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Tara King favorite episodes

posted 14 years ago by chongajuly
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Linda Thorson did 33 episodes, only 10 less than Honor Blackman (if one includes "The Forget-Me-Knot"), so what are some favorites? There was no dropoff in quality from the Emma Peel series, so there were many standout entries. Only 3 would I not recommend- "Invasion of the Earthmen," "Have Guns-Will Haggle," and "Homicide and Old Lace." My favorite must be "The Interrogators," it was such an unexpected thrill to see Sir Christopher Lee walk on right from the beginning, a great actor indeed. Other great actors make surprise appearances, ranging from Nigel Green in "Fog," Barry Warren in "False Witness," Nigel Davenport and Julian Glover in "Split!" and Peter Bowles and Andrew Keir in "Get-A-Way!" "All Done with Mirrors" was a coming-out-party for Linda, who by now had grown back her natural hair, and more than holds her own without Steed. "Love All" is stunning, especially Veronica Strong's transformation from frumpy cleaning woman to beautiful femme fatale. "Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40?" features the incomparable Dennis Price in a familiar role (and Tara gorgeous in catwoman suit), while another lengthy title, "Look- (stop me if you've heard this one) But There Were These Two Fellers..." guest stars John Cleese in the only full blown comedy episode, one that has divided fans for many years (I love it). Patrick Newell's wheelchair-bound 'Mother' made frequent appearances as the season went along, but Iris Russell's blind 'Father' only shows up in "Stay Tuned," a real gem of a classic. There are others- "Noon-Doomsday," "Wish You Were Here," "Killer," "The Morning After," and "Thingumajig." How 'bout a top 30 (out of 33)?

"I take pleasure in great beauty" - James Bond

[–] a_l_i_e_n 14 years ago

-"Game"

-"Invasion Of The Earthmen" (even though I hate that title)

-"Thingumajig"

[–] chongajuly 14 years ago

"Thingumajig" is also one of my favorites. Just tonight, my family bid farewell to Emma Peel with "The Forget-Me-Knot," a very difficult balancing act saying goodbye to one character as another is introduced. Mistakenly tackling Steed was a new way to reach out and touch someone, and it was interesting how she became instantly smitten with him as she recounted his fondness for beautiful women (she certainly qualified!) It's still a bit sad that Tara became the only cast member not to be granted a second season.

"I take pleasure in great beauty" - James Bond

[–] profh-1 14 years ago

My favorite Taras:

ALL DONE WITH MIRRORS -- in which Tara beats the C *** out of several baddies single-handedly, putting her in Jim West's category. Tough lady!

NOON-DOOMSDAY -- once again Tara's almost entirely on her own trying to save Steed's life.

THEY KEEP KILLING STEED -- this has long been my #1 fave Tara episode since I saw it first-run (and somehow, I never managed to see it again until about 18 years later!). Steed's out of the action, and Tara teams up with IAN OGILVY! I'd forgotten he was in this, the first time I ever saw the guy who a decade later became my #1 favorite actor. Almost a trial-run for THE NEW AVENGERS, while swiping the gimmick from THE OUTER LIMITS' "The One Hundred Days of The Dragon".

THE INTERROGATORS -- Christopher Lee and one very clever plot.

KILLER -- Okay, so Tara's almost not in this one, but I loved the self-parody of all those people getting killed, and the climactic revelation that it was a giant machine doing the dirty work. I also really liked Lady Diana.

THE MORNING AFTER -- Another Steed "solo" episode, where he faces down one incredible situation, and the ruthless menace of a clean-shaven BRIAN BLESSED!! A variation of this turned up later as "SLEEPER".

STAY TUNED -- Steed in trouble, mind-games, and villains played by Roger Delgado (The Master) and Kate O'Mara (The Rani)!

FOG -- spooky, one of the first (and few) Tara episode I managed to see first-run (it took me months to even realize the show had changed time-slots-- A CURSE on US ABC!!).

Fans of Linda Thorson should also see the RETURN OF THE SAINT episode "THE ROMAN TOUCH", to see just how TOUGH she got a decade later ("all grown up") and re-teamed with Ian Ogilvy. The episode comments on just how twisted things often are in the music biz, and features Laurence Luckinbill as one genuinely EVIL talent manager.

