Bright Horizons

Bright HorizonsThe Avengers was a unique, genre defying television series which blurred the traditional boundaries between light entertainment and disturbing drama. It was a product of the constantly evolving 1960s yet retains a timeless charm. At the crossroads between the Cathy Gale era stricture of video tape and the glossy, surreal, comic strip world of glorious Technicolor, the monochrome filmed Emma Peel season represents the artistic pinnacle of a show which

The Avengers was a unique, genre-defying television series which blurred the traditional boundaries between Ôlight entertainmentÕ and disturbing drama. It was a product of the constantly-evolving 1960s yet retains a timeless charm.
At the crossroads between the Cathy Gale-era stricture of video tape and the glossy, surreal, comic-strip world of Ôglorious TechnicolorÕ, the monochrome filmed Emma Peel season represents the artistic pinnacle of a show which was exported around the world and remains the only British television drama to be networked at ÔprimetimeÕ in the USA.
Bright Horizons draws on the knowledge of a broad range of experts and fans of The Avengers Ð including scriptwriter Roger Marshall Ð offering critical explorations of all twenty-six Ômini-filmsÕ which made up Season 4, the collective peak of an extraordinary television series. Now includes 50 page quotation glossary.