Hi everyone, so just a little bit of an update before we start. Unfortunately, my longtime co-host and even longer friend Colin is going to have to step away from the podcast for a little bit. He's got some personal stuff to deal with. He really wishes that he didn't have to do this, but sometimes life brings things that you just have to prioritize.
But rest assured, he will be back to insulting an army in a few months' time. Until then, longtime podcast collaborator James will be filling in. Now he's been with the show on and off since the start. You could say that not only did he grow up in my house, he also grew up on the show.
We're going to be putting out the same kind of episodes covering the same years and genres that we always have. And on top of that, there's going to be more Patreon content for our subscribers. In that respect, nothing will change. It's going to be business as usual.
So both Colin and I would like to thank you for your support. And we're going to continue to try to give you fun content and mardling formative conversations. And Colin would like me to reiterate, he will return. So with all that said, let's get on with the show.
Hello and welcome to Retrospection, the podcast where we take an old movie or TV show and decide whether it should be toasted with champagne or karate chop to the neck. My name's Paul and I'm sort of a parasite really. I feed on other people's talent. That makes a lot of sense actually, yeah.
All right Colin. And I'm James and there's an old saying, safety numbers. Very, very true. So here we are James.
You finally got to feel Colin's hot seat until he returns. How does it feel? Wet, Adam, I can't feel that. Oh, he knows what he's like.
Good to have you anyway. I mean, I see you every day. Yeah, unfortunately. Here we go.
So on this episode, we'll be taking a look at the 60s British TV show, The Avengers, which ran from 1961 to 1969. I thought The Avengers was an American thing, right? I was just about to say, I imagine that you got pretty excited when I said, let's do The Avengers. Yeah, I thought, well, I didn't know that I was an Avengers in the 60s.
You thought the big green guy, got a Tossy's hammer about? Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, this is a different Avengers. Very different Avengers. Specifically, we've chosen season six, episode one, The Return of the Cybernauts.
And DB said, Paul, Barefoot is Barefoot. Oh, Barefoot. Some of that. Barefoot.
Okay. Well, you know, please, could you like to wear slippers? The brother of Clement Armstrong, the creator of the Cybernauts, blamed Steed and Mrs. Peel for his brother's death at the cold hands of his own creations.
The episode stars Patrick McMe as John Steed, Diana Rigg as Emma Peel, Peter Cushing as Paul, whatever, Fred Riggie-Ager as Benson, Charles Tingwell or Tingwell, I can't remember how you pronounce his name as Dr Neville, Fulton McEy as Professor Chadwick, Roger Hammond as Dr Russell, and we get to see a little bit of archive footage of Michael Go as Dr Clement Armstrong. Now, that's a cast of pretty much who's who film and TV British talent from the 60s. Yeah, definitely. So as I said, this was a very long-running British show, but also returned for two seasons from 1976 to 77 in the guise of the New Avengers.
That's so similar there, as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Return of Cybernauts is a sequel to the Cybernauts from Season 4. Now, you might be wondering why we didn't choose that one to do.
I just thought, I've seen this episode before. You'd never seen anything to do with the Avengers before. And I thought, as an introduction, this will be a good starting point. You don't really need to have seen the previous episode because it does explain everything.
And pause it shows. It does get showed pretty much, yeah. So I've got some facts. Okay.
You want to hear some facts? All right. Don't kill yourself with enthusiasm, but all right. Diana Rigg demanded a pay rise.
When she discovered that the cameraman, or one of the cameraman, was being paid more than she was. Sounds about right for the time, really, doesn't it? I don't think Diana Rigg was someone that you messed with. I think she was quite a strong person.
Well, the most I know about her is her being in Onimension Secret Service. Oh, yeah. Yes. You've got a bond connection, though.
Yeah. And to be honest, there's lots of different connections in this. So the guy that plays Benson, who works for Peter Gushing's character, the big other scientist. I think he's the guy that creates K9 in an old episode of Doctor Who.
And also we've got Fulton Mackay, obviously, who you may not know, he is, but he's probably most famous as Mr. Mackay in Porridge, which is not a long-running British comedy scene, which is really good show. There were strict rules as to what could and could not be shown on screen, such as No Blood, No Dead Women, and No Blayton Sex. That's fair enough.
