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The Avengers '66, Set 1
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780767016353
Format: Box set, Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 0767016351
Label: A&E Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Release Date: August 31, 1999
Running Time: 312 minutes
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: March 28, 1966
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Editorial Review:
Get your kicks with The Avengers '66. This three-volume boxed set uncorks six sought-after episodes from this cult classic series' fourth season. Patrick Macnee, the umbrella-toting gentleman spy John Steed, and Diana Rigg, the ravishing Mrs. Emma Peel, investigate further extraordinary goings-on in the most ordinary of places, including a swank hotel ("Room Without a View" on volume 1) and a golf course and dance school ("The 13th Hole" and "The Quick-Quick-Slow Death," both on volume 3). Suitable for framing is "The Girl from Auntie" on volume 2, in which an art dealer, who supplies his clients "anything for a price" (including the Mona Lisa!), kidnaps Emma for auction to enemy agents. Perhaps members of Monty Python's Flying Circus got the inspiration for their "Hell's Grannies" sketch from this episode's quaint assassin, an elderly "lady" who does in her victims (including four chaps named John, Paul, George, and... Fred) with knitting needles.
For new fans, the episodes found in The Avengers '65 sets are of a better vintage, and The Avengers '67 offerings give more of a campy, effervescent kick. But '66 was still a very good year, and Avengers aficionados will, of course, want to own every episode from the Mrs. Peel era. "What's so special about Mrs. Peel?" a woman asks in "Auntie." "You'd think she was Madame Curie and a half-dozen others all rolled into one." She is, to borrow a phrase, all that.
Each episode is in black and white. Volumes 1, 2, and 3 are also available for purchase separately. A second Avengers '66 boxed set is also available. --Donald Liebenson
Volume 1: Silent Dust/ Room Without a View Volume 2: Small Game For Big Hunters/ The Girl From Auntie Volume 3: The 13th Hole/ Quick-Quick-Slow Death
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Superb British cult B&W television!
James Bond, move over! This is a set of six, 52-minute entries from the great and brilliant team of Patrick Macnee (as the aristocratic John Steed) and Diana Rigg (as the tantalizing Emma Peel). The Rigg years were definitely the best ones and there is one other set from 1966 (also with Rigg) so don't confuse them! All these episodes were shot in black-and-white and the aspect is full-screen. Here's a rundown of the episodes:
"The 13th Hole" -- A Mad Scientist/International Intrigue ... Read More
Rating:  - Steed Makes Strange Bedfellows - Emma Becomes A Swinger
The six episodes in this set happen to be the most average of the black-and-white Diana Rigg series. Not bad - in fact, not bad at all - but not extraordinary, either. There's a bit of camp (and Rigg in a nice suit of undress) in "The Girl From A.U.N.T.I.E.," and splendid wit and humor (with some of the best Steed-Emma interplay in the series) in the somewhat satirical "Quick-Quick Slow Death."
The rest are straightforward and rather prosaic entries. "Silent Dust" is the best of these, ... Read More
Rating: - Long on charm, short on continuity
This is an erratic group of episodes, charming but sloppy.
As other reviewers note, ``Small Game for Big Hunters'' is one of the best, satirizing colonialism as much as could expected in a mainstream British show.
Bill Frazer is a bit too cute as the befuddled Col. Rawlings, a problem that recurs with supporting players in other epidoes. Still, the opening is one of the best in the series, and the offbeat plot is cleverly done. Flouting Brian Clemens' unfortunate ``rules,'' Philip Levene ... Read More
Rating: - A great series
This is my favorite Avengers team, Mrs. Peel and Mr. Steed. Together, Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee make the series. This series is very superb. Diana Rigg, an attractive woman, and Patrick Macnee, a good actor make this series. These 6 episodes are some of the best of the Avengers.
Rating: - A Classic!
What a great series! Diana Rigg is wonderful and Patrick Macnee coplements her perfectly. Super!
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