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TV Times, 10 March, page 75, Metal Mickey-taking
The Emma Peel Way, Peter Genower, England. A general overview
of The Return of The Cybernauts.
The Observer Magazine, sometime around March, pages
1 and unknown, Delightful Decadence, Don Macpherson, England. Review of Return Of The Cybernauts rerun / Swinging '60s and Sadian
50s (Pornographic imagery).
TV
Times, 29 September, page 68, Dave's A Super Fan With A Vengeance, author
unknown, England. Piece on Dave Rogers - Avengers book author.
Brighton
Evening Argus, 1 October, page unknown, Now Steed Is A Bad Guy!, Lester
Middlehurst, England.
Daily Express, 12 November, pages unknown, author
unknown, title unknown, England. Linda Thorson interview.
Daily Mail, 12 November, pages unknown, author
unknown, title unknown, England. Linda Thorson interview.
NME, exact
date in 1983 unknown, page unknown, author unknown, Kinky, England.
Last year it may have been 'The Message', but the above are lyrics
from perhaps the first Marxist novelty-number rap-record ever committed to vinyl by TV
stars: Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman of recently exhumed series The Avengers.
Re-released by Cherry Red to coincide with Steed & Co's rapidly resurrected cult
status, this diabolically awful single can be augmented by Dave Rogers' book The Avengers
(Michael Joseph ITV, £4.95). This offers a full guide to all 161 episodes, based on
facts culled from studio files as well as correspondence with the stars, supporting cast,
production and design teams. Learn how the post-Bond, pre-Beatlemania Steed evolved
and how he inherited his first female colleague, in the form of Cathy Gale, thanks to an
Equity strike which sidelined original sidekick Ian Hendry. Yet before she even
planted a patent-clad foot in primetime (1962), Honor Blackman was claiming Cathy as a
"first for TV - the first feminist in a television serial and the first woman who
fights back". Partly based on anthropologist Margaret Mead Blackman's Avenger
"made up for what she lacked in brawn through black boots, leather combat suits and
judo". And the Kinky Boots? According to Honor, it was all Macnee's idea:
"Patrick suggested leather and I wore it throughout the rest of the show. The
only things you can wear with leather trousers are boots, so they kitted me out with
calf-length black boots and the leather thing was born." Did this give us
Freddie Mercury?
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