Emma Peel
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Emma Peel was a fictional spy
played by Diana Rigg
in the British
1960s adventure television
series The Avengers
. She was born Emma Knight, the daughter of an industrialist, Sir John Knight.
, Mrs Peel was introduced as a replacement for the popular Cathy Gale
, played by actress Honor Blackman
, who left the series at the end of the programme's third season to co-star in the James Bond
film Goldfinger
.
Elizabeth Shepherd
was cast as Emma Peel and production on the fourth season began. After filming all of one episode and part of a second, however, the producers decided that Shepherd was not right for the part, and she was dismissed. No footage of Shepherd as Peel is known to have survived.
The producers scrambled to find a replacement and found her in Diana Rigg
; the Shepherd episodes were subsequently re-filmed.
" portrayals of women (she is rarely bested in any fight and rescues Steed as often as he rescues her). She is a master of martial arts
and a formidable fencer. A certified genius
, she specializes in chemistry
and other sciences. She is often seen in episodes engaging in artistic hobbies and had success in industry at the helm of the company of her late father, Sir John Knight. Her husband, Peter Peel, was a pilot whose plane disappeared over the Amazonian forest. He was presumed dead for many years, and Peel went on to work with Steed. She drove a convertible Lotus
Elan
at high speeds, and convincingly portrayed any series of undercover roles, from nurse to nanny. Her favourite guise was that of a women's magazine reporter, trying to interview big business tycoons and rich playboys. The name "Emma Peel" is a play on the phrase "Man Appeal" or "M. Appeal", which the production team stated was one of the required elements of the character. However, an alternative explanation derives Mrs Emma Peel from Miss SM appeal.
Peel's verbal interactions with Steed range from witty banter to thinly disguised innuendo. Regarding the question of whether they had a sexual relationship at any time, Patrick Macnee
thought they went to bed on a very regular basis (just not in view of the camera), Rigg thought they were engaged in a very enjoyable extended flirtation that ultimately went nowhere, and Brian Clemens
said he wrote them with the idea they had an affair before Emma's first appearance in the series.
Her style of dress typified the period, and the character is still a fashion icon. John Bates
was brought in as the costume designer for Emma Peel in the second half of Season 4. He created a wardrobe of black and white op-art mod clothing and mini skirts. Before this, people had believed that lines, circles and other bold patterns would not work on the television cameras of the day. It was also filmed before the mini skirt had become mainstream. Bates even had to stop leaving hems on the mini skirts because the production team kept lowering them again. He also licensed his designs to several manufacturers under the Avengerswear label and these pieces were sold in various shops throughout the country. Diana Rigg is often remembered for the leather catsuit
she wore early on in her first season. She in fact disliked wearing leather, so Bates designed softer stretch jersey and PVC catsuits for her instead.
For the colour season, the designer was Alun Hughes, who used bold colours and lurid, psychedelic patterns. Hughes also created the Emmapeeler catsuit, which was made of stretch jersey in bright block colours. The Emmapeelers and several other pieces from this season's wardrobe were also licensed and sold in the shops.
, albeit a contemporary model
. Emma meets her replacement, Tara King, coming in as she's going out, and tells her that Steed likes his tea stirred "anti-clockwise".
In real life, Diana Rigg had chosen to leave the series for a number of reasons, one of which was to accept a role in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service
. During her first season, as she eventually learned, she was making less than the cameraman—her salary was tripled, and that, combined with her loyalty to Macnee persuaded her to come back for 25 additional episodes (including her farewell episode, which was actually shot well into the Tara King season). Eventually, the combination of arduous shooting schedules, conflicts with the producers, the lure of film and stage roles, and a desire to challenge herself as an actress all combined to make her decide to leave the show for good.
Emma Peel, last in a string of "talented amateurs" John Steed worked with regularly, was replaced by a neophyte professional agent named Tara King, played by actress Linda Thorson
, but appeared one last time in an episode of The New Avengers
entitled "K is for Kill." She speaks briefly with Steed over the phone and mentions in passing that her last name isn't Peel anymore, to which Steed replies, "You'll always be Mrs. Peel to me."