There were a couple other ones, which were very strange, which I'm not really going to go into, but if you want to look up, the very odd, there's one in particular. I mean, one of them was like, no policeman or something like that, but there was one in particular, which, let's just say, a little bit strange, the view from modern eyes. So the vast majority of season one is that it's missing from the show. It just appears only chunks of it remain.
So if you want to go back and watch the Avengers, the whole Avengers, you actually can't do that. You have to start from, I think, it's season two. It's a bit annoying if you're a completeist. Like, you know, just lost or something.
Just lost or erased, or who knows what happened to it. Patrick McMe, he's an interesting guy. Now, you know him from Bond Connection, another Bond Connection, he's in a beautiful kill. Yes.
Now he was a very good friend of Roger Moore. Right, makes sense. Among many, many facts about Patrick McMe that I can throw at you is that he came up with the idea. Now, you didn't actually see this in the episode, but...
We're showing him the credits. In the credits, he's got an umbrella sword. Yeah. That's his idea?
Oh, okay. Because the character was originally supposed to just carry a gun, and he wanted something a bit more flashy, a bit more sort of unique to the character. And a few other facts about Patrick McMe, which you may not know. He had a long con with his character of steed.
Both attended Eton only to end up being expelled. Fine. And both served in World War II. I mean, what acts are in the 50s and 60s hadn't served in World War II?
Yeah, you do hear a lot of them. We got the start acting in the service. Yeah. We're not in the war.
They were running down the beach break into Shakespeare and Silicon Point. But yeah, a lot of them did. The Avengers was also the first British show that was sold to an American network. And in a lot of ways, it feels like the most British show, but it also feels a little bit American, doesn't it?
Because it then waits for a man to workshop. Diana Riggs leather suits became iconic. However, in season five, she asked for a new line of athletic work to be introduced, and that's the kind of stuff she's wearing in the sector. Yeah, yeah.
She actually disliked the leather stuff. She thought it was uncomfortable. I'm sure it was. But yeah, she's probably most known for wearing those leather catsuits in this.
To the point where when they turn this show into a movie in the late 90s, which we want to be called. I guess it's not good then. They chose Steve, obviously, and they chose Emma Peel as the two main characters. And now Emma Peel was just one amongst so many female agents that he worked with in the show.
She wasn't the only one. But previous to her, they've been on a Blackman who went on to Stone Goldfinger. Yeah. And then after Diana Riggs left, there was Lynne Thornton who carried on in a different role.
But I think the wrong with Diana Riggs is always the most memorable to people. Because they have a really good chemistry on screen. Yeah, you can tell in this episode that they got good chemistry together. Oh, yeah.
So when they chose to make it into this terrible movie that they ended up doing, they stopped her in the letter, didn't they? You must have seen pictures of even the poster where she's wearing the leather cat, Suma Thurman. Yeah, I know. Well, genius did that cast in.
So Sidney Newman, who created the show, never received a credit for it. And he said that he just never thought about it because having worked in the Canadian broadcasting corporation, it just wasn't a thing that they did. They didn't assign credit on screen credits for the creation of things. We just left it in the bottle.
Sorry. I don't know. Speaking of the movie version, they actually did consider a movie version as early as season three. It was that popular.
I would rather have gotten out than what we did get. A funny little fact that I did read as well is 19 gallons, apparently 19 gallons of champagne were consumed over the series. I mean, there's a lot of drinking involved in the Avengers. Yeah.
Even in the episode that we watched, I think it was wine flashes around everywhere. Yeah. You know? Peter Cushion and Michael Gaur had previously starred in the 1958 Hammer production of Dracula.
Yeah. Michael Gaur was Jonathan Harker. And Peter Cushion was, well, there we go. My favourite hammer.
Yeah. Just the best structure. He is. So let's listen to our trailer.
Sorry. My pleasure. I see it. I wanted to do it.
This. Getting more cooperative. I feel positively comfortable. You've done a lot of damage.
Now where do you think? Chasing an identified object. That's a binocular, isn't it? I don't know.
I find it to be. When in separate. So we get these iconic opening credits and this great theme tune. You've got to admit this is a really good theme.
