"The Avengers" was a spy-fi British TV series created in early 60s by a Canadian named Sydney Newman. The Avengers initially focused on Dr. David Keel (Ian Hendry) and his assistant John Steed (Patrick Macnee). Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. Steed's most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman), Emma Peel (Diana Rigg), and later Tara King (Linda Thorson).
John Steed was a suave, sophisticated, impeccably dressed agent of an unspecified branch of British intelligence service active primarily in 1960-70s. Steed's trademarks were a bowler hat and an umbrella. He was a top agent, skilled in every aspect of intelligence gathering and in several forms of both armed and unarmed combat, and an expert marksman. Steed specialized in unusual and often quite bizarre cases which nobody else could have tackled.
The Avengers, by the mid-sixties, existed in a surreal world which was basically Britain dialed up as far as it would go --- a world of retired Army types in country houses plotting world domination, of disgruntled clowns turned professional assassins, and of sexy women in leather catsuits kicking the stuffing out of beetle-browed henchmen, while the dapper, bowler hatted Steed, umbrella in hand, suavely strode through the chaos to save the nation on a weekly basis.
By 1969 "The Avengers" was shown in more than 90 countries. ITV produced a sequel series "The New Avengers" (1976-1977) with Patrick Macnee returning as John Steed, and two new partners. In 2007 The Avengers was ranked #20 on TV Guide's Top Cult Shows Ever.
Plot: John Steed, the sophisticated, impeccably dressed agent of an unspecified branch of British intelligence service goes on a much needed fishing holiday only to stumble onto a mysterious enemy plot.
John Steed was a suave, sophisticated, impeccably dressed agent of an unspecified branch of British intelligence service active primarily in 1960-70s. Steed's trademarks were a bowler hat and an umbrella. He was a top agent, skilled in every aspect of intelligence gathering and in several forms of both armed and unarmed combat, and an expert marksman. Steed specialized in unusual and often quite bizarre cases which nobody else could have tackled.
The Avengers, by the mid-sixties, existed in a surreal world which was basically Britain dialed up as far as it would go --- a world of retired Army types in country houses plotting world domination, of disgruntled clowns turned professional assassins, and of sexy women in leather catsuits kicking the stuffing out of beetle-browed henchmen, while the dapper, bowler hatted Steed, umbrella in hand, suavely strode through the chaos to save the nation on a weekly basis.
By 1969 "The Avengers" was shown in more than 90 countries. ITV produced a sequel series "The New Avengers" (1976-1977) with Patrick Macnee returning as John Steed, and two new partners. In 2007 The Avengers was ranked #20 on TV Guide's Top Cult Shows Ever.
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Comic Strip: Steed's Holiday
Writer: Unknown
Illustration: John Stokes
Format: Thirteen pages - black, white and yellow print
Writer: Unknown
Illustration: John Stokes
Format: Thirteen pages - black, white and yellow print
Steed's Holidays (Size: 5.2 MB)
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