“The Morning After” Review
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 […]
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 […]
Here’s a test for my theory that Charles Crichton always directs an entertaining episode… It’s always a problem when The Avengers fails to take itself seriously. It’s all very well for […]
Multiple versions of Steed is not a new concept in The Avengers. The Man With Two Shadows and Two’s A Crowd for example, not to mention the duplicates in Never, Never Say Die and probably […]
Fencing stolen guns may not sound much like the kind of wild and wacky plots we’ve come to expect from recent episodes of the Avengers. It’s more the mundane criminality […]
Some of the Tara King episodes are very forgettable, so when I look at the titles, I struggle to remember if I’ve even seen them. There are two reason why […]
Another guilty pleasure. Someone in the security service thinks “I know, we’ll gather all of our most vulnerable agents – the injured ones – and put them in one place.” […]
Hitting a new low, this is where The Avengers ceases to bother being The Avengers and transmutes into a sketch-show featuring a single 50-minute sketch riffing crudely on The Maltese Falcon and other films of […]
Should this feel like a guilty pleasure? There are several reasons to regard the episode, as I did on first viewing, as a dud. Primarily there’s the fact that Tara […]
Disposable but somewhat charming and irresistibly well directed – in fact, it’s hard to hate a Crichton directed episode. There’s a lot of good urban location shots, and great atmosphere. But […]