 episodes are still in B & W, third and fourth DVD with Emma.

1) "Silent ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - New partner for Steed
These DVD's from A&E represent the best known and certainly the most popular era of the long running British TV ... Read More

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