Big shout out to Joyce, my babysitter, for turning me on to this show when I was in grade 2!! I'm 58 now, and this is STILL my all time favorite series!!
A feminist who learned judo for The Avengers, Honor Blackman's Cathy Gale was the first woman who was smarter and tougher than men. Diana Rigg, a younger stage actress, made a charming transition to television as her successor. Rigg's Emma Peel was a sort of Cathy Gale Lite, with William Westley Jr. and Cyd Child handling her fight scenes.
As a kid at play, I used to pretend I was Mrs. Peel... She was so much more exciting than John Steed !!! God bless Diana Rigg for sharing her life with us.
Wonderful 60 year career, got to see her in Medea last matinee b4 winning her Tony, THRILLING! Watch her with Dame Maggie in Evil Under the Sun, they snipe, duet, were friends offscreen, their children have also worked together in a Christie.
Loved The Avengers and still do! 💗 Steed was the perfectly charming English gent while Cathy Gale and Emma Peel were absolute knockouts who broke down barriers. It could be a serious show as well as campy but still worked magnificently. It reminds us of what class and style were like. Of all of Steeds partners, Diana as Emma was the best. She matched him in every way. She had it all, beauty, brains, wit, personality and skill. I hope this fantastic show and it's characters are never forgotten and that it's fanbase continues to grow not dwindle. 👍⭐🙏💖
She was way ahead of her time!! She was a role model for all women! Long before Charlie's Angels, Police Woman! Her and Honor Blackman were the very best!! I love them both! God bless them!! Rest in peace!!
@@67nairb Real life judo black belt and actress in James Bond. She also was Cathy Gale in the Avengers. Unlike “ Peel” she actually was a legitimate martial artist.
You forgetting Honey West. She was a great role model for young girls. Sadly the Avengers were cheaper to show in America then to produce Honey West . So HW was cancelled
what does the AVENGERS being a cheaper show to air in America have to do with the cancellation of HONEY WEST? HONEY WEST was an American TV show; The AVENGERS was British.@@phillipmarlowe0525
I had a crush on Emma Peel/Diana Rigg because she was very intelligent (more so than most men). tough, resourceful, beautiful, elegant and a badass back in the 1960s when women were portrayed as ditzy sex objects on American television. I did not know she played Lay Tyrell in Game of Thrones; I had not seen her since she hosted Masterpiece Theater 20+ years ago. A great actress for all time.
Honestly, it must have been about three days after Diana's passing when the first article to mention the Avengers appeared-every single one before hand was about that one Bond film, never mind her being THE BEST British female TV character of the whole of the 1960's, and beyond in my opinion!
Diana Rigg as Emma Peel ; was the best female character ever ! Her sleek pants outfits, her hair style , her personna, her facial beauty, her fighting abilities ; made her a total package of feminine beauty !
@@Shane-Flanagan The Avengers were broadcast in the N.Y.C. viewing area I believe in 1966. Emma wore leather jumpsuits and her picture in that outfit in the N.Y. Daily News to promote the airing of her English on American t.v.. I was going through puberty at this time; what a combo of influences on one's mind & body ! I was in " love " with Emma ever since; I just turned 69 yrs. old last month !
Diana Rigg was my childhood and adolescence crush I was in love with her she was my girlfriend but she never knew it!,😂😅 this is how I like to remember her, and thanks for your talent,and all the entertainment.with this series the Avengers.R.I.P.Diana Rigg.🙏🙏🙏
Köszönöm szépen a feltoltest Nem tudom hogy a Nőknek ki volt a oktató ja de elég jól sikerült meg tanítani nekik hogy védekezzenek a filmben és később a magán életbe.
Agent Emma Peel is also a great kickass and gunfighter too. I really like her fighting and tactical skills and great in gunfight and hand-to-hand combat skills. 🇬🇧🕵️💋🔥🌆
If I ever found myself fighting Ronda Rousey after she binged this show I could see her making every fight go like this, with high-heels and karate chops and there'd be nothing I could do to stop it.
