1971 |
July: The Avengers Stage Play runs for a few weeks. |
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1972 |
The Avengers Radio Show airs in South Africa. |
|
1975 |
Brian Clemens is offered
financial backing from a French producer for The New
Avengers. |
|
1976 |
April: Production begins for the first season of The New Avengers. |
|
1977 |
21 January: Season 1 of The New
Avengers ends in Britain. |
|
1978 |
5 September: The New Avengers premieres in America on CBS. |
|
1979 |
23 March: The New Avengers ends its run
in America. |
|
1980 |
CBS announces it's backing a theatrical film of The Avengers. |
|
1985 |
Plans for a new TV series, The Avengers International, are announced. |
|
1988 |
Mel Gibson makes a bid to produce The Avenging Angel, with himself playing Steed. |
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1991 |
The Cathy Gale episodes are seen for the first time in America on A&E cable TV. |
|
1993 |
January: "The Frighteners" is screened for the first time since its original 1961 broadcast. |
|
1996 |
September: The Avengers Forever is launched. |
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1997 |
After years of false starts, production for Jerry Weintraub's The Avengers movie is under way. Patrick Macnee's The Avengers and Me is published. |
|
1998 |
February: The movie is test-screened in Scottsdale, Arizona. |
|
1999 |
January: The Avengers movie is released on video. |
|
2001 |
April: "Girl on the Trapeze" is discovered in the UCLA film archive. |
|
2015 |
10 January: Brian Clemens dies. |
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2016 |
October: "Tunnel of Fear" is discovered by the Kaleidoscope television preservation organization. |
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