The Avengers

British espionage television series

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October 14 2024 Great TV completes a haphazard re-broadcast of both series of The New Avengers, with the final episode 'The Gladiators' airing at 2100.
January 18 2024 Mickey Down and Konrad Kay announced they are developing a reboot of The Avengers TV series for StudioCanal.
2023 Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse were offered an opportunity to create a new series of The Avengers, which they declined.
January 4 2021 Sony Channel begins a repeat showing of The New Avengers, starting with series 1, episode 1, 'The Eagle's Nest'.
2016 Discovery of the episode 'Tunnel of Fear', further increasing the number of known surviving episodes from the first series of the show.
June 2016 A crossover series 'Batman '66 Meets Steed and Mrs. Peel' was launched as a joint effort between DC Comics and Boom! Studios.
October 25 2015 The British Film Institute (BFI) held a 50th anniversary screening of The Avengers, featuring an onstage interview with Diana Rigg where she discussed her reasons for leaving the show and her relationship with co-star Patrick Macnee.
January 2015 Volume Three of audio productions was released, continuing the audio recreation of the lost first-season episodes.
2014 Boom! Studios launched a six-issue follow-up series 'Steed and Mrs. Peel: We're Needed', though only 3 issues were ultimately produced.
July 2014 Volume Two of audio productions was released, containing four stories: 'Ashes of Roses', 'Please Don't Feed the Animals', 'The Radioactive Man', and 'Dance with Death'.
March 2014 Big Finish extended the audio recreation programme to include all 26 season one episodes, ultimately releasing a total of seven boxed sets.
January 2014 Volume One of audio productions was released, containing four stories: 'Hot Snow', 'Brought to Book', 'Square Root of Evil', and 'One for the Mortuary'.
June 2013 Big Finish Productions signed a license with StudioCanal to produce full-cast audio productions of 12 lost first-season episodes of The Avengers, featuring Julian Wadham as Steed, Anthony Howell as Dr David Keel, and Lucy Briggs-Owen as Carol Wilson.
2012 Boom! Studios reprinted the 1990-1992 Steed and Mrs. Peel series in six issues and published a new ongoing series by Mark Waid and Caleb Monroe.
2011 To mark the 50th anniversary of the series, Howard Blake's almost-complete scores, including Laurie Johnson's themes, were issued on a double-CD set.

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