When someone on Facebook shares a link to The Avengers 1965 series intro, why wouldn’t I pass it on here? Although I ended up watching some variations and picking my favourite – a typical title sequence for Series 4 that also includes the closing titles.
The chessboard intro, source of many a classic John Steed/Emma Peel promo shot, was specially filmed for the American market.
There’s more over the fold!
Here’s a slightly later one, for The Avengers IN COLOR*, which allows Patrick MacNee and Diana Rigg to be much wittier:
*and presumably in America, by the spelling.
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They were so *stylish*, weren’t they? The earlier series Avenger’s credits were a bit of a mush of action-things, and the later series credits got a bit too high-camp. But these were brill.