Y'all Know These men villains we're even a challenge for her men or women you come for Mrs peel you get your butt kick 🦵🦶 Rest in peace ✌️ Diana Rigg ❤
Mine too. As a teenager they would show reruns at 11pm which was past my bedtime but I would quietly turn my TV on and watch (most TV's didn't have remote control in the mid 70s so you had to turn it on by twisting a switch that would make a clicking sound).
She inspired me to get a Blue Belt in Tae Kwan Do! I never saw a woman like her before who could fight like her! She was my idol and inspired me to be a martial artist too!
These were wonderful pre-Bruce Lee fight scenes. Modern fight scenes seemed to have evolved from Bruce Lee particularly the high kicking style I see everywhere now. I think Emma Peels best fight was in the "The £50,000 Breakfast" towards the end of the episode when she has a longer than usual cat fight against the blonde woman bad girl.
The Avengers had 2 male leads, during a production strike Ian Hendry left for movies, they replaced him with Honor Blackman & didn't change the scripts.
@@jeffthekillercriticremixer5968 Couldn't forget her or Purdy either. They all played a part. What I meant was, Cathy Gale came before Emma Peel and inspired her yet Emma takes the credit
Mrs Peel , manhandking men all over London.- Uma Thurman in the movie version was a total letdown. and in the 60s when DC comics depowered Wonder Woman for a time, she bacame a spy and almost became Mrs Peel, in her dress style and fights. She seems to use 3 martial art styles, Judo / Karate and Ju Jitsu.
Loved this show! But so much never explained. Anyone know of a site about The Avengers? All of them, not just Diana? And whatever happened to Mr Peel? Then again, perhaps as a child the mysterious lack of backgrounds of the characters was part of the fascination.
God I remember that first scene being really shocking as a kid. The guy with the gun murdered her childhood friend if I remember right. She hacked him to death.
You're remembering correctly. In her rage she was going to kill him with the phone but then got a hold of herself. Can you imagine what that had to feel like to see your close childhood friend that you loved like a brother murdered? I don't think I could've stopped myself like she did.
Emma Peel's fight scenes core choreographed and stage perfectly I enjoy her cuz she was a badass lady on-screen they we're at a challenge never the last the show gained lots of audiences that I admired her and John steed
Honor, Linda and Joanna were judo and karate practising and surely hired for that, which wasn't the case for Diana Rigg who has more merit because she does a lot of judo holds remarkables, in particular in the train with the blonde hostess who had seized her from behind, she throws her above the shoulder, without being doubled by stuntwoman, it was the same thing for others actresses like Jennifer Croxton and Anna Quayle, quite gifted also in judo holds. En plus, n'en déplaise à certains, Diana Rigg était une excellente actrice qui avait appartenu à la Royal Shakespeare Company et adorait le théâtre, de ce côté là, elle était une comédienne bien plus expérimentée que ne l'étaient Linda et Joanna même si celles-ci se débrouillaient pas mal !!
It's not a documentary, dud, Dame Diana was Emmy nominated twice. Women generally just stood by while men fought, Mrs. Peel was radical change, like Mrs. Gale b4 her.
@@Shane-Flanagan Indeed. In many ways Diana Rigg stepped into a part that was already there. I loved Diana Rigg's Emma Peel - full of humour, utterly self-confident, and individual - but she was also treading a path that Honor Blackman had already blazed beautifully.
@@iannoble8626Peel VERY different character, you can see it in Emma's 1st appearance, much more challenging with Steed, as was Mrs. Gale. Mcnee credited Rigg with rewriting their dialogue, they became much more convivial (Gale had to keep fending Steed off).
Yes kids, that's how we did Martial Arts back in the day - lots of slaps and the occasional burly stunt man in a wig and leather catsuit for the more physical routines!
It seems Diana Rigg didn't do a lot of the fight scenes. Now that I'm a lot older I appreciate Tara King (Linda Thorson) and Purdy (Joanna Lumly.) I feel they put up a better fight and had better fight scenes.
