The New Avengers (TV Series)
To Catch a Rat (1976)
Joanna Lumley: Purdey
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Quotes
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John Steed : [having received a message from 'the Flyer'] The Flyer?
Mike Gambit : Sounds like the fifties and sixties. The flyer, the butcher, the baker.
Purdey : The candlestick maker.
Mike Gambit : You used a lot of funny names in those days, didn't you?
John Steed : They weren't funny. I was the New Doberman.
Mike Gambit : Woof woof.
Purdey : That's an awful lot of morse.
John Steed : They abbreviated it. Cut it short after the D. The New D.
Purdey : The nudie?
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Purdey : What about you seventeen years ago?
Mike Gambit : Me, I was discovering sex.
Purdey : What a waste of time. You might have been learning to drive.
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Purdey : Anyway, from what I hear, you've already been around quite a bit.
Mike Gambit : Been at keyholes again, Purdey?
Purdey : It's common knowledge in the department.
Mike Gambit : Just hearsay.
Purdey : The typing pool affair?
Mike Gambit : Rumour.
Purdey : The undersecretary's undersecretary?
Mike Gambit : Jealousy?
Purdey : The Russian Countess, so-called?
Mike Gambit : Ah yes, well, eh, that was was an under cover job and I, eh, took them literally.
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Purdey : [shouting] Take your hands off me, you brute! You can't make me do it! I'll never marry you, never! I hate you!
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Purdey : [having just embarrassed Gambit in a church] Quick thinking, eh? I got us about a tricky situation without any embarrassment.
Mike Gambit : No embarrassment, no embarrassment at all!
