>Are you at all familiar with an Avengers episode from 1968, featuring a youthful Cleese with a full head of hair, plus such lovely people as Jimmy Jewel, Bernard Cribbins and Talfryn "Dad's Army" Thomas?
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It was the clown one, Cleese was in charge of a room with all the clown faces painted on eggs. In my Life of Python book this isn't listed in his CV.

Sorry if Jake if you were planning on stumping Joe, anyway he probably know far more about it than me, as I only saw the ep. once and was fairly stunned to see Cleese in it, well not that stunned.

No, my motive isn't stumping, not at all! I'll explain, it's a longtime pipe dream. I love that episode, and ages ago I read in a fanzine that in the late 60's, a scumbag film distributor in Portugal edited together two Emma Peel Avengers eps (NEVER, NEVER SAY DIE with Christopher Lee, and THE SUPERLATIVE SEVEN with Donald Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling and Brian Blessed), and passed them off as a film. It occurred to me than that Lee did another Avengers later, by which time Linda Thorson was Tara King, so if someone tried to do a similar unauthorised film, which Tara episode (for continuity's sake) would be edited in alongside it? On the strength of Cleese's name, it'd have to be LOOK, STOP ME etc., plus C. Lee's second ep (THE INTERROGATORS) was directed by Charles Crichton anyway: I also decided that given LOOK, STOP ME's plot, a great title for this fake film would be LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT KILLERS. Just recently, I've been indulging my lifetime obsession of collecting film posters (it's so much easier and cheaper to download them, thank God), and the idea of an L.E. KILLERS poster came back to me, only I can't draw to save my life. Would Joe be interested? More to the point, can I afford him?

Ah I see, I was only joking about the stumping thing.

A film from two spliced together episodes? Bizarre (but then again the Italians were notorius for making films with exactly the same name as a big hit, so it's not that bizarre I s'pose)

Cleese was only in it for 2mins before getting whacked, wasn't he? LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT KILLERS (I could be one of them, I'd fucking have Des O'Conner)

The episode is called 'Let Me Know If You've Heard This One Before (But There Were These Two Fellers).'

Jake,

joe4sotcaa@yahoo.co.uk

Cheers for that. I'll get back to you. Toodle-pip, as Steed would no doubt say.