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The Avengers '64, Set 1

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767025072
Format: Box set, Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0767025075
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: March 28, 2000
Running Time: 312 minutes
Sales Rank: 23531
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: March 28, 1966

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
From Britain with leather comes this three-volume collection of rare Avengers episodes starring Patrick Macnee as urbane, umbrella-toting spy John Steed and Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale, who preceded Emma Peel as Steed's partner. Virtually unseen in the United States, these six episodes from the third season of The Avengers will be a revelation for fans of this offbeat series.

Blackman portrayed Cathy Gale, stylish, leather-clad anthropologist and judo expert, from 1962 to '64, leaving the series to star as Pussy Galore in Goldfinger. Another veteran of the James Bond series makes a surprising appearance in 'Little Wonders,' an episode on volume 1: Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell), a machine-gun-toting nurse. This episode, in which Steed goes undercover in a 300-year-old crime organization, features a kiss between Steed and Gale. He was never so intimate with Emma Peel... at least not onscreen. Volume 2 contains two episodes ranked among the best of the Cathy Gale era. In 'The Wringer,' Gale comes to Steed's rescue after he becomes a guinea pig in a diabolical plot to brainwash agents. In 'Mandrake,' a deserted village becomes the burial ground of choice for a rash of 'rich and reasonably eminent' victims of a murder-for-hire business. 'The Secrets Broker' on volume 3, in which a murder leads Steed to a wine shop, is not quite vintage Avengers, but 'Trojan Horse,' set at a racetrack and involving an illicit betting syndicate, is a winner.

Produced before the series switched over to film, these black-and-white episodes are technically cruder than their more popularly known counterparts. But the plots are often just as confounding. Cathy Gale may leave Emma Peel enthusiasts underwhelmed; her banter with Steed lacks the erotic promise that made the Peel episodes so provocative. But you'll get a kick out the martial-arts prowess that reportedly knocked out her male adversary in the graveyard fight sequence in 'Mandrake.' --Donald Liebenson




Rating: - Quirky and interesting.
While the Cathy Gale episodes of the Avengers suffer somewhat from having to be reconstructed from ... Read More

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Rating: - It doesn't have English subtitle
I'm disappointed with Amazon.com that listed the incorrect info. under DVD features. It doesn't have ... Read More

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Rating: - Peel's first year
Honor Blackman's last season as Patrick MacNee's crime fighting companion. Mrs.Gale and John Steed foil ... Read More

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Rating: - Early outing for Steed
For all the fans of The Avengers familiar with the Emma Peel/Tara King era of the show, these early episodes ... Read More

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Rating: - John Steed and Kathy Gale
`The Avengers" was a popular 1960's British fantasy-adventure series that focused on the exploits of a male-female ... Read More

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