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New Avengers '77 [DVD] [1976] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

DVD ~ Patrick Macnee
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Maurice Marsac, Pierre Vernier
  • Writers: Sydney Newman
  • Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 4
  • Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: A&E Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 27 July 2004
  • Run Time: 663 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00029NKSI
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 113,682 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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5.0 out of 5 stars some good, some great ( 4.5 stars actually), 2 Aug 2004
By Deborah MacGillivray "Author," (US & UK) - See all my reviews
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This second set of the New Avengers is a mixed bag. Some episodes were even filmed in Canada. Some are good, some are gems. So 5 stars is a wee bit high. I'd give it 4.5

1) Dead Men are Dangerous
2) Angels of Death
3) Medium Rare
4) The Unicorn and the Lion
5) Obsession
6) Trap
7) Hostage
8) K is for Kill: part 1
9) K is for Kills: part 2
10) Complex
11) The Gladiators
12) Emily
13) Forward Base

At some points, for some stupid reason, they stuck Purdey in a bad wig! Even Benny Hill had better wigs! The Lion and the Unicorn is a fast paced romp, that show the excellent team work between Lumley and Hunt. But Emily is the episode that really steals the shows. Quite different from most of the New Avengers, this one is play tongue completely through cheek comedy. Emily is a car and the villain accidentally leaves his hand print on the top of an elderly lady car. They can catch the bad guy if they get the car to HQ with the handprint intact Only bad guy is out to stop them. Again, Hunt and Lumley's team works so well for this episode that is a howl.

I great addition to the Avengers library, though they were starting to show the lack of originality in several episodes. Same because they team of Macnee, Lumley and Hunt were really hitting their stride as a team.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Farewell, farewell to you who would hear, 15 Feb 2008
By Junglies (Morrisville, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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Steed, Purdey, Gambit. A great combination. Action, espionage, quirkiness. Most of the ingredients for a good series.

The middle has dropped out of the mixture in the oven.

This series is a little soggy throughout. I have watched it several times and for some of the episodes that is certainly more than a little too much. What is missing is not just the quick witted repartit or even the sense of intellectual snobbiness that goes with some of the stories. I even thought that the story with Martin Shaw and future colleague Lewis Collins (of the Professionals) was not that much irony.

No, what was missing most to me was the lack of originality of the story. The Avengers reduced to the status of the very bureaucrats that they had sent up so successfully in the past, although I think that the Mother joke went on far too long. The show just became another boring mundane sort of spy story but just did not meet the bill. Taking the show out of London did not work too well either just as getting rid of the classic cars, although I do remember Gambit's S-type Jag rather well.

Sad end to a once great series but at least Patrick Macnee had some decent parts not like those he would play once in America. For completists only.
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