The New Avengers

The Midas Touch

Joanna Lumley as Purdey is sitting on the staircase of a suburban house. She is wearing one of her flowy diaphanous dresses, and looking  sideways dreamily.

Episode 41
Sunday, 12 July 2020

This month, we head back to the gritty and hardbitten 1970s to check in on one of our favourite Bond girls, Joanna Lumley (On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Bond Meets Black Emmanuelle), in the show that made her a household name, The New Avengers.

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The New Avengers

Angels of Death

In the foreground, Purdey is in shadow, looking fixedly ahead. In the background, a dark-haired woman is pointing a gun at her.

Episode 50
Saturday, 29 May 2021

This month, it’s a queasy mixture of the Swinging Sixties and the Punching-People-in-the-Face Seventies, as Steed, Purdey and Gambit try to discover who is encouraging so many sweaty government security personnel to discotheque themselves to death, and why. It’s The New Avengers in Angels of Death.

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The New Avengers