Were they on that rocky beach? I don’t think I’ve ever seen another like it.
Ah, old episodes. Cool show.
Steed in his best suit was both walking and crawling along a ledge hundreds of feet above the street.
Was there ever an episode of that show in which he didn’t find a reason to kick somebody?
I’d give a lot to see the Marvel Avengers taken captive, only to be saved by dead ringers for Patrick McNee and Diana Rigg…
Bowler hat, clever quips and black leather mandatory.
Getting a letter/package and it starts with “if you’re reading this, something has happened to me”
The one that really made me wonder was a packet of blackmail material that had been used by the original murder victim to get people to do her bidding. And several of her blackmailees were in town.
Seems like a lot of movie blackmail plots involved the victims buying incriminating negatives, which wouldn’t do them much good if the blackmailer had printed off copies.
“Okay, here are the negatives and all the prints.”
“Okay, I’ll just believe you, since you’re a sleazy blackmailer. So here’s my manilla envelope bulging with cash …”
I never realized until yesterday that Diana Rigg’s hair was more red than brown. Steed called it “Titian.” The color in Season 5 episodes is 'way over the top after transitioning from monochrome (B&W).
BTW, Diana wore the leather catsuit only once in Season 5, in yesterday’s episode “The £50,000 Breakfast.” She didn’t like it, and it was virtually demolished in one of her fights. If you dig leather, you have to watch the Cathy Gale episodes in Seasons 2 and 3.
Yeah, but like “Play it again Sam,” it’s what people remember.
Do you mean one of the shingle beaches? They’re pretty common.
I remember the beach at Brighton as consisting of fist-sized potato-shaped rocks, no sand anywhere. Not good if you want to stretch out and sunbathe.
You don’t hire Chuck Norris if you’re not going to have him roundhouse kick people.
Or when they go investigate some suspected serial killer all by themselves instead of with, you know, an entire SWAT team.
Reminded me of an errant thought I had while doing an ‘X Files’ rewatch a few years ago-- Mulder got in a lot of situations where he’d totally ruin his suit. Made me think, jeez, I don’t think FBI agents and other public servants get paid that much-- half his salary must go toward suit replacement. Maybe he would take advantage of a ‘buy 4, get 1 free deal’ at the Men’s Wearhouse or something.
“What a lovely restaurant… wait, Mulder, why are you wearing a kevlar jump suit? You’re not planning to crawl through a sewer, climb a razor-wire fence, and fight an alien hand-to-hand again, are you?”
“Of course not! This is… just in case…”
Some people are just good at it. I figure after the war Hogan went to work for the CIA as a mission planner.
As for things I hope don’t happen in real life the the trend in FBI and newer Law & Order episodes where the detectives see someone they want to question and call out from so far away “FBI! We’d like to talk to you!” that they practically have to shout, so of course the guy runs. Foot chase ensues.
And the show FBI is so bad at containment that if they had a guy in a phone booth surrounded by their swat team he’d get away and foot chase ensues.
As highlighted recently on Only Murders in the Building when a murder investigation hits some kind of dead end of unresolvable conflict there will be a ding dong event where a surprise witness suddenly appears at the door with the crucial information that clears up the problems with the evidence and generally points at the only remaining possible suspect.
Something I realized after watching a couple of British detective dramas; there’s an awful lot of amateur detectives in these shows. And as Only Murders in the Building shows, it’s not just the Brits.
Are you suggesting that Steed could ruin a suit just by crawling along a ledge? Au contraire, he strolled into the criminal mastermind’s lair looking as dapper as ever. His '60s-style pointy slip-on shoes weren’t even scuffed!