Oh, yeah. No, this is a really good theme. Yeah. Both of them screen British and 1960s British, don't they?
No, definitely. In a lot of ways it looks like a lot of TV shows, especially ITC TV shows at the time, things like Random Hot Kirk or The Champions. Oh, yeah. But some of the Avengers, which is unique, I think.
Yeah. To me, it looks... This could have just been the version we were watching, but to me, it looked like a modern show that was set in the 60s in terms of quality. I get what you mean, like a like a like a appearance show.
Yeah. Yeah. I think storytelling wise, you'd be hard pushed to get away with what they get away with in the Avengers now. It just has to be able to think people audiences would accept it in the same way.
No. But yeah, I get what you mean production wise value wise. Yeah. It looks like a modern show.
And we start with hands going through cars that fed into a computer. This was computers back in the day. Games. This was ever, you know, a car to be pushed into machines with big, big twirling knobs and flashing lights.
Twirling one. Knobs. And don't bring that childish. Childish.
Childish, this is your brand, isn't it? No, no, I'm going, we're going a bit more. I can't wait. All right.
When he comes back, if he wants to bring his back down into the gutter, then that's up to him. But I'm trying to elevate us here. So don't, don't, pull his down. And then we get some ominous music, something smashes its way into a house.
Shamelessness destroying property along the way. There's no need for that, is there? It's smashing things left right and center. And we see it's a cyber not.
You got confused at first, didn't you? Between this and Doctor Who? Yeah, because I thought it's a bit. Cyber men, is that you're interested.
Yeah. I'm making see why you would get confused. And plus, Cyber Norse gives off the feeling as if there's multiple, but there's only one. One.
I think there was multiple in the previous episode. Okay. Anyway, it kills a man, or we think it kills a man with a huge karate chop. Oh, it doesn't kill him.
I'm not a clue. Although, I'll tell you what, the karate chops are the staple for it. That is true. That is very true.
This whole opening sequence with music in the way it's shot is very hammerish, isn't it? Like a monster. And a bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum. By all the way, as he's walking towards it.
But you know, Hammer were huge at the time. Yeah. And that's why they did it because of that. Oh yeah, they did.
They're going for Hammer thing. They're pretty crucial in the episode. That's true. Yeah.
And I would imagine half the cast of pretty much any Avengers episode of being in a Hammer movie at some point. I was thinking about this. I was thinking about the cast and the three big shows at the time, I guess, that you tend to see these faces or certain British character characters just constantly reappearing it. Yeah.
One of them is the Avengers. Another one's Doctor Who. And then the other one was a show called Z-Cars. They were the three biggest shows on TV, I would imagine, in the 60s and the Brit.
And all these actors just need to change. But I suppose you get that now as well. You can see the same actors on TV popping in and other people. And we get seen with Steve, Mrs.
Peel, and Paul. They got Peter Cushing. Yeah, no relation. I'm just going to keep calling Paul because I can't pronounce his surname.
And they're investigating what has turned out to be a missing person. So somehow he didn't kill the guy when he grabbed him in the head with his steel hand. Well, it must have kind of a softener in it. You reckon?
The same sound effect every time he hits somewhere. And we see later on, it seems to only give people headaches. It depends who you are. I mean, if you're a main character, you're not a background artist, then different, isn't it?
Yeah. This is a great scene with Peter Cushing though. It is Paul trying it on a bit with Mrs. Peel.
Oh, yeah. Because we find out that this character hates the boat. Yeah. But he's also kind of like, he's probably putting up the effect that he does.
A lot to lure them in. Yeah. Yeah, I guess so. So we know Paul is already dodgy, even before the side of what brings in the body.
Because the music tells us. Yeah. Along with Peter Cushing's creepy sudden turn. Yeah, he does.
Yeah. It's always the staple for the ones that are trying to be good. So later, Steve and Peel are investigating the prime scene. And Steve really doesn't like Paul.
Does he? He thinks there's something interesting about him. Maybe it's Peter Cushing's just told him he knows. Maybe.
Maybe he's seen him in Frankenstein, I don't know. He's kind of doing Frankenstein. And there's a little bit of what would later become Moff Tarkin in this role. Yeah.