After leaving the series, Rigg played Emma Peel in two unofficial German short films produced for the 8mm market: The Diadem and The Mini-Killers. Little information has survived regarding these films, though the films themselves survive.
playing Peel and Ralph Fiennes
playing Steed. In the movie Mrs. Peel is a scientist working as part of the Prospero project - an attempt to influence the weather. When the project is sabotaged by someone who appears to be Mrs. Peel, she is investigated by Ministry agent, John Steed. They work together to investigate the sabotage, first questioning Sir August De Wynter, and then Wonderland Weather - a business that artificially creates weather. At Wonderland Weather Emma is attacked by an evil duplicate of herself, which is witnessed by Steed, verifying her innocence. Further investigation leads to Sir August who is now trying to blackmail the world's leaders with his control of the weather, but Steed and Mrs. Peel defeat him on his secret island.
A Dame Emma Knight appears in the Doctor Who
New Adventures
novel The Dying Days
.
released the single "Miss Emma Peel" on the album Pet Your Friends
and Steven Wilson
's side-project, I.E.M.
, has a song called "The Last Will and Testament of Emma Peel" on the self-titled album.
The Allies, a Seattle-based rock group during the early 1980s, recorded "Emma Peel", which was featured on MTV during its early days.
Purple Avengers
, an Australia
n band that formed in Brisbane in the early 1990s second LP release was entitled "Emma Peel Sessions".
.
In the 1994 movie Pulp Fiction
, John Travolta
's character confessed to Uma Thurman
's character that his only celebrity crush was Emma Peel. Four years later, Thurman portrayed Peel in the 1998 film The Avengers.
In the movie Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), starred by Mike Myers and Elizabeth Hurley, Mrs. Kensington (played by Mimi Rogers), Austin Powers' former sidekick in the 1960s and retired agent, is a spoof of Emma Peel. She wears a leather catsuit in the opening scene and is the mother of Vanessa Kensington.
("Stagecoach") featured a female British spy named Emma Steed.
In the TV show Married With Children, the episode called 'Kelly Breaks Out' Al and Jefferson are watching TV and see an ad for Avengers videos. Al orders the tape and is disappointed when it arrives because it features Tara King
and not Emma Peel. He also asks the operator when ordering the tapes if they have an episode where she "kicks really, really high".
In the Sci-Fi Channel movie Mammoth (2006), Patrick Macnee (who played John Steed), Emma Peel and The Avengers are mentioned by the B-Movie fan Simon Abernathy (played by Tom Skerritt), his granddaughter Jack Abernathy (played by Summer Glau) and Special Agents Powers (played by Leila Arcieri) and Whitaker (played by Marcus Lyle Brown).
In the Good Eats
episode Flat Is Beautiful V, Alton Brown
refers to his pizza peel
as Emma.
Suzie Shooter, the love interest of the main character, John Taylor, in Simon R. Green's Nightside
series has a poster of Emma Peel hanging in her living area, with the words "My Idol" scrawled in what Taylor refers to as "suspiciously [looking like] blood" across the bottom of the poster.
, Emma Peel makes a cameo at the funeral for a spy, along with Steed, Napoleon Solo
, and Illya Kuryakin
.
A thinly-veiled version of Emma Peel appears in Alan Moore
's comic The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier
, as the young "Emma Night", daughter of industrialist Sir John Night, where she shares a mutual attraction with James Bond
, of whom her paternal "Uncle Hugo
" disapproves.
Emma Frost
is the name of the White Queen of the Hellfire Club
in X-Men
comics, a reference to the Avengers episode "A Touch Of Brimstone".
In Superman
v. 2 #13, both Emma Peel and John Steed made cameo appearances, recruiting the titular hero to capture the Toyman
, who had been revised by John Byrne as a British mad scientist
murdering toy company executives.
Both Emma and John Steed made cameo appearances in the bar scene in the second issue of the 1996 comic book mini-series Kingdom Come
.