[–] MrEdnablackadder 14 years ago

THEY KEEP KILLING STEED -- this has long been my #1 fave Tara episode since I saw it first-run (and somehow, I never managed to see it again until about 18 years later!). Steed's out of the action, and Tara teams up with IAN OGILVY! I'd forgotten he was in this, the first time I ever saw the guy who a decade later became my #1 favorite actor. Almost a trial-run for THE NEW AVENGERS, while swiping the gimmick from THE OUTER LIMITS' "The One Hundred Days of The Dragon".

That's certainly a nice way to describe an authentic plagiarism !

[–] profh-1 14 years ago

Yes, it was so blatent that they used the identical "sci-fi" idea, although the rest of the plot was completely different. I saw the AVENGERS version years before the OUTER LIMITS, though. It's amazing how strong an impact this episode had on me, so imagine how frustrating it was that, thru the whole of the 70's, I somehow never saw it again. It wasn't until I was actually taping all the Emma & Tara episodes off PBS that I finally got to see it again. they ran it Christmas day, too-- what a nice Christmas present, I thought.

It's funny that there's been several episodes involving impersonators, and all of them have been among my favorites-- especially "FACES" with Purdey & Gambit. That was the 1st time we got to see cracks in Purdey's hard shell, and right at the end, it was almost shameful how Steed encouraged Gambit to keep up the charade longer than necessary. (Maybe Steed hoped she'd admit she DID care for Gambit, and stop wasting so much time pretending not to. Steed's a sneaky B******!)

[–] benstead 14 years ago

If you're frustrated by waiting all the 70's spare a thought for those in Australia. After seeing "Wish You Were Here" repeated Feb 1970 I had to wait till 2004 (yes, 34 years!) to see it again. Only the Rigg colour eps were ever repeated here after 1970 (1975,1984,1992 - and though they showed The Forget Me Knot each time I think even this I didn't see again till 1992. Of the Thorson eps, shown here late 68-mid 69, only a handful were repeated late 69-early 70.

When some episodes weer released on VHS here in 90s, virtually all were Rigg. Some shops imported thorson VHS ($33-45 for a two episode tape). In the DVD era, only the colour Rigg set has been released here.

I used to have a recurrent dream (in the 90s) that Thorson episodes were going to be broadcast on TV. Something always went wrong just when they were supposed to start. I'd be fiddling with the VTR or something or they'd start but it wouldn't really be The Avengers and then I'd wake up..

And now, I finally have a complete Thorson set and affordably priced too (even if the CD cases are crap)

Anyway, let's enjoy them...

I quite enjoyed "False Witness" last week - but who in the UK would use a spelling like "Dreemikreem?"

[–] MrEdnablackadder 14 years ago

It's funny that there's been several episodes involving impersonators, and all of them have been among my favorites-- especially "FACES" with Purdey & Gambit. That was the 1st time we got to see cracks in Purdey's hard shell, and right at the end, it was almost shameful how Steed encouraged Gambit to keep up the charade longer than necessary. (Maybe Steed hoped she'd admit she DID care for Gambit, and stop wasting so much time pretending not to. Steed's a sneaky B******!)

"Faces" shares sinister similarities with an episode of "The Champions" which had aired a few years before , "The Mission" . That episode also involves one clinic where homeless people are turned into doubles through plastic surgery . Sharron ( Alexandra Bastedo ) plays a naughty girl who constantly chews gum and the dialogue between her and the doctor is very similar to the one featured in "Faces" . Both ladies receive many compliments about the beauty and perfection of their facial structure . It's funny that in the "Avengers" universe the main requuirement of a bad girl seems to be chewing gum , see Lola and .. uhm , Lolita . The "Champions" episode was penned by Donald James , who possibly wrote the worst "Avengers" script ever , "Have Guns - Will Haggle" .

"Faces" also borrows some parts from "Man With Two Shadows" ( my favourite "Avengers" episode ) as we see one Steed killing another and then acting suspicious , suggesting he's the imposter . Still , in the original the thing was more intriguing , since we just see the double waiting for Steed in his bathroom and then the act ends . In the NA ep we know for sure that one of the two has been killed , so it becomes quite obvious which one ..

[–] profh-1 14 years ago

I got to see the Cathy Gales about 15 years AFTER the Purdeys, and 25 years AFTER the Emmas. Which just ain't right!

