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I had never heard of this show, but speaking about wacky British 70s series that still hold up, I think The Avengers should be up there, for similar reasons: gr
by Jun8 9y ago
I had never heard of this show, but speaking about wacky British 70s series that still hold up, I think The Avengers should be up there, for similar reasons: great acting, out of this world plots, mixed with a quaint British attitude.
The Emma Peel era was the best, you can check out all the episodes here: http://theavengers.tv/forever/peel.htm http://theavengers.tv/forever/peel.htm. Almost all episodes are gold, but my favorites are The Cybernauts and Honey for the Prince.
- flukus 9y agoThanks for the link, I've tried searching for torrents of the show before but only ever found those other avengers.
- shirro 9y agoI love older uk shows and finding legitimate streaming content is endlessly frustrating. It might be a niche market but the promise of the Internet was it was supposed to address the long tail. So much is sitting on the shelves due to lazy rights holders or only has limited geographical distribution.
- timthorn 9y agoThat presupposes the originals still exist, which in too many cases isn't true - the BBC erased many tapes to reuse, not expecting ever to retransmit.
- rwmj 9y agoNot sure about streaming, but I'm working my way through the reissued Blu-Rays of Avengers Series 5 & 6, and they are superb restorations. (Series 6 with Linda Thorson, not Diana Rigg, is a bit underrated, but IMO the storylines are better) It's interesting that you get a better experience than the original transmissions. It was all recorded on 35 mm film and broadcast in PAL on the very new, small and highly unreliable TV sets of 1967. The restored versions redigitised from film look incredible.
- Taniwha 9y agoSandbaggers is not wacky in the Avengers sense, deadly serious, when you're done watching sandbaggers check out Callan
- keithpeter 9y agoCallan was darkly cynical. I remember when the various series were screened on actual telly we used it as a vehicle for discussing the morality of spy stuff. Probably safer than discussing the 'emergency' we then had (Northern Ireland).
- falsedan 9y agoI have heard of this show, and speaking of gritty late-Cold-War-era series that still hold up, I think Edge of Darkness should be up there. It was remade into a terrible action film in 2010, but the original TV series from 1985 is a masterpiece of plotting and pacing, and non-verbal storytelling.
- lobster_johnson 9y agoEdge of Darkness is superb. As dark as anything in, say, Breaking Bad.