Saints and Avengers: British Adventure Series of the 1960s

by James Chapman

Overview

Eccentric, ironic and fantastic series like The Avengers and Danger Man, with their professional secret agents, or The Saint and The Persuaders, featuring flamboyant crime-fighters, still inspire mainstream and cult followings. Saints and Avengers explores and celebrates this television genre for the first time. Saints and Avengers uses case studies to look, for example, at the adventure series' representations of national identity and the world of the sixties and seventies. Chapman also proves his central thesis: that this particular type of thriller was a historically and culturally defined generic type, with enduring appeal, as the current vogue for remaking them as big budget films attests.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781860647536
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/26/2002
Series:	Popular Television Genres
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

James Chapman is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the Open University and is the author of The British at War and Licence to Thrill (both I.B.Tauris)

Table of Contents

Dirty Work: Danger Man
• Is There Honey Still for Tea? The Avengers
• The English Knight Errant: The Saint
• Swinging Britain: Adam Adamant Lives!
• Have Gun, Will Travel: Man in a Suitcase
• Return from Shangri-La: The Champions
• The Marie Celeste: Department S
• The Ghostly Detectives: Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
• The Bohemian Touch: Jason King
• The Special Relationship: The Persuaders!