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Avengers 66 Set #1

Patrick Macnee (Actor), Diana Rigg (Actor) | Rated: Unrated | Format: VHS Tape
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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Get your kicks with The Avengers '66. This three-volume boxed 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" on volume 1) and a golf course and dance school ("The 13th Hole" and "The Quick-Quick-Slow Death," both on volume 3). Suitable for framing is "The Girl from Auntie" on volume 2, 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.

Each episode is in black and white. Volumes 1, 2, and 3 are also available for purchase separately. A second Avengers '66 boxed set is also available. --Donald Liebenson

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4.0 out of 5 stars Steed Makes Strange Bedfellows - Emma Becomes A Swinger, May 10 2002
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This review is from: Avengers 66 Set #1 (VHS Tape)
The six episodes in this set happen to be the most average of the black-and-white Diana Rigg series. Not bad - in fact, not bad at all - but not extraordinary, either. There's a bit of camp (and Rigg in a nice suit of undress) in "The Girl From A.U.N.T.I.E.," and splendid wit and humor (with some of the best Steed-Emma interplay in the series) in the somewhat satirical "Quick-Quick Slow Death."

The rest are straightforward and rather prosaic entries. "Silent Dust" is the best of these, with Steed and Emma preventing economic blackmail by use of a top-secret stolen chemical agent. "Room Without A View" and "Small Game For Big Hunters" are fairly dull, really, except for the usual wonderful interplay between Steed and Emma (and there's less of that than usual), and "The 13th Hole" is a reasonably clever spy story revolving around a private golf club.

Just because these aren't the best the series had to offer doesn't mean they're not worth watching. The Avengers, at its most mundane, was much better than virtually every other show at its best.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Long on charm, short on continuity, Mar 29 2002
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This review is from: Avengers 66 Set #1 (VHS Tape)
This is an erratic group of episodes, charming but sloppy.
As other reviewers note, ``Small Game for Big Hunters'' is one of the best, satirizing colonialism as much as could expected in a mainstream British show.
Bill Frazer is a bit too cute as the befuddled Col. Rawlings, a problem that recurs with supporting players in other epidoes. Still, the opening is one of the best in the series, and the offbeat plot is cleverly done. Flouting Brian Clemens' unfortunate ``rules,'' Philip Levene writes a sympathetic non-white character in Razafi. And Diana Rigg shows off her willowy figure in a sarong.
``Room without a View'' is another episode that plays with displacement, this time from a London hotel to a Chinese prison. It's not quite as sharp as Small Game, but has atmosphere.
``The Quick, Quick Slow Death'' is a silly as its title, but plays out with such good humor that one can forgive its illogic.
Speaking of plot holes and technical flubs, ``The Girl from Auntie'' may be the champion in a series that was often done on a shoestring. But the script and cast revel in silliness _ ``Don't forget your handbag, Lady Bracknell.''
Liz Frazer is a delight as the fake Mrs. Peel. Perhaps she was originally cast as a foil for Elizabeth Shepherd, whom Rigg replaced. But one of the most amusing things is the contrast between buxom blonde partygirl Frazer and the ``real'' Emma Peel cool, completely non-buxom Rigg. While she doesn't have much to do, Rigg does it while little more than panties, a few feathers and some padding for her bust.
If that's memorable, ``The 13th Hole'' is a mundane plot. Even the jokey lair, a ``bunker'' bunker, seems made of cardboard.
``Silent Dust'' is more imaginative, with a still timely ecological disaster plot. As always, Patrick Macnee is a suave, reliable Steed. The horseback scenes are fun _ although note how tense new rider Rigg is _ but the villains fairly unimpressive.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A great series, Mar 14 2002
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This review is from: Avengers 66 Set #1 (VHS Tape)
This is my favorite Avengers team, Mrs. Peel and Mr. Steed. Together, Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee make the series. This series is very superb. Diana Rigg, an attractive woman, and Patrick Macnee, a good actor make this series. These 6 episodes are some of the best of the Avengers.
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