What I could never understand is why someone doesn't run ALL the episodes as one set. With DOCTOR WHO, the PBS stations slowly added to the collection, bit by bit, until by the late 80's they had all the available episodes from 1963-89 as a single set. THE AVENGERS deserved the same treatment... but this is one of the biggest arguments in favor of my having spent way too much time since 1979 building a huge videotape collection.

THE NEW AVENGERS were run in the US 3 times by CBS-- always in late-night-- and has not been seen since 1985. I just got done watching them again in production order (which isn't easy, considering CBS ran them totally out of sequence, way more out of sequence than they were in the UK). And now I'm watching the 2nd season in production sequence (just got thru the 3 Dr. King episodes).

I had a strange tv-related dream once... I was on the set when they were filming a new COLUMBO film, and the guest-star was going to be Patrick McGoohan. I should explain, in the late 80's, when the series was revived, its 2nd new season was a HUGE improvement over the previous one, when Peter Falk decided to take over as co-exec. producer. He started "playing" with the format, so that the stories were no longer "all the same". That year, McGoohan made his 3rd appearance on the show, and it became my FAVORITE episode, ever!

TV GUIDE mentioned that he had such fun doing it, he looked forward to doing another. But years went by, and nothing...

Then I had this dream. What inspired it? NO idea! Now here's where it gets crazy... that day, I went out and bought the new TV GUIDE. In it, I found, to my amazement, a listing for a new COLUMBO-- the following Friday-- and Patrick McGoohan was the guest star. I flipped out. I had NO advance knowledge of this-- this was really freaky! I'd looked forward to his coming back for around 8 years, and he finally was. For the next 8 days, I looked forward to seeing.

The following Friday, I was all set up, tape in the VCR, all set, TV on, everything. The show started... and about 4 minutes in, I suddenly noticed, the tape wasn't running. The batteries in the VCR REMOTE had died. AUGH!!! I got the VCR running, and had to get up and hit the pause button manually at every commercial break. And I never did get the opening credits. But that was a REALLY good story. McGoohan holds the record at playing 4 different murderers on the show (beating out Jack Cassidy's 3).

[–] chongajuly 14 years ago

This has nothing to do with the original post, but reading this entry encouraged me to provide my own wonderful coincidence. I met John Carradine, one of my favorite actors, in 1981, and blurted out that I was going to see all of his movies (roughly 262, though his claim was over 500!). 12 years later, A&E, the same cable channel that introduced me to THE AVENGERS (the two with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing), was showing MCCLOUD, along with COLUMBO, ELLERY QUEEN, and other beloved detective shows of the 70's. The very last episode of MCCLOUD was "McCloud Meets Dracula," which I saw when it first aired in April 1977, and the shows were being broadcast on weekday mornings. This being a time before the DVR or the internet, one simply needed a lot of luck if you were waiting for only one special episode. It was a Wednesday morning, just as the 9 AM hour was approaching, I was trying to get some sleep but something just would not allow it. I got up, set up the VCR, and was astonished to see the very episode I wanted! Since then I not only have over 230 John Carradine movies, but also over 65 of his 170 television appearances, for which I've provided more than my share of user comments. In 1982, I was going to see a recent release titled "Venom," and since I knew it was shot in England, I dreamed that Michael Gough was in it (he was!) That I'm sure was more a coincidence, but I can't help wondering if John Carradine sent me a message from beyond (he played an actor who actually turns out to be a vampire, just not Dracula). That was the same season that John Saxon played the title role in the STARSKY AND HUTCH Halloween 1976 episode "Vampire," which A&E broadcast in 1996. Keep viewing and reading!

"I take pleasure in great beauty" - James Bond

[–] photoenthusiast 14 years ago

My favorite Tara episodes (I love them all) include 'The Rotters', 'Game', 'The Interrogators', 'Look, Stop Me if You've Heard This One Before...', and of course 'The Forget-Me-Knot'. My all-time favorite fight scene is the climax of 'The Curious Case of the Countless Clues,' because it is probably her longest, and because she proves to be no damsel in distress, despite her impaired ankle! It also has a jazzy soundtrack that adds to the excitement, featuring her own personal melody, which I always thought was a nice touch. (I like the extended fight sequence with Gonzo or Gozzo or whatever his name was, in 'All Done with Mirrors', but that one is very serious and suspenseful, whereas the 'Clues' fight is exciting without being frightening).

