“Who Was That Man I Saw You With?” Review
Although a story about framing one of The Avengers as a traitor seems like old hat, after 128 episodes, I’m having trouble putting my figure on where it happened before… I’m […]
The 1960s TV series (not the comic thingy).
Although a story about framing one of The Avengers as a traitor seems like old hat, after 128 episodes, I’m having trouble putting my figure on where it happened before… I’m […]
Fog, Victoriana, Poe. This oddity eschews telling a story in favour of pure atmosphere. Not in the usual Avengers sense of pretty home counties villages, old fashioned pubs and red telephone […]
This is almost like a writing exercise in paring down an Avengers episode to the minimum possible plot to allow a series of vignettes of pleasing eccentrics and enthusiastic spycraft to […]
We are used to spies tailing one another; keeping out of sight of their target – though passers by can see them, they just see another pedestrian – it’s only […]
Yet mark’d I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love’s wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness. The honey-trap […]
Well, The Prisoner did an episode that was little more than a poorly disguised rip-off of The Avengers, so I guess that it’s only fair that The Avengers does the same to The Prisoner […]
September’s episodes have been as variable as Tara’s hair. Two episodes I’d never seen before represented opposite ends of the quality spectrum (The Morning After and Look (Stop Me…)). But I’d […]
Blackmailers commit murders in such a way as to be able to frame their victims. The dead are collateral damage. It’s like a more intelligent version of the scheme in You […]
The teaser to this episode is, quite unusually, a complete red herring. Steed and Tara set a trap for a double agent, which goes wrong… But that’s not a set-up […]
When Steed goes on holiday, Tara gets some useless twit who she has to discard at the first opportunity. When Steed goes on holiday, he gets a proper new partner. […]
So, i believe this is the closes thing we have to an episode as it might have been realised by John Bryce during his abortive stint as producer, before Clemens […]
Watching paint dry is, I guess, supposed to be boring because it’s slow. But, then, it wouldn’t be much more interesting if it were faster. So, watching wood rot turns […]