Compared to today's standards yes, I agree. But who knows, perhaps in it's time it was acceptable. I am certain however, that the show was years ahead of it's time in its depiction of women and their capabilities when most women on TV in that era looked to men for strength and protection. Not Mrs. Peel.
They did, frequently. Just not in this highlights reel. She never really did meet her equal there though. She always whooped villainesses easily, there was never an anti-Mrs. Peel for her to really dig into.
Like nearly all fight choreography from the 60s, this is either laughable or cringe. Don't know what that first scene was supposed to be other than a lot of chop, chop, chop, chop, slap, whatever. Her form was terrible, clearly she had no training in anything. I liked The Avengers, other than this schtick.
As a little kid, this is why I ❤❤’d Mrs Peele. Strong calculated confident fearful poised fighter all of Her opponents.
Big shout out to Joyce, my babysitter, for turning me on to this show when I was in grade 2!! I'm 58 now, and this is STILL my all time favorite series!!
She just bitch slapping EVERYONE!!! I LOVE IT
A feminist who learned judo for The Avengers, Honor Blackman's Cathy Gale was the first woman who was smarter and tougher than men. Diana Rigg, a younger stage actress, made a charming transition to television as her successor. Rigg's Emma Peel was a sort of Cathy Gale Lite, with William Westley Jr. and Cyd Child handling her fight scenes.
As a kid at play, I used to pretend I was Mrs. Peel... She was so much more exciting than John Steed !!! God bless Diana Rigg for sharing her life with us.
Me too
I dressed as Mr. Emma Peel in Provincetown 1 🎃, NOT a success! Drinking Seabreezes on the beach @ 4 didn't help.
I remember the avengers i was alittle boy 58 now I still watch the avengers to this very day
Rest in peace ✌️ Diana Rigg love 😘 you ❤
Wonderful 60 year career, got to see her in Medea last matinee b4 winning her Tony, THRILLING! Watch her with Dame Maggie in Evil Under the Sun, they snipe, duet, were friends offscreen, their children have also worked together in a Christie.
Used to watch this with my mom 67/68. We had great fun watching Mrs. Peel and Steed doing their fighting.
Loved The Avengers and still do! 💗
Steed was the perfectly charming English gent while Cathy Gale and Emma Peel were absolute knockouts who broke down barriers.
It could be a serious show as well as campy but still worked magnificently. It reminds us of what class and style were like.
Of all of Steeds partners, Diana as Emma was the best. She matched him in every way. She had it all, beauty, brains, wit, personality and skill.
I hope this fantastic show and it's characters are never forgotten and that it's fanbase continues to grow not dwindle. 👍⭐🙏💖
she sure did have all those qualities.
Love how Emma Peel be slappin people around.
She was way ahead of her time!! She was a role model for all women! Long before Charlie's Angels, Police Woman! Her and Honor Blackman were the very best!! I love them both! God bless them!! Rest in peace!!
who is Honor Blackman?
@@67nairb
Real life judo black belt and actress in James Bond. She also was Cathy Gale in the Avengers. Unlike “ Peel” she actually was a legitimate martial artist.
You forgetting Honey West.
She was a great role model for young girls. Sadly the Avengers were cheaper to show in America then to produce Honey West . So HW was cancelled
Is she or was she pretty?@@phillipmarlowe0525
what does the AVENGERS being a cheaper show to air in America have to do with the cancellation of HONEY WEST? HONEY WEST was an American TV show; The AVENGERS was British.@@phillipmarlowe0525
That first fight, damn she was pissed.
I had a crush on Emma Peel/Diana Rigg because she was very intelligent (more so than most men). tough, resourceful, beautiful, elegant and a badass back in the 1960s when women were portrayed as ditzy sex objects on American television. I did not know she played Lay Tyrell in Game of Thrones; I had not seen her since she hosted Masterpiece Theater 20+ years ago. A great actress for all time.
