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.