“Target!” Review
Ah, this is more fun. A clever premise, tightly plotted and directed, centring on the deliberately artificial but highly atmospheric shooting range (it’s a mix of home counties architecture and […]
Ah, this is more fun. A clever premise, tightly plotted and directed, centring on the deliberately artificial but highly atmospheric shooting range (it’s a mix of home counties architecture and […]
One of just two episodes of The New Avengers I’ve never seen, this is a disappointment. The plot hasn’t been thought through – but seems, at the very least, to be suggested that […]
The rapid decline of The New Avengers continues with this messy combination of a somewhat implausible form of biological warfare (“Yes Mr Gambit, they died of everything”) and an Auric Goldfinger character […]
According to Bettridge’s Law this title should indicate there’s yet another Cybernaut episode to come – but there isn’t – and on the evidence of this episode (and the last […]
The opening is a silly but satisfying mix of humour and espionage – and the rest of this one’s not bad either. The plot is a little underdeveloped (how and […]
The Avengers are back! Great locations and a healthy dash of strangeness giving it a very Avengers feel, right from the opening with an agent being chased by men with fishing […]
So, after a few days to allow the dust to settle on my Avengers DVD collection, here are a few thoughts on the series as a whole, as well as […]
So, that’s it. All the remaining original Avengers have now been watched. I’ll look back over the whole lot in another post, but the October episodes represent a curious mix […]
So, that’s in then. The final notes of The Shake die away. The last of the (original) Avengers. 137 episodes… and they chose to end with this one. Bizarre. We’re back […]
After a couple of very straight episodes, this is a throwback to the silliness of season 5 – perhaps a reflection of this being produced a year earlier. Philip Levene’s […]
Unsettling. The Avengers has been about adventure and thrills, not about psychological torture. Even when psychological torture has been the explicit goal of the diabolical mastermind (eg. The House That […]
The central conceit in this episode is one of Flemingesque sadism: surgically implanted phosphor bombs. It’s a simple set-up where it’s almost impossible to imagine how Steed or his friends […]