SPY
SPY is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:* SPY , ticker symbol for Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipts* SPY , a satirical monthly, trademarked all-caps* SPY , airport code for San Pédro, Côte d'Ivoire...
played by Diana Rigg
Diana Rigg
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, DBE is an English actress. She is probably best known for her portrayals of Emma Peel in The Avengers and Countess Teresa di Vicenzo in the 1969 James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service....
in the British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
1960s adventure television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
series The Avengers
The Avengers (TV series)
The Avengers is a spy-fi British television series set in the 1960s Britain. The Avengers initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed . Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants...
. She was born Emma Knight, the daughter of an industrialist, Sir John Knight.
Casting
The partner of John SteedJohn Steed
John Steed is a fictional character and the central protagonist on the popular British series The Avengers and The New Avengers, played by Patrick Macnee and Ralph Fiennes in the movie....
, Mrs Peel was introduced as a replacement for the popular Cathy Gale
Cathy Gale
Dr Cathy Gale was a fictional character, played by Honor Blackman, on the 1960s British series The Avengers. She was the first regular female partner of John Steed following the departure of Steed's original male co-star, Dr David Keel...
, played by actress Honor Blackman
Honor Blackman
Honor Blackman is an English actress, known for the roles of Cathy Gale in The Avengers and Bond girl Pussy Galore in Goldfinger .-Early life:...
, who left the series at the end of the programme's third season to co-star in the James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film Goldfinger
Goldfinger (film)
Goldfinger is the third spy film in the James Bond series and the third to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Released in 1964, it is based on the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. The film also stars Honor Blackman as Bond girl Pussy Galore and Gert Fröbe as the title...
.
Elizabeth Shepherd
Elizabeth Shepherd
Elizabeth Shepherd is an English character actress whose work has spanned the stage and both the big and small screens. Her surname has been alternately billed as "Shephard" and "Sheppard"....
was cast as Emma Peel and production on the fourth season began. After filming all of one episode and part of a second, however, the producers decided that Shepherd was not right for the part, and she was dismissed. No footage of Shepherd as Peel is known to have survived.
The producers scrambled to find a replacement and found her in Diana Rigg
Diana Rigg
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, DBE is an English actress. She is probably best known for her portrayals of Emma Peel in The Avengers and Countess Teresa di Vicenzo in the 1969 James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service....
; the Shepherd episodes were subsequently re-filmed.
Character
The character was notable for a number of characteristics. She is a feminist heroine, eschewing traditional "damsel-in-distressDamsel in distress
The subject of the damsel in distress, or persecuted maiden, is a classic theme in world literature, art, and film. She is usually a beautiful young woman placed in a dire predicament by a villain or monster and who requires a hero to achieve her rescue. She has become a stock character of fiction,...
" portrayals of women (she is rarely bested in any fight and rescues Steed as often as he rescues her). She is a master of martial arts
Martial arts
Martial arts are extensive systems of codified practices and traditions of combat, practiced for a variety of reasons, including self-defense, competition, physical health and fitness, as well as mental and spiritual development....
and a formidable fencer. A certified genius
Genius
Genius is something or someone embodying exceptional intellectual ability, creativity, or originality, typically to a degree that is associated with the achievement of unprecedented insight....
, she specializes in chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
and other sciences. She is often seen in episodes engaging in artistic hobbies and had success in industry at the helm of the company of her late father, Sir John Knight. Her husband, Peter Peel, was a pilot whose plane disappeared over the Amazonian forest. He was presumed dead for many years, and Peel went on to work with Steed. She drove a convertible Lotus
Lotus Cars
Lotus Cars is a British manufacturer of sports and racing cars based at the former site of RAF Hethel, a World War II airfield in Norfolk. The company designs and builds race and production automobiles of light weight and fine handling characteristics...
