The Avengers - Season 5
TV Season
The first season of The Avengers made in colour, mainly with a view to the lucrative US TV market:...
The Avengers - Season 3
TV Season
Third season of The Avengers; the final one made on video-tape. For this series Honor Blackman was...
The Avengers - Season 6
TV Season
The final season of The Avengers experienced a lot of behind-the-scenes turbulence, with a new...
The Avengers - Season 4
TV Season
The fourth season of The Avengers is the first to epitomise the show in the form which people still...
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Avengers - Season 3 in TV
Jul 15, 2020
It's still a slightly mixed bag but the two stars are endlessly watchable and the chemistry between them is great. The best episodes bear comparison to ones from the better-known filmed seasons that made up the rest of the series' run. Maybe not quite up to the standard of those later shows, but this is the foundation they were built on, and entertaining in its own right.
Awix (3310 KP) rated And Soon the Darkness (1970) in Movies
Jul 31, 2020 (Updated Jul 31, 2020)
Sticks admirably to genre conventions, up to a point, and it has a certain sort of bleak creepiness. However, it feels very long and slow - short on incident, certainly, also on warmth and humour (I know it's a horror movie, but you need some light and shade). Considering this is practically the very next thing the Avengers TV show team did next - the script is by renowned pulp storytellers Brian Clemens and Terry Nation - you could be forgiven for expecting something with more charm and imagination.
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Avengers - Season 5 in TV
Oct 22, 2020
However, not quite up to the standard of the previous year - the show now seems pitched towards the American networks, hence the move to rather garish colour, and it's often much more knockabout as a result. The fact that most of the episodes are written by either Philip Levene or Brian Clemens also results in a certain reliance on formula - the show even resorts to remaking some of the earlier videotaped stories to avoid having to come up with brand new scripts. However, episodes like The Hidden Tiger and Epic still stand up as well as anything in the run of the series.
Awix (3310 KP) rated The New Avengers in TV
Mar 5, 2018
The worst episodes are dull, but the best ones are at least within spitting distance of the original series and have some of the same kind of offbeat charm - an automated shooting range (where the targets fire back) is infiltrated by enemy agents to lethal effect, a chemical spill causes sewer wildlife to grow to giant size, a enormous knock-out gas bomb is dropped on the centre of London. Still very watchable in a campy sort of way.
And Soon the Darkness (2010)
Movie
Thriller remake, based on the 1970 film of the same name. Stephanie (Amber Heard) and Ellie's...