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* DeusExScuseMe: Steed and Mrs. Peel are at Wonderland Weather getting a tour from the receptionist. There's a noise (telephone ring?) elsewhere and the receptionist leaves, allowing Steed and Mrs. Peel to look around unnoticed.
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* ShoutOutFilm: Five to ''AliceInWonderland'', two to ''BladeRunner'' and WilliamShakespeare's plays and one each to ''NorthByNorthwest'', M.C. Escher, the songs ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Bears%27_Picnic Teddy Bears' Picnic]]'' and ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bonnie_Banks_o%27_Loch_Lomond The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond]]'' and the poem ''The Owl and the Pussycat''.
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The series was originally created as a vehicle for Ian Hendry (who would not later appear in a Bond film), to capitalise on the popularity he had developed during his previous show, ''Police Surgeon''. In the {{pilot}}, his character, Dr Keel, was recruited by spy John Steed (Macnee) as a part-time expert assistant in return for Steed's help capturing the murderers of Keel's wife; this was pretty much [[ArtifactTitle the last time in the series any actual]] ''[[ArtifactTitleavenging]]'' [[ArtifactTitletook place]]. This first series was generally a grim-and-gritty crime affair, centering around drug smugglers, arms dealers and endless cases involving stolen diamonds.
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The series was originally created as a vehicle for Ian Hendry (who would not later appear in a Bond film), to capitalise on the popularity he had developed during his previous show, ''Police Surgeon''. In the {{pilot}}, his character, Dr Keel, was recruited by spy John Steed (Macnee) as a part-time expert assistant in return for Steed's help capturing the murderers of Keel's wife; this was pretty much [[ArtifactTitle the last time in the series any actual]] ''[[ArtifactTitleavenging]]'' [[ArtifactTitletook ''[[ArtifactTitle avenging]]'' [[ArtifactTitle took place]]. This first series was generally a grim-and-gritty crime affair, centering around drug smugglers, arms dealers and endless cases involving stolen diamonds.
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The series was originally created as a vehicle for Ian Hendry (who would not later appear in a Bond film), to capitalise on the popularity he had developed during his previous show, ''Police Surgeon''. In the {{pilot}}, his character, Dr Keel, was recruited by spy John Steed (Macnee) as a part-time expert assistant in return for Steed's help capturing the murderers of Keel's wife; this was pretty much [[ArtifactTitle the last time in the series any actual ''avenging'' took place.actual]] ''[[ArtifactTitleavenging]]'' [[ArtifactTitletook place]]. This first series was generally a grim-and-gritty crime affair, centering around drug smugglers, arms dealers and endless cases involving stolen diamonds.
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* MostWritersAreMale: In this case, all the writers - which explains a lot about Mrs. Peel in particular. [[YourMileageMayVary And which may also explain why two of Steed's partners are married and one of them chucks it all when her husband returns (and why the third was practically chaperoned by Steed)]].
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* ShrugOfGod (Steed and Mrs Peel -- are they or aren't they? Since they would never have been permitted to address the question explicitly on-screen, it was deliberately left ambiguous. An interviewer once asked Macnee, Rigg, and the series' head writer what was ''really'' going on with Steed and Mrs Peel, and got three different and mutually-exclusive answers.)
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->''"Always keep your bowler on in times of stress, and a watchful eye open for [[DiabolicalMastermind diabolical masterminds]]."''
Very popular British SpyDrama running from 1961-1969, created by SydneyNewman. The show singlehandedly started the SpyCatsuit and ActionGirl tropes.
Its most famous male-female partnership, between 1965 and 1968, was Patrick Macnee (who would later appear in a [[AViewToAKill Bond film]]) and Diana Rigg (who would later appear in a [[OnHerMajestysSecretService Bond film]]).
In earlier seasons (1962-1964), the female co-star was Honor Blackman (who would later appear in a [[{{Goldfinger}} Bond film]]).
