The Avengers Introducing Tara King

[GigawingsVideo]

She love to smash men head with wooden boxes....

[prestush]

... (cont'd) name for the hamster: Savoir-Faire (is everywhere). So it's great to see they're bringing 'em back!

[prestush]

Back when your local independent UHF station was your most reliable source of offbeat British programming, my brother and I loved the female sidekick, Emma Peel. Around that time our dad got us a hamster. We called it "Hamster Peel" after the character in the show.

Our fun lasted only a week or two. For Hamster started making funny coughing, squealing noises, and our dad took it out of our room to die. When we got back from a weekend trip, Hamster had died.

My brother, meanwhile, had his own

[BigDon62]

Don't recall seeing these eps. on Nine. Reckon it's Rigged !

[GreenmanXIV]

Can't even spell 'Colour' ...............

[Jantv81]

@GreenmanXIV that's the British way of spelling. 

[GreenmanXIV]

@Jantv81 No that's English, and that's the correct way to spell colour.

[simonmoves]

no--she was not emma peel--we didnt fall in love with her--bad choice for this show-shouldve given diana rigg the money she requested

[alwrig]

Cute, but she's no Emma Peel...

[TheDavecroft]

My fav Avengers girl. 2:04, very nice!

[MrDrende]

linda thorson is pretty and very sexy with beatifull eyes but i think emma peel was the avengers lady no another one!!!!!!

[altfactor]

Could this have been done by ABC-TV (U.S.) as a piece to either show to prospective sponsors of the show, and/or to supply to affiliates if they had a movie that (including commercials) was three minutes short of either the top/bottom of the hour??

The end of this clip could have been able to feature a local announcer voicing-over At the end "'The Avengers', Mondays at 7:30, in color on WABC-TV, Channel 7".

[essertpitay]

Those eyes. I just wish I had not thrown away the Playboy mag She was in.

[CuteCatFaith]

Thorson, a very free spirit in real life. Some of the aspects of her episodes were silly but I loved them anyway. 

[greenroadster]

Watch closely and see old Hopkirks syrup come off at 2.10 when she bops him !

[Disley74]

This evokes many teenage happy memories!Tara was gorgeous!

[omenra12]

where is the tickling?

[mancheeks64]

Does anyone have ANY idea what is the music playing from 1:28 to 1:48. I love that sound and if I knew where or what to buy I would. I am praying someone out there knows.

[rjcurl]

@mancheeks64 that music is from the tag scene on every episode it's on itunes album called the gun and the rose

[mancheeks64]

@rjcurl OH MAN! Thanks so much. I really appreciate it. Love youtube. I have been wanting this song since I was a little boy. And that is a long, long, long, time ago, lol.

[Onlymusical]

I'm fascinated by the fact that the series' producers never put Thorson into the leather catsuit worn by both Honor Blackman (who was nothing to sneeze at either) and Diana Rigg, largely because with her physique I think it would've caused too much of a stir for American television. She wasn't an endlessly creative actress like Diana Rigg, that's for sure, but she certainly looked the part.

[MisterMasterShafter]

Tara was hot and she might have been different and dynamite, but she simply wasn't Mrs. Peel. And Mrs. Peel was never a cute and cheeky trainee, she was kickass deadly from her first episode.

[richievegas01]

But, yeah OK. She isn't entirely unattractive.

[richievegas01]

They must have had a shortage of female secret agents at the Academy when Steed got landed with Tara. As this clip reveals, she doesn't know judo, she allows men to be condescending to her, can only produce a knock out using a house brick, isn't especially witty and always has to ask Steed what's going on. Mrs. Peel with both her arms tied behind her back is tons tougher.

[Elric33239]

@Tonin41992 He was even more risque during the Catherine Gale and Emma Peel era. I remember an ep where Mrs. Peel was working undercover at a deparment store and Steed said that when he asked where Mrs. Peel was and the person with directions said ladies intimates and he said that he ran up the stairs at double time. He even once had a dalmation named Freckles and told her "Freckles, I'll never understand your sex!"

[kassop]

such a cute girl, my fav.

[faceman68]

Linda Thorson, when looking at her, she reminds me so much of Diana Rigg at least in the face.

[BlueSoulJim]

she's HOT!

[RJRanke]

It wasn't too long after Linda Thorson joined the cast of The Avengers that I realized that Linda Thorson(Tara)was as good in her own way as Diana Rigg(Emma) was in hers.This is a good intro by Patrick Macnee about Linda.

[CassandraElise]

Love Tara/Linda, but Emma is my Avengers gal. :)

[mutinyonthekitkat]

Looks like Marty Hopkirk at 2:10.

[jeffthrow6892]

And.........sorry but, she's no Emma Peel! But, Linda Thorson was pretty damn hot too............

