One of the best loved and most iconic TV series in British television history, starring Patrick McNee as the most gentlemanly of all British agents blessed with a succession of striking and deadly female assistants (as well as one of the coolest theme tunes ever) has, somewhat perversely, been available for some time on DVD but never in the country in which it was made. That's all about to change as Optimum announce the first of a series of DVD releases that will bring every surviving episode, fully restored, to the UK market over the next year, complete with new extras and special inserts.
The project kicks in October with the release of the surviving episodes from series 1 and all episodes from Series 2 as an 8-disc box set, which are detailed (with extras) as follows:
DISC 1 –SERIES 1
Hot Snow (Incomplete – First 20 Mins Only) / Girl On A Trapeze / The Frighteners
EXTRAS: Police Surgeon – Easy Money / Leonard White and Julian Bond introduce Police Surgeon / Leonard White commentary for Hot Snow / Stills gallery / PDF material (3 scripts, 3 x TV Times covers and articles, TV Crimebusters comic script and Knit With The Avengers) TBC / More TBC.
DISC 2 – SERIES 2
Mission To Montreal / Dead On Course / The Sell Out / Death Dispatch
EXTRAS: Insert reprint of series 2 promotional brochure / Stills gallery for featured episodes (including colour stills where available) PDF material (4 scripts) TBC.
DISC 3 – SERIES 2
Propellant 23 / Mr Teddy Bear / The Decapod / Bullseye
EXTRAS: Video introduction by Julie Stevens for The Decapod / Audio Commentary by Martin Woodhouse for Mr Teddy Bear / Stills gallery for featured episodes (including colour stills where available) / PDF material (4 scripts) TBC,
DISC 4 – SERIES 2
The Removal Men / The Mauritius Penny / Death Of A Great Dane / Death On The Rocks
EXTRAS: Video introduction by Julie Stevens for The Removal Men / Audio commentary by Leonard White for The Mauritius Penny / Audio commentary by Roger Marshall for Death of A Great Dane / Stills gallery for featured episodes (including colour stills where available) / PDF material (4 scripts and 1 TV Times cover and article) TBC.
DISC 5 – SERIES 2
Traitor In Zebra / The Big Thinker / Intercrime / Warlock
EXTRAS: Stills gallery for featured episodes (including colour stills where available) / PDF material (4 scripts) TBC.
DISC 6 – SERIES 2
Immortal Clay / Box Of Tricks / The Golden Eggs / School For Traitors
EXTRAS: Audio Commentary by Julie Stevens for Box of Tricks / Stills gallery for featured episodes (including colour stills where available) / PDF material (4 scripts) TBC.
DISC 7 – SERIES 2
The White Dwarf / The Man In The Mirror / Conspiracy Of Silence / A Chorus Of Frogs
EXTRAS: Audio Commentary by Julie Stevens for A Chorus of Frogs / Stills gallery for featured episodes (including colour stills where available) / PDF material (4 scripts) TBC.
DISC 8 – SERIES 2
Six Hands Across A Table / Killer Whale
EXTRAS: New Honor Blackman interview / Collector's Lot – Honor Blackman interviews Avengers memorabilia collector / Stills gallery for featured episodes (including colour stills where available) / PDF material (2 scripts) TBC / Easter Egg – Leonard White reads a letter from Patrick Macnee.
The Avengers – Series 2 And Surviving Episodes From Series 1 will be released on UK DVD on 5th October 2009 by Optimum Home Entertainment at the RRP of £79.99. |