HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE LOVELY LUMLEY!

TODAY MARKS THE BIRTHDAY of a very special B'day girl, Joanna Lumley! She appeared as Peter Cushing's granddaughter, in quick bit of recasting for Hammer in The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) and also appeared with Cushing in The Eagle's Nest the first of the new series 'The New Avengers in 1976. The first episode established the new team, Gareth Hunt as Mike Gambit, Joanna Lumley as Purdey and Patrick Macnee as John Steed.

LUMLEY'S SECTION OF 'THE NEW AVENGERS' TITLE SEQUENCE!

Peter Cushing, Derek Farr, Joanna Lumley and Gareth Hunt in 'The Eagle's Nest' episode one of 'The New Avengers