THE AVENGERS SEASON ONE

[Alan Turrell]

I'm currently half way through watching season 3 of The Avengers , when they were originally shown i only got to see the Diana Rigg and Linda Thorson ones , i really enjoy watching these with Honor Blackman , but i do find the endings to each episode are really tame .

[dennywilson]

I had hear stories that some of the Season 1 episodes of THE AVENGERS were sold to Canada and other overseas countries - was this true?

[Louise Penn]

I remember seeing The Frighteners when it was repeated on TV and then finding the rest of the first series was missing - as a Hendry fan it irritates me a bit that he's been sidelined with regards to this series, although the recent recoveries of Girl on a Trapeze and bit of Hot Snow gives a flavour of what we have lost. Steed isn't in these two. I don't miss him.

Don't get me wrong, I love what we now see as 'classic Avengers' with Steed and the girls, but if we ever get to see the whole of series one the history of the show will be somewhat different. I never thought we'd recover any series one episodes and that we would have to make do with The Frighteners. Glad that is no longer the case and hope that more episodes might just be out there, somewhere.

[Stephen Doran]

Id like to see more Hendry eps too

[George D]

Im looking forward to the new audioless reconstructions and hope that the audios will be found.

Since Patrick Macnee is still alive, it would be awesome if he would read his lines for use in a new recon.. of course he may not wish to do that.


Perhaps this is something that Big Finish would be willing to do.

Out of curiousity, has Macnee been approached as to what he might have from season 1? Once he goes it may all be thrown out. I would be surprised if he had actual episodes, but he may have photos, scripts, and audios.

[robertboon]

From an interview given by Lawrence R. Barnett, board chairman of General Artists Corp. (a US talent agency) in March 1963:

Lawrence R. Barnett, board chairman of GAC, related in an interview in New York last week that the agency is in the process of assembling various television packages for
1965-66 including The World of Comedy, The Story of Civilization and The Avengers. The latter program is playing currently in Britain and is highly popular, he said, and 

it is GAC's intention to assign a producer it represents to co-produce an American version of the show.

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So the mystery of how 1 and 1/3rd episodes from series 1 ended up in the UCLA Film and Television Archive may now possibly has an explanation, as it seems reasonable that copies of episodes of the programme (including ones from series 1) would have been acquired by the Americans before deciding to make an American version of the show. It does give a glimmer of hope that further episodes from series 1 might still lay undiscovered in the US.

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A recurring trend in recoveries of missing television is that recordings have turned up in places they weren't expected to! It would be nice to think some more early Avengers were out there though.

[Charles Daniels]

Dec 13, 2013 0:39:04 GMT robertboon said:

From an interview given by Lawrence R. Barnett, board chairman of General Artists Corp. (a US talent agency) in March 1963:

Lawrence R. Barnett, board chairman of GAC, related in an interview in New York last week that the agency is in the process of assembling various television packages for
1965-66 including The World of Comedy, The Story of Civilization and The Avengers. The latter program is playing currently in Britain and is highly popular, he said, and 

it is GAC's intention to assign a producer it represents to co-produce an American version of the show.

---

So the mystery of how 1 and 1/3rd episodes from series 1 ended up in the UCLA Film and Television Archive may now possibly has an explanation, as it seems reasonable that copies of episodes of the programme (including ones from series 1) would have been acquired by the Americans before deciding to make an American version of the show. It does give a glimmer of hope that further episodes from series 1 might still lay undiscovered in the US.

That's absolutely fascinating Robert!
Thanks for sharing it with everyone!
Amazing what can be dug up with determination!

[Douglas Wulf]

Dec 13, 2013 0:39:04 GMT robertboon said:

From an interview given by Lawrence R. Barnett, board chairman of General Artists Corp. (a US talent agency) in March 1963:

Lawrence R. Barnett, board chairman of GAC, related in an interview in New York last week that the agency is in the process of assembling various television packages for
1965-66 including The World of Comedy, The Story of Civilization and The Avengers. The latter program is playing currently in Britain and is highly popular, he said, and 

it is GAC's intention to assign a producer it represents to co-produce an American version of the show.

---

So the mystery of how 1 and 1/3rd episodes from series 1 ended up in the UCLA Film and Television Archive may now possibly has an explanation, as it seems reasonable that copies of episodes of the programme (including ones from series 1) would have been acquired by the Americans before deciding to make an American version of the show. It does give a glimmer of hope that further episodes from series 1 might still lay undiscovered in the US.

I'll start looking around here immediately!

Thanks for posting this interesting bit of information!