Elan
Lotus Elan
Lotus Elan is the name of two convertible cars and one fixed head coupé produced by Lotus Cars. The original Type 26, 26R Racing version , 36R Racing version , 36 Fixed Head Coupe, 45 Drop Head Coupe, and the "Type 50" +2 Coupe, circa 1962 to 1975, are commonly known as the '60s Elans...
at high speeds, and convincingly portrayed any series of undercover roles, from nurse to nanny. Her favourite guise was that of a women's magazine reporter, trying to interview big business tycoons and rich playboys. The name "Emma Peel" is a play on the phrase "Man Appeal" or "M. Appeal", which the production team stated was one of the required elements of the character. However, an alternative explanation derives Mrs Emma Peel from Miss SM appeal.
Peel's verbal interactions with Steed range from witty banter to thinly disguised innuendo. Regarding the question of whether they had a sexual relationship at any time, Patrick Macnee
Patrick Macnee
Patrick Macnee is an English actor, best known for his role as the secret agent John Steed in the series The Avengers.-Early life:...
thought they went to bed on a very regular basis (just not in view of the camera), Rigg thought they were engaged in a very enjoyable extended flirtation that ultimately went nowhere, and Brian Clemens
Brian Clemens
Brian Horace Clemens OBE is a British screenwriter and television producer, possibly best known for his work on The Avengers and The Professionals...
said he wrote them with the idea they had an affair before Emma's first appearance in the series.
Her style of dress typified the period, and the character is still a fashion icon. John Bates
John Bates (designer)
John Bates was a fashion designer who was part of the boutique scene that blossomed in London in the 1960s.-Life:Bates apprenticed under Gerard Pipart at Herbert Sidon. From 1959 he began designing under the name Jean Varon....
was brought in as the costume designer for Emma Peel in the second half of Season 4. He created a wardrobe of black and white op-art mod clothing and mini skirts. Before this, people had believed that lines, circles and other bold patterns would not work on the television cameras of the day. It was also filmed before the mini skirt had become mainstream. Bates even had to stop leaving hems on the mini skirts because the production team kept lowering them again. He also licensed his designs to several manufacturers under the Avengerswear label and these pieces were sold in various shops throughout the country. Diana Rigg is often remembered for the leather catsuit
Catsuit
A catsuit is a close-fitting one-piece garment that covers the torso and the legs, and frequently the arms. They are usually made from stretchable material, such as lycra, chiffon, spandex , leather, latex, PVC, or velour, and frequently close using a zipper at the front or back.Catsuits, which...
she wore early on in her first season. She in fact disliked wearing leather, so Bates designed softer stretch jersey and PVC catsuits for her instead.
For the colour season, the designer was Alun Hughes, who used bold colours and lurid, psychedelic patterns. Hughes also created the Emmapeeler catsuit, which was made of stretch jersey in bright block colours. The Emmapeelers and several other pieces from this season's wardrobe were also licensed and sold in the shops.
Departure
When Peter Peel returns, at the end of "The Forget-Me-Knot", Emma leaves Steed and her spy career behind. In the distant shot in which he appears, Peter Peel looks suspiciously like Steed (and was played by the same actor), and also drives a two-door convertible BentleyBentley
Bentley Motors Limited is a British manufacturer of automobiles founded on 18 January 1919 by Walter Owen Bentley known as W.O. Bentley or just "W O". Bentley had been previously known for his range of rotary aero-engines in World War I, the most famous being the Bentley BR1 as used in later...
, albeit a contemporary model
Bentley T-series
The Bentley T-Series is an automobile which was produced by Bentley Motors Limited in the United Kingdom from 1965 to 1980. It was announced and displayed for the first time at the Paris Motor Show on 5 October 1965 as a Bentley-badged version of the totally-redesigned chassis-less Rolls-Royce...
. Emma meets her replacement, Tara King, coming in as she's going out, and tells her that Steed likes his tea stirred "anti-clockwise".
In real life, Diana Rigg had chosen to leave the series for a number of reasons, one of which was to accept a role in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the sixth spy film in the James Bond series, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. Following the decision of Sean Connery to retire from the role after You Only Live Twice, Eon Productions selected an unknown actor and model, George Lazenby...
