A&E Home Video and Lionsgate Entertainment have announced the Blu-ray release of
The Avengers: Season 5 (1967), which stars Diana Rigg as Emma Peel and Patrick Macnee as John Steed. The first season of the classic British television series to be presented in color,
Season 5 (along with the UK release of
Season 4) represents the show's Blu-ray debut and streets on November 11th.
Synopsis: Shown in Great Britain for more than five years (debuting in 1961) before it caught on in America,
The Avengers is a secret-agent thriller that almost bests James Bond. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - and adventurous citizen Emma Peel repeatedly saved the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters). Emma Peel, in her leather boots and mini-skirts, is now considered one of the most liberated women on 60's television.
The 3-disc Blu-ray release of
The Avengers: Season 5 is presented in 1080p with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround. English and Spanish subtitles are included. Special features have yet to be detailed. Episodes include:
1. From Venus with Love
2. The Fear Merchants
3. Escape in Time
4. The See-Through Man
5. The Bird Who Knew Too Much
6. The Winged Avenger
7. The Living Dead
8. The Hidden Tiger
9. The Correct Way to Kill
10. Never, Never Say Die
11. Epic
12. The Superlative Seven
13. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station
14. Something Nasty in the Nursery
15. The Joker
16. Who's Who?
17. Return of the Cybernauts
18. Death's Door
19. The £50,000 Breakfast
20. Dead Man's Treasure
21. You Have Just Been Murdered
22. The Positive-Negative Man
23. Murdersville
24. Mission: Highly Improbable