The series was originally created as a vehicle for Ian Hendry (who would not later appear in a Bond film), to capitalise on the popularity he had developed during his previous show, ''Police Surgeon''. In the {{pilot}}, his character, Dr Keel, was recruited by spy John Steed (Macnee) as a part-time expert assistant in return for Steed's help capturing the murderers of Keel's wife; this was pretty much the last time in the series any actual ''avenging'' took place. This first series was generally a grim-and-gritty crime affair, centering around drug smugglers, arms dealers and endless cases involving stolen diamonds.
A TV strike delayed the start of the second season so Hendry left to pursue a film career. Steed became the show's central character and the production team started to explore other partnerships. The first, lasting just a few episodes, was Dr King, a blatant SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute. He was followed up by stories that alternately paired Steed up with nightclub singer Venus Smith (TheChick) and female spy Cathy Gale (arguably TV's first true ActionGirl). Cathy, who was mostly written identically to Dr Keel, proved to be the most popular and Venus was quietly dropped.
This [[ReTool retooling]] of the show became a massive smash. With a consistent SpyCouple format, the show began to move away from more mundane villains and towards science fictional supervillains and [[DiabolicalMastermind diabolical masterminds]].
Blackman left to pursue a film career (playing Pussy Galore in ''Goldfinger'') and was replaced by Diana Rigg as Emma Peel, described as a "talented amateur". Simultaneously, production switched from videotape to 35mm film. The show became much more stylish and faster-paced and even gained a new theme tune. Mrs Peel - a young widow - set the trend of the SpyCatsuit and continued the gentleman spy''/''ActionGirl setup. Steed and Mrs Peel became the show's iconic pairing, helped by the introduction of filmed and colour episodes raising the show in the public's consciousness.
The stories became crazier and crazier - Space plants from the moon! Assassination by laser! Invisible spies! Housecats trained to kill! Politicians hypnotised into becoming children! - and typified the swinging cool of 60s Britain.
Eventually Rigg left Steed for the embrace of George Lazenby's doomed JamesBond, and Steed took on his last partner, Tara King. Tara (played by Linda Thorson, who has not appeared in a Bond film) was a more feminine character, though still an ActionGirl, but the series never survived the loss of Rigg, massive problems behind the scenes and being put up in America against ''{{Rowan And Martins Laugh-In}}''; the series finished after just one season with Tara King.
A {{Revival}} was attempted in 1976, with ''The New Avengers'', starring Macnee and Joanna Lumley (better known for ''AbsolutelyFabulous'', [[RunningGag but had earlier appeared in a Bond film)]]. Oh, and the guy off the Nescafe adverts. But the new, gritty tone -- matching shows like ''TheSweeney'' and ''TheProfessionals'' -- was too much of a departure and it soon collapsed.
It was later [[TheFilmOfTheSeries made into a movie]] starring Ralph Fiennes and UmaThurman, whose only redeeming quality was SeanConnery (who had [[CaptainObvious appeared in many Bond films]]) [[HamAndCheese hamming it up]] as an evil Scotsman.
Not to be confused with [[Comicbook/TheAvengers the comic]].
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Characters include:
* ActionGirl (Cathy Gale, Mrs Peel, Tara King)
* AlmostDeadGuy (countless episodes)
* AnonymousRinger (The Prime Minister in "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Station", Hitler in "The Eagle's Nest")
* AxCrazy ("Escape in Time", "The Joker", "Don't Look Behind You")
* BadBoss ("A Touch of Brimstone")
* BigBad (the puppeteer in "Look (Stop Me If You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellas")
* BikerBabe (Cathy Gale)
* BoxedCrook (many episodes)
* BunglingInventor (Quilby in "The See-Through Man")
* TheChick (Venus Smith)
* CombatPragmatist (Steed; a producer's write-up to guide writers of episodes specifically stated that "he fights like a cad and uses ''every dirty trick in the book''...")
