The New Avengers (TV series)

The New Avengers
Series title screenshot
GenreAction[1]
Spy fiction[1]
Created byBrian Clemens, Albert Fennell
Based onThe Avengers
by Sydney Newman
StarringPatrick Macnee
Gareth Hunt
Joanna Lumley
Theme music composerLaurie Johnson
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Canada
France
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
No. of episodes26
Production
ProducerBrian Clemens
Running time50 minutes per episode
Production companiesThe Avengers (Film and TV) Enterprises Ltd for London Weekend
Original release
NetworkITV
Release22 October 1976 (1976-10-22) –
17 December 1977 (1977-12-17)
Related
The Avengers
Escapade
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The New Avengers is a secret agent action television series produced during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The Avengers and was developed by original series producers Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens.

The series was produced by The Avengers (Film and TV) Enterprises Ltd for the ITV network, cost £125,000 per episode to produce at Pinewood Studios, and was seen in 120 countries.[2]

A joint United Kingdom-France-Canada production,[2] the series picks up the adventures of John Steed (again played by Patrick Macnee) as he and his team of "Avengers" fight evil plots and world domination. Whereas in the original series Steed had almost always been partnered with a woman, in the new series he had two partners: Mike Gambit (Gareth Hunt), a top agent, crack marksman and trained martial artist, and Purdey (Joanna Lumley), a former trainee with The Royal Ballet (to which she ascribed the high-kicking skills she frequently used in the series) who was an amalgam of many of the best talents from Steed's female partners in The Avengers.

  1. ^ a b "The New Avengers". FilmAffinity. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  2. ^ a b "TV Times magazine". 22 October 1977. p. 22.