We've got to a dungeon. And what's been happening is a Cybernaut has been sent out, or the Cybernaut has been sent out. I mean, the collecting scientists and engineers for Paul and Benson, who is kind of Paul's assistant. And Benson works on the original run of Cybernaut in the previous episode, I think.
Yes. And then the Cybernaut abducts another person. Yeah, we get a lot of that in this episode. Just scenes of the Cybernaut abducting people.
Yes. He's pretty much probably a third of the episode. But it's all shot really well. Oh, yeah.
I do think that if you try just a little bit hard, you could probably quite easily get away from a Cybernaut. If you sprinted. Yeah. You could.
Yeah, because it's like a one-setting. Yeah. Slow, shrub. Slow, shrub.
You think you're building multiple sets? Slow, menacing, shrub. Yeah. You imagine if it just breaks into like a 100-meter sprint.
It won't be terrifying. Do you know how to see a walking race between a Cybernaut and Michael Myers? That would be something to watch, wouldn't it? Oh, Michael Myers can pick up some pace.
Oh, you know he wouldn't know. He's not going to be out. You're not going to be out walking by a Cybernaut. Is that what you mean?
Yeah, exactly. That's that bit though. Also, these Karate chops, I think really would break your neck. I'm sorry.
I think your old head would come up. I think you would. Yeah. But you know, there's a few, if you're going to poke holes in something like this, then you might as well not bother watching it.
Because there's a lot of holes in this part. There's something a bit Frankenstein's monster about Cybernaut as well, don't you think? Yeah. Especially when you see it walking towards the camera from a distance, I was getting a shade of- Or a corner.
I was getting a shade of Christopher Lee actually. But I don't think you've seen the Christopher Lee version. No, I haven't. Yeah, it was very Christopher Lee the way he walks.
Seed and peel return to Paul's house and peel goes into investigate while Steve waits outside. Meanwhile, they're watching Steve on these incredible surveillance cameras that seem able to just zoom right into people's faces. Yeah. Can assume positions that only a camera man can get.
Yeah, they can. They move out. And this is the 60s remember. Exactly.
You know, but I suppose if you can invent a Cybernaut, you can invent a camera that's driven all this. Yeah, where's this technology now as well? Exactly. Destroyed, destroyed with a Cybernaut.
Peel returns to Steve and they set off to investigate the latest abduction scene. Just as the Cybernaut brings the scientists Neville back to the letter. We get a little catch up dialogue about the creator of the Cybernauts. And then we get this very James Bond villain scene where Paul shows the scientists clips from the previous Cybernaut episode.
Yeah, we're somehow with surveillance footage that is exactly how a... He's got the episode with shot. He's got the cut together. Yeah.
Doesn't he say something like these were internal cameras in his... Yeah. Whatever it was, whatever. Oh, there's also a shot where Steve and Peel were literally facing the camera in like a little hideaway spot.
So I mean, I mean... Yeah. Yeah, he's got his rooms writing on their faces, isn't it? Yeah.
It turns out that Peter Kushner, Peter, is Michael Guy's brother and he wants to kill Steve and Peel for revenge, basically. He doesn't just want to kill them. He wants to utterly destroy them and say, just shoot them. Why are you good?
Why come up with this elaborate side look? Because then we absolutely build up time and as well. This is true. This is true.
Well, we get this Bond scene where he has all the scientists of these given up sat tables with his piles of money and basically tells them, I'm going to pay you to do this thing for me. I want you to come up with this idea to how I can get them best get Steve and Mrs. Peel. We're going to pay you, yeah?
So you'll get something out of it. Yeah. I mean, it's your choice. Now, anyone who's seen a Bond movie knows that you don't want to be that one person that gets from the table.
This is why I'm going. Because it never ends well for that person. Yeah, it's like the Austin Powers. It is.
It is. Very badly burned. Very badly burned. But one of the scientists does dissent and he gets a chop to the face which travels from the side of the arm.
Yeah, definitely doesn't smash his face in with that correct chop. Well, yeah, but this is the thing. He kills this guy. Yeah.
It's the exact same sound effect and same, exact same chop that he's been knocking people out. Maybe it's the same on it. Maybe it's got a stun shop and a kill shop. A stun shop.
