The Avengers

Certainly a massive influence on me when it was repeated throughout the late 70s, The Avengers certainly embraced it's fetish influences in many great scenes.

But a question just for fun - in your view which of Steed's lovely lady sidekicks had the best scenes? Cast your vote in the poll to the right.





Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman)
1962-64






Emma Peel (Diana Rigg)
1965-67






Tara King (Linda Thorson)
1968-69

I haven't included Purdey as played by Joanna Lumley from The New Avengers as the show had little impact on me and suffered badly from poor scripting, and lots of wasted opportunites, the most ridiculous being an apple used as a gag!

Morgan Brittany

It seems that since i started writing here a pattern has occured, mainly my thoughts on actresses who have never had the DiD scenes we all so wished for. Well here is another that plagues on my mind - Morgan Brittany.

With only a short tape gag scene in Glitter to her credit and a minor scene in Buck Rogers, she was wasted for years in Dallas as the scheming Katherine Wentworth. I'm sure the script writers could have had JR and the boys selling her to a oil tycoon had they really thought about it :)

Any other actresses any readers wish got the DiD treatment more, if at all?

New update on Major Johns

Three new clips, two new and a classic as promised from the previously mentioned Land of the Giants.

Requests and comments are welcomed, anything you guys would like to see?

http://www.majorjohns.com/blockbuster.htm

Morgan Fairchild

If you wanted to give an example of an 80's TV icon who personified the look and fashion of that era than you need look no further than Morgan Fairchild. Beautiful, sassy and criminally underused in the DiD stakes!

Despite full treatment scenes in Big Shamus, Little Shamus and in the TV movie Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady to her credit, we still all kind of feel cheated. The Shamus scene is part of a fake robbery so little by the way of true DiD, and the Sherlock Holmes scene is too short and not particularly well shot.

We all really thought it would come. but despite guest starring in numerous formula cop shows and made for tv thrillers (one even called Held for Ransom) and some potentially lurid video covers (see below), unfortunately nothing else transpired.




















Big Shamus, Little Shamus - The Canary


Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991)

Erin Gray - Silver Spoons Clip

Result!

Here is the scene from Silver Spoons with Erin Gray as discussed in a previous post.

From the episode A Dark and Stormy Night, marginal for sure, but still worth checking out for fans of Erin.

Clip Update on Major Johns

The ladies over at Major Johns are kindly hosting some of my clips, 3 currently ready for download and updated every Saturday. Requests welcomed.

Request - Land of the Giants

Inspired by a reader's request, and perhaps a good time to look at this show as the sixities are clearly a favourite amongst you fellow DiD fans based on the current poll.

In my humble opinion, easily the best of Irwin Allen's 60's Sci-Fi efforts - quite possibly due to the presence of the stunning Deanna Lund in the role of Valerie. I don't recall any other damsel who during the course of a show was both tied to a chess piece and stuck to a table with cellotape!

Certainly most popular is the scene from the episode The Unsuspected in which she (and unfortunately a number of putzs) spent the majority of the episode in the ropes. That scene is to come when i get a chance to rip the Season 2 DVD, but for your entertainment i present you with a clip from the first season episode, The Lost Ones.

Here Deanna finds herself in trouble (no gags, but still a nice couple of scenes) with co-star Heather Young, who incidentally probably would have been a damsel too in The Unsuspected episode had it not been for the fact she spent much of Season 2 stood behind props to cover up her pregnancy. Damn Mother Nature!

I tried to post full clip via rapidshare, but seems to be struggling with files over 20MB for some reason today, so a preview clip of the main action is below. Good news is I have been kindly invited by Stephanie over at Major Johns to have my own page, so full clip will be posted there.

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...and while we're on Buck Rogers

Erin Gray...few decent scenes, no gags during her time on Buck Rogers, but I bet few could deny the effect she had on many of us who grew up in the 70s/80s.

