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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2020 21:24:35 GMT
I'm sure many here remember her on The Avengers but she was also the main reason why I kept on watching Game of Thrones through the middle seasons
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Post by Sneelock on Sept 10, 2020 21:46:07 GMT
she was great in "Game of Thrones" I'm also very fond of the Bond she did, "the Hospital" & "Theatre of Blood" like most people my age (I'm 62) She is the once and future Mrs. Peel more than anything else.
the way I remember it, they showed the Color season on ABC over here first and then the black and white ones that came before. I lived with my Aunt and she didn't watch a lot of TV. She watched from that first color episode to the first Tara King episode and then I was on my own.
I'd already had some James Bond movies and Batman under my belt so this came along at just the right time for me. I couldn't really understand when something was "camp". I watch those shows now and it seems like the writers were having a lot of fun trying to see how preposterous they could get.
Hers was the perfect demeanor for this sort of thing. I'm enjoying seeing pictures of her with her elegant little pistol and a knowing smirk. Man, growing up with TV was fun!
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Post by Charlie O. on Sept 10, 2020 22:08:20 GMT
the way I remember it, they showed the Color season on ABC over here first and then the black and white ones that came before. You may well remember correctly. I however only remember ever seeing the color ones (and only the ones with Rigg) when I was growing up (albeit on a b&w set). Discovering the earlier episodes (which in certain specific ways are better, or at the very least very different) decades later was a real joy - as the show continues to be. I've re-watched many of them twice since the pandemic started - it's one of my all-time favorite shows. That said, I've yet to really dig into the pre- and post-Rigg eras - which I guess says something about how key to the show's appeal she was for me. In case rodya didn't know, there's already been some discussion on this thread, starting about halfway or so down the page. She absolutely deserves her own thread, though.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Sept 10, 2020 22:57:35 GMT
I get the Avengers iconic status, but then what did she do for the next 50-60 years?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2020 23:01:06 GMT
I mentioned what she did in the OP, did you read it?
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Post by Charlie O. on Sept 10, 2020 23:06:30 GMT
I get the Avengers iconic status, but then what did she do for the next 50-60 years? Like Honor Blackman, she left The Avengers to be a Bond Girl - the only Bond Girl, if I'm not mistaken, that James actually married (spoiler alert: it didn't turn out too well for her). She'd been a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company when she got The Avengers, and she pointedly returned to them subsequently, hoping her new fame would help put sit-upons in seats (and I imagine it did). She probably could have gone to America and cashed in handsomely, but... she didn't. After that: acting, acting, and more acting, much of it in the theater and most if not all of it in England, which is probably why you're unfamiliar. But she did do quite a bit more movie and TV work too (some of which is mentioned upthread).
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Sept 11, 2020 7:31:12 GMT
Also the best Bond girl by a mile really. brought a touch of English class to most things.
I've always had a slight thing for her.
RIP Diana.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2020 10:44:43 GMT
I get the Avengers iconic status, but then what did she do for the next 50-60 years? After that: acting, acting, and more acting, much of it in the theater and most if not all of it in England, which is probably why you're unfamiliar. But she did do quite a bit more movie and TV work too (some of which is mentioned upthread).
She was on TV in the UK quite prolifically throughout the 80s and 90s, often in costume dramas or novel adaptations, and received BAFTAs and Emmies for them. Apart from GoT she was in the Detectorists, Victoria and Doctor Who in the last decade.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Sept 11, 2020 10:55:15 GMT
If she was around today and had done an Avengers type show Hollywood would take more notice.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2020 13:44:27 GMT
She was wonderfully grotesque in Mother Love.
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Post by Charlie O. on Sept 11, 2020 17:21:14 GMT
If she was around today and had done an Avengers type show Hollywood would take more notice. I think they took notice then, and she just wasn't interested.
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Post by Charlie O. on Sept 16, 2020 21:36:42 GMT
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Sept 16, 2020 21:53:19 GMT
Oh my God that was wonderful! tears in the eyes...
Thanks Charlie!
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Post by Charlie O. on Sept 16, 2020 21:54:30 GMT
I don't think that close-up of her derriere would have been allowed on US tv in the mid-'60s!
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Post by Charlie O. on Sept 16, 2020 22:00:55 GMT
I know the English are famous for their reserve and all, but - I would think that having not seen each other in howevermany years Mr. and Mrs. Peel would at the very least have had a quick snog (a hug, at least?) before getting in the car and driving away. Might even want to talk to each other a little bit. And why was it arranged for him to pick her up at Steed's apartment?
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