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Old 17-04-2007, 08:12 AM
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How on earth that dog called Grommet can let Wallace take all the credit for everything is beyond me....but What a Team!

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How on earth that dog called Grommet can let Wallace take all the credit for everything is beyond me....but What a Team!
How can Gromit complain? He's got no mouth :

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Old 18-04-2007, 08:48 AM
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Where has the delectable Ms.Thorson been until she resurfaced alongside that other action icon of the Seventies, Patrick Mower, in Emmerdale?
She was in Quantum Leap as I recall playing an evil hologram character in a couple of stories where a woman was leaping around time doing the opposite to Sam Beckett (i.e putting wrong what once was right) and Linda Thorsen was Al's (Dean Stockwell's character) opposite number as it were.
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She was in Quantum Leap as I recall playing an evil hologram character in a couple of stories where a woman was leaping around time doing the opposite to Sam Beckett (i.e putting wrong what once was right) and Linda Thorsen was Al's (Dean Stockwell's character) opposite number as it were.
I think she is abut to embark on an affair with Zak Dingle
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I think she is abut to embark on an affair with Zak Dingle
I agree that she would indeed be a butt to embark on an affair with Zak......

What DID they give those Avengers women to drink? All three, still devilishly lovely, with the passage of the years.







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it didn't do old Steed any harm either ...
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Spooky...Blackman, Rigg, Lumley and Macnee all played in Bond films...what was wrong with Thorson?
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Spooky...Blackman, Rigg, Lumley and Macnee all played in Bond films...what was wrong with Thorson?
Wasn't she Canadian?
(If so, is she still?)
Patrick Macnee has been quoted as being slightly less than Steed-gallant about her talent back in the day.......

She must have 'given up' acting surely otherwise she would have been in loads of other things than playing the odd hologram....

I could google but it seems more fun to chat.......
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Linda herself has acknowledged that she was probably too young and inexperienced as an actress to handle such a huge role. She returned to North America and worked steadily for years before ending up in Emmerdale. I saw her interviewed a while back and she spoke fondly of The Avengers and Patrick MacNee.
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it didn't do old Steed any harm either ...
Although it didn't do poor old Gambit much good.
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Was there a debate over the 'leader' of The Avenger duo's? Sort of a "Who do you like best, John or Paul, or Beatles or Stones, or Steed or Mrs Peel?"

Or was the debate more centered about the female leads of the various generations of Avenger programming?

I have presumed that Diana Rigg overwhelmed Patrick for the public's attention; since he was the more established star and had a few more seasons of The Avengers under his belt, I wonder if he resented her popularity? (For what it's worth, Patrick, I think your Straight Man to her Looks was perfectly done.)
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Was there a debate over the 'leader' of The Avenger duo's? Sort of a "Who do you like best, John or Paul, or Beatles or Stones, or Steed or Mrs Peel?"

Or was the debate more centered about the female leads of the various generations of Avenger programming?

I have presumed that Diana Rigg overwhelmed Patrick for the public's attention; since he was the more established star and had a few more seasons of The Avengers under his belt, I wonder if he resented her popularity? (For what it's worth, Patrick, I think your Straight Man to her Looks was perfectly done.)
It was always about the Avenger girls - and still is...

Emma Peel gained a significant following in America, did most shows, and thus predominates in the usual arguments.

France, on the other hand, had a different taste and preferred Linda Thorson.

Being a fan of classic champagnes, this is another one I have to go with the Gallic guys on.

It was those beautiful eyes..... :

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From Day 1 - from MacNee's first episode, was The Femme always the center attraction? Did he go into the show knowing that?

Or did he ever feel like his crown had been usurped, or that he'd shared billing in the pre-Rigg seasons only to see her take off? I personally can't imagine one without the other. Even if the show's producers had placed some uber-handsome type, I still think (hope!) the male audience would have preferred watching Rigg's curves rather than a high-speed road's.
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From Day 1 - from MacNee's first episode, was The Femme always the center attraction? Did he go into the show knowing that?

Or did he ever feel like his crown had been usurped, or that he'd shared billing in the pre-Rigg seasons only to see her take off? I personally can't imagine one without the other. Even if the show's producers had placed some uber-handsome type, I still think (hope!) the male audience would have preferred watching Rigg's curves rather than a high-speed road's.
The show 'evolved' from an earlier Ian Hendry vehicle, POLICE SURGEON. Then they devised THE AVENGERS, who were originally Hendry and Macnee ; having seen the few that exist, I felt that it was Macnee who stole the show from Hendry, the original conception of Steed being darker and more enigmatic, whereas Hendry's character suffered from being a bit of a cardboard cut-out do-gooder.

Then, when Hendry declared he was off into films to earn his fortune, the idea came to replace him with a female sidekick (the luscious Honor B) but the early scripts were more or less left as written for Hendry. Thus that unique relationship grew.

I always got the feeling that Macnee was pretty laid back about the attraction of the girls to the TV audience - it was regular pay. Besides, popular though the ladies undoubtedly were, I am sure that most people saw the show as a two-handed game ; hence the complaints of 'a third wheel' (etc) when Gambit came on the scene in THE NEW AVENGERS...

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Well done!

I hoped for as much. If Patrick had misgivings, I figured he would have exited much sooner and while Diana is watchable in almost anything ("...or nothing" as my husband chimes in), the Avengers ignites when the two of them are together.

And it's interesting that Steed was the enigmatic one because I would thought Mrs Peel owned the license for Mysterious Past herself.

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