I remember one episode after Emma beat up a couple of thugs, one of them remarked to his boss, "She's thoroughly liberated, that one." 😆
Thank you ,after all these years I could not understand what he was saying. Now I know
She throws herself across a desk to tackle him.
Honestly, it must have been about three days after Diana's passing when the first article to mention the Avengers appeared-every single one before hand was about that one Bond film, never mind her being THE BEST British female TV character of the whole of the 1960's, and beyond in my opinion!
And your opinion was absolutely right cheers
Diana Rigg as Emma Peel ; was the best female character ever ! Her sleek pants outfits, her hair style , her personna, her facial beauty, her fighting abilities ; made her a total package of feminine beauty !
@@warrenoleary7172 Absolutely 👍
@@Shane-Flanagan The Avengers were broadcast in the N.Y.C. viewing area I believe in 1966. Emma wore leather jumpsuits and her picture in that outfit in the N.Y. Daily News to promote the airing of her English on American t.v.. I was going through puberty at this time; what a combo of influences on one's mind & body ! I was in " love " with Emma ever since; I just turned 69 yrs. old last month !
Diana Rigg was my childhood and adolescence crush I was in love with her she was my girlfriend but she never knew it!,😂😅 this is how I like to remember her, and thanks for your talent,and all the entertainment.with this series the Avengers.R.I.P.Diana Rigg.🙏🙏🙏
That is confidence
I always watch the avengers every chance I get.i like Diana rigg.the role she played she does it so well
Köszönöm szépen a feltoltest Nem tudom hogy a Nőknek ki volt a oktató ja de elég jól sikerült meg tanítani nekik hogy védekezzenek a filmben és később a magán életbe.
She should have went ahead and use the telephone. I hate it when that man killed her friend
Even though the fight scenes were unrealistic, Ms.Peel looked good during it
She was a dancer, not a fighter.
@@a.champagne6238 She was a dancer, not a fighter.
She did train in martial arts during the series.
Its wonderful fantast!!!❤
Derrick Middleton: I wouldn't underestimate her fighting skills
Agent Emma Peel is also a great kickass and gunfighter too. I really like her fighting and tactical skills and great in gunfight and hand-to-hand combat skills. 🇬🇧🕵️💋🔥🌆
One of most talented,,beautiful and talented european actresses
Man that soundtrack was hilarious but it did get you hype a little bit
She took out some of the most dangerous men on the planet with just pimp slaps and karate chops lol
No one can chop like Emma Peel
Don't piss Mrs. Peel off!
love it when she throws the guy a deadly weapon, he catches it so that he drops his guard, then she punches his lights out. Wow!
Confidence
If I ever found myself fighting Ronda Rousey after she binged this show I could see her making every fight go like this, with high-heels and karate chops and there'd be nothing I could do to stop it.
Best 8 minutes ever!
Emma was the best!!
Y'all
Know
These men villains we're even a challenge for her men or women you come for Mrs peel you get your butt kick 🦵🦶
Rest in peace ✌️
Diana Rigg ❤
She was awesome that was my favorite growing up..
Mine too. As a teenager they would show reruns at 11pm which was past my bedtime but I would quietly turn my TV on and watch (most TV's didn't have remote control in the mid 70s so you had to turn it on by twisting a switch that would make a clicking sound).
@@anapexartist5702 I remember having to do that lol that is funny
Thank you at Cyd Child who double Diana Rigg and Linda Thorson
She has interviews here.
She inspired me to get a Blue Belt in Tae Kwan Do! I never saw a woman like her before who could fight like her! She was my idol and inspired me to be a martial artist too!
I love that she touched and inspired you in the same way she did me as a kid who was consistently bullied.
Honour Blackman as Cathy Gale was her predecessor.
Diana's fights were staged whereas Honour's were more realistic
These were wonderful pre-Bruce Lee fight scenes. Modern fight scenes seemed to have evolved from Bruce Lee particularly the high kicking style I see everywhere now. I think Emma Peels best fight was in the "The £50,000 Breakfast" towards the end of the episode when she has a longer than usual cat fight against the blonde woman bad girl.