A stun shop. All right. Cushing could play heroes and villains in equal measure. I couldn't.
Oh, yeah. He's effortless in both. Yeah. I mean, he's so good as Ben Halson in drama.
Right. And he's equally just as good when he plays Baron Frankenstein. Because you've never seen any of his Frankenstein films. He did a few of them.
And he's utterly evil. His Baron Frankenstein is not a nice guy. And you believe him in both. Yeah.
No, we watched this on the excellent Cybernaut collection that the late lamented network released a few years ago. And it gives you the option of watching it with ad breaks, featuring commercials from back in the day when they have so much. Yeah. So we get a first set of adverts at this point.
And we get a young man creeping into a girl's house or need to be confronted by a dad with a bottle of golf legs. Yeah. That's going to make you want some golf legs. And the other one that stood out for me was an advert for beef burgers featuring the slogan.
Big, big beefy taste to satisfy a man. Yeah. Yeah. All right.
I wonder if we could get my over. Not him. All right. We return to the Avengers.
So the dead scientist is dumped back in his house. And Stephen P, you'll notice that it's obviously the MO of a Cybernaut. Yeah. I mean, does the Cybernaut have an MO?
I mean, I guess so. It's matching things about it. Well, though, I would you know if someone's been caught on the neck. But I think every time people be killed from karate chop before, is it purely only a side out?
Yeah. They got copyright in a side out. Did Michael go when he created Cybernaut? Also copyright the karate chop.
Maybe. He may be also copyrighted smashing through doors. Maybe. I wonder if there's a little like stamp somewhere on the back of a, you know, you buy an action figure and there's a stamp somewhere on the clothes.
Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's a trademark. Yeah.
Maybe. Speaking of which, Cybernaut goes to capture a new scientist along the way. And your salt's a receptionist who seems more concerned that he split her stocking. Yeah.
It's an odd moment, isn't it? Because she kind of comes on to him at first. And then doesn't seem that bothered when he just smacks her across the room. Yeah.
It's very strange. Did she not realize that he's made out of metal metal? Yeah. Massive seven foot guy in trench coat and silver face.
She's just seen a big, big, big, big, big hard guy, you know? Say what you will. So later, Steve is questioning the receptionist. She's definitely approaching this whole thing from completely the wrong perspective.
But she's still talking about the Cybernaut as though he's a real person. Oh, he was very big and he was strong. Yeah. And she's just that stupid.
Wow. All right. These are the attitudes that James will be bringing to the show. So she's wrapping everyone.
Hey, the attitudes of her at the time. Oh, is that you're going to catch him? Is that you're going to try and get a bit? I do not.
I do not align myself with any of those beliefs. So the new scientist seems a bit reluctant to join the plan. But he kind of goes along with things, but you kind of get the impression he's up to something. Yeah.
It turns out that Paul has a two way mirror to observe people in his house. So basically, he's built his laboratory. Up against his living room. Yeah.
In the next room. In the next room. That's the room that's before the door. And we only see these two rooms that he's at any like.
Is that all there is? Maybe. Maybe he sleeps on the couch. There's no kitchen.
Or on the floor. Yeah. Mrs. Peels turned up and she turned up with a picture of Michael Darrow.
A very good portfolio shot. Steed arrives and Cushing is great here. He hides his hatred as they really lay in front of him. They call him all like every name under the sun that he was meant crazy and all sort of.
What's your impression of, because this is a good place to ask, what's your impression of Steed and Mrs. Peels relationship, by the way? Because I know what the actors always thought. Yeah.
It's just curious in a way. I have a feeling that there's something brilliant. The way that they play it is they did have a thing together for a while, but then it kind of left it and now there's friends. You know?
And obviously she's got married because I'm Mrs. Peel. We never seen Mr. Peel, but it is linked to why she eventually leaves the show.
Yeah. Steed takes a call and Paul feels the net getting closer because they wanted, they need to talk to this lawyer who has some information that's really important. But Paul sends out a sign for not to intercept this lawyer. And the sign not smashes his way in and gives the lawyer the job.
Yeah. Yeah. And he's a kill shot. Yeah.