Some years later, The Fall Guy at least rewarded us with a scene, be it all too brief and not particulaly as expressive as we had all hoped.




If anyone is interested I have the episodes containing the scenes and will cap if demand is there. Click here if interested.

Brian's Page reports of her having a scene in the sitcom Silver Spoons - anyone seen it or own a copy? As the contributer of the post over on Brian's Page so elegantly puts it..."Overall the scene's marginal, BUT IT'S ERIN!!!".

Amen to that!

Feedback/Requests

Please feel free to use the comments link to post discussion/requests on related themes and clip requests. Keen to make this a happy, active community.

Had some time on my hands last few days due to some time off work, so managed to post quite a bit, will probably aim for 2-3 times a week from now.

Also interested in setting up a 'team' her to maintain momentum and keep this place active. Anyone interested, or with requests/feedback, then click here.

Yours

BBDID

The Landers Sisters

Couldn't agree more with the comment someone left that the Landers Sisters would have made "dynamite DID" - couldn't have put it better myself!

Lots of wasted opportunies, only records in Brian's database are both for Judy in Knight Rider and BJ and the Bear, both handgag only though. Does anyone have these scenes? If so, please click here to let me know.

In the meantime here are two such wasted opportunies (well at least to DID lovers) of the two of them in some GIFs i threw together, both guest starring in shows which did throw up the occasional scene.




Audrey in The Dukes of Hazzard







Judy in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

Women's Murder Club - New Clip

To be or not too be...

Will Angie Harmon finally get a scene worthy of her in her latest series? Probably not, but we can all dream.

The last time i saw her as the DID was in the woeful Baywatch Nights, which to me has become a prime example of a wasted opportunity.

Her new show did throw up a fairly interesting scene (as well as a blink and you'll miss it one too). Download the clip from the episode Blind Dates and Bleeding Hearts here.

And remember folks - fingers crossed (and maybe toes too!)

Return to Savage Beach - Clip

Andy Sidaris has made a career casting playboy models in big girls with big guns low budget flicks. None particularly any good, and very little by way of good DID action.

Return to Savage Beach isn't really an exception to the rule, all though it does at least feature a gag scene. A few of his Sidaris' other movies feature tie-ups, but with no gags. This one has the gag but with no tie-up. Go figure..

Either Sidaris just doesn't really like/understand the DID situation, or its to do with female empowerment; which judging by the portrayal of the ladies would be slightly ironic, which is shame as many of his films would lend themselves nicely to this subculture.

Judge for yourself. FYI the damsel is played by Carrie Westcott, Miss September 1993. Click here to download the clip.

Requested clip - an oldie but a goodie!

Partners in Crime -Getting in Shape

Nice scene from a short lived show. But hey - any scene's a good on with Lynda Carter involved!

Be interesting to see who readers consider to be candiates if this show was ever re-imagined, complete with more damsel scenes of course! Still have my treatment for the second season when both Lynda and Loni stumble across a harem collector! :)

As sexy as Loni was, i always thought Audrey Landers would have been my ideal casting!

Anyhow, download the clip here. I did not cap this, so credit to AVI fan.

To get the ball rolling...

Jekyll - Episode 3

The lovely Gina Bellman in a scene from the surprisingly innovative BBC series, brief but still very sexy!

http://www.rapidshare.com/files/67055352/Jekyll_-_Episode_3.wmv.html


Flash Gordon - Infestation

The jury is in and it's verdict is clear...the SCI-FI Channels series is dire. However, it did throw up this little scene, but you'll be screaming out at the camera man! Prediction - cancellation, lets just hope actress Gina Hoden who plays Dale gets a repeat DID scene like in Blood ties!

http://www.rapidshare.com/files/67071196/FlashGordon_Infestation.wmv.html


Spooks - Season 2, Episode 4



The latest episode of Spooks delivers a good old fashioned car trunk scene.

http://www.rapidshare.com/files/67070325/Spooks_S06E04.wmv.html