The New Avengers(1976)

series - first aired/released 1976-10-22 - audience 7.2

Drama, Action & Adventure

Directed by Claude Fournier, Desmond Davis, Don Thompson, Ernest Day, Graeme Clifford, James Hill, John Hough, Ray Austin, Richard Gilbert, Robert Fuest, Sidney Hayers, Yvon Marie Coulais

The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The Avengers and was developed by Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens. A joint United Kingdom-France-Canada production, the show picks up the adventures of John Steed and his team of Avengers fighting evil plots and world domination. Whereas in the original series Steed had almost always been partnered with a woman, in the new series he had two partners: Mike Gambit, a top agent, crack marksman and trained martial artist, and Purdey, a former trainee with The Royal Ballet who was an amalgam of many of the best talents from Steed's previous female partners.