Thursday, September 10, 2020
Mrs Peel, We're Needed
Rest in peace, Diana Rigg, my first and still crush. The first of two Emma Peel Avengers seasons, the one in black and white, my favorite television show of all time, easily my most often watched and rewatched, including last week
I used to tap this into blaaager all the time, I remember exactly where I was when I saw color television for the very first time (my mother's sister's house in Irwin, the show was the Flintstones), I was six, until then only black and white, the toggling of black and white to color television has haunted my imagination, my viewing, my reading, my writing, a before and after watershed since I was six until tomorrow
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Condolences.
ReplyDeleteall that is solid melts into air
ReplyDeleteShe'd not been a hue
ReplyDeletethe time they invited him
to meet the Flintstones
"A very dry Martini, with an Emma Peel."
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(Rim Shot)
An absolute icon, up through and including her devastating turn on Game of Thrones. Here's some cool stuff I found on Twilightzone comment board for your entertainment:
ReplyDelete"Here is some music that was inspired by her.
Orange Party – Emma Peel
EP Italy 1919 Electronic House
The Allies – Emma Peel
12" Vinyl 5 tracks
New Wave, Indie Rock
Year: 1983
Slot – Emma Peel / Jagernaut
Indie Rock 1992 single
Emma Peel [Band] ) – Play Emma For Me
Album 1996 Blues Rock, Garage Rock
Vinyl Single 1996 'Lava Lamp'
Emma Peel [Band - Netherlands] – Emma Peel [Album]v Rock 2001
The Emma Peel Advocates
All-female pop punk band from Ohio
One album [Dead Life] and a track '
2 Videos
Emma Peel by The Allies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kskwZW9iQNM
And
The Avengers - Short Skirt, Long Jacket [Emma Peel]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idtYckLIZnI
Can remember seeing the first Avengers episodes in the early 60's; it took four years for Mrs Peel to appear; I was disgruntled by the appearance of Tara King as her replacement: Well, fuck that; and Emma Peel forever.
ReplyDeleteA little less than 20 years later, on a PAnAm flight from Sydney to Honolulu (I was transporting a prisoner from India to San Diego and, for whatever reason, we were put in first class) found myself across the aisle from Patrick Macnee: Gracious and a sense of humor.
I love love love Honor Blackman's Cathy Gale years.I wish I could find a DVD of the first season, I've only seen a few episodes of that.
DeleteI always felt bad for Linda Thorson. She had to follow Rigg, and the writing (which was already declining in the second half of Emma Peel's color season) got sillier, and then there was Mother. Still, it was better than most of what was on.
There are DVDs of the individual Seasons (and yes, 2 and 3) available over at Jeffy's sweatshop. If you want to feel less an enabler of his desire for More, look on EBay for "The AVENGERS 63 Collection Set 2 Two DVD 2000 (2 Disc Set) [Region 1] NTSC".
ReplyDeleteBad English by me. I have the Cathy Gale, it's the Steel alone season I lack, I'll look
DeleteSteed, not steel, of course
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