Who Are The Avengers?
Steed and Peel worked for an unspecified quasi-government agency but only in a very loose way and were quite obviously people of independent means whose hobby was doing good and, one week, saving the world, and the next, a small English village from a great assortment of dastardly villains. Cathy Gale and Mrs Peel brought a new kind of woman to TV screens, and they frequently had to rescue Steed by resorting to the kind of judo and weapons virtuosity hitherto reserved completely to the male of the species. The case for this is demonstrated by the fact that, over the many series of The Avengers, Mrs Peel was responsible for the deaths of many more villains than was Steed. The Avengers and the Swinging Sixties The Avengers were undoubtedly part of the Swinging Sixties and some would say that they contributed to the decade’s style. Steed always wore gentleman’s attire (almost always accompanied by a bowler hat and umbrella), while Mrs Peel demonstrated a penchant for leather cat-suits dec
