The original theme was pretty cool, too!
I saw some of the Tara King episodes recently, and they weren’t as bad as I had heard and remembered. Steed and Peel working together as peers was great, and Macnee and Rigg were the perfect actors to make it work. Nobody could have followed that.
It took me a while to recognize Linda Thorson in other roles. She did guest roles in a fair number of American series, including an episode of Law & Order
The murder of his fiancée Peggy, who was played by Kate “Natira” Woodville, who later married Patrick MacNee.
In the '70s, she was also very big in France, where The Avengers is known as “Leather Boots and Bowler Hat.” MacNee was first approached about doing ***The New Avengers *** when he was in France filming a commercial with Thorson (don’t remember for which product), in which he had to learn his lines by rote. “Well,” he said when asked if he was willing to be in the new series, “I certainly can’t do it in French!”
You dames are suckers for a black turtleneck. That’s why “Archer” is so popular. 
Now THAT is a great title!
Actually, it’s the other way around:
http://www.declassified.hiddentigerbooks.co.uk/images/wonders/fr_vhs/partwork_monument_02.jpg
Mea culpa! :o
The Avengers was, hands down, the better show, but I sure wish I still had my Man From UNCLE lunchbox from the fourth grade.
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No harm, no foul; just as good t’other way!
Although I watched both and preferred The Avengers, my friends and I were more interested in Callan. Gloomy types I guess.
I see the UNCLE lunchbox quite often in antique shops. They’re out there if you really want one. If you don’t want to spend an arm and a leg, you can get a UNCLE lunchbox magnet on Etsy for $3.50.
I’m not interested in acquiring one - my 1966(?) lunchbox would have been something I already owned that a collector would have paid big bucks for. But Google tells me that UNCLE lunchboxes in good shape are selling for about $300 plus, which isn’t enough to get rid of what would by now be a nostalgic item for me. It would probably end up as an item of interest at the estate sale after I die 