RIP Patrick Macnee

[Robert]

Suave and immaculate.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3139387/Avengers-star-Patrick-Macnee-dies-home-California-aged-93.html

[Beowulf]

Doggone it, now there was a likable guy and a real gentleman.

I noticed Diana Rigg retweeted the article about his passing. "Sad news to report yet again: a statement at http://patrickmacnee.com confirms that the Avengers star passed away today. Enough now, 2015, ok?" from SFX magazine, a Twitter account.

He did a very nice show on ghosts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKpA...D9E6945A23A21F

Would've made the perfect Tom Bombadil.

Hope his afterlife is pleasant. RIP Mr. Macknee.

[Robert]

This is where Patrick wanted to be buried :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs2w4YhbCyY

[Mayerling]

Sad news for fans of the real "Avengers". I was lucky enough to see him about 1976 on Broadway in "Sleuth" with Jordan Christopher. Interesting seeing him in that play, as he was the villain.

Jeff

[Rosemary]

'Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow.'

Doggone it, now there was a likable guy and a real gentleman.

I noticed Diana Rigg retweeted the article about his passing. "Sad news to report yet again: a statement at http://patrickmacnee.com confirms that the Avengers star passed away today. Enough now, 2015, ok?" from SFX magazine, a Twitter account.

He did a very nice show on ghosts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKpA...D9E6945A23A21F

Would've made the perfect Tom Bombadil.

Hope his afterlife is pleasant. RIP Mr. Macknee.

I loved him with Diana Rigg..never watched afterwards.
You're so right, a perfect Tom. What I missed the most in LOTR, no Bombadil. No first & last.

[GUT]

Sad

But hopefully it will trigger some re-runs.

[Beowulf]

We have them on over here on a cable channel, Me Tv I think.

But speaking of re-runs, Patrick Macnee had his own website to which he wrote letters. It's fun to read them and in the first one he speaks of how the show was pirated for years and he took an active role in resolving this.

My fav Avengers episode is the one where they go to the Hellfire club. I don't know why but the characters in the club, the atmosphere down there, the plot, and Rigg's great leather outfit are a lot of it.

http://www.patrickmacnee.com/news/letter-01/

[GUT]

We have them on over here on a cable channel, Me Tv I think.

But speaking of re-runs, Patrick Macnee had his own website to which he wrote letters. It's fun to read them and in the first one he speaks of how the show was pirated for years and he took an active role in resolving this.

My fav Avengers episode is the one where they go to the Hellfire club. I don't know why but the characters in the club, the atmosphere down there, the plot, and Rigg's great leather outfit are a lot of it.

http://www.patrickmacnee.com/news/letter-01/

Gave up on paying for TV.

May be on Fox here.

[Pcdunn]

Dear Patrick "John Steed" Macnee-- one of my absolute favorite British actors. I was lucky enough to see his "Avengers" episodes with Diana Rigg when they aired here in the U.S. not very long after their broadcast in the U.K., in the late Sixties or early Seventies. I loved that show, and that gentleman.

Rest in peace, Patrick. I presume "you're needed" somewhere else...

[Phil Carter]

Class act. Period.

Belongs in the same box as David Niven.



Phil

[lynn cates]

Dicky

Hello Phil. I'll say. Never forget David Niven in "Murder by Death."

Don't make they like that anymore.

Hope you are well.

Cheers.
LC

[Robert]

There was a smashing scene in one episode, where Macnee and Terence Alexander conversed entirely in RAF acronyms.

The Hellfire Club was when Steed had to move a pea without getting his fingers chopped off. He solves the problem with his usual resourcefulness.

[Mayerling]

I just recalled that in the season that Linda Thornton was "Tara King" (Diana Rigg's replacement), there was an episode, involving "The Gaslight Ghoul" Mystery of 1888, when a number of "unfortunates" were horribly mutilated and killed by an unknown remembered now as "the Gaslight Ghoul". Steed has to investigate when some foreign diplomats are killed in a similar grizzly manner, and joins "The Gaslight Ghoul" Club. One of his possession was a diary from his grand aunt detailing another, hitherto unknown "Gaslight Ghoul" murder.

Jeff

[kensei]

Fond memories from my youth of watching "The Avengers" in syndication on late night tv. I also enjoyed him as the capable but mildly suffering sidekick to James Bond in "A View to a Kill," in which he ended up giving his life for the cause.

Rest in peace Patrick, you were a fine English gentleman.

[c.d.]

We have them on over here on a cable channel, Me Tv I think.

But speaking of re-runs, Patrick Macnee had his own website to which he wrote letters. It's fun to read them and in the first one he speaks of how the show was pirated for years and he took an active role in resolving this.

My fav Avengers episode is the one where they go to the Hellfire club. I don't know why but the characters in the club, the atmosphere down there, the plot, and Rigg's great leather outfit are a lot of it.

http://www.patrickmacnee.com/news/letter-01/

Diana Rigg was sexy as hell in that show and continued to be quite attractive and sexy well into middle age. Was it Masterpiece Theater where she did the intros?

c.d.