Avengers Stamp!
In the UK Independent Television (ITV) started broadcasting in September 1955. To celebrate its 50th birthday, the Royal Mail has produced a series of stamps commemorating some of the best TV shows the network has broadcast. Each of the stamps will feature a scene from the title sequence for that programme.
ITV1 held a viewers’ poll that selected the most popular TV series, according to six genres. The Cult TV favourite was "The Avengers", and is to be honoured by featuring it on the 47p stamp. Steed’s brolly and umbrella, the champagne glasses and Emma’s pistol capture the essence of the show.
The six stamps will go on sale on September 15th 2005. They will be available in half sheets of each denomination, as mint stamp sets, on special First Day Covers, in an illustrated presentation gift pack, or as sets of postcards. [link]
In addition a limited number of first day covers signed by Patrick are available from Buckingham Covers.
This is the link to the U.K. Post Office: [link]
On Wednesday, August 12, 1998, shortly before
the release of The Avengers Movie with Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman, Patrick
spent an hour with Nick Harcourt at KCRW-fm, the Public Radio station in
Santa Monica, California. Patrick was the "guest d.j."
and selected some songs and music he enjoyed. It runs an entertaining forty-nine
minutes and is a great bit of radio. You will probably need some kind of
broadband connection to get the radio feed. We do hope you enjoy it! [listen]
THE NEW AVENGERS, '77 SEASON.
4 volume DVD set featuring all 13 episodes of the 2nd season.
Patrick was interviewed for the new BBC2
series "That Was
the Week We Watched" which began airing in
late December. We invite all fans in the UK to watch the episode featuring
Patrick talking about
the Avengers
that will be shown on BBC2 at 11:10 pm on Saturday, December 27th.
On December 7, 2003 Patrick joined the Da Camera Society Chamber Music in Historic
Sites for their Christmas holiday concert of Church Immanuel Presbyterian in
Los Angeles. Following a pre-concert lecture with Martin Neary, former music
director and organist at Westminster Abbey, Patrick read The Lessons portion
of the concert with Musica Humana Oxford performing the carols. It was a memorable
event, a fitting start to the Christmas season, and Patrick had a thoroughly
good time. For more information about The Da Camera Society call (213) 477-2929
or visit www.dacamera.org.
Great news! THE NEW AVENGERS is now available in the United States and
Canada from A&E on DVD!
A&E Home Video introduces THE NEW AVENGERS: SEASON ONE to add to
their hugely successful Avengers library. The 4-DVD set features all
13 episodes from the
1976 debut season. All digitally re-mastered, restored episodes are presented
in their original UK broadcast order and the set includes a photo gallery,
interactive menus and scene selection.
Joanna Lumley (of Ab Fab fame), as Purdy, joins Patrick as John Steed, along
with Gareth Hunt as Mike Gambit, the street-wise muscle in this cult classic,
which has become an undeniable part of series lore.
To launch the new release, Patrick has been a guest on radio stations across
the country and interviewed by journalists for numerous web sites as well as
newspapers and magazines. The links to these sites will be posted soon.
Look for the release of Season Two shortly
To order THE NEW AVENGERS from
A&E, click here:
For fans of Patrick’s audio books, the new Jack Higgins thriller, BAD COMPANY, is just published and available from amazon.com. Higgins’ highly praised novel has been on the Publishers Weekly, New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller lists for several week. Available on cd, the title, “performed by Patrick Macnee, consists of 6 CD’s.
In October, the stars of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA will gather to celebrate the 25th anniversary of this popular TVseries. Richard Hatch has invited Patrick to be a part of the event taking place at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Los Angeles. More details to come.
In addition, Universal is releasing a DVD set of all the Battlestar Galactic episodes, along with interviews on the stars. Patrick has videotaped comments to be included.
• The
KCTS/Seattle TWI - Carlton- production The Perilous Fight narrated
by Martin Sheen is now being seen regularly on US Public Television. The
U.K. version, "America's War" was narrated by Patrick and was originally
broadcast on Britain's Channel Four. It garnered some highly favorable reviews
including this one from The Guardian (August 19th 2001): "...the visual
impact of this series' vintage colour footage has immeasurably deepened our
understanding of American troops' experience during the second world war,
with all of its actual and cultural horrors. Adding in Patrick Macnee's commentary
plus the reading of period correspondence has made this a sometimes impossibly
moving study of how US forces had to "fight their way across the many
islands of the Central Pacific."
PBS website:
http://www.pbs.org/perilousfight/
Click below to link with Amazon.co.uk:
PAL format
DVD's (Region 2)
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For more information on The Avengers from the series' title holder click here.
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