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Indeed, Avengers was a seriously cool show back in the day. (The Prisoner was so-o-o confusing).

I have a recollection of an avengers ep. where rooms in some mansion moved around. So that when you left a room you were not where you were when you went in. Very cool. Trick was a switch in the doorway that triggered the move. No other recollection about the episode. Far too many beers between then and now.

A properly rolled brelly really completes a gentleman.

RIP Mr. Macnee. I am grateful for his entertaining enhancement of my life many years ago.

But I must admit that although I enjoyed his role on The Avengers, I watched that show for the delicious Diana Rigg. I do not mean to criticize the other two Emma Peels, Honor Blackman and Linda Thorson, but merely point out that they were simply not Diana Rigg.

I was busy watching Mrs. Peel

He certainly had an, um, colourful upbringing!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11699769/Patrick-Macnee-actor-obituary.html

OH MY SWEET AUNT FANNY! That is the most AWESOME Telegraph Obituary I have ever read! (And I’m a huge fan of the Telegraph’s obits).

Read it.

Go.

I was going to comment on how much Diana Rigg affected me growing up, but got beat to it.

How about the harpsichord music for Danger Man / Secret Agent?

Also, remembering 1960s British import TV, how about anything by Gerry Anderson? Fireball XL-5 was my absolute favorite the year is was on. Awesome special effects, especially the rocket exhaust and explosions. And the tense, energetic music made the shows.

Forgot to mention:

Lord Dennis Eaton-Hogg

RIP Patrick Macnee. Yeah, watched a lot of The Avengers in my youth; no, there weren’t all reruns.

Uncle Al: I do not mean to criticize the other two Emma Peels, Honor Blackman and Linda Thorson…

Honor Blackman’s character was “Cathy Gale”; Linda Thorson’s was “Tara King”.

Rigg was the one and only Mrs. Peel. (Uma Thurman doesn’t count.)

John Steed, one of the three fathers of Austin Powers – the other two were James Bond and Derek Flint.

I never watched any of the shows. Whenever I hear Patrick MacNee I think of Kinky Boots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvjjm8hMdKI

Matt Helm was just a “good friend of the family”…

That *was* quite an obit! Mine, I fear, will be something like, “She was born, she drove around a lot, she croaked. Finis.”

I am the most boring cat EVAH.

When 1960’s women in TV to be watched, you really can’t outdo Carolyn Jones as Morticia Addams. Golly, she was pretty!

The old man “Shrimp” sounds like he was fun at parties:

“He had a taste for gin and enlivened his dinner parties by levelling a shotgun at those guests he suspected of pacifist tendencies.”

“..he was later expelled for urinating off a balcony on to the heads of the Raj’s elite, gathered below for a race-meeting.”

From the obit, can somebody please translate into slack-jawed mid-western:

“He decided he was too old not to have a proper job, a conclusion reached when he came home to find he had been replaced in the affections of a much younger girlfriend by a French thief and his team of huskies.”