Diabolical Masterminds: Working on The Avengers

Stories about the production of the ABC television series "The Avengers" (1961-1968).
The stories are extracts from full-length interviews with each of the contributors about their careers working at studios in Elstree and Borehamwood, and form part of "The Elstree Project" - a collaboration between Elstree Screen Heritage and the University of Hertfordshire. This film premiered at the close of the second Elstree Film Season, before a screening of The Avengers episode "Something Nasty in the Nursery", on Thursday April 18 2013.
With thanks to StudioCanal.
This work has been done on a voluntary basis with student volunteers and staff giving up their own time to help preserve the legacy of the "British Hollywood".
Contributors to this film are:
Brian Clemens - series writer and producer
John Hough - director
Mick Mason - EMI Elstree camera technician
June Randall - script continuity
Tom Staples - boom operator
To find out more about the project, visit: theelstreeproject.org

[@haydenharris3059]

Highly skilled, expensive, magical. ❤

[@oldproji]

I remember the end of production party for the last ever Avengers series. It took up the whole of Stage 2 and 3 with food and drink flowing at no expense spared. I was a young projectionist in the dubbing theatre at the time and if my memory serves me correctly we were still working on the American version at 10 pm in order for the master magnetic track to get the late night flight. They were good days along with the Saint, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) and Department S, and many other TV shows made around that time. John Hough was an excellent second unit director and I always loved his scenic composition and find myself thinking about it in my own photography. keithtowers.zenfolio.com/

[@airzulu2733]

Friday night as a kid in the sixtys with a bottle of pop and crisps and around 8 pm on ITV we would watch the Avengers . What more could you want . And of course our Diana god bless her as mrs peel . Truly a most beautiful English rose . Great to watch on its day , somewhat bizarre in various episodes which made it even better . But British tv at it's best.

[@stephenwilliams944]

With all that talent behind and in front of the camera no wonder it is still show all around the world 60+ years. Thank you for sharing.

[@photobygil]

Wonderful! This is exactly the reason I enjoy KZbin. It allows me to view interesting material just like this, which I'd otherwise never even know about. I love THE AVENGERS, thank you for sharing this terrific piece.

[@pops1507]

Brit film industry was superb and loads of fun.

[@spiromentos]

Something Nasty in the Nursery is probably my favorite episode. A psychedelic drug that produces a child like state. Nanny Roberts. Show Nanny Roberts where the missle locations are. Brilliant!

[@jazwiseman]

Brian Clemens saying that he wrote the pilot for The Avengers again - he didn't, he wrote episode 2 Brought to Book. Hot Snow, the first episode was written by Ray Rigby.

[@jerrylentz]

That was awesome!!!

[@unowen-nh9ov]

Platinum.

[@dspole1]

Without Brian Clemens, there would never have been The Avengers.

[@jazwiseman]

Except there were three series made before he got heavily involved.

[@unowen-nh9ov]

Without M. Appeal, no one would remember it.

[@justinkrivers]

@@unowen-nh9ov I think Honor Blackman was pretty popular. I mean, popular enough for James Bond to poach her.

[@m.f.m.67]

@@justinkrivers Yes, but only one woman was good enough for James Bond to marry! And we all know who that was!

[@nohaylamujer]

Where can one get the Tara King tag scenes theme (playing in the final credits here)? It's never been released in any of the compilations but it sounds pretty HI Fi here, as it if were form a CD. My eternal gratefulness to anyone who can reply.

[@geoffburrows6988]

My Dad loved that piece of music.

[@Witheredgoogie]

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