OK...this episode was never going to win any awards and we have the right to expect better from Dennis Spooner but, just after viewing it, I don't think that it's as bad as people have been suggesting.
The plot would be classed as weak in any other series but it's just the sort of quirky story that The Avengers used to do so well. There are some good comic moments (Purdey in the car wash, the exasperation of the police radio operative forced to describe the car wearing a hat) and the action sequences aren't too bad.
I don't think it's true that the trio are made to seem like idiots - in fact, I think that they did their best with a pretty poor effort. But the Canadian episodes, because of the absence of Brian Clemens, simply didn't have the same tightness as the others. I still reckon this episode is better than, for example, The Gladiators or, looking back at the UK, Gnaws or Trap. The biggest shame of Emily is that it was the final episode and a poor way to go out.
The plot would be classed as weak in any other series but it's just the sort of quirky story that The Avengers used to do so well. There are some good comic moments (Purdey in the car wash, the exasperation of the police radio operative forced to describe the car wearing a hat) and the action sequences aren't too bad.
I don't think it's true that the trio are made to seem like idiots - in fact, I think that they did their best with a pretty poor effort. But the Canadian episodes, because of the absence of Brian Clemens, simply didn't have the same tightness as the others. I still reckon this episode is better than, for example, The Gladiators or, looking back at the UK, Gnaws or Trap. The biggest shame of Emily is that it was the final episode and a poor way to go out.