Even without social media, the buzz created around the launch of TV series The New Avengers was sensational. It stars – Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt and Joanna Lumley – the billing was in order of the ...

During the nine-year run, he had three female assistants – Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale, Diana Rigg as Emma Peel and Linda Thorson ... took off his jacket for a fight and always apologised ...

Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world ...