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Diana (1973)
Dame Diana Rigg is wonderful but you don't drive a Ferrari in NY traffic
I am a huge fan of Dame Diana Rigg she is a wonderful actress put in an awful one dimensional TV show. I saw only one episode in which she wasted her comedic talents on a poorly written Mary Tyler Moore show copy. It was an awful fit. I have seen Dame Diana do comedy before and she has perfect comedic timing- watch "Evil Under the Sun" when she gets into a comedic singing dual with Maggie Smith she has perfect comedic timing playing a mean Diva type. The Diana show was way different- some mild bland American canned humor but a waste of Diana Rigg. I watched only part of an episode and was so bored that I had to re watch "Touch of Brimstone and "Honey for the Prince" two of the better avengers episodes and the world was aligned for me again!
The Avengers: A Touch of Brimstone (1966)
Audacious and over the top even in 2023
I am a huge Dame Diana Rigg/Emma Peel fan! It is amazing this was ever made or aired. It begins as rather tame typical Avengers episode and Seed and Peel are dressed in Victorian outfits, I am still puzzled by what Steed meant when he commented "this is what the well dressed wench would be seen in" referring to himself- why did he call himself a wench?
Steed and Peel go to the "night of all sins " party and it suddenly changes when Diana Rigg comes out dressed as a full dominatrix (although in later interviews she claimed she was not into bondage) but she certainly was during that episode!
Interesting as she was whisked into a backroom out of sight- the snake she was carrying suddenly extended itself 2 feet into a crevice in the fireplace mantle- I don't think that was an accidental scene in the context.
Suddenly afterwards it became a typical Avengers episode when the drunk Carol Cleveland tells Steed of the plan to blow up a high level British meeting using several hundred pounds of TNT. Emma has to save the day still dressed as a dominatrix and whipping and getting whipped by two men in the process fairly R rated stuff even 50 years later.
The now dead at 82 Dame Diana Rigg was gorgeous in her late twenties, which made the episode particularly spicy!