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When The Avengers was bought by the ABC network in the United States in 1966, network executives were concerned that the audience might not take to the show if it didn't understand the characters, so they commissioned a short introductory sequence to fill in the perceived gap. The sequence was only ever broadcast in the USA, so when Canal+ remastered the episodes, it was omitted from the DVDs produced for the US market. A&E and Canal+ were surprised at the uproar this caused, so when the Emma Peel episodes were repackaged after the Ian Hendry episodes came to light, it was included as a feature on the disc.
Release Date
October 2, 1965Cast of The Avengers
Patrick MacneeJohn Steed
Honor BlackmanCatherine Gale
Diana RiggEmma Peel
Linda ThorsonTara King
Ian HendryDr. David Keel
Patrick NewellMother
Edwin RichfieldAlex
Julie StevensVenus Smith
Gerald SimKenneth
Philip MadocIvan
Frank MaherNicholls
Robert JamesMerlin
John BennettSykes
John SharpPrewitt
John BaileyRalph Bleech
Allan CuthbertsonLord Melford
Michael RobbinsHenry Farrow
John HollisKanwitch
Judy ParfittVesta
Peter BowlesThyssen
Julian GloverPeter Rooke
Neil McCarthyCarl
John LaurieCrewe
Garfield MorganGilbert
Peter J. ElliottGuest
Gerald HarperColonel Corf
Tenniel EvansCarswell
Patricia HainesLola / Emma Peel
T. P. McKennaGrant
Tom AdamsGrenville
Alex ScottAverman
John CrockerFothers
Jerome WillisGeorge
Ronald RaddShaffer
Gary WatsonKendrick
Roy KinnearHappychap
David LangtonSir James Arnall
Peter JeffreyPrendergast
Richard LeechCol. Drew
Christopher BenjaminWhittle
Bruno BarnabeFarrar
Hamilton DyceCamrose
John StoneMajor George Fancy
Frederick JaegerBenson
Vernon DobtcheffSpencer
John CaterOlliphant
Paul Whitsun-JonesSanders
Howard Marion-CrawfordGeoffrey
Jon RollasonDr. Martin King
Norman ChappellForbes
Penelope KeithNanny Brown (credit only)
Jeremy YoungDr. Penrose
Hugh ManningMax Hardy
Fulton MackayGlover
Terence AlexanderBromfield
Jeremy BurnhamVicar
Warren MitchellBrodney
Harold KasketDr. Meitner
Ron MoodyJordan
Barry WarrenMelville
Peter JonesDoyle
Robert UrquhartMaxwell
Geoffrey WhiteheadCarter
Barbara ShelleyVenus
Edward de SouzaFlanders
Anneke WillsJudy
Caroline BlakistonCynthia Wentworth-Howe
Roger DelgadoKreer
Russell WatersPike
Angela DouglasMiranda
William JobLord Edgefield
Stratford JohnsSidney
Peter BlytheMankin
Charles TingwellDr. Neville
Philip LockePrimble
Francis MatthewsChivers
Steve PlytasKartovski
Bernard ArchardDr. Constantine
John WoodvineSeagrave
Ewan RobertsTravers
Brian BlessedMark Dayton
George A. CooperBurgess
Sandra DorneFiona Charles
Jack WatsonHopper
Sandor ElèsMaurice Jubert
George MurcellNeedle
Tony SteedmanSir Joseph
Bryan MosleyArmshith
Nigel DavenportLord Barnes
Peter CopleySparshott
Geoffrey BayldonClapham
Edward UnderdownRupert
Talfryn ThomasFiery Frederick
William FranklynBrinstead
Nicholas SmithLather
Ronald LaceyHumbert
Timothy BatesonSpencer
Ray McAnallyCreswell
Colin JeavonsStanton
Paul EddingtonBeaumont
Charles Lloyd PackDr. Fawcett
Clifford EvansBoyd
Nicholas CourtneyGifford
Lyndon BrookLyall
Donald MorleyNeame
William LucasBrett
Alan BrowningZaroff
Richard CaldicotAdmiral
John LeeDr. Soames
John NettletonSir Andrew Ford
John RonaneHubert
Douglas MuirOne Ten
Jeremy LloydBertram Smith
Peter WyngardeStewart Kirby
Simon OatesSkelton
Geoffrey ChaterJarvis
Anthony ValentineCalvin
Clifford EarlJarret
Bernard CribbinsBradley Marler
Brian OultonTait
Cardew RobinsonMr. Puffin
Andrew KeirCrawley
Arnold DiamondKrelmar
Nigel GreenSir Lexius Cray
Peter BarkworthMerlin
Adrian RopesJennings
Arthur CoxClarke
Derek NewarkVickers
John G. HellerHinnell
Donald PickeringPeter Roberts
Joanna VogelPandora
David GloverWilton
Ivor DeanFerret
Edward FoxChilcott
Michael NightingaleReal Colonel
Richard OwensMechanic
Anthony DuttonDr. Garnett
Jonathan ElsomChattell
Peter ThomasSaunders
Rio FanningLane
Andrew LaurenceWilliams
Christopher LeeColonel Mannering
Kenneth CopeTom Savage
Peter MaddenLasindall
Noel DavisSecretary
Dudley FosterMr. Goat
Edward BurnhamMeadows
John MooreWilliams
William Lyon BrownDalby
Neil HallettArnie Packer
John BakerVicar
Anne RutterControl Room Operative
Alan MacNaughtanBrandon (as Alan MacNaughton)
Philip AnthonyCummings
John ComerGroom
Denis ShawMurray
Jimmy JewelMaxie Martin
John SavidentWinthrop
Dudley SuttonDexter
Joyce CareyHarriet