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unusual facts about Patrick Macnee's Ghost Stories


Patrick Macnee's Ghost Stories

The series include such explorations as the legends of The Black Hope Horror, The Tower of London, Harriet’s Ghost and many more.


Death's Door

Death's Door is the eighteenth episode of the fifth series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg, and guest starring Clifford Evans, Allan Cuthbertson, William Lucas, and Marne Maitland.

Gareth Hunt

In 1976, the year after leaving Upstairs Downstairs, Hunt starred alongside Joanna Lumley and Patrick Macnee in The New Avengers.

Girl on the Trapeze

Girl on the Trpeze is the sixth episode of the first series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Ian Hendry, Patrick Macnee and Ingrid Hafner, and guest starring Mia Karam, Howard Goorney, and Kenneth Warren.

Kinky boots

Boots of this type, and specifically the thigh-high leather boots worn by Honor Blackman in her role as Cathy Gale in The Avengers, are referred to in the 1964 song "Kinky Boots" by Blackman and her Avengers co-star Patrick Macnee.

Linda Thorson

Thorson is best known for her role as Tara King (succeeding Diana Rigg as Emma Peel) in the last season of the British TV adventure series, The Avengers, with the original star Patrick Macnee.

Onnig Cavoukian

During his career, Cavouk's subjects included Indira Gandhi, the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth, Oscar Peterson, Pierre and Margaret Trudeau, Leonid Brezhnev, Patrick Macnee, Hubert Humphrey, and Pat Nixon.

Sheffield Repertory Theatre

Actors such as Sir Alec Guinness and Patrick Macnee also performed in individually contracted productions and Sir Donald Wolfit was an assistant stage manager there.

The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E

Leo G. Carroll had died long before the movie began production, so Patrick Macnee was recruited instead to appear as an entirely different character, Sir John Raleigh, who had, presumably, taken over as Number 1 of Section I, the Director of U.N.C.L.E., after Alexander Waverly had either retired or died, and Carroll's photograph was displayed prominently in many scenes that featured Macnee's Sir John.

The Valiant Years

One of the program's London-based producers was actor Patrick Macnee, just prior to his being cast as secret agent John Steed in the long-running cult TV series The Avengers.

We Love TV

Famous people who appeared on the show included actors Jessica Martin, Windsor Davies, Patrick Macnee and comedian Ernie Wise.


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