The Night I Carried Kathy Stobart’s Saxophone
Kathy Stobart, the jazz saxophonist who played with the Humphrey Lyttleton band with some of its best line-ups, died a week ago, aged 89. The only time I saw Stobart […]
Kathy Stobart, the jazz saxophonist who played with the Humphrey Lyttleton band with some of its best line-ups, died a week ago, aged 89. The only time I saw Stobart […]
There are four remakes in what is, perhaps, the least creative series of The Avengers made, and this is the first. It’s a remake of The Charmers, which I didn’t rate that […]
One of only a couple of Avengers episodes remaining that I’ve never seen, and with this, I haven’t missed much. The killer’s POV shots are overused to the point of […]
A dash of Bond villain lair, and a callback to the preoccupations of early in series 4, and finally we have a colour episode that delivers unqualified entertainment. The village […]
There’s a decent (and well executed) gag being saved up which makes it worth limping through the first well-padded 40 minutes. A pastiche of the comic book and contemporary Batman […]
The wonderful wonderful black and white period of The Avengers ends with some of its weaker episodes, then the colour episodes come along and remind you how good even the […]
A comprehensive avian-based espionage scheme underpins this one; and it’s actually a reasonable episode – certainly the best of the colour lot so far. Not so good as to stick […]