Post by matthewsee on Jul 28, 2016 0:55:07 GMT
Bizarre:
Series finale.
Guest starred Fulton Mackay as a character called Master.
Mackay appeared in Doctor Who almost a year later in the 1970 story The Silurians. The Silurians came three stories before the debut of Doctor Who's own Master in Terror of the Autons and played by Roger Delgado and Delgado had been in two episodes of The Avengers, the second of which Stay Tuned was not long before Bizarre.
Much later Mackay was seriously considered to become the Fourth Doctor before it went to Tom Baker.
Calling the episode Bizarre is something to wonder at since this episode is no more bizarre than all the other previous episodes.
Bizarre is written by producer Brian Clemens and perhaps he meant as an epitaph to the legacy of the series.
Since this is the final episode it seems somewhat reflective that much of it took place at a funeral service and at a cemetery.
Returning Avengers guest star Roy Kinnear plays here the proprietor of the funeral service and poor guy on the things he went through in this episode including exhuming all his graves.
The episode involves people faking their deaths for the purpose of avoiding facing the law and it was fun when Steed pretends to be one of the dead to literally get to the bottom of this.
Not a bad finale which ended with Steed and Tara in a rocket when the latter accidentally launched with them in it.
The last line of the series is delivered by Patrick Newell as Mother saying that Steed and Tara will be back.
Mother was only half-right as this is the last we see of Tara but Patrick Macnee to reprise Steed in The New Avengers (1976-77).
Bizarre ended The Avengers not long before Doctor Who, which like The Avengers is created by Sydney Newman, ended its sixth season with the conclusion of the Patrick Troughton swansong The War Games.
While Steed would come back several years later in The New Avengers, Doctor Who would be back the following year after The War Games with a brand new Doctor in Jon Pertwee.
Series finale.
Guest starred Fulton Mackay as a character called Master.
Mackay appeared in Doctor Who almost a year later in the 1970 story The Silurians. The Silurians came three stories before the debut of Doctor Who's own Master in Terror of the Autons and played by Roger Delgado and Delgado had been in two episodes of The Avengers, the second of which Stay Tuned was not long before Bizarre.
Much later Mackay was seriously considered to become the Fourth Doctor before it went to Tom Baker.
Calling the episode Bizarre is something to wonder at since this episode is no more bizarre than all the other previous episodes.
Bizarre is written by producer Brian Clemens and perhaps he meant as an epitaph to the legacy of the series.
Since this is the final episode it seems somewhat reflective that much of it took place at a funeral service and at a cemetery.
Returning Avengers guest star Roy Kinnear plays here the proprietor of the funeral service and poor guy on the things he went through in this episode including exhuming all his graves.
The episode involves people faking their deaths for the purpose of avoiding facing the law and it was fun when Steed pretends to be one of the dead to literally get to the bottom of this.
Not a bad finale which ended with Steed and Tara in a rocket when the latter accidentally launched with them in it.
The last line of the series is delivered by Patrick Newell as Mother saying that Steed and Tara will be back.
Mother was only half-right as this is the last we see of Tara but Patrick Macnee to reprise Steed in The New Avengers (1976-77).
Bizarre ended The Avengers not long before Doctor Who, which like The Avengers is created by Sydney Newman, ended its sixth season with the conclusion of the Patrick Troughton swansong The War Games.
While Steed would come back several years later in The New Avengers, Doctor Who would be back the following year after The War Games with a brand new Doctor in Jon Pertwee.