The Avengers

[SiHart]

Coming this October:




The Avengers – dvd set 1 confirmed extras

• The surviving Ian Hendry episodes
• Exclusive audio commentary by Producer Leonard White on the surviving footage from the pilot episode Hot Snow
• Police Surgeon – Easy Money (surviving episode starring Ian Hendry of the series that is seen as the predecessor to The Avengers)
• Filmed introduction to Police Surgeon by Producer Leonard White
• Exclusive newly filmed interview with Honor Blackman
• Exclusive audio commentary by writer Martin Woodhouse on Mr Teddy Bear
• Exclusive audio commentary by Producer Leonard White on The Mauritius Penny
• Exclusive audio commentary by writer Roger Marshall on Death of A Great Dane
• Exclusive audio commentary by actress Julie Stevens on A Chorus of Frogs
• Filmed introductions by actress Julie Stevens
• Insert reprint of original Publicity brochure for the first Honor Blackman season
• Insert reprints of Leonard White scrapbooks featuring telesnaps of lost episodes
• PDF material including original scripts
• Extensive stills galleries

Plus more to be confirmed!

Excellent news I think!

Si xx

[Lord President]

Fan-bloody-tastic! ;-)

[Stephen Morgan]

Yes, excellent news. That set looks really good. A lot of people have been waiting so long for this, including myself. This will be something to look forwards to in the long winter months this year.

[Si Hunt]

Is the restoration for these do we know?

These are being snapped up! Even if I have to sell the house!

Si.

[Stephen Morgan]

There is some restoration for this, though not as extensive as the Dr. Who discs we're used to, but it should look good nevertheless.
As far as I was aware only snippets of the early episode, Hot Snow, existed, that would have needed some restoration surely. The episodes I'm looking forward to seeing on this set are Girl On A Trapeze (which I maybe have never seen), and The Frighteners, which I have on an old off air VHS from years ago, and which is a corker of an episode.

[Andrew Curnow]

I'm not that up to speed on The Avengers, so I'm intrigued by the statement, "The surviving Ian Hendry episodes" there. I thought only the Stratford Johns episode (The Frighteners) was known to exist - have some others turned up?

[Milky Tears]

I spurted £26 on the Dutch Series 2 & The Frighteners set back in March and still haven't watched it!

[Thasc]

Yay that's brilliant news, and about time too

[MacNimon]

I'm not that up to speed on The Avengers, so I'm intrigued by the statement, "The surviving Ian Hendry episodes" there. I thought only the Stratford Johns episode (The Frighteners) was known to exist - have some others turned up?

I believe that one other Hendry episode has turned up, Andrew, but to be honest I'm not sure exactly which one it is, although it's possibly the aforementioned 'Girl On A Trapeze'

Excellent news that this set is finally on it's way at last. It's been a long wait but it looks like being a worthwhile one.

Roll on the first Emma Peel season...the best Avengers season ever, imo


Edited to add:

I've just done a quick search and it is indeed the 'Girl...' episode which was discovered (as long ago as 2001!)

Full details here

[Andrew Curnow]

How fascinating, I always tend to thnk of 'missing episodes' as just being a Who thing, even though I know it's not. Thanks for the link Mac.

[Carol Baynes]

Brilliant news!

[SiHart]

More extras:
(quoted from Roobarbs)

We have all the series 2 scripts and a couple of the Hendry scripts.
We also have four original colour caption cards courtesy of Leonard White (one of which is for Police Surgeon) and via his scrapbooks, over 1100 telesnaps (approx 80 per episode) from 14 different Hendry episodes and a similar amount for the Honor Blackman episodes he produced

Si xx

[SiHart]

Full details from the press release:

Press release:

Fully restored for the first time, Optimum will be releasing all of the surviving episodes of cult TV classic The Avengers over the course of the next year on DVD, starting here with the 2 ½ surviving episodes of Series 1 and all of Series 2, along with un-missable new extras and special inserts.

DISC 1 –SERIES 1
Hot Snow (Incomplete – First 20 Mins Only) / Girl On A Trapeze / The Frighteners
EXTRAS: Police Surgeon – Easy Money / Leonard White and Julian Bond introduce Police Surgeon / Leonard White commentary for Hot Snow / Stills gallery / PDF material (3 scripts, 3 x TV Times covers and articles, TV Crimebusters comic script and Knit With The Avengers) TBC / More TBC

DISC 2 – SERIES 2
Mission To Montreal / Dead On Course / The Sell Out
Death Dispatch
EXTRAS: Insert reprint of series 2 promotional brochure / Stills gallery for featured episodes (including colour stills where available) PDF material (4 scripts) TBC

DISC 3 – SERIES 2
Propellant 23 / Mr Teddy Bear / The Decapod / Bullseye
EXTRAS: Video introduction by Julie Stevens for The Decapod / Audio Commentary by Martin Woodhouse for Mr Teddy Bear / Stills gallery for featured episodes (including colour stills where available) / PDF material (4 scripts) TBC

