During its 1965 season, the popular television series "The Avengers" featured an episode titled "The Gravediggers" in which trains played a prominent role. Here's a scene which was filmed on along the miniature railway at Stapleford Park in Leicestershire, England:
Bob
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Gotta love Mrs. Peel.
Where is Ironman, Captain America, Hulk, Thor and Black Widow?
Curses! Foiled Again! 
I remember that episode. Classic.
Needs more bound and gagged Diana Rigg and less trains! Humina humina.
Going off-topic, aren't we?
Where is Ironman, Captain America, Hulk, Thor and Black Widow?
I'm wondering the same thing.
Needs more bound and gagged Diana Rigg and less trains! Humina humina.
OK if you insist
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeI3ukxdV6U
Dale H
Gotta love Mrs. Peel.
That's for sure. I had a high school crush on her during the Avengers years. Driving around in her Lotus Europa. She still looked fabulous years later hosting Masterpiece on PBS. She how has a role in the hit show Game of Thrones, and is 74 years old. How she got older - while I didn't - remains a mystery.
Where is Ironman, Captain America, Hulk, Thor and Black Widow?
Who cares, Chris, when the discussion is about EMMA PEEL!!
Great Live steam, bad acting!
Where is Ironman, Captain America, Hulk, Thor and Black Widow?
I'm wondering the same thing.
Ah. Youth...
Rusty
I remember that episode, also, at the time. And I agree . . . oh, I definitely agree . . . more Diana Rigg! She was fantastic then. In fact, decades later she was still incredible as Mrs. Bradley: I'm trying to remember if there is a train in any of those shows, but I think not.
I remember that episode, also, at the time. And I agree . . . oh, I definitely agree . . . more Diana Rigg! She was fantastic then. In fact, decades later she was still incredible as Mrs. Bradley: I'm trying to remember if there is a train in any of those shows, but I think not.
I must be getting old. Not only do I clearly remember that series, but I can still remember the earlier series with Honor Blackman playing Cathy Gale. (Before she found Bond fame as Pussy Galore.) 
Thanks Dale H. Whips and chains and Mrs Peel, oh my. Get me an ARTTISTA catalog and some faux leather STAT.
Took my son to Stapleford Park last year. The railway is only open to the public two weekends per year.
Mason loves the Berkshire as it is the nearest thing to the Polar Express in the UK!
They also have a NYC Niagara which is fantastic.
A great day out if you happen to be in the UK on those weekends.
Check out their web site
They used to have two model Liners that carried passengers on trips round the lake. One rusted away and the other disappeared.
Regards
Nick
At the age I was at the time, if Diana Rigg was in the episode I wouldn't have noticed the trains!
- Mike
Sadly she appeared on this week's Dr. Who. She looked pretty ancient!
Jon 
Dame Diana Rigg is an exceptional actress. I met her once in London XX years ago and she signed an "EMMA PEEL" pic. of herself for me. Years later, she stopped signing those Emma Peel pix because "I no longer look like that."
Makes sense.
Also, if you're a true AVENGERS fan, then you know that the name EMMA PEEL was a play on words: "M Appeal"...that is, "male appeal". Yes. Dame Diana had it.
Sadly she appeared on this week's Dr. Who. She looked pretty ancient!
Jon
Took my son to Stapleford Park last year. The railway is only open to the public two weekends per year.
Mason loves the Berkshire as it is the nearest thing to the Polar Express in the UK!
They also have a NYC Niagara which is fantastic.
A great day out if you happen to be in the UK on those weekends.
Check out their web site
They used to have two model Liners that carried passengers on trips round the lake. One rusted away and the other disappeared.
Regards
Nick
Here's a clip which shows the Berkshire and the Niagara:
Bob
Great looking train.
Terrible acting/plot. Real stinker.
Ahhhh, if we all had the poise of John Steed.
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