* CorruptCorporateExecutive ("The Fear Merchants", "Silent Dust")
* DiabolicalMastermind
* DoomedAppointment (Countless)
* DoubleAgent (Merlin - actually a ''quadruple'' agent - in "The Morning After")
* FilmFelons ("Epic")
* FunnyForeigner (A few, most notably the Russian diplomat in "Fog")
* HeelFaceMole ("The Correct Way To Kill")
* HilariousInHindsight: Doesn't Steed look rather like [[DavidCameron a certain Prime Minister of the UK]] in the page picture?
* HotScientist ("The Man-Eater of Surrey Green", not to mention Mrs. Peel all the time)
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain (Brodny in "The See-Through Man" and "Two's A Crowd")
* ImplacableMan (the Cybernauts in "The Cybernauts", "Return of the Cybernauts" and "The Last of the Cybernauts...?")
* LargeHam (Mother)
* LoonyFan ("Epic", "The Joker", "Don't Look Behind You")
* MadScientist (countless episodes)
* MeaningfulName (When charged with coming up with a new character, the writers were told to create one with 'Male Appeal', abbreviated as 'M. Appeal')
* TheMole (many episodes)
* {{Mooks}} (countless episodes)
* TheNapoleon ("Escape in Time")
* OldFriend (countless, generally doomed)
* PartTimeHero (Tara King was the first of Steed's associates to be a professional agent like him; all those that came before were "talented amateurs" who maintained their own careers between outings with Steed. The having-to-balance-heroing-with-real-life side of the trope rarely came up with any of them, though.)
* PlantAliens ("The Man-Eater of Surrey Green")
* PlatonicLifePartners: Steed and Mrs. Peel
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman (Steed, naturally)
* QuirkyMinibossSquad (the clowns in "Look (Stop Me If You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellas")
* RedScare ("The Correct Way to Kill")
* ReplacementScrappy (Tara King)
* RightWingMilitiaFanatic ("The Mauritius Penny", "The Eagle's Nest")
* SerialKiller ("Fog")
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute (Dr King)
* TheVoiceless (Mother's bodyguard, Rhonda)
* TheStoic (Steed, Mrs Peel and sometimes Tara King generally treat horrible murder with barely a flicker of emotion)
* TechnicalPacifist (Steed)
* TerroristsWithoutACause (countless episodes)
* TheVicar (numerous episodes)
Plots include:
* AloneWithThePsycho ("The Joker")
* AmnesiaDanger ("The Forget-Me-Knot")
* AnimalAssassin ("The Hidden Tiger")
* {{Brainwashed}} ("The Hour That Never Was")
* BusmansHoliday ("A Chorus of Frogs")
* TheButlerDidIt ("What the Butler Saw")
* ClassReunion ("The Hour That Never Was")
* ClearMyName ("All Done With Mirrors", "Who Was That Man I Saw You With?")
* DeadAllAlong ([[spoiler:Professor Keller in "The House That Jack Built"]])
* {{Doppelganger}} (any way you can think of -- MagicPlasticSurgery, LatexPerfection, IdenticalStranger, FreakyFridayFlip -- ''The Avengers'' did it at least once)
* EnemyMine ("The Morning After")
* EnemyWithout (In an episode where a man's brainwaves are projected into a series of hapless British spies.)
* FauxtasticVoyage ("Escape In Time")
* FingerPokeOfDoom ("The Positive Negative Man")
* GroundhogDayLoop (Kind of, in "You Have Just Been Murdered")
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame ("The Superlative Seven", "Epic")
* HypnoFool ("The Master Minds")
* IncredibleShrinkingMan ("Mission... Highly Improbable")
* InvisibleMainCharacter (Kind of, in "The See-Through Man". Definitely in "Get-A-Way!")
