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   The Bowler verses Bond....

The Avengers made a number of references to the James Bond 007 films as well as lending many of its stars!

These included;

Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore in 'Goldfinger'

Diana Rigg as Tracy Vincenzo in 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'

Joanna Lumley as a Ski lodge femme fatale (Credited as The English Girl) again in 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'

Patrick Macnee as Sir Godfrey Tibbett in 'A View to a Kill'

       Bond stars in The Avengers.

Sean Connery ( James Bond) starred in 'The Avengers' movie playing the character Sir August de Winter.

Lois Maxwell (Miss Money-Penny) in The Avengers episode "The Little Wonders"

John Cleese ( "R" from 'Tomorrow Never Dies' and 'Die Another Day') from Avengers episode "Look (Stop me if you've heard this one before ) but there were these two fellows..."

Geoffery Palmer ( Admiral Roebuck from 'Tomorrow Never Dies') from The Avengers episode "Propellant 23", "The man with two shadows", "A surfeit of H2O", "Dance with Death" and the Police Surgeon episode "Smash but no grab".

Christopher Lee (Fransisco Scaramanga from "The Man with the Golden Gun") in the Avengers episode "Never, Never Say Die" as Professor Stone and "The Interrogators" as Col. Mannering. 

Julian Glover ( Aristotle Kristatos from 'For Your Eyes Only ')in the Avengers episode "The Living Dead", "Two's a Crowd", "Split" and "Pandora".

Caroline Munro (Naomi from 'The Spy who Loved Me') in "Angels of Death"

  Other references to the films can be seen in

A Super-Secret Cypher Snatch when Mother states the lack of pratical use of the gadget and the wacky gadgets found on the agents body.

Lobster Quadrille in the final scene with the repeated references to Honor about her leaving the show to go "Pussy-footing" about (gettit?)

Too Many Christmas Trees Steed recieves a Christmas card from Mrs Gale and ponders "What can she be doing at Fort Knox?"

How to suceed...at Murder.  Steed's secretary is called Miss.Penny (a little similar don't you think?)

   The name of the episodes

Never, Never say Die

References to other Spy-genre Progammes

Mission...Highly Improbable (Mission Impossible)

A Girl from Auntie (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.)

 

                                                   

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