It's a Wassail Wenesday here in The Dungeon, so break out the hot-mulled cider, and let's all go caroling! Never mind then, here's another adventure with "The Avengers."
Season 05, Episode 10 of " The Avengers" was called..........
"Never, Never Say Die!"
It opens with a hulk of a man lumbering down the road!
Is it the Frankenstein monster again?
This poor schmuck is just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and plows right into the big guy!
Feeling horrible, he somehow gets the body to the nearest hospital.
The nurse at the hospital pronounces the man dead!
His fingers start twitching and the next thing you know, the dead man is sitting up in bed, and doesn't seem to be bothered by the incident at all!
He then decides to check out!
The big man is of course, Christopher Lee in yet another one of his some 281 credits!
In 1967, Chris Lee was also in "Five Golden Dragons," The Vengeance Of Fu Manchu," "Island Of The Burning Damned," "Theatre Of Death," and "The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism," and somehow he managed to keep up that pace for seven decades!
Meanwhile, Diana Rigg as Mrs. Peel is chillin' at home watching some TV. The thing she's holding in her hands is a remote control! (Is it still considered remote even if it's attached?)
What's she watching on TV? "The Avengers" re-runs, of course!
You won't believe what happens next, the same guy hits him again!
It seems like this guy is some kind of robot, and every time a radio gets tuned in to his frequency, he becomes a little disoriented, and some times a lot!
This is a really funny scene where this old man is out by a lake relaxing with his radio controlled boat!
Right about the time that he's gonna get chopped, he turns the boat, and Chris Lee starts walking in circles!
Now you know why transistor radios are forbidden inside this test center. What they are really trying to do is get all radio signals anywhere near this area shut down or destroyed!
When he's not a robot, Chris Lee is Professor F.N. Stone which is really F.N. Hilarious!
This guy is really a nuisance to Dr. Stone. He's got all these different radios, and he's playing chess with people all over the world. Yep, that's the way you had to do it before the internet!
John Steed is sent in to try and figure out what's going on in this place, and he's giving Dr. Stone a big headache!
Isn't this a René Magritte painting or what?
They took ideas and concepts like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," and "Frankenstein" and pieced them all together like a krazy quilt! They've duplicated a number of different people, and by the end of it, you don't know who is real and who is a robot!
John Steed and Mrs. Peel are about to be disposed of by the overpowering strength of the robots, when the signal gets jammed, and the robots shut down instantaneously and just in time!
"The Avengers" is just one of the best action comedies ever!
Literally, Cheerz!
Literally, Cheerz!
Patrick Macnee was a heckuva nice gent. Met him on a movie set (for THE CREATURE WASN'T NICE) in 1981, and he engaged me in a brief chat, while I was there to interview Leslie Nielsen(!). He came up and asked what magazine I was working for, and basically he replied, "Amazing Cinema, what's that?" But before I could say much, his friend, actor Alex Rocco(!), walked over and they started talking about their mutual friend, director Sidney Furie(!), who was at the studio shooting THE ENTITY with Barbara Hershey. My first time being in the presence of so many industry pros at once...I just stood there frozen in place, while looking around for a restroom. lol
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