The New Avengers (TV Series)

The Tale of the Big Why (1976)

Gareth Hunt: Mike Gambit

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Quotes 

• Mike Gambit : Purdey! Are you ok?

  Purdey : Bit bruised, that's all.

  Mike Gambit : I'm renowned for my healing hands.

  Purdey : [referring to Brandon's dead body]  It's a bit late for that, Gambit.

• Purdey : [Gambit is lying on the floor reading 'The Tale of the Big Y']  He's read that chapter twice already.

  John Steed : 'Bessie's mating habits'.

  Purdey : Very badly written.

  John Steed : And anatomically impossible.

  Mike Gambit : Oh, I don't know. Certainly works you up - to a good appetite.

  [Steed grins] 

  Mike Gambit : [gets up]  Time for dinner, isn't, it, Purdey? Steed?

  [puts book down on table] 

  John Steed : [picks up the book]  The answer's in the book. And my taste buds won't be rejuvenated until I've found it.

• John Steed : [Steed & Gambit have been forced to travel the countryside on foot]  What fantastic luck.

  Mike Gambit : You've seen a car.

  John Steed : Better than that...

  Mike Gambit : A mixed sauna, with a licensed bar.

  John Steed : The blue Perrywinkle.

  [stoops down to pick a flower] 

  Mike Gambit : Blue what?

  John Steed : I never knew it grew in that kind of soil... Think of your soul, Gambit, think of your soul.

  Mike Gambit : [looks at the soul on one of his shoes]  Yes...