Diana Rigg

[mitchspur]

Originally Posted by AceXX

Low res picture of Diana that I've scanned I think from a stage play she was in.


njoy


AceXX

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It was indeed from a play called 'Jumpers' and I'm reliably told she was writhing around on a bed completely starkers

[carolaholic]

Thanks for the clips. I should point out, however, that I once read that in the scenes where Mrs. Peel's head is actually underwater, the body on camera is a stunt double. Don't remember where I read that, though it was at least a decade ago. Anyway, I have to remember not to get too excited over a stranger's bod. . . .

[carolaholic]

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Originally Posted by stralis440

Not a lot to be said really. Diana doing the dance of the 7 veils. Who`d have thought it

Actually, it was described as the dance of the six veils in the episode ("Honey for the Prince"). When the Arab prince complained that she had only dropped six veils, Steed explained to him that "she was poorly educated." At the time (mid-1960s), women's navels couldn't be shown on an American TV show (it apparently changed a few years later, since the Dean Martin show in the early 1970s had dancing girls showing their navels), and I once heard her on some talk show complaining that the representatives from the American Broadcasting Company, which was going to show the program in the USA, insisted that she had to have a jewel in the navel, and the jewel kept coming out during shooting, requiring retakes. After all that trouble, I think (though I could be wrong) that Honey for the Prince was one of the Avengers b&w episodes which wasn't shown by ABC, so that we Yanks had to wait most of a decade for the show to go into syndication to see it. Aside from Rigg's skimpy outfit, the TV censors may have been bothered by the woman who's massaging one of the bad guys with her bare feet . . .

I also recall that another mid-1960s TV show with bikini-clad dancers strutting their stuff while some pop music nonentity with a present hit lip-synced to the song -- may have been Hullabaloo -- had to hide the dancers' navels with some sort of makeup. I never watched the show, whichever show it was, but I remember a TV critic making fun of them for the great navel cover-up.

[carolaholic]

Originally Posted by lovegod;

Maybe a series was 25 back then,
though I would have thought they'd call a series a shorter
run say 13 ?
25 seems like half a year to me !

I guess Diana felt that 50+ episodes was quite enough for one
role, though I dare say the mngment wanted her to stay

As for Patrick, he was just getting into his stride
( I wonder what his episode tally was in the end 300 ? 400 ? )
You could say he grew into the role !

Actually, 25 was short by American TV show standards of the 1960s, which usually shot 35 or 36 episodes of a show each season. One result of this was that if you missed a show back then, a decade before VCRs, you couldn't depend on seeing it in summer reruns, since there wasn't enough time to show all the programs a second time.

[carolaholic]

Actually, she definitely had a nude scene in Abelard & Heloise in England, and in the USA in New York and Los Angeles. My brother saw the one in New York, though I missed out, grumble, grumble.

I've read that she did a strip tease in Jumpers during its London run while singing and sitting on a stylized crescent moon suspended above the stage, though the account didn't say how much she peeled (pun somewhat intended). This info about the bed scene is a new one to me. Jumpers did get across the pond eventually, but when it got to New York a different actress was in the part and I could have seen it, living in Brooklyn at the time, but didn't.

[carolaholic]

Originally Posted by stralis440

... While I`m at, you know I can`t resist a bit of leg so here`s another clip from the same episode, which I believe is Carol Cleveland

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You're right, that is Carol Cleveland, years before Monty Python.

[carolaholic]

Originally Posted by AceXX

Low res picture of Diana that I've scanned I think from a stage play she was in.



Enjoy


AceXX

The play might be The Misanthrope (in New York in the mid-1970s; alas, with no nude scene). If it were in color, I could be more sure. Looks like the hairdo and dress she wore in the play (same dress throughout the play).

[carolaholic]

Originally Posted by stralis440

Diana in Series 4, Episode 5 of "The Avengers" titled Castle De`ath"





Mpeg2, 68Mb, 2:58sec
http://rapidshare.com/files/143181708/diana_rigg.06.mpg

The scenes of her on the trampoline are from a different Avengers b&w episode -- The Master Minds.

[hollyfan]

joxr_nld

Actually for future reference there have been lots of posts already of Diana Rigg as Lady Hellfire


http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...47&postcount=2

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...7&postcount=50

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...7&postcount=57

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...8&postcount=58

And the Sense of History clip has been posted as well.

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...47&postcount=2

So please check what people have posted before reposting or at least show that you've reviewed the thread by stating what makes your repost unique (different version, hi-res, etc.)

[koekiemonster]

Originally Posted by carolaholic

P.S. I dunno why, but the first pic, top row, came out with diagonal stripes across it. They're not on the original page, nor are there stripes on the opposite side of that page. This didn't happen with the other pics, though only this one was a full-page pic, if that has something to do with it. Maybe I need a better scanner . . .

There's nothing wrong with your scanner
Those stripes are caused by something called the Moiré effect, It happens when the grid of the magazine interferes with the grid of your scanner, when it happens, move or rotate the magazine very slightly and scan again to get rid of moiré stripes, it will not always work, but it's easy to try
[edit]You're welcome , nice to know it worked out fine!