Mike Gambit was a character in the British

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 TV series The New Avengers

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. Played by actor Gareth Hunt

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Alan Leonard Hunt was an English actor, known as Gareth Hunt, best remembered for playing the footman Frederick Norton in Upstairs, Downstairs and Mike Gambit in The New Avengers.-Early life:...

, Gambit was a secret agent

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 and former Major

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 in the Parachute Regiment and had a short-lived career as a race car driver

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. Gambit was somewhat of a mystery, his past never being too thoroughly dealt with. He lived in an apartment with a Modern architecture

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 design style. He was romantically interested in Purdey, often flirting with her during their work together.

Gambit was Steed's first male partner since Drs. David Keel and Martin King

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 in the original The Avengers

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nearly 15 years earlier.