Diana Rigg | Interview | The Avengers | Good Afternoon | 1974 | Part Two

Part 2
'Good Afternoon' presenter Mary Parkinson chats with Diana Rigg, star of Screen, stage and the hugely popular TV show 'The Avengers'
First shown: 02/09/1974
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[@kbc163]

A true interview instead of the banal sound bites we get today, and a fascinating look back.

[@walendxweg]

🧩👍🏻🏃‍♀️🐬

[@yttube4319]

Fabulous, this is why Diana Rigg will be forever timeless. Stay out of politics focus on charity work if an actor needs to make a statement or take a position. Really lovely.

[@gongfarmer201]

She had some sound ideas and attributes. Many modern day actors could learn from her apolitical and anti militant stance.

[@davidhileman8251]

Twenty years later, she did indeed become a Dame.

[@edwardmulholland7912]

She was cool, I liked her attitude and she was a great actress. Anything Diana Rigg is in is worth watching.

[@jimbuchelt307]

She was so beautiful! So intelligent and kind, too.

[@treasure2behold282]

I like that she is so blunt about her presence. Most British actresses have strong features like Diana Rigg, Joan Collins and Julie Andrews. The interviewer predicted that she would become a Dame.

[@piccadilyroad66]

The Avengers season 5 was very remarkable to me, I feel so grateful for still keeping those full series as my treasure.

[@1GoodWoman]

Brilliant. A wonderful woman and outstanding actress. Thank you for this.

[@janicebrowningaquino792]

WONDERFUL INTERVIEWER! Great questions and of course Diana was her fabulous self!!

[@chrisnorton4382]

Mary Parkinson, wife of the noted interviewer Michael, and clearly a good interviewer in her own right.

[@hayleyelizabeth717]

Delightful.♥️

[@davidyess1]

Certainly one of the better interviews with Dame Diana.❤

[@62426637]

That was great: she hoped to keep on growing into her 80s and fielded a question about being a future Dame. Done!

[@michaelmichniak127]

I always thought she was so beautiful and a great actress..

[@MikeDKelley]

Wow - WHAT an amazing woman. I was always in love with her (even a half century ago) but now I love her more than ever. An incredibly smart lady who knew better than to leverage her fame politically (wish that were true of the actors nowadays) and who, despite her protestations, was one of the most beautiful women in the world. And she DID become "Dame" Diana. The world is a MUCH poorer place without her. Thanks for posting this, folks.

[@robertbugalski6248]

Brilliant Just watched both parts. Just a nice chat 😊

[@kengeorgejones6855]

This was a lovely, intelligent interview. Thank you. I do wish the Fremantle watermark could be smaller.

[@haydenharris3059]

My claim to fame is at a Rugby match in Leeds which I went with my late father, I turned round and a few rows back was Diana Rigg, I was very young a the time. She loved rugby. What an absolute lovely human being

[@johnclay7644]

good part II of interview

[@edouardlecluse571]

Diana Rigg was for me the symbol of the Seventies that made us dream with all these English groups we discovered on the radio such as the Beatles,the Stones .British films and so much great actors were top of the charts such as Patrick McGohan or Michael Caine. England was in these days the Lighthouse of the world as was Alexandria.

[@bletheringfool]

Interesting that she is talking about helping autistic children here in 1974.

[@daltong75]

7:41 The interviewer clearly likes what she's hearing, and who can blame her? Diana Rigg was just the best.

[@mickeyh1961]

When television was actually worth watching

[@barneyreilly9101]

What a lovely woman.

[@robertthomas3816]

That interviewer was still fighting the Revolutionary War for the British; nevertheless, it was really enjoyable to listen to Diana Rigg, a very informative, intelligent and heart-warming lady.

[@edumardel]

Always lovely 🤩🌹❤

[@Doommaster1994]

I'll admit, I only know of Diana Rigg because she was on the album cover of Tracy by The Cuff Links. Looks like she's a great actor and was a wonderful person.

[@axiomist4488]

Well, she did become Dame Diana . And she deserved it .

[@rmstitanic8163]

I'll always see her as Mrs Peel and Mrs Bond. The best leading ladies in both.

[@delachambrearnaud1291]

Nous sommes en 1974 . Diana rigg n est plus la meme depuis the avengers . Le temps lui est passe dessus . Nee en 1938 elle porte ses 36 ans . Mais elle est toujours elle meme .... plein de charme . Unique .

[@ktrimbach5771]

Watching this and wondering about the blank screen sections. I just realized they’re because they’re copyrighted film shots. 😡 Media companies are such hogs.

[@axxellein]

TRES Cool And Classy Madame Peel

[@daylinlott5723]

Rigg was in search of truth. Nice!

[@pj2105]

She says here she was married in 1973 and is already divorced iwhen this is made in 1974. But on wiki and IMDB they say she got divorced in 1976. The timing is right because she says she is 36 years olf for this interview and in 1974 she would have been 36..

[@WndD_74]

It WAS ‘74, I remember - I don’t even think they made it a year!

[@walendxweg]

INDÉNIABLE 🎲

[@hgmck5174]

Future Dame Diana? - "NEVER!" 😄 Well, there she was wrong.

[@simba4572]

that thumbnail though

[@walendxweg]

🧩👍🏻💎

[@kamrankhan-lj1ng]

That affected accent of the interviewer! Many will call it the typical posh English accent. But I really don't like it. The interviewee's accent is much more natural, hence infinitely better.

[@nkt1]

Mary Parkinson, the interviewer, is well-spoken, but retains a recognisably Yorkshire accent. Diana Rigg, the interviewee, literally has *the* archetypal posh English accent, Received Pronunciation, no doubt a product of her middle class, boarding school background and classical training. Interestingly, both women were born in the same town, Doncaster, 2 years apart.

[@robertbdesmond]

That face! She was gorgeous.😊