. During her first season, as she eventually learned, she was making less than the cameraman—her salary was tripled, and that, combined with her loyalty to Macnee persuaded her to come back for 25 additional episodes (including her farewell episode, which was actually shot well into the Tara King season). Eventually, the combination of arduous shooting schedules, conflicts with the producers, the lure of film and stage roles, and a desire to challenge herself as an actress all combined to make her decide to leave the show for good.
Emma Peel, last in a string of "talented amateurs" John Steed worked with regularly, was replaced by a neophyte professional agent named Tara King, played by actress Linda Thorson
Linda Thorson
Linda Thorson is a Canadian actress, most famous for her work as Tara King in The Avengers.-Personal life:...
, but appeared one last time in an episode of The New Avengers
The New Avengers (TV series)
The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series produced during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series, The Avengers which was created by Sydney Newman, and the new version was developed by original series producers Brian Clemens and Albert Fennell.The...
entitled "K is for Kill." She speaks briefly with Steed over the phone and mentions in passing that her last name isn't Peel anymore, to which Steed replies, "You'll always be Mrs. Peel to me."
After leaving the series, Rigg played Emma Peel in two unofficial German short films produced for the 8mm market: The Diadem and The Mini-Killers. Little information has survived regarding these films, though the films themselves survive.
The Avengers movie
The character was revived and reworked for the 1998 film version of the show, with Uma ThurmanUma Thurman
Uma Karuna Thurman is an American actress and model. She has performed in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action movies. Among her best-known roles are those in the Quentin Tarantino films Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill...
playing Peel and Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes is an English actor and film director. He has appeared in such films as The English Patient, In Bruges, The Constant Gardener, Strange Days, The Duchess and Schindler's List....
playing Steed. In the movie Mrs. Peel is a scientist working as part of the Prospero project - an attempt to influence the weather. When the project is sabotaged by someone who appears to be Mrs. Peel, she is investigated by Ministry agent, John Steed. They work together to investigate the sabotage, first questioning Sir August De Wynter, and then Wonderland Weather - a business that artificially creates weather. At Wonderland Weather Emma is attacked by an evil duplicate of herself, which is witnessed by Steed, verifying her innocence. Further investigation leads to Sir August who is now trying to blackmail the world's leaders with his control of the weather, but Steed and Mrs. Peel defeat him on his secret island.
Books
In the 1967 Man From U.N.C.L.E. novel (number 13), The Rainbow Affair by David McDaniel, Emma Peel and John Steed appear on p. 43, but are described, not named. Emma is a "sleek, aristocratic redhead" teamed with an "elegantly, almost foppishly dressed gentleman" wearing a bowler. Emma is accused of "teasing Mr. Solo" merely by looking at him.A Dame Emma Knight appears in the Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
New Adventures
New Adventures
New Adventures is a British dance company, specialising in contemporary dance. Founded by the choreographer Matthew Bourne in 2002, the company developed from an earlier company Adventures in Motion Pictures, which was later dissolved....
novel The Dying Days
The Dying Days
The Dying Days is an original novel written by Lance Parkin and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was last of that range to feature the Doctor and the only one of that range to feature Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor. Thereafter the series centred around...
.
Music
DishwallaDishwalla
Dishwalla is an American alternative rock band based out of Santa Barbara, CA. The band's name comes from a Hindi term for a person providing cable television to a neighborhood...
released the single "Miss Emma Peel" on the album Pet Your Friends
Pet Your Friends
Pet Your Friends is the debut album by American alternative rock band Dishwalla. It was released in 1995 on A&M Records. The album produced the hit single "Counting Blue Cars" , which was a Top 40 favorite. However, the song also caused the group to gain somewhat of a one-hit wonder status because...
and Steven Wilson
Steven Wilson
Steven John Wilson is an English musician, best known as the founder, lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of progressive rock band Porcupine Tree...
's side-project, I.E.M.