It's impressive the producers allowed her to do so much violence to the bad guys.
The Avengers had 2 male leads, during a production strike Ian Hendry left for movies, they replaced him with Honor Blackman & didn't change the scripts.
Those karate chops.....
@1:11 For younger viewers here, back in those days a telephone was heavy enough it could be used as a deadly weapon. ;-)
As Nokia 3000 series user, i can relate
It 's hard to do scenes like this..they could be dangerous
I mean before any superheroine on tv there was Emma Peel !
Not forgetting Cathy Gale
@@Shane-Flanagan or to a ;essor extent Tara King.
@@jeffthekillercriticremixer5968 Couldn't forget her or Purdy either. They all played a part.
What I meant was, Cathy Gale came before Emma Peel and inspired her yet Emma takes the credit
Because Emma was syndicated globally & broadcast in America, Cathy wasn't.
Y'all
Know
When mrs peel has on her black cat suit some male villan is getting his butt kick 🦵🦶
Mrs Peel , manhandking men all over London.- Uma Thurman in the movie version was a total letdown. and in the 60s when DC comics depowered Wonder Woman for a time, she bacame a spy and almost became Mrs Peel, in her dress style and fights. She seems to use 3 martial art styles, Judo / Karate and Ju Jitsu.
I allways love the black 🖤 cat suit very sexy and classy tomboy beautiful
Rest in peace ✌️
Diana Rigg ❤
Loved this show! But so much never explained. Anyone know of a site about The Avengers? All of them, not just Diana? And whatever happened to Mr Peel? Then again, perhaps as a child the mysterious lack of backgrounds of the characters was part of the fascination.
I begged to watch it along with Star Trek and Mission Impossible.
great stuff....
Bravo à vous vous devriez faire pareil avec Tara King et purdey un inconditionnel français de Montpellier
Is this where Dolemite was getting his fighting moves from?
Yesssssss
You come for mrs peel you get your butt kick 🦵🦶
Rest in peace ✌️
Diana Rigg
What a bad ass she was. Emma peel was amazing
She could be miss Europe....i like her speaking voice too
She was my favorite actress.
God I remember that first scene being really shocking as a kid. The guy with the gun murdered her childhood friend if I remember right. She hacked him to death.
You're remembering correctly. In her rage she was going to kill him with the phone but then got a hold of herself. Can you imagine what that had to feel like to see your close childhood friend that you loved like a brother murdered? I don't think I could've stopped myself like she did.
Mrs Peel in a class by herself, beat you without breathing hard Mrs Peel enuff said❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Emma Peel's fight scenes core choreographed and stage perfectly I enjoy her cuz she was a badass lady on-screen they we're at a challenge never the last the show gained lots of audiences that I admired her and John steed
NO HAY UN CAPITULO QUE SEA COMPLETO ?
up to being lady olenna she was still a badass
Honor, Linda and Joanna were judo and karate practising and surely hired for that, which wasn't the case for Diana Rigg who has more merit because she does a lot of judo holds remarkables, in particular in the train with the blonde hostess who had seized her from behind, she throws her above the shoulder, without being doubled by stuntwoman, it was the same thing for others actresses like Jennifer Croxton and Anna Quayle, quite gifted also in judo holds. En plus, n'en déplaise à certains, Diana Rigg était une excellente actrice qui avait appartenu à la Royal Shakespeare Company et adorait le théâtre, de ce côté là, elle était une comédienne bien plus expérimentée que ne l'étaient Linda et Joanna même si celles-ci se débrouillaient pas mal !!
first beautiful female martial arts fighter of the Western WORLD .... :) Grets from Germany
Amen
I'd say that " HONOR" should go to Catherine Gale!!
@Ar Zin Oui
TRIVIA. IN WHAT EPISODE DID THE MAN SAY " I DONT NEED A GUN TO KILL A WOMAN"?
Grande Emma Peel!❤
At 6:11 it looks like Emma Peel is fighting a member of Devo.
They didn't exist then.
