Ah, the Avengers, British television at its campest, funniest and most stylish.
I confess to shamelessly ripping my flirting technique from Diana Rigg and even copying her haircut when I was 16. It worked, I got that higher class of boyfriend who takes you out for a drink before lunging for your bra straps.
The Avengers owes a lot to Johnson's theme, recorded with a full orchestra for ATV. Lush, opulent, strings are undermined utterly rink dink piano. Perfect, atmospheric, and sets you up for both the sublime and the ridiculous.
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Probably No 2 on my list of TV themes after Dr Who. Again, the original is best not, the slightly altered later version and NOT the New Avengers (Joanna Lumley was SO much better in 'Sapphire and Steel').
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