Incredible Expanding Mindfuck
Incredible Expanding Mindfuck, also known as I.E.M., was a musical project by Steven Wilson . Its work is mainly influenced by Krautrock and experimental music from the 1960s and 1970s.-Background and history:...
, has a song called "The Last Will and Testament of Emma Peel" on the self-titled album.
The Allies, a Seattle-based rock group during the early 1980s, recorded "Emma Peel", which was featured on MTV during its early days.
Purple Avengers
Purple Avengers
-Overview:Purple Avengers first formed at the beginning of the 1990s having been four school friends from Brisbane, Australia. The band released two albums, with the first album "Starlights Journey Home" being re-released when the band was signed by Sydney based label Phantom Records. The band...
, an Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n band that formed in Brisbane in the early 1990s second LP release was entitled "Emma Peel Sessions".
Movies
Noxzeema Jackson tells Miss Clara that she is going to make her look like Emma Peel in the feature film To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie NewmarTo Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar is a 1995 American comedy film, starring Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, and John Leguizamo as three New York drag queens who embark on a road trip...
.
In the 1994 movie Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction (film)
Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who co-wrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich, eclectic dialogue, ironic mix of humor and violence, nonlinear storyline, and host of cinematic allusions and pop culture references...
, John Travolta
John Travolta
John Joseph Travolta is an American actor, dancer and singer. Travolta first became known in the 1970s, after appearing on the television series Welcome Back, Kotter and starring in the box office successes Saturday Night Fever and Grease...
's character confessed to Uma Thurman
Uma Thurman
Uma Karuna Thurman is an American actress and model. She has performed in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action movies. Among her best-known roles are those in the Quentin Tarantino films Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill...
's character that his only celebrity crush was Emma Peel. Four years later, Thurman portrayed Peel in the 1998 film The Avengers.
In the movie Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), starred by Mike Myers and Elizabeth Hurley, Mrs. Kensington (played by Mimi Rogers), Austin Powers' former sidekick in the 1960s and retired agent, is a spoof of Emma Peel. She wears a leather catsuit in the opening scene and is the mother of Vanessa Kensington.
Television
One episode of The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., often referred to as just Brisco or Brisco County,The series is referred to as just Brisco or by Brisco County by the creator and executive producer Carlton Cuse, actors involved with the show, and by many critics. Some examples include:* Cuse, Carlton, DVD extra...
("Stagecoach") featured a female British spy named Emma Steed.
In the TV show Married With Children, the episode called 'Kelly Breaks Out' Al and Jefferson are watching TV and see an ad for Avengers videos. Al orders the tape and is disappointed when it arrives because it features Tara King
Tara King
Tara King is a fictional character of British 1960s adventure television series The Avengers, played by canadian actress Linda Thorson. Sixth partner of agent John Steed , she appeared in season 6 of the series , playing 33 episodes. She is Emma Peel successor...
and not Emma Peel. He also asks the operator when ordering the tapes if they have an episode where she "kicks really, really high".
In the Sci-Fi Channel movie Mammoth (2006), Patrick Macnee (who played John Steed), Emma Peel and The Avengers are mentioned by the B-Movie fan Simon Abernathy (played by Tom Skerritt), his granddaughter Jack Abernathy (played by Summer Glau) and Special Agents Powers (played by Leila Arcieri) and Whitaker (played by Marcus Lyle Brown).
In the Good Eats
Good Eats
Good Eats is a television cooking show created and hosted by Alton Brown which airs in North America on Food Network. Likened to television science educators Mr. Wizard and Bill Nye, Brown explores the science and technique behind the cooking, the history of different foods, and the advantages of...
episode Flat Is Beautiful V, Alton Brown
Alton Brown
Alton Crawford Brown is an American television personality, author, actor, and cinematographer. He is the creator and host of the Food Network television show Good Eats and the mini-series Feasting on Asphalt and Feasting on Waves, and he is the host and main commentator on Iron Chef America...
refers to his pizza peel
Peel (tool)
A peel is a shovel-like tool used by bakers to slide loaves of bread, pizzas, pastries, and other baked goods into and out of an oven. It is usually made of wood, with a flat carrying surface for holding the baked good and a handle extending from one side of that surface...
as Emma.
