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The Avengers

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Two's a Crowd

Genre: Adventure, Crime drama

Enemy agents want a man to impersonate Steed and infiltrate a conference of defense leaders.

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Cast of 'The Avengers'

  • Patrick Macnee as Jonathan Steed
  • Diana Rigg as Emma Peel
  • Linda Thorson as Tara King
  • Patrick Newell as Mother

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About 'The Avengers'

Premiered:
Mar 27, 1966
Original Network:
ABC

Premise of 'The Avengers'

Shown in Great Britain for more than five years (debuting in 1961) before it caught on in America, "The Avengers" is a secret-agent thriller that almost bests James Bond. Jonathan Steed (Patrick Macnee) -- an urbane, proper gentleman spy -- and adventurous citizen Emma Peel (the leggy cat-suited Diana Rigg) repeatedly saved the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters). Emma Peel, in her leather boots and mini-skirts, is now considered one of the most liberated women on 60's television.