Incidentally, although it seems that Tara was not granted a second season, technically she WAS. Not everyone knows, depending on where you live, but ABC television in America aired a partial Diana Rigg color season with the first 6 or 7 Linda Thorson episodes seamlessly added on. These are the shows where she wears the different wigs in every episode, and that originally had the shooting gallery credits at the start and end of every program. The following year (again, in America) then started off a whole NEW and separate season of the AVENGERS, beginning in the Fall with the 'Game' episode. So Tara actually got NEARLY two seasons. Only in Britain, as I understand it, did the Thorson series get held back until it was just one super long season.

"Holy one-track Bat-computer mind!"

[–] chongajuly 14 years ago

The last American season began with "My Wildest Dream," Robert Fuest's debut in the director's chair, although production continued uninterrupted from late '67 to March '69. "All Done with Mirrors" features the battle with the bearded Gozzo, and was supposedly the episode featuring Mother's return, and the introduction of Rhonda, a tall shapely blonde who appeared in every episode with him, except that both characters appeared in the previous episode, "You'll Catch Your Death" (the last with Tara in a wig). Many of Linda's toughest fights were in her earliest episodes, and I thought her comic performance in "Look (stop me...)" was a total delight. While "The Interrogators" remains my favorite, a total of 18 further entries make my overall list. "False Witness" must be second choice for me, scripted by actor Jeremy Burnham, veteran of 3 episodes, writer of 5 more.

"I take pleasure in great beauty" - James Bond

[–] photoenthusiast 14 years ago

I could well be wrong about which specific episode started the final American season. I've mislaid the press release I was referring to. However, it remains true that technically Tara did get more than one typical season.

According to the production notes in the Dave Rogers book,'All Done with Mirrors' and 'Super Secret Cypher Snatch' were filmed simultaneously and completed within one day of each other, with 'You'll Catch Your Death' finished almost 3 weeks earlier. Tara actually wears her own hair in 'You'll Catch Your Death' - it is the shortest it ever appears on-screen, followed by 'Mirrors' and 'Secret'. The very last time she wears a wig is 'Whoever Shot George Oblique Stroke XR40', the one that begins with her in the fancy dress cat-suit.

Anyway, this brings up one of my minor gripes with the series - which is no fault of the stars in any way. In the original broadcast version (I'm referring to the American order), Tara's character visibly matures into an expert spy. In those first half dozen episodes that were added to the final Emma Peel shows, Tara is continually referred to as first a trainee (in 'The Forget-Me-Knot') or a bright agent with great potential but little actual experience (through comments made in such shows as 'Invasion of the Earthmen' and others). When the real final season started, these references are made once or twice and then forgotten, and with every succeeding show she is portrayed as more and more capable and intelligent.

Whenever THE AVENGERS was shown in syndication here in the United States, the local stations always followed that original order, at least in the 1970s and 1980s. But the A&E Home Videos in the 1990s decided to follow the British broadcast order, which is all over the place for reasons unknown. So my gripe is that if you view them as presented following the British order, her character is changing, not gradually but jarringly. One episode will show her completely self-reliant and strong, then another, dropped in out of sequence, will have her looking to Steed as a mentor again! (For example, the 'Countless Clues' show is not presented as Tara's third story, but follows 'The Morning After', and 'Look, Stop Me...' comes after 'Noon Doomsday'). I realize these stories aren't serialized, so the order doesn't HAVE to be followed, but I really prefer them to be. Among other (truly minor) concerns, her own, real hair grows naturally, unless you are following the British order, in which case it goes from wig to short to long to short and back to wig again. And now I am just going on a bit too much, I suppose....

By the way, 'False Witness' is one of my very favorite Tara King episodes as well (and it doesn't bother me in the least that the whole score is lifted almost note for note from 'Curious Case of the Countless Clues'!).

"Holy one-track Bat-computer mind!"