Suzie Shooter, the love interest of the main character, John Taylor, in Simon R. Green's Nightside
Nightside
Nightside may refer to:*The Canadian late-night radio talk show The Nightside, hosted by Mark Elliot*NBC Nightside, NBC's now-defunct late night news program, comparable to ABC's World News Now and CBS' Up to the Minute....
series has a poster of Emma Peel hanging in her living area, with the words "My Idol" scrawled in what Taylor refers to as "suspiciously [looking like] blood" across the bottom of the poster.
Comics
In the 1988 comic Shattered Visage, made as a sequel to the spy show The PrisonerThe Prisoner
The Prisoner is a 17-episode British television series first broadcast in the UK from 29 September 1967 to 1 February 1968. Starring and co-created by Patrick McGoohan, it combined spy fiction with elements of science fiction, allegory and psychological drama.The series follows a British former...
, Emma Peel makes a cameo at the funeral for a spy, along with Steed, Napoleon Solo
Napoleon Solo
Napoleon Solo is a fictional character from the 1960s TV spy series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. The series was remarkable for pairing the American Solo, played by Robert Vaughn, and the Russian Illya Kuryakin as two spies who work together for an international espionage organisation at the height of...
, and Illya Kuryakin
Illya Kuryakin
Illya Nickovetch Kuryakin is a fictional character from the 1960s TV spy series The Man from U.N.C.L.E..The series was remarkable for pairing an American Napoleon Solo and the Russian Kuryakin as two spies who work together for an international espionage organisation at the height of the Cold War...
.
A thinly-veiled version of Emma Peel appears in Alan Moore
Alan Moore
Alan Oswald Moore is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books, a medium where he has produced a number of critically acclaimed and popular series, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell...
's comic The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier is an original graphic novel in the comic book series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill. It was the last volume of the series to be published by DC Comics. Although the third book to be...
, as the young "Emma Night", daughter of industrialist Sir John Night, where she shares a mutual attraction with James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
, of whom her paternal "Uncle Hugo
Bulldog Drummond
Bulldog Drummond is a British fictional character, created by "Sapper", a pseudonym of Herman Cyril McNeile , and the hero of a series of novels published from 1920 to 1954.- Drummond :...
" disapproves.
Emma Frost
Emma Frost
Emma Grace Frost is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #129 , and was created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne....
is the name of the White Queen of the Hellfire Club
Hellfire Club (comics)
The Hellfire Club is a fictional society within the Marvel Comics Universe that often comes into confrontation with the mutant superhero team, the X-Men...
in X-Men
X-Men
The X-Men are a superhero team in the . They were created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, and first appeared in The X-Men #1...
comics, a reference to the Avengers episode "A Touch Of Brimstone".
In Superman
Superman
Superman is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in publications by DC Comics, widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born American artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and sold to Detective...
v. 2 #13, both Emma Peel and John Steed made cameo appearances, recruiting the titular hero to capture the Toyman
Toyman
The Toyman is the name of three comic book supervillains and one adolescent superhero in the DC Comics universe. They mostly appear in Superman stories. The first Toyman appeared in Action Comics #64 . His real name is Winslow Schott.The Toyman uses toy-based or toy-themed devices and gimmicks in...
, who had been revised by John Byrne as a British mad scientist
Mad scientist
A mad scientist is a stock character of popular fiction, specifically science fiction. The mad scientist may be villainous or antagonistic, benign or neutral, and whether insane, eccentric, or simply bumbling, mad scientists often work with fictional technology in order to forward their schemes, if...
murdering toy company executives.
Both Emma and John Steed made cameo appearances in the bar scene in the second issue of the 1996 comic book mini-series Kingdom Come
Kingdom Come (comics)
Kingdom Come is a four-issue comic book mini-series published in 1996 by DC Comics. It was written by Alex Ross and Mark Waid and painted in gouache by Ross, who also developed the concept from an original idea...
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