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'We swung ... with our clothing off' Are there similarities : White Devil by John between you and Steed? , 88 years young, talks about : Webster. I was so excited by "The writers and producers The Avengers and off-screen fun in the Sixties : the review I got by Harold created the character. but in : Hobson In The Sunday the early stages they said to don't you understand?' and I : Did the show lose something : Times. I had just one line: me: 'Patrick, you're so dull would say: 'Well, no I don't.' : when left? : "This is not true, madam", in what you're doing, can't And then she would stand up : "Anything that is repeated, : after a pause, to Margaret you think of something straight and stride about, : that isn't Shakespeare. isn't : Rawlings who played the interesting to give us?' sometimes with a small stick, : as good: : lead. According to Margaret. I went away and thought slashing at the undergrowth. : : I made the pause longer and about my own background saying again: 'Patrick. don't : Do you feel that Steed was : longer, and finally she and came back with this you understand?' I loved her ~your greatest role? : looked at me with a glare whole personal history- for that And that's what : "My favourite role was not : and said: "We don't want it school. the navy. everything made the show so incredible. : Steed ... there were a couple : any longer, Macnee'" that had action in it because all the women in the man; Steed was a clever man ~of others. I played Andrew . "People thought: 'This is audience said: 'I wish I could In that he made the woman : Wyke in the play Sleuth by : You're 88 now and retired. very new ... 'It wasn't new. do that with my husband, do all the work. then stood : [the part ~What do you get up to? of course; it was the same as wave a stick and say: 'Don't back and went: 'Huh, huh. : played by : "My hobbies, frankly, are Clark Gable and Tyrone you understand?!' " huh!' And I've always stood : in the 1972 film version]. I : going out walking- Power. Everybody. going behind my women, if you : loved being in that play and : although I can only walk a back, had a sword, had a There was a r al sexual know what I mean, eh-hem: : I played It on Broadway and : little bit - and playing with pistol. or in my case an chemistry between Steed : on tour for three years. Also, : my dogs. I grew up with umbrella ... and. of course. and . , • How much did you ~ I fondly recall my part In The : animals: my father was a the fact that I had an "The difference between personally enjoy the : racehorse trainer. I became umbrella made people Honor and Diana Rigg serles'success? : a very good rider, actually. laugh. Then when I pulled a (above) was extraordinary. "We were all happy, doing : "I always remember - doinggg! - sword out of Honor was this beautiful naughty. dirty things, having : with Robert Wagner, the umbrella, they really woman, with an aggressive fun. going to the country, : the famous star, riding laughed. That was original. I style, and she learnt how to doing all sorts of things ... on horses into Trafalgar like to think that I am original" do judo. Diana, who was one 'Swinging London' . Square on Thanksgiving Day of the top Shakespearean was swinging in : at 730 in the morning, actors in England, suddenly that we swung, which was the only time gave this whole new flavour mainly with our that there weren't any to The Avengers, particularly clothing off: crowds, you see. That was with her dressed In black a great moment for me." leather. There was sexual The Avengers: Series 6 is chemistry in the show, and I released on DVD on Mon; found that it a 50th-anniversary boxed was also In us. set is due for release in the I found Diana new year; The Avengers: A extraordinarily Celebration is available now Wou dltbefa rtosay attractive. I from Titan 800ks. The Avengers' female stars never,what £24.99 were gr breaking? you might "In the past. all these series call,went were made with men; with her, but I women were either the admired her, wives. the stay-at-homes, the loved her and girlfriends. secretaries. but was fascinated by her. never the leading character. And she was interested, but The Avengers was the first only interested. in me. I was show to have a woman - a brought up by women and woman! - in the leading I've always loved women. role, and that was why it was That's why we got on so well: so successful. The Avengers was the first show on TV to How do you thin Steed break new ground in this compares to other way. I am very proud ofthat" 19605 gentleman Icon. 0071 "In my opinion, and I What was your 0 I of shouldn't say this because ? one of them was my friend, "Honor Blackman (above) but was the was way ahead of her time, 007. But the characters of the first modern woman I'd Bond and Steed are totally met She'd say: 'Look. Patrick, different Bond is an action