* KnifeThrowingAct ("Conspiracy of Silence")
* ManEatingPlant ("Man-Eater of Surrey Green")
* TheNastyParty ("The Superlative Seven")
* OntologicalMystery ("The House That Jack Built")
* TenLittleMurderVictims ("The Superlative Seven")
* TownWithADarkSecret ("Murdersville")
* TreasureMap ("Dead Man's Chest")
* YourWorstNightmare ("Too Many Christmas Trees", "Death's Door")
Characteristics include:
* AbsenteeActor (usually the female lead)
* AcquittedTooLate
* ActorAllusion ("Too Many Christmas Trees")
* ActingForTwo (various {{Doppelganger}} stories)
* AndYouWereThere (Mrs Peel's husband was uncannily similar to Steed)
* AuctionOfEvil ("The Man from Auntie")
* BoundAndGagged / DistressedDamsel (happens fairly often to the female lead, considering the time period)
* BloodlessCarnage
* CatchPhrase ("Mrs Peel - we're needed!")
* CatFight ("The Living Dead")
* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Wardrobe]] (Mrs. Peel's amazing ability to always wear a catsuit if she would be involved in a fight later).
* ClipShow ("Homicide and Old Lace")
* ChainedToARailway ("The Gravediggers")
* ContinuityNod (Cathy Gale sends a Christmas card in "Too Many Christmas Trees" from Fort Knox)
* CompletelyDifferentTitle (In France, the show was titled ''Chapeau Melon et Bottes de Cuir'' (Bowler Hat and Leather Boots))
** The German title translated as "With Umbrella, Charm and Bowler". That hat must REALLY have made an impression.
* ConveyorBeltODoom ("Epic")
* CoolCar (Emma's Lotus Elan)
* DressedToKill
* ElaborateUndergroundBase ("The Living Dead")
* {{Evil Clown}}s ("Look (Stop Me if You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellas...")
* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner ("The Living Dead")
* FakeOutMakeOut (Steed and Mrs. Peel in "Escape in Time")
* FallingChandelierOfDoom ("Death's Door")
* {{Fanservice}} (Ms. Peel in "The Man from Auntie")
* [[{{FetishFuel/LiveActionTV}} FetishFuel/LiveActionTV]]: Emma Peel's {{Spy Catsuit}}s
** The episode "A Touch Of Brimstone" deserves a special mention here, particularly Mrs. Peel's BSDM outfit at the end, which resulted in the episode being initially banned from American television.
** Peel was predated in this trope by Cathy Gale and her leather outfits and boots, which led to some LampshadeHanging in RealLife by Macnee and Blackman when they recorded a single together called "Kinky Boots".
* FootFocus
* HammerAndSickleRemovedForYourProtection
* HellBentForLeather
* HeyItsThatGuy (the show is a goldmine for this kind of thing)
* ItMustBeMine ("The Man from Auntie")
* JumpedAtTheCall (Both Steed and Mrs Peel clearly enjoy their adventures, even though it occasionally means killing lots of people.)
* LimitedWardrobe (Steed)
* LostEpisode (all but two-and-a-half episodes of the first season)
* MilkmanConspiracy (Many episodes, and a literal one in "False Witness")
* MissingEpisode (most of the first season)
** The episode "A Touch of Brimstone" was initially banned in the US (has since been released on video/DVD)
* MusicalPastiche (in "The Winged Avenger")
* NeverFoundTheBody (Mrs. Peel's husband Peter; a pilot found to be alive in the Amazonian jungle years after a plane crash, which signals Mrs. Peel's exit from the series)
* NiceHat (Steed and his bowlers, complete with a steel plate in the crown for clonking people on the head with.)
* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup
* NothingIsScarier ("Don't Look Behind You")
* OfCorsetsSexy ("A Touch of Brimstone")
* OhCisco
* OpeningNarration (The American screenings of the Emma Peel episodes)
* ParasolOfPain (Steed's umbrella)
* ParentService (Emma Peel)
* PrettyInMink (Emma Peel)
* PutOnABus (Tara King in two episodes)
* ReTool (the show changed dramatically with the introduction of Cathy Gale.)