DISC 4 – SERIES 2
The Removal Men / The Mauritius Penny / Death Of A Great Dane / Death On The Rocks
EXTRAS: Video introduction by Julie Stevens for The Removal Men / Audio commentary by Leonard White for The Mauritius Penny / Audio commentary by Roger Marshall for Death of A Great Dane / Stills gallery for featured episodes (including colour stills where available) / PDF material (4 scripts and 1 TV Times cover and article) TBC

DISC 5 – SERIES 2
Traitor In Zebra / The Big Thinker / Intercrime / Warlock
EXTRAS: Stills gallery for featured episodes (including colour stills where available) / PDF material (4 scripts) TBC

DISC 6 – SERIES 2
Immortal Clay / Box Of Tricks / The Golden Eggs / School For Traitors
EXTRAS: Audio Commentary by Julie Stevens for Box of Tricks / Stills gallery for featured episodes (including colour stills where available) / PDF material (4 scripts) TBC

DISC 7 – SERIES 2
The White Dwarf / The Man In The Mirror / Conspiracy Of Silence / A Chorus Of Frogs
EXTRAS: Audio Commentary by Julie Stevens for A Chorus of Frogs / Stills gallery for featured episodes (including colour stills where available) / PDF material (4 scripts) TBC

DISC 8 – SERIES 2
Six Hands Across A Table / Killer Whale
EXTRAS: New Honor Blackman interview / Collector’s Lot – Honor Blackman interviews Avengers memorabilia collector / Stills gallery for featured episodes (including colour stills where available) / PDF material (2 scripts) TBC / Easter Egg – Leonard White reads a letter from Patrick Macnee

Si xx

[Milky Tears]

Series Three DVD Details

Looks like I'll need to buy them all... again!

[Perry Vale]

This is the only Contender set I haven't sold yet, better get a move on. Although with the free p&p on ebay, hope I don't get stung!

[Dirk Gently]

As I missed out on the other releases I'm having these!

[Milky Tears]

A review of the first set:

http://cathoderaytube.blogspot.com/2...surviving.html

[Thasc]

This seems a tad on the expensive side, I'm going to wait a bit for it to come down in price before I buy it

[Stephen Morgan]

This seems a tad on the expensive side, I'm going to wait a bit for it to come down in price before I buy it

Amazon sellers have it at just over £41 right now which isn't bad price at all. But........it will probably come down a bit cheaper than that before too long.

[Thasc]

Thanks Stephen I shall keep an eye on the price over on Amazon then

[SiHart]

The extras for season 3 are:

THE AVENGERS – DVD SET 2 SPECIAL FEATURES

• Exclusive audio commentary by scriptwriter Brian Clemens on Brief For Murder
• Exclusive audio commentary by director Don Leaver on Man With Two Shadows
• Exclusive audio commentary by script editor Richard Bates on The Grandeur That Was Rome
• Exclusive audio commentary by scriptwriter Roger Marshall on Mandrake
• Exclusive audio commentary by director Jonathan Alwyn on The Outside-In Man
• Filmed introductions by Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman on 13 episodes
• Avenging The Avengers documentary (extended version)
• Gale Force (part 2) – exclusive interview with Honor Blackman
• Archival Newsreel footage
• Episode Reconstructions, narrated by producer Leonard White, of two ‘lost’ Series 1 stories, Double Danger and A Change of Bait.
• Armchair Theatre – The Importance of Being Earnest. Starring Patrick Macnee (Act 3 only)
• Insert reprint of ‘The Avengers beats TW3’ ABC flyer
• Extensive stills galleries (approx 2500 – many previously unpublished and in colour)
• PDFs of all 26 scripts, TV Times and more

OVER 5 HOURS OF BONUS CONTENT

Si xx

[SiHart]

And here are the details for the Season 4 (first Emma Peel) set:

● Exclusive audio commentary for The Town of No Return with director Roy Ward Baker and scriptwriter/producer Brian Clemens

● Exclusive audio commentary for The Master Minds with scriptwriter Robert Banks Stewart

● Exclusive audio commentary on Dial A Deadly Number with scriptwriter Roger Marshall

● Exclusive audio commentary on The Hour That Never Was with director Gerry O’Hara

● Exclusive audio commentary on The House That Jack Built with director Don Leaver

● Exclusive audio interview with Elizabeth Shepherd

● Armchair Theatre – The Hothouse (staring Diana Rigg)

● USA Chessboard opening sequence

● Strange Case of the Missing Corpse promotional trailer

● Alternate end tag from Death At Bargain Prices

● Episode reconstructions for series 1 scripts Kill The King and Dead of Winter

● Colourised test footage from Death At Bargain Prices, Silent Dust and A Touch of Brimstone

● Reconstructed ‘The Avengers are back’ John Stamp trailer

● Alternate UK opening and closing credits

● Alternate UK animated bumpers

● UK animated bumper

● Variant opening title credits for The Gravediggers

● French opening credits

● German opening credits

● ITN Newsreel footage

● Stills galleries

● PDF material

Plus more TBC

Si xx

[stuartdg]

Those episode reconstructions alone have persuaded me to buy this

[SiHart]

Now this is the way to buy The Avengers!





http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Ave...026373&sr=1-12

Si xx

[Lissa]

It's not bad value actually for 5 boxed sets in one. I hope the defective discs have been replaced for this re-release. I might be tempted if they have.