# Looking for a television series

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-television-series/933776>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\
**Created:** [February 26, 2021, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-television-series/933776 "2021-02-26T07:34:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-television-series/933776/1 "2021-02-26T07:34:57Z")

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On what network, cable or internet based, can I find _The New Avengers_?

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**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-television-series/933776/2 "2021-02-26T07:51:42Z")

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You can’t.

> **[The New Avengers - Where to Watch Every Episode Streaming Online](https://reelgood.com/show/the-new-avengers-1976)**
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> Find out where to watch The New Avengers streaming online. Get notified if it comes to one of your streaming services, like Netflix or Hulu.

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**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-television-series/933776/3 "2021-02-26T07:54:25Z")

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Not the complete series, but four episodes are [available on archive.org](https://archive.org/details/TheNewAvengersMediumRare/The+New+Avengers+S01+E01.mp4):

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-television-series/933776/4 "2021-02-26T08:17:37Z")

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> [@amarinth](#):
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> You can’t.

According to that site the other series I was going to ask about, _Nightmare Cafe_, also isn’t available at all.

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**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-television-series/933776/5 "2021-02-26T12:01:44Z")

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I had forgotten all about this series…! The archive calls it Episode 10, but the third one on the list was my favorite.

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**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-television-series/933776/6 "2021-02-26T12:24:03Z")

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( Shame there isn’t a thread about “Dempsey & Makepeace”. Lost to history.)

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-television-series/933776/7 "2021-02-26T12:30:18Z")

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I used to watch this in US reruns around the time it originally aired. Kind of a parody at times as the original was. Joanna Lumley has had an interesting career for an English actress, as well known here in the US as some of the British A-listers.

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-television-series/933776/8 "2021-02-26T17:06:18Z")

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I watched it during the first run in the UK, and when it was on CBS Late Night a couple of years later.

_ **D&M** _ I watched on Russian TV while feeding my baby daughter at 2:00 in the morning (in 1995).
