Welcome
Welcome to Feather Dusters at 400 Yards, my blog about the British television series The Avengers. There’s a lot of cool stuff to explore in this groundbreaking series that spanned the entire decade of the 1960s: the characters, the performances, scene and episode analysis, technical aspects of the production, and more. Plus there are Avengers music videos and fanfiction and now even fan art! So click on a tag or a category or something in the navigation menu, or just keep scrolling, and explore along with me.
New Fic
So I’ve started a new bit of fic, which you can read here.
Final chapter of “For Suddenly I Saw You There” is up, plus extra goodies
Chapter 5 of “For Suddenly I Saw You There” is now available.
https://therealavengers.wordpress.com/for-suddenly-i-saw-you-there-5/
I’ve also compiled a page full of extras, with photos and blurbs about some of the places Steed visited. But WARNING: SPOILERS: If you haven’t read through chapter 4, you might want to read that first before you look at the extras. There’s also a link to the extras in the ToC in chapter 5.
If you’d like to start the story from the beginning, go here.
Chapter 4 of “For Suddenly I Saw You There” is up
In which we finally learn who it is that Steed meets, and why I chose that title.
https://therealavengers.wordpress.com/for-suddenly-i-saw-you-there-4/
New Fic
Chapters 2 and 3 of “For Suddenly I Saw You There” are up.
https://therealavengers.wordpress.com/for-suddenly-i-saw-you-there-2/
https://therealavengers.wordpress.com/for-suddenly-i-saw-you-there-3/
Lady Secret Agent Badassery
As I have noted elsewhere, there are many points of contact between The Avengers and The Champions, two British television series from the 1960s, and between The Champions and The New Avengers, which aired in the mid 1970s. In those previous blogs, I wrote about how elements of Avengers episodes are echoed in some of those from Champions, and then later how a New Avengers story echoed a Champions one.
Plots and villains and action aren’t the only places where these three series intersect, however. One important point of contact is in the character of the female secret agent. In Champions, this is Sharron Macready (Alexandra Bastedo), a medical doctor, biochemist, and agent of a private security service called Nemesis. Across the entirety of Avengers (including TNA), there were five female partners who worked with John Steed, but the one I’d like to concentrate on here is Emma Peel (Diana Rigg), since in many ways she has the most in common with Sharron.
Finit Amen Finit
I finally finished “Quite Glorious Uncle.” Links to the last two chapters and epilogue below.