* ReVision (Mother)
* SheFu
* ShoutOut (In one episode a plot to destroy a train is summed up as such: "[[ThomastheTankEngine Pop goes the diesel?]]"
* SpyCatsuit (the original, in fact, and the origin of the trope.)
* SpyCouple
* SpyDrama
* SpyFiction
* SwordCane (Steed had a sword concealed in his umbrella)
* TheTag (humorous variety)
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters ("The Cybernauts")
* WeHelpTheHelpless (The Avengers' scope of action varies from episode to episode -- sometimes it's impossible or unusual crimes, sometimes it's purely spy-based, sometimes it's breaking smuggling rings.)
* WeaponizedHeadgear (Steed's steel-lined bowler)
* WillTheyOrWontThey (There was a palpable sexual chemisty between Steed and Mrs Peel. And between Steed and Mrs. Gale. And between Steed and Miss King. And between Steed and Purdey.)
* WholePlotReference ("Dead Man's Chest" is basically ''[=~It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World~=]''; "The Superlative Seven" is a riff on ''TheMostDangerousGame'')
* YouGotMurder
* YouLookFamiliar
!!The 1976-77 remake series ''The New Avengers'' provides examples of:
* BadHabits ("The Eagle's Nest")
* {{Revival}}
* ShootingGallery ("Target!")
* StupidJetpackHitler ("The Eagle's Nest")
!!The 1998 film provides examples of:
* TheAce: Mrs. Peel is perfect at whatever she does, from science to chess to swordplay, making Steed's character seem somewhat redundant.
* {{Adaptation Decay}} Oh dear, oh dear.
* AliceAllusion: Ministry agent Alice.
* AlmostKiss: Steed and Mrs. Peel, while he's helping her put on her boots.
* AreTheseWiresImportant: Steed rips the guts out of one of Sir August's robot insects.
* AttackDrone: Sir August's flying armed robot insects.
* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: Bailey said "Oh F*** " just before his death to raise the film's rating.
** And the line has clearly been dubbed in by someone who isn't Eddie Izzard, who plays Bailey. His lips don't move, and it sounds nothing like him.
* BadassBack: Mrs. Peel during her sword fight with Steed.
* BanisterSlide: Mrs. Peel does a short one during her sword duel with Steed.
* BattleInTheRain: The final fight between Steed and Sir August.
* BulletproofVest: Steed's Trubshaw waistcoat.
* ChekhovsGun: The boots Steed gives to Mrs. Peel.
* ClearMyName: Mrs. Peel after her clone blows up the Prospero lab.
* CollapsingLair: Sir August's underground island base.
* CutLexLuthorACheck
* DamselInDistress: Subverted when Mrs. Peel escapes from Sir August on her own.
* DayOfTheWeekName: Sir August and his family, named after months.
* DiabolicalMastermind: Sir August
* DirtyOldMan: Sir August and Mrs. Peel (SeanConnery is 40 years older than Uma Thurman).
* DisneyVillainDeath: Bailey's demise.
* TheDragon: Mrs. Peel's clone and Bailey.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: Mrs. Peel may have done this with her clone's SpyCatsuit.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: Sir August's island base.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: Mrs. Peel's car after the flying robot insect attack.
* EverythingsWorseWithBears: The bear costumes the recruited scientists wear.
* EvilTwin: Mrs. Peel's clone, created by Sir August.
* FastRoping: Used by Bailey just prior to his fight with Mrs. Peel.
* TheFilmOfTheSeries
* ForbiddenFruit: Steed warns Mrs. Peel not to take a macaroon when they have tea with Mother.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Wonderland Weather globes and Steed's "I'll stick to swordplay".
* FunWithAcronyms: BROLLY (British slang term for "umbrella").
* FurAndLoathing: Mrs. Peel's clone when she tries to kill Steed.
* GonnaNeedABiggerWarrant: Lab destruction -> weather control extortion conspiracy.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: The milkman, during Steed's test.