Yeah. Although, you know. He put the kill second up. He did.
He ramps it up and up. Yeah. He's a kill shot. Steed then arrives and he discovers the body, but suddenly he's confronted by the cybernot.
Although in my notes, I did write cybernet. I'm just, I'm just nervous. Yeah. It'd be funny if I saw him and I'm just walking.
Yeah. And he gets to chop as well, but he's obviously put the second back down to stun. Yeah. You know, how we get a second back break.
Now this time we get adverse chocolate spreads. It's not you from the... No. Wow.
Who's saying? Is that not your nickname? It's cool. Now that, that is a gag that I would throw at Colin.
But, you know, we get British razor blades. Remember, British make a point of saying these are British. And we get some posh people eating after eight months. Oh, and we get washing powder.
And specifically women. Of course. Yeah. You're quite shocked that just how many of these products are still on the market, won't you?
Yeah, because I mean they had a, what, a Mr. Kipling. Mr. Kipling as well.
Which is something that I eat very regularly. Yeah. Colored cornflakes. Yeah.
Yeah. I think the, the, the razor blades, would you let. Yeah. Yeah.
So, you know. These things are still, are still with us. Presented slightly better. Yeah.
And we return to the Avengers. So, Peel leaves Paul's home and we see all the scientists working in their cells feverishly. Yeah. The new scientist seems to need some radical equipment, but he's a bit shifty about it.
But they get it from him anyway. Yeah. Turns out that Steve's had his dick and he can take that chop. Yeah.
And he comes to Mrs. Peel, sort of nurses him back to hell. And he goes back to the Ministry where he finds some stuff out about the missing scientist. And that the latest one is a specialist in explosive devices.
Now this is the one that's being a little bit shifty. Shifting. Turns out he's made one. Of course.
Which he uses to do a run up from Paul's cells. But don't worry, this slow-strowing Simon Arles surely catch up to this running scientist. Yeah, of course. Mm-hmm.
Mind you, I suppose it's like it follows. Doesn't matter how you run. He's still going to follow you. Maybe it's like the Jason Voorhees effect, when you're not looking at just sprints at you.
There is a bit of a Jason Voorhees feel about. Yeah. The scientist makes it to Steve's flat and the orbital collapses into Peel's arms. I can figure worse places to fall into.
Steve, what? Steve? Steve's flat's a great set by the way, isn't it? There's so much detail everywhere.
And apparently he would go around and add little things and stuff and move things around. The Cybernaut then spashes in, gives Peel the chop this time. Yep. Non-lethal, obviously.
And takes back the scientist. This all feels a bit backwards and forwards, isn't it? Yeah. You know, someone runs away, the Cybernaut goes out again.
It's like the show's called Return the Cybernaut. We need to find a way of getting as many Cybernaut stuff in there as we possibly can. But also, I feel like, I mean, I'll get into this more later, but it kind of feels like Steve and Peel kind of suffer from that because they don't really do a lot in this episode. Yeah, I guess so.
I can't remember whether that's a thing that's common to the Avengers. I've watched it a long time. I'd have to watch a few. Yeah.
I don't think it is. But this is definitely Peter Cushing's episode. Yeah. We spend a lot of time with Peter Cushing.
And I guess if you're going to pay for Peter Cushing, you're going to use it. Oh, yeah. I'm not just going to have him in one scene. No.
Because I think it's Peter Cushing that said, doesn't matter what the role is, you give your best in anything. And he does. Oh, yeah. He never, he never, he never, he does.
Meanwhile, one of the scientists seems to be enjoying his work too much, and this is Fulton McAlleys character. He comes up with a quote horrific way to kill Steve and Mrs. Peele. Again, he's so horrific, but he seems a bit convoluted to me.
That's all right. What he's going to do is he's going to build devices that can turn them into human side goals or stop the heart to Tiffany B. I'm just, you know, shivin' the head. Yeah.
Well, that would do it when I do it. But no. Flame for our? Yeah.
You wanted to destroy them utterly, as he said he does. Flame for our? Yeah. You know, blow up the apartment.
Many, many ways. Exactly. But for this plan to work, they need to fit the devices in something personal to them that they wouldn't think about about wearing. But Paul has a plan, and he'll lure a steed and peel over.