[legman36]

Ahhh the 60's, when women weren't afraid to show a little leg!!!!

[zenileon]

@legman36 It was a very strange time wasn't it?.......A woman could be a sex-symbol and intelligent and deck a guy at the same time!!!

[photobygil]

I'm thrilled to have finally seen this - I'd only heard the audio track online once before. This is really the sort of extra that should have been included as an extra on the dvd sets. Thanks so much for finding and sharing!

[sirtinycreep]

Tara was far sexier than Diana Rigg.

Rigg came across as an upper class snob.

[Jovolution]

I never will change Diana - Linda

[mrgears]

Wow, what legs! Still, she ain't no Diana Rigg

[dilyvintage]

I never bored to watch this video, even though in twenty times..good introducing & special to me XD

[TK42138]

Linda Thorsen....ding dong!

[sirtinycreep]

@TK42138 LOL 2:09 Kenneth Cope's toupee comes off!

[kaptiva4]

i'm glad they kept the 'leak in my tuba' upskirt shot.

[armin3773]

Jumped the shark with Tara King?

[rubino83]

I think it was less Tara's doing and more the scripts.

[SadAnorak]

Love this rare trail thanks! nb also love the cast

[triforcenerd]

I am really surprised tey did not delete the part about the tuba where she turnd to Steed.

[mikelheron20]

Delectable, delicious ... a dab hand with a caviar canape. Good old sexist, non-politically correct days.

[myraj34dd]

Hear-hear!

[SadAnorak]

Unbelievable trail for the avengers thanks for this xxx

[TheDelawarian]

Awesome!!!

[rainrockers]

thanx for that ..its on me shopping list

[bridgeman11]

Pause the video at about 2:04, just after Steed says,"I've got a leak in my tuba."

[rainrockers]

know wot you mean bridgeman,bin waitin for that episode to come on tv for years do ya know wot episode called

[bridgeman11]

That episode is "Get-A-Way", which, I believe, is the last in the series.

[MalaTemporaCurrunt]

wooo woooo!!!

[gcc007west]

I enjoyed watching this. Any interviews with the Avengers cast and producers please post.

[VenusMonkey]

I was one of those people that couldn't stand that my Emma Peel was gone so I didn't like Tara very much, but now that the show is over I enjoy watching Tara, too. She's part of the history and another great Avenger girl with her own style.

[Sweet90Fairy]

....yea.. i was crying when Emma went.. lol but now i like her very much... Germans are playing it so i'm watching it everydays.. just gr8.. And Tara is really beautiful :P

[MidoriNoSaru]

I like Emma Peel a lot. But I like Tara King even more. They both had plenty of good episodes.

[gcc007west]

A very valuable vid, to me.

[wimpous]

While Emma is the strong, sexy and emanzipated woman who can take care of herself easily ....

Tara is the cute girl who is almost always in need of protection but that what makes she so cute plus her very very very cute face (especially when she smiles ... ah ... cute ^^)

But that is what makes both of them very attractive ... but if I had to choose .... nyah ... both of them = )

[nwlman]

I like Tara they should have featured her as a guest on the New Avengers

[Ramubay]

From what I read a lot of fans of The Avengers never liked Linda Thorson but I thought she was pretty cute. I guess Diana Rigg was going to leave anyway, so this was a good change of pace. I only know the series from recently viewed DVD but I like her moves. 2:14 is pretty cool.

[extremeriot]

Actually, when the fans of the show heard that Diana Rigg was leaving, they made it very clear that whoever was going to replace Emma will have it's hands full, and yes, before the show even aired with the new Avengers Girl, she received a lot of hate mail, but fans quickly took a liking to Tara King soon (Linda) soon after.

[Ramubay]

Before my time. I was referring to comments I read on fan sites, Amazon. First saw the episodes on DVD a couple years ago starting with the Emma Peel, going backward to the Cathy Gale series, forward to Tara King, New Avengers, then really early Avengers...until I saw everything (even the European promos). Since I saw everything in a relatively short period of time it was probably different for me. I did like the chemistry & episodes of Steed-Peel the best but I thought Tara King was great.

[Ramubay]

I also want to add I saw a video on You Tube titled "The Avengers Girl About Town 1967" which was a promotional video showing a completely different side of Linda Thorson, very sophisticated and smart (in interview and other performances), even more so than Diana Rigg. It was obvious from this why she replaced Diana Rigg but not so obvious why she made the Tara character so ditsy in comparison. If she played it like she was in real life she would have been the best.

[ohisashiburi]

The cutest of the Avenger girls..

[hminkema]

This is Tara King,

the mascara king.

[TurnOffTard]

wonderful!