[–] chongajuly 14 years ago

Encore's Mystery channel showed THE AVENGERS from 2001 to 2003, and broadcast each episode in production order, the best way to catch Tara King from the beginning. "The Forget-Me-Knot" was her introduction, but was third to be completed, after "Invasion of the Earthmen" and "Countless Clues." Tara's earliest episodes had only one major fault to me, a lack of humor (apart from that, "Countless Clues" is a marvelous episode). I can think of one commentator who disses the entire color series as "pie in the face slapstick," when only "Murdersville" ends with any pies, and the John Cleese episode provides the only full blown comedy. I hated it when I first saw it, not expecting homicidal slapstick clowns, but it's definitely grown on me since, especially when no other episode ever went quite so far. I couldn't tell if Linda wore a wig in "You'll Catch Your Death," nor could I figure how Patrick Newell insisted that the following episode, "All Done with Mirrors," was his return to the series (and Rhonda's debut). The Dave Rogers book lists the early videotaped seasons in the same production order that Encore aired them, with "The Frighteners" as the sole Ian Hendry episode shown, followed by the 3 with Martin King, then the introduction of Honor Blackman in "Death Dispatch." This website (theavengers.tv/forever/guide.htm) covers the entire series in chronological order of production, and helped me fashion my comments on all existing 137 1/3 episodes (only one with Venus Smith and one with Cathy Gale had been reviewed). Going on a bit too much? Not at all, enjoy!

"I take pleasure in great beauty" - James Bond

[–] MrEdnablackadder 14 years ago

I can think of one commentator who disses the entire color series as "pie in the face slapstick," when only "Murdersville" ends with any pies, and the John Cleese episode provides the only full blown comedy.

Yeah , I wonder who that might be . Seriously , Olzak , do you come to this board to discuss about the show or about me ?
A gag involving a man putting on a helmet and then not being able to remove it could even be more childish than the pie fight that preceded it . Other examples of kindergarten slapstick could include a man throwing himself out of the window and returning to be splashed with seltz , a guy fainting three times in 5 minutes , an officer not being able to remove a gum from under his desk , the list could go on for a veeeery long time . Sneezing was also apparently a great source of amusement for "Avengers" writers . And that doesn't have only to do with the colour seasons , but with Season 4 , too . Is it funny to see a woman breaking a dozen vases on a man's head during the same episode ? Or see the hero subduing his opponent by tickling her on the bottom ? Or ... well , you got the idea .

[–] profh-1 14 years ago

"Whenever THE AVENGERS was shown in syndication here in the United States, the local stations always followed that original order, at least in the 1970s and 1980s. But the A&E Home Videos in the 1990s decided to follow the British broadcast order, which is all over the place for reasons unknown. So my gripe is that if you view them as presented following the British order, her character is changing, not gradually but jarringly."

It actualy makes sense that the Americans got it right, since ABC in America were the one putting up the money which allowed the show to be done on film in the first place. (A shame they were STUPID enough to sabotage the show by moving it opposte the #1-rated show at the time--amazing the person who made that decision can even walk upright, HMMM???)

I've watched many shows which networks have aired out of sequence, usually making stupid decisions on the basis of, "This looks like a good one to start the season with", or, "This one might OFFEND certain people, let's hold it back and not run into until the middle of the rerun season."

I recall taping WKRP IN CINCINATTI off the local Philly station and-- except for the Christmas episodes, they actually ran it-- as far as I could tell-- in production order, as the "growth" of the characters made more sense than it did originally on CBS!

Even without stories being continued, it's often very obvious which episodes SHOULD be run in which order-- in fact, sometimes it's MORE obvious when you run them in the WRONG order. I noticed that in NIGHT COURT's 2nd season, for example, most of the episodes seemed to have brief, vague references to the previous episode, which you might not notice if you saw them out of sequence, but run in an order that makes sense, and it's if you were viewing one long storyline. Also, Ellen Foley's hair kept changing, and watching that (just like Tara's hair) is another very obvious clue as to what order they should be seen in.

[–] chongajuly 14 years ago

theavengers.tv/forever/guide.htm features both the British and American broadcast order, which certainly makes for an intriguing comparison. By the time THE AVENGERS debuted in the US (with "The Cybernauts," March 1966), the 4th season had just completed production, while the first color season didn't begin shooting until September, for January 1967 broadcast. The black and white Emma Peels were shown in completely different order than the Britons had, with "Too Many Christmas Trees" airing in August! All the color episodes were for the most part shown in chronological order, except in the fall of 1968. The ones that were never broadcast in America during the 60's were "A Surfeit of H2O" (don't know), "Silent Dust" (whipping of Emma Peel), "Quick-Quick Slow Death" (don't know), "A Touch of Brimstone" (whipping of Emma Peel in scandalous outfit designed by Diana Rigg), "Honey for the Prince" (Emma Peel's near naked dance of the six veils), and "The Morning After" (pre-empted by a Bing Crosby special). I certainly would have been frustrated trying to find the show during its final year on the network. Only the Tara King episodes suffer from the out of sequence showings, as the humor that helped sell the series in the US was sorely lacking in her earliest appearances. By the time she started sporting her own hair, the show had regained its footing and remained consistently entertaining.

