Editorial Product Review: :A toast to A&E Home Video for releasing this three-volume boxed set of vintage episodes from the fourth season of The Avengers. The Avengers debuted in Great Britain in 1961 (predating the James Bond films), but it was not until the late 1960s that it found a welcome home in the United States. Unlike other baby-boomer-era series, The Avengers was not widely syndicated nor officially released on videocassette. This may be one reason why these rarely seen episodes seem as cool as when they ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:Compromised secrets, strange disappearances and a parade of dead doctors are among the mysteries secret agent extraordinaire John Steed (Patrick Macnee) must solve in the final season of THE AVENGERS. Providing able assistance is his new partner, the young and beautiful Tara King (Linda Thorson), fresh from her top-secret training with the Ministry. To add a little spice to the proceedings, she promptly falls madly in love with her debonair mentor. The sexy style, fantastic action and droll wit that made THE AVENGERS an ...
Editorial Product Review: :Devotees of Diana Rigg's Mrs. Emma Peel will be especially thrilled by this three-volume collection of seven black-and-white episodes that closed out the fourth season of The Avengers in high and often provocative style. One Avengers Web site ranks 'A Touch of Brimstone' among the 10 best episodes of the Mrs. Peel era; 'What the Butler Saw' and 'Honey for the Prince' rank among the top 20. To these add 'The House That Jack Built.' This mind-bending tour de force finds Mrs. Peel at ...
Editorial Product Review: :The second half of this massive miniseries covers events from the last two years of World War II with members of our fictitious family--the Henrys--scattered throughout the world. Pariah 'Pug' Henry (Robert Mitchum) visits Russia and England as an advisor--and proposes to his much-younger lover, Pamela (Victoria Tennant)--before retuning to the Pacific theater to join his son Byron (Hart Bochner), a submariner, in battling the Japanese. Meanwhile, Byron's wife, Natalie (Jane Seymour), and her uncle (John Gielgud) continue their harrowing plight, starting in the ...
Editorial Product Review: :The third season of Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer was marked by the arrival in Sunnydale of renegade slayer Faith (Eliza Dushku), a moody loner who seemed to like her calling just a little bit too much--she definitely got a pleasure out of staking vamps that went beyond mere job satisfaction. While Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) was always wary of Faith, the two developed a deep friendship and appreciative rapport--that is, until the evil mayor of Sunnydale (Harry Groener) tapped into Faith's dark ...
Editorial Product Review: :This boxed set dips deeper into the vaults for seven vintage, rarely seen episodes from The Avengers' second season. For series devotees, these episodes, shot on video, have a crude fascination. At this early stage, the fledgling series was more serious with less way-out stories or bizarre characters. Three of these episodes rank as among the best costarring a pre-Goldfinger Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale, Steed's resourceful and often leather-clad partner. 'The White Dwarf' is an early dabbling in science fiction, which would become ...
Editorial Product Review: :Set 2 in The Avengers '67 includes more episodes of the long-running British television series at its creative peak of great writing, color filming (for the first time on the show), and flawless chemistry between actors Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg. This batch includes six episodes on three tapes, including the unstoppable-corpse mystery 'The Living Dead'; the cheeky, killer-feline story 'The Hidden Tiger'; the finishing-school drama 'The Correct Way to Die'; the scary 'Epic'; and the Agatha Christie-like 'The Superlative Seven.' --Tom Keogh Description:The ...
Editorial Product Review: :According to one Avengers-appreciation Web site, three of the seven episodes contained in this three-volume boxed set--'Too Many Christmas Trees,' 'A Surfeit of H20,' and 'Dial a Deadly Number'--rank among the 10 best episodes from the series' Mrs. Emma Peel era (a fourth, 'The Hour That Never Was,' is ranked in the top 20), making this the perfect chaser to The Avengers '65 Set 1. 'What nasty situation have you got in store for me this time?' Mrs. Peel asks in 'The Man-Eater of ...
Editorial Product Review: :According to one Avengers-appreciation Web site, three of the seven episodes contained in this three-volume boxed set--'Too Many Christmas Trees,' 'A Surfeit of H20,' and 'Dial a Deadly Number'--rank among the 10 best episodes from the series' Mrs. Emma Peel era (a fourth, 'The Hour That Never Was,' is ranked in the top 20), making this the perfect chaser to The Avengers '65 Set 1. 'What nasty situation have you got in store for me this time?' Mrs. Peel asks in 'The Man-Eater of ...
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