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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