* GroinAttack: Mrs. Peel to Bailey during their fight in Sir August's base.
* HeyItsThatGuy: de Wynter's main mook is played by EddieIzzard.
** The other mook is played by Shaun Ryder of the Happy Mondays.
** [[Film/HarryPotter Lord Voldemort is a good guy and he's working for Professor Slughorn and Aunt Petunia.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Sir August, by his own fighting staff and a bolt of lightning from his WeatherControlMachine.
* HypnotizeThePrincess: Sir August tries this on Mrs. Peel.
* IAmHeAsYouAreHe: Mrs. Peel enters Sir August's base by posing as her EvilTwin clone.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Sir August to a captured Mrs. Peel.
* InstantSedation: Sir August to Mrs. Peel (drug-tipped dart) and Father to Mrs. Peel (aerosol gas).
* KarmicDeath: Father and Mrs. Peel's clone.
* TheKobayashiMaru: When Steed is attacked at the beginning of the movie.
* LargeHam: SeanConnery as Sir August de Wynter.
* LetsSplitUpGang: Five times.
* LexLuthorSecurity: The meeting of the Council of Ministers.
* LightningCanDoAnything: Such as pulling Sir August high up into the air.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Father]]
* MonumentalDamage: Nelson's Column and Big Ben's clock tower.
* MythologyGag
* NeckSnap: Mrs. Peel's clone, to a Prospero Project Lab staff member.
* NotScreenedForCritics
* OddCouple: Steed plays by the rules, Mrs. Peel doesn't.
* OminousPipeOrgan: Sir August plays one in his mansion.
* OppositesAttract: See OddCouple above.
* PungeonMaster: Mrs. Peel.
* RemakeCameo: Patrick Macnee provided the voice of the invisible Colonel Jones.
* SecretTest: Steed's inviting Mrs. Peel to Boodles.
* SelfDestructMechanism: The WeatherControlMachine after it's turned off.
* SharePhrase: "How real will it feel" and "I thought I was seeing double".
* ShoutOutFilm: Five to ''AliceInWonderland'', two to ''BladeRunner'' and WilliamShakespeare's plays and one each to ''NorthByNorthwest'', M.C. Escher, the songs ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Bears%27_Picnic Teddy Bears' Picnic]]'' and ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bonnie_Banks_o%27_Loch_Lomond The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond]]'' and the poem ''The Owl and the Pussycat''.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Mrs. Peel during her game with Steed.
* StalkerShrine: Sir August has one to Mrs. Peel (or her clone) in his mansion.
* StandardHollywoodStrafingProcedure: The flying robot insects, to Steed and Mrs. Peel.
* StealthHiBye: Sir August after his fight with Steed in the hedge maze.
* StockPhrases
** YouDidntAsk
* StormingTheCastle: Steed and Mrs. Peel, to Sir August's base.
* SwordCane: In the final fight with Sir August, Steed reveals his sword ''umbrella''.
* {{Tagline}}: "When evil reigns/rains, only one team can weather the storm." But can they weather a HurricaneOfPuns?
* TapOnTheHead: Bailey to Alice and Mrs. Peel's EvilTwin clone to Steed.
* TrackingDevice: The "micro-tag" (radio homing signal) in Mrs. Peel's boots.
* [[ParasolOfPain Umbrella of Pain]]: Steed uses his umbrella as a weapon numerous times.
* UnflinchingFaithInTheBrakes: Alice, as Mrs. Peel's car approaches.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Steed and Mrs. Peel
* TheVoiceless:
** Bailey says two words just before he dies (see AvoidTheDreadedGRating above).
** Mrs. Peel's clone.
* WeatherControlMachine
* WeCanRuleTogether: Sir August to Mrs. Peel after he captures her.
* WireDilemma: Mrs. Peel, while trying to turn off the WeatherControlMachine.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Sir August and his scientists.
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