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Yes - Honor Blackman
Diana Rigg was the first one I saw on “The Avengers”
I believe she drove a Lotus Elan - which I had seen in the Lotus showroom in Manhattan about that time
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CBS broadcast “The Prisoner” Hmmm - I stand corrected - I do make some errors
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I’d say CBS might improve their marketshare and viewers and credibility by broadcasting “The Prisoner” reruns
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Jackie Chan would have been an excellent choice to play Jim West in “The Wild Wild West”
I did see him in “Shanghai Noon” and he was good in that flick
[I do make some errors]
snicker, I have to write this down for future reference!!
I don’t think it was necessarily an “error” to state that Prisoner hadn’t aired on a network. I’m betting it was “made available” but wasn’t a network show, per se. I think it may have been an experiment and likely only a few of the more avant garde stations would have taken advantage of it at the time. You mention Manhattan. Were you living in the NYC area around then?
Rigg’s car was indeed a Lotus Elan, at least according to Wikipedia. It sure looks as I remember it.
The Prisoner’s car was also a Lotus, one of their kit cars, the Super Seven or Series Seven, I believe. There are reproduction and restoration kits available and you can build your own.
I too first learned of the Avengers when Diana Rigg was Mrs. Peel. ABC showed that version of the series, again at least in the NY Market. I even nearly got to meet the two leads when they visited the states during promos. My neighbor and school mate’s father was President of ABC Television at the time. He invited me to the event in NYC but I couldn’t get away. I discoverd Honor Blackman years later. I liked her more sophisticated character a good bit, but she wasn’t nearly as sexy as Rigg. I still think On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is one of the best Bond films, primarily for her involvement.