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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767018661
Format: Box set, Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0767018664
Label: A&E Home Video
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 31, 1999
Running Time: 340 minutes
Sales Rank: 28904
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: March 28, 1966
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Get your kicks with The Avengers '66. This two-volume set uncorks six sought-after episodes from this cult classic series' fourth season. Patrick Macnee, the umbrella-toting gentleman spy John Steed, and Diana Rigg, the ravishing Mrs. Emma Peel, investigate further extraordinary goings-on in the most ordinary of places, including a swank hotel ('Room Without a View') and a golf course and dance school ('The 13th Hole' and 'The Quick-Quick-Slow Death'). Suitable for framing is 'The Girl from Auntie,' in which an art dealer, who supplies his clients 'anything for a price' (including the Mona Lisa!), kidnaps Emma for auction to enemy agents. Perhaps members of Monty Python's Flying Circus got the inspiration for their 'Hell's Grannies' sketch from this episode's quaint assassin, an elderly 'lady' who does in her victims (including four chaps named John, Paul, George, and... Fred) with knitting needles.
For new fans, the episodes found in The Avengers '65 sets are of a better vintage, and The Avengers '67 offerings give more of a campy, effervescent kick. But '66 was still a very good year, and Avengers aficionados will, of course, want to own every episode from the Mrs. Peel era. 'What's so special about Mrs. Peel?' a woman asks in 'Auntie.' 'You'd think she was Madame Curie and a half-dozen others all rolled into one.' She is, to borrow a phrase, all that. A second Avengers '66 boxed DVD set is also available. --Donald Liebenson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A pretty good box set overall.
I enjoyed most of the episodes in this box set. The one I liked the least was Small Game For Big Hunters. I guess it was because Emma didn't really play much of a role in it. My favorite was The Girl From Auntie. Which is funny because Emma didn't have a lot of air time in it. I guess I enjoyed it due to the interaction between Steed and the girl hired to replace Emma.
Rating: - The Good Old Stuff
In Italy The Avengers are almost unknown. The only items you can find are the season '67, '68 and '69, all in colour. So when you look for the earlier seasons, the only thing to do is buy these box from A&E Television. Very good stuff, remastered and everything, I'm very happy with this purchase. But when I look at the back of the box, I see when it's been released: 1999. Almost ten years ago. And then you understand why there is so few bonus material. No subtitles, and just a handful of little ... Read More
Rating: - Diana Rigg. The Avengers. Enough said.
The Avengers. Hip. cool. suave. sexy. tongue in cheek. Emma Peel. You can't beat it.
Rating:  - 2 series with Emma
The first set of 1966 episodes are still in B & W, third and fourth DVD with Emma.
1) "Silent Dust" Extortionists are threatening the extinction of Britain's birds and beasts by means of a deadly fertilizer, Steed and Emma must ride to the rescue
2) "Room Without a View" An elegant West End hotels - sort of a Hotel California "you can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave". Strange todos are happening and each move is being controlled in a giant chess game by the ... Read More
Rating: - New partner for Steed
These DVD's from A&E represent the best known and certainly the most popular era of the long running British TV fantasy-adventure series "The Avengers." Made between 1965 and 1966, all 26 episodes of the fourth season of the show are available here on four discs.
When Honor Blackman (Mrs. Cathy Gale) left the series after season 3 to take up the lead role in the Bond movie "Goldfinger," the producers had already made the decision to start filming the series, moving it out of the TV studio ... Read More
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