It's not a documentary, dud, Dame Diana was Emmy nominated twice. Women generally just stood by while men fought, Mrs. Peel was radical change, like Mrs. Gale b4 her.
You always knew, when Emma peel, was going to fight. She wore a pants suit.
A hot tip from Cathy Gale, basically.
@@iannoble8626 Thanks for giving Cathy Gale credit for something. She so often gets overlooked
@@Shane-Flanagan Indeed. In many ways Diana Rigg stepped into a part that was already there. I loved Diana Rigg's Emma Peel - full of humour, utterly self-confident, and individual - but she was also treading a path that Honor Blackman had already blazed beautifully.
@@Shane-FlanaganBecause she wasn't shown in America, A&E finally ran her episodes off-hours in the '90's.
@@iannoble8626Peel VERY different character, you can see it in Emma's 1st appearance, much more challenging with Steed, as was Mrs. Gale. Mcnee credited Rigg with rewriting their dialogue, they became much more convivial (Gale had to keep fending Steed off).
Women wanted her and men wanted to be like her. Wait, uh....................................
Única no abra otra igual dlosa
Yes kids, that's how we did Martial Arts back in the day - lots of slaps and the occasional burly stunt man in a wig and leather catsuit for the more physical routines!
Dame Diana had a stunt WOMAN.
She just had that attitude of "Wanna Play?"
I started watching this in 1970, just out of the Navy. I wanted nothing more than to be her practice dummy!
😀
The joke is Emma Peel threw generations of men into puberty.
Diana Rigg was my heart throb until she left the avengers sadly
I think Tarantino must have been an admirer
1:10 Impossible for a woman to ever put down the phone.
And....her professionally stunt girl !!!
Cyd Child, she's interviewed here.
I can see Bjork doing a homage to Mrs. Peel in a music video .. @ 2:19 see what I mean --The Face'
Also The Pretenders.
😂😂😂😂
honor blackmen did before she did on the same show. Mrs peele was more of a kung fu experience honor thing was judo
It seems Diana Rigg didn't do a lot of the fight scenes. Now that I'm a lot older I appreciate Tara King (Linda Thorson) and Purdy (Joanna Lumly.) I feel they put up a better fight and had better fight scenes.
Dame Diana wasn't Emmy nominated twice for her fight scenes.
Oh Tara, my favourite. I thought she was great but very under-appreciated. Err... also the best legs on television, ever!💓
This is totally unrealistic. At 5:42 the pillar would have collapsed from that judo chop.
But Cybernauts are real...
Beautiful but deadly!
I always loved Mrs. Peel. When Diana left The Avengers I stopped watching.
Always fighting with pants on.
Like to see her fighting in a dress or skirt
Too bad they didn't make it look realistic.
Compared to today's standards yes, I agree. But who knows, perhaps in it's time it was acceptable. I am certain however, that the show was years ahead of it's time in its depiction of women and their capabilities when most women on TV in that era looked to men for strength and protection. Not Mrs. Peel.
@@anapexartist5702 I remember watching this in the 60s and in reruns in the 70s. I didn't realize how fake it was, but I was still entertained.
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They never had her fight other women on the show?
They did, frequently. Just not in this highlights reel. She never really did meet her equal there though. She always whooped villainesses easily, there was never an anti-Mrs. Peel for her to really dig into.
She should had done a lot of gym
2:27
2:38
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5:42
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7:22
Avengers had some of the dumbest and frail agents next to the Man from UNCLE
Like nearly all fight choreography from the 60s, this is either laughable or cringe. Don't know what that first scene was supposed to be other than a lot of chop, chop, chop, chop, slap, whatever. Her form was terrible, clearly she had no training in anything. I liked The Avengers, other than this schtick.
The hypnotic bar anaerobically avoid because humor empirically rub through a new fowl. sedate, selfish drum
This is 60s television, not a live stage show. Your pomposity is showing. (There's always one.)
Nice try, though I believe Yoda’s syntax is object-subject-verb.
Wtf??