The lousy movie with Uma Thurman was on this morning and it put me in mind of a sequence from the old TV series that I’ve always remembered.
Steed and Peel are in a large room and they are confronted by something like a half dozen hostile guys. A door slides between them, separating them from each other. Emma is left with one guy while Steed has the remaining five. We stay with Emma and the battle that follows is a hëll of a fight. It takes Emma something like five minutes to take the guy down. She then runs to the door, opens it, and to her astonishment Steed is standing there calmly while the bodies of the five guys are lying unconscious on the floor.
Does anyone else remember that episode and which one it was?
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“The Town Of No Return” Season 4 episode 1. It was just on last week. ThisTV channel 490 on Verizon nightly. BTW, it’s also the first Emma Peel episode
That was quick! Thanks. Just watched it, although it’s odd; it’s not exactly the way I remember it. Then again, what is?
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Correction, it’s on COZI, not ThisTV.
Well, I found it on Youtube.
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Years ago as a Christmas present, I bought my dad a print of his all-time most-quoted “Peanuts” strip:
Linus: “Life is rarely all one way, Charlie Brown. You win some, and you lose some.”
Charlie Brown: “Really? Gee, that’d be neat!”
He got it and said, “This is nice, but wasn’t there another one with this same joke but with Lucy in it?” I don’t think I ever DID convince him that it was another case of “it’s not exactly the way I remember it, but then, what is?”
Actually he might have been right. Schulz recycled some gags on occasion.
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OK, after scouring the Internet, you’re right: Schulz DID recycle that basic idea. I don’t know which came first (I’d need to ask my parents to peek on the wall and see the year and date of the Linus/Charlie Brown sitting behind a wall strip), but I suspect my dad was thinking of a strip from January 19, 1971, with Lucy in the psychiatrist’s booth:
Lucy: “Life is like a game, Charlie Brown. Sometimes you win…sometimes you lose.”
Charlie Brown: “I’ll be happy if I just make the playoffs.”
…so that’s the SCENARIO my dad remembered. But from a PUNCHLINE standpoint, I definitely got him the right strip.
(Although there’s enough people online who remember the strip as something like “Charlie Brown has just lost a baseball game, and Lucy comes up to him and says ‘You win some, you lose some,’ and Charlie Brown says ‘That would be nice,'” that I can’t reject the “Dad remembered incorrectly idea *entirely*.)
[i]it’s also the first Emma Peel episode[/i]
Ahh is it now? I’ve never watched the show, but from what I pulled together it always seemed like they were a pair from the start.
Go figure.
Also who is he playing off of if not her?
She’s actually the third – or fourth, sort of – partner.
Ans the original setup had Ian Hendry as Dr Keel as the main character, and Steed as the sidekick.
Diana Rigg replaced Honor Blackman (as Mrs Cathy Gale), and was not, actually, the first choice for that role – there is an at least partial episode floating around featuring the first actress who didn’t work out.
There’s a scene in one of the Mrs Peel episodes where Steed looks through his mail as they talk, finds a post card, says “Ah – from Mrs. Gale.” Turns it over – “Whatever is she doing in Fort Knox?”
Brian Smith — ironically, there’s a Peanuts that makes this exact point. Charlie Brown recounts an incident where his father remembered that one actress was in some old movie, then it was on TV (a rare event back then!) and it turned out he remembered it wrong.
At least, that’s how I remember that strip…
That one DOES ring a bell! Thanks for the memory. And this whole discussion finally got me to track down two strips that I’d always jumbled together. Both are Lucy and Charlie Brown at the psychiatrist’s booth:
Charlie Brown: “I’m worried about my dad. He doesn’t watch TV anymore…he sits in the kitchen every night, and reads his collection of old Big-Little books.”
Lucy: “How does he act? Does he seem happy or sad?”
Charlie Brown: “I don’t know…he just sighs a lot.”
Lucy: “Leave him alone. Five cents, please!”
I kept trying to put the detail about the Big-Little books into this strip:
Charlie Brown: “I’m worried about my dad. Every night he sits in the kitchen eating cold cereal and looking at the pictures in his old high school yearbook.”
Lucy: “How old is your father?”
Charlie Brown: “I think he just turned 40.”
Lucy: “Nothing to worry about … he’s right on schedule! Five cents, please…”
I was pleased to see they included Patrick Macnee in the “In Memoriam” section of the Emmys. I hope next year, they still remember to include Jack Larson.
Having Nimoy as the last tribute was a nice touch.
And I was also pleased that “Game of Thrones” took Best Dramatic Series. So much for fantasy being unable to win an Emmy.
Reminds me of the fight scene from Iron Man 2. Happy takes down one guy and Widow takes down everyone else.
I was also reminded of the “New Avengers” episode where Gambit is working out and Steed walks by. Gambit asks the older man if he’d like to spar. Steed demurs, saying that Gambit wouldn’t enjoy it…he (Steed) doesn’t fight fair.