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What's Alan Watching? (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
You may have noticed that the blog logo has changed again. After last week's discussion , I've decided to do a new post each week announcing that a new logo has been posted, and inviting everybody to speculate on what it is. After a few days - or, at least, after enough people have very clearly figured it out - I'll pop in and either confirm or explain what it is. This post, meanwhile, is being added...
What's Alan Watching? (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Ever since I unveiled the blog logo (designed, again, by blog reader/commenter David Loehr ), I frequently get questions from people (either on the blog or on Twitter) asking me to either explain the theme, or to identify one or more of the four people (the worst was when a bunch of you didn't recognize Mickey from "Rocky" and I briefly felt older than Methuselah), or about where you can...
Blowing My Thought Wad (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Watching Douglas Burd’s title sequence for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy reminded me of just how inventive television titles used to be. Nowadays a drama is lucky if it gets the familiar brief clip reel that identifies the stars of the show interspersed with brief action sequences. Even then they still lack the razzmatazz of the titles for the shows that I watched as a kid. Whether it was the Anderson–produced...
Cinedelica (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
As we reported earlier, not everything has survived, but the remaining episodes of the first series of The Avengers, along with the second series, have been reissued on an eight-disc DVD boxset, courtesy of Optimum - and we have one...
downthetubes.net news blog (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
A lot of people know that there was a US comic featuring TV's The Avengers , which to avoid confusion with a similarly-named title and, probably, litigation from Marvel, was actually named the John Steed Emma Peel comic. Published by Gold Key, a few people may also know that this featured colourised reprints from Polystyle's TV Comic , a weekly title which ran from 1951 to 1984 that mixed licensed...
The Time Traveller's Strife (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Jeremy Young Born in Liverpool in 1934, Jeremy has had an outstanding career in television. Two Doctor Who appearances in 1963 as ' Kal ' in ' An Unearthly Child ' and as ' Gordon Lowery ' in ' Mission To The Unknown ', also know as ' The Dalek Cutaway ' in 1965. Both stories are of note, the former being the first Doctor Who story and ' Mission ' being the first to not feature The Doctor or his companions....
Retro To Go (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Sadly, not everything has survived, but the remaining episodes of the first series of The Avengers, along with the second series, are about to get a DVD reissue, courtesy of Optimum. Just two and a half first series episodes survive,...
Cinedelica (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Sadly, not everything has survived, but the remaining episodes of the first series of The Avengers, along with the second series, are about to get a DVD reissue, courtesy of Optimum. Just two and a half first series episodes survive,...
LisNews (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Meet Tessa, Seattle librarian and loaded with style. Her influences include: " Ballenciaga, the character Emma Peel on the Avengers, an unknown actress named Deanna Lund who was in the show "Land of the Giants". Her best fashion advice- "Be daring! Dress out of your comfort zone. Don't even think about being over-dressed or under-dressed. Always opt for over-dressed!" She...
The Brea Canyon Monument (Free subscription) | 08/29/2009
My dad told me that when he was in college, he and his frat brothers would always sit down to check out new episodes of The Avengers . Yeah, while Patrick Macnee was a good actor, something tells me that they were a little more innarested in Diana Rigg.
Paradox Comics Group (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
In Four-Colour Yesteryears we delve back into the past to look at the periods, events and creators that helped shape the medium. By Rob N Towards the end of the late Sixties DC decided to undertake a serious revamp of their existing superhero line of titles. Marvel had steadily gained ground during the previous decade to overtake DC as the most popular brand of comic books. Part of Marvel's success...
The Devout Life (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
So, I went and came out actually looking exactly like Diana Rigg in the Avengers. This could be a picture of me. Seriously, where can I get me a black leather cat suit in this town?
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/13/2009
LOS ANGELES — "Star Wars" co-star Natalie Portman is storming back into action films with a role in the comic-book adaptation "Thor." The 28-year-old Portman has been cast as Jane Foster, who was a nurse and first love of the title character in the Marvel Comics. According to Marvel Studios, the character is being updated for the movie version of "Thor," in which...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
Former BOND girl HONOR BLACKMAN once turned down a saucy offer from her THE AVENGERS co-star PATRICK MACNEE - he invited her to watch him play tennis naked.MACnee...
Illinois Pedant (Free subscription) | 07/05/2009
For the last few weekends I've been watching episodes of The Avengers , a 60's era British TV show that I used to watch with my father as a kid. The show's plots, while sometimes rather far-fetched, were not out of character for the era. I especially enjoyed the repartee between the principal characters, John Steed (Patrick Macnee) and Mrs. Peel (Diana Rigg) in the 1965-1967 seasons. Yesterday while...
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