My favorite moment in the original “Avengers” TV series involved a climactic battle wherein Steed and Peel are faced with about nine karate guys who are prepared to beat the crap out of them. And Steed and Peel get separated by a big sliding iron door, leaving Steed trapped with eight of the guys and Peel gets one. And it takes Emma, who normally can dispatch this kind of bad guy with alacrity, about five bruising minutes to take the guy out. It was probably the longest sustained battle against one opponent she ever had, which gives you an idea of just how formidable he was. And finally, exhausted, she runs to the closed door, punches a button, the door slides open…and Steed (whom we haven’t seen since the door closed) is standing there, leaning on his brolly, his hat firmly in place, calm as anything, and all eight guys are unconscious on the floor. And her jaw just drops as she realizes that Steed took out, with no effort, eight guys in the time it required her to take down one. It was one of THE great Steed moments, and I’d love to know which episode it was.
PAD
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Season 4, first episode.
“The Town of No Return”
I think this might have been Mrs. Peel’s first appearance.
By the by, the entire episode is over at YouTube.
I don’t recall it but I’d love to see it.
I beleave that it was from “Town of No Return” The first episode that with Emma Peel in it.
Bingo!
On YouTube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecs8WnvOYjA
Gee, did PAD just see Iron Man 2? The Natasha/Happy bit?
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J.
The expression on Hap’s face was indeed priceless. But the sequence was memorable for more than that. For instance, how many films have there been where one gets to see the director get beat up on by an extra?
Yeesh. And I thought they were scraping the bottom of the barrel when they let D-Man join up. 😉
Thanks guys. Upon watching it, it’s interesting to see how memory plays tricks. No ninja guys; I must have been remembering a different battle and transposed it to that one. Still, it was great to see it after all this time.
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PAD
Peter,
I was hoping to get in touch with you about a possible con appearance next summer. Please email me or have your agent do so 🙂
ummacnai@yahoo.ca
It’s also interesting to note that the scene where they show troops marching over a floor vent was actually done with only two or three people going over the vent in a circle.
Good Steed moments abound, but one which keeps coming to mind was in a THE NEW AVENGERS episode where one finally saw Steed use his umbrella to keep from getting wet (isn’t this what they’re for? Not judging by the original series) only it isn’t rain, it’s water from fire sprinklers inside a building. Not a lot of series or characters could get away with something such as that.
Ah memories! I particularly liked how Steed felt compelled to remove the dent in his bowler, showing the viewers that he didn’t rely on his umbrella sword to do all of his fighting.
“A Touch of Brimstone” will always rank highly among my favorites and not because of the Xmen “Hellfire Club” storyline either! 😉