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Avengers '67:Correct Way/Never, Never Say Die [VHS]

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3 stars for clemmens rewritten Correct Way to Kill. The episode has the usual delightful teaser and tag between Steed and Emma. A 3rd Organization threatens to kill the opposition. They feature polite, impeccably dressed British assassins. But they don't work fo MI5 or any other branch. Ivan looks with disbelief when Steed offers him the temporary services of his beautiful partner. "She is your choice?" he says in disbelief. Steed is partnered with a humorless Russian female agent Olga. The usual pitiless murders- a good natured innocent who tests umbrellas in showers. NOt a witty script and it does start to drag. Patrick MacNee acknowledged in one interview that the series was written out. These scripts reflect that. There is the fun tag of Steed having gone out the night before with Olga- he quotes statistics on female engineers, female doctors. "It was highly informative but-" "It lacked a certain burgeois decadence." smiles his charming partner Emma. Great closer! Never Never Say die ranks as the most dreadful color script of the Rigg/Macnee series. I dislike Who's Who and The See Through Man. I became so bored with Never Never Say Die I began to read about the Avengers and skip it. Rigg has the best line at the beginning. "Where's the body?" she asks in disappointment. "There's always a body." Very little body to this writing. The Living Dead is better than Never Never say die. It is a one star episode. The unjustly bashed Avengers movie was better than The New Avengers, better than the awfully Tara/Steed shows, and far superior to : Never, Never Say die, Epic,See through man, or Murdersville, or Correct Way to Kill. Rigg is always wonderful- witty, brilliant, and MacNee is charming as his suave partner. But they missed Roger Marshall's scripts, Malcolm Hulke's, John Lucarotti. clemmenms repeats from Cybernauts but this one is dull with no charm save the opening scenes of Christopher Lee and wonderful Diana Rigg. I think clemmens borrowed from a 1920s play RUR- when scientists create robots- the robots are more human than their creators and kill them and take over the world. If he had followed that plot more clsely it would have added some excitement to a truly dreadful dull scipt. This is worse than epic! Never NEver say die is a one star snoozer after the first 10 minutes. The film the Avengers despite a dreadful director and botched editing rose far above such dead TV scripts.