And he wants a steed to touch his bust. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Fair enough. You know, each of their own ideas? He wants them to touch his bust so that he can get a picture of his watch. Which?
Picture of his watch. His watch. Oh, okay. Which they then use to create a replica of a watch.
In about five minutes as well. He couldn't just take a watch himself. Well, no, because he'd miss it though, wouldn't he? Yeah, yeah.
So you need to make a replica of it and then replace the original with it. Yeah. But again, seems a bit convoluted. They knock this up in about five minutes.
They test it on the scientist that tried to escape. Yes. It works. Paul's bloodlust gets a bit of him and he also kills the guy as well.
Yes. Because he can like shatter your heart or something. Paul then gives Mrs. Peel a bracelet as a gift fitted with the same device.
While Benson breaks into steed splat and switches the watches. Paul then activates the bracelet and he turns Mrs. Peel into a human zombie. And he summons her back to his lure, almost running steed over in the process.
Yeah. But steed gives chase. Nice hair as well. Yeah.
Is it? Is it a Bentley? It looks like a Bentley. I think it's in like a 30s style.
It's a car, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
And then I think he drives one at the beginning of Dr. Knud. He does. Yeah, he does.
Yeah. Yeah. Mrs. Peel arrives at Paul's but steed seems to have disappeared.
Not Drill. No. But Paul gives Mrs. Peel a creepy speech and it turns out that while she's been controlled she can still hear and feel everything that he says and does to her.
So she's locked in herself but she can't move. Yeah. He's got full control over it. So it's not like she's unconscious.
No. She's kind of freaked in there. Yeah. Yeah.
Which is kind of, usually if that kind of thing would happen it's as if they're unconscious. Gone, inset. Yeah. They finally find steed creeping around the house by using their incredibly advanced surveillance equipment which turns them in and around corners and things like that.
And they send Mrs. Peel out as a human cybernaut who gives him the chop. So she's got a set in there. Yeah.
Other she can be karate. Yeah. Thanks. And they catch her.
Paul then gives steed the full bond villain speech and he tells him everything. Yeah, of course. I'd expect none less. They try to force the watch on steed 10 but he breaks free and the watch ends up on the cybernaut instead.
Not quite sure that happened but yeah. Mrs. Peel loses the bracelet in a struggle and doesn't. Pretty good fight.
I don't even mind me a batman actually. Yeah. 60s batman. Yeah.
And it cuts through lots of wide shots of lots of people felling around in a mirror. Yeah. But unfortunately the cybernaut kills Paul. He gives him a massive hog.
Doesn't chop him though. No. It's got a new skill. It's got a new skill.
Maybe that's what happened after the watch. I had an upgrade. Yeah. It crosses and crosses back to his back.
Mm-hmm. During the struggle though. I mean, Peter Cush is incredibly physical isn't it? Yeah.
The way you're flinging himself or aren't and stuff. Well he does that indirectly. No. We got a little cute epilogue scene at the end which is part of the course for the Avengers.
This is our least atop and tail most episodes. Yeah. In fact this episode doesn't start this way but most episodes start with one or the other characters even steal your peel going to see the other one and saying we're needed. Yeah.
In some sort of that funny way. But yeah so Steve basically botches up fixing Mrs. Peels toast only blast this way through the ceiling. And that is the end of the Avengers return of the cybernaut.
Yeah. Cue the song. We finally reached the end with the film of Black Dang Oragors. So James what did you think of the Avengers return of the cybernaut?
Well I thought that it could probably have worked as kind of a one off like episode of something. Maybe if it was a little longer you know kind of works as its own self-contained thing. What do you mean like a it's not part of a series? Yeah.
It could work as anything other besides the Avengers. Yeah. Alright okay that's interesting. And also I mean as I said before the quality of it it looks like a modern show but set in the 60s.
The acting's really good especially from Peter Cushing who's pretty much good in everything. And also the music was also really good. So overall I'd say it was a hit. Would you watch more of it?
Yeah probably. I think I'd watch more of it. Would you would you if you were going to watch more of it would you stick to this iteration with the Stephen Mrs. Peel?