I was watching The Avengers Age of Ultron when my eye was directed toward the lovely actress Scarlett Johansson’s character Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow she was hot even if her love interest in the film was the Hulk. Like most things these days, a memory popped into my head of the Avengers TV series and the delectable Emma Peel and Sunday Crush.
There were many a female sidekick for Patrick Macnee as John Steed but my favourite was always Diana Rigg as Emma Peel. Every bit the equal to her crime-solving companion John Steed, Emma Peel was far from the typical damsel in distress of most spy fiction. She was no Bond type girl wallflower although she did actually marry James Bond in ‘On her Majesty's Secret Service’.
When I discovered the show, it was in the early 1970s via reruns I was instantly attracted to Emma Peel. She knew several martial arts and could dispatch any number of evil henchmen with ease. Nevertheless, she was more than just a lethal weapon, she also had a solid scientific background and often proved herself more intellectually capable—and quicker with a finely turned witticism—than Steed.
Rigg’s slinky costumes didn’t hurt the viewing figures either – never more so than in the episode A Touch of Brimstone, wherein when she donned black boots, a corset and a spiked collar, with a snake as a Marquis de Sade accoutrement. She was always a dedicated follower of fashion looking super cool every bit the 1960s hit girl about town. She could be my sidekick any day in fact she would be in my top 10. Only nine to go.
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