[–] DrGlitterhouse 13 years ago

- "The Curious Case of the Countless Clues"
- "My Wildest Dream"
- "The Interrogators"
- "They Keep Killing Steed"
- "The Morning After"
- "Take Me to Your Leader"

I tend to prefer the episodes where the Avengers are fighting clever criminals rather than spies, love the Robert Fuest-directed episodes, and think the Tara King episodes are better written than the color Mrs. Peel episodes (maybe because they used more writers).

"Nobody throws me my own guns and says run. Nobody."

[–] profh-1 13 years ago

The business about running episodes out of sequence got even worse when THE NEW AVENGERS got to America. CBS ran the show initially Friday nights at 11:30 PM. Anti-violence censorship was in full swing, and the entire show was considered "too violent" by late-70's standards. (Absurd, isn't it?) Anyway, CBS took both seasons, mixed them together (shuffled like a dewck of cards) and ran them completely at random. One notable "quirk" was when they ran "Target" and "Angels Of Death" back-to-back, making it far too obvious that they had such SIMILAR plots. (They would do this with other shows, like when they reran COLUMBO in the early 80's and ran all 3 Jack Cassidy episodes back-to-back over 3 weeks.)

I recently watched all 26 episodes in production order, and it really is better than way. You get to see the characters and their relationships develop. But perhaps the most blatent thing is, watching them n the order they were made, it suddenly becomes obvious that, after Purdey's ex-fiance is killed (in "OBSESSION"), she suddenly lightens up and for the remainder of the run becomes a MUCH nicer person!

[–] profh-1 12 years ago

Here I am back again... I'm in the middle of the Tara Kings once more, but I got lazy this time, and I'm watching them in the orderr my PBS station ran them (which is how my videotapes are), which is similar, but NOT identical, to the IMDB list. Who knows what, if any, reason they had for how they ran them?

I find it funny watching some of the early episodes that when they show, in "inserts" filmed later, Tara wearing a "blonde wig", that was when she actually had her hair bleached blonde, and the scenes of her in episoides done after those with long brunette hair, she's actually wearing a wig to cover her damaged bleached hair. In some of the "blonde" episodes, it's noticable that the scenes where her real hair was bleached, she seems to have less hair than when she is wearing a blonde wig (in the later inserts). You can almost get schizo thinking about this stuff.

Just watched some of my favorite again-- "NOON-DOOMSDAY" (a tribute to "HIGH NOON" with Tara in the Gary Cooper role-- was quite surprised to see Anthony Ainley as the only wounded agent who'd help), "THE KEEP KILLING STEED" (the underground base whose entrance is in the abandoned parked car is a bit of absurdity that's completely uncalled-for, which makes it all the more welcome, and at home on this show; it's also a bit heart-breaking to see "Baron Von Curt" go to such lengths to help Tara, and obviously fall for her, but be left alone at the end whe she's reunited with Steed), and today, "KILLER" (I finally realized that while Lady Diana fights at least as good as Cathy or Emma, her face & personality actually reminds me of Mary Tamm's "Romana"!).

Lady Diana didn't show much personality in her sole outing, but had she become a regular (or at least a recurring character) I bet she would have developed nicely. It's obvious they wanted an "Emma Peel" type, but she's a bit more detached, while at the same time a tougher fighter. When Tara shows up at the end, after you've just finished seeing what might be considered a more "proper" AVENGERS story, suddenly her closer, more obvious emotional attachment to Steed almost seems jarring and out of place!

I forgot to include "TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER" on my fave list. Haven't seen it again yet, but soon, I hope.

I'm determined this time to just SKIP any episodes I've come to genuinely dislike. These are usually the ones where Tara is made helpless for the entire story. WHAT were they thinking???? Mrs. Peel had to be rescued in quite a few stories, but she usually wasn't a helpless prisoner or patsy for anyone for most of any episode. I got really frustrated last time watching "WISH YOU WERE HERE" and "PANDORA" and a couple others. It's funny that some of my faves have her almost in solo action, or else missing entirely with Steed in solo action. (Perhaps with Steed & Tara beig so close romantically, they didn't quite work as well as a team professionally?)