The Avengers was a unique, genre-defying television series which blurred the traditional boundaries between ‘light entertainment’ and disturbing drama. It was a product of the constantly-evolving 1960s yet retains a timeless charm.
The monochrome filmed Emma Peel season had established a cult following for a series which became an intrinsic part of the ‘Swinging Sixties’. Backed by US dollars, the show was now filmed ‘in color’ and Avengerland becomes stranger and more playful than ever: Steed is shrunk to the size of a desk pad, forced to evade a machine-gun-toting nanny; Emma Peel is tortured in a medieval ducking stool and turned into a living cybernaut.
Mrs. Peel, We’re Needed draws on the knowledge of a broad range of experts and fans of The Avengers as it explores the wonderfully mad Technicolor world of Emma Peel.
Details
- Publication Date
- Dec 13, 2014
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781326120092
- Category
- Entertainment
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Rodney Marshall, By (author): Sam Denham, By (author): Bernard Ginez, By (author): Richard Cogzell, By (author): Piers Johnson, By (author): James Speirs, By (author): Frank Hui, By (author): Margaret J Gordon, By (author): JZ Ferguson, By (author): Sunday Swift, By (author): Lauren Humphries-Brooks, By (author): Dan O'Shea
Specifications
- Pages
- 378
- Binding
- Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- A5 (5.83 x 8.27 in / 148 x 210 mm)