Clip Update

New clips up at Major Johns. Minor scene in the above par horror flick, Haunted Forest - bad acting, but some nice photography and effects scenes compensate, if you ever care to check it out.

Finally got round to ripping some of my VHS collection and came across a scene in the Italian Giallo effort, La Morte ha fatto l'uovo, with the great English title of Death Laid an Egg - certainly an oddity for the genre and well worth catching if you get the chance.

Finally, a favourite of mine. Two delightful actresses ham it up in the fantastic Bond Parody OSS 117: Le Caries nid d'espions. Those of you who speak or understand French are going to get a buzz from the first scene in the clip!

The Best Avengers Girl

The votes are in:

Cathy Gale 12%
Emma Peel 46%
Tara King 40%

The end result kind of summed up my own views; always was more partial to the scenes involving Thorson (i suspect because she wore a skirt much more!), but few could compete with the beauty of Diana Rigg. Not much more to say which the picture hasn't already :)

Thanks to all those readers who cast their vote.

New clips on Major Johns

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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)