These are currently being shown on one of the cheaper channels here in the UK, and they are just as mediocre as I remember them. After the classiness of the Emma Peel years and the almost-as-good Tara King episodes, The New Avengers looked cheap and rushed. I think The Avengers had more or less run its course and probably would never have measured-up no matter what they tried. I found Gareth Hunt mis-cast and often quite wooden in the part of Gambit, and Steed himself often seemed to take a back seat while things went on around him. Brian Clemens and his team had done some brilliant stuff in the past, but they should have canned this idea and kept the money for their next project, The Professionals which, after it found its feet was very good indeed.
Review of The New Avengers
