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I tend to like the atmosphere of the Honor Blackman shows and the earlier Diana Rigg shows. They seemed to be very hip and mod, and had more interesting plots. They had I nice balance of style and substance. But I love how the show changes through the eras. When the Diana Rigg episodes went into color, I think they got more outrageous. The appeal of these episodes was in ALL the tongue-in-cheek nature and chemistry (flirty-friend, cool as a cucumber)...and there was a lot of it. When Diana Rigg left, I can't imagine how hard it would've been for any actress, or any writer, to fill her shoes with a new character. Though Tara is very different than Cathy and Emma, I think she did well. The episodes try to keep the witty interaction between the characters and it doesn't work at all. But I think that it's almost like what would happen in "real life" if one were the new girl working with the true gentleman, John Steed. Plus, she is new and in training, and has a crush on him...I think that's how she played the part. The episodes had more complex plots (which is nice) and I felt like Tara/Linda Thorson fought better than Diana Rigg...more like Honor Blackman.

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It Jumped for me BIGTIME when they tried to tinker with it in order to sell it in America!

Heck if they had just kept on doing the British Thing the show would have lasted as long as Doctor Who!!!

And Amwrica would have come around eventually as the VCR industry (and then the DVD industry) has made all them shows available to us Yanks!!!

Emma Peel became the predecessor of Laura Holt on Remington Steele. However, if her B&W episodes ever become colorized (a la Three Stooges), this could become a post-cancellation Shark Jumper, much like the box office flop starring Uma Thurman.

One episode I liked, possibly The Winged Avenger, had Mrs Peel interview an ornithologist type. At their first encounter he goes to her and introduces himself by saying his name "Twitter" and she responds with something like "I'm sorry, I don;t do bird calls". Even the corny humor was fun, I thought. I loved the idea of spies running around getting into fights, driving fast cars, and downing champagne after the end of each adventure, something I tried to mimic in faantasy life when I was a paramedic later.

I never thought Tara was all that bad. She wasn't Emma, but who could be. There were a couple of Tara episodes that were solid. Mrs. Peel was the ultimate and I agree the show should have ended when she left. Actually, she should have been paid properly and stayed.

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The shows were clever and off-beat when the Avengers hit its peak. McNee and Rigg were great together. Alas that Rigg figured out she was getting horribly underpaid and left the series. Still, it wasn't unsalvagable. Unfortunately, Linda Thorson had utterly no appeal at all, and the addition of an organization that Steed worked for just bogged things down.

Thorson sucked, period. If you think she was a good actress, I'd invite you to compare her post-Avengers career with Dame Diana Rigg's. Now there's a real actress.

But I'd agree even Diana would have had a hard time with the later, dumbed-down "Avengers" episodes. Dalisonion is right, the show should have ended when Rigg decided to quit.

I don't blame Linda Thornson, I blame what she was put into. We never had a concept of Steed actually "working" for anyone up til they introduced "Mother" (and let's not forget "Father.") And I feel it limited him.

Whoever in casting thought that a no-talent like Thorson could possibly follow a class act like Rigg must've had their head up their you-know-where (or was maybe sleeping with Thorson). She stank royally, the best place for those wigs would've been in her mouth, that way we'd've never had to listen to her lousy acting...

Personally, I have a feeling that after Rigg left, everyone was pretty much tired of doing the show, and the lack of enthusiasm became obvious. (Macnee has admitted he was quite ready to call it quits after Diana's departure.)Like too many hit shows, greed prevailed over good sense and taste, and the series was allowed to continue just a bit too long past its freshness date (yes, I am referring to the T. King eps). 'Avengers' should have been allowed to ride off into the sunset along with Emma and Peter Peel in her final episode, IMHO.

In an earlier commentary I stated that I was largely unfamiliar with the Tara King era and looked forward to experiencing that aspect of The Avengers experience. I recently invested in two volumes of the Thorson canon (13 episodes on DVD) and can unequivicably avow that I will NOT be making any further "King" purchases in the foreseeable future. I have been VERY disappointed in these episodes. I don't fault the actress Linda Thorson for the deplorable deterioration of damn near everything that made the Emma Peel years so thoroughly delightful. True, she has neither the acting chops nor the enduring charisma of Dame Diana Rigg, but she certainly has her moments in the role (as quirky as they are) and is suitably attractive and energetic enough to stand alongside the towering mainstay figure of John Steed. No, I fault the producers and the writers for letting six years of unbridled success go piddling down the drain in one awful season. There is no doubt that the inclusion of "Mother" turned out to be a disastrous creative decision, but just as bad is the whole direction the narrative and the look of the show took as well. The best word to describe the production design of this period is GAUDY! For instance, could Tara's apartment be any more unbearably tacky? The cool 60's British style of the Peel years have suddenly given way to a cheesy pre-70's nightmare of loud obnoxious color schemes and utterly horrible costume choices. Steed no longer looks svelte in his custom-tailored trademark black suit and bowler. Instead he looks cartoonish in a hideous brown 3-piece that looks like it came directly off the discount rack of a mid-seventies "Mr. Formal"! I realize that this was the abominable fashion trend of the era but I guess I naively never imagined that these garish elements had ever gotten their diabolical hooks in my beloved Avengers! Apparently I was sadly mistaken. The best thing about the King era are the opening credits and the reworked theme that includes a special flourish just for her. After that you can shut the damn thing off. Anybody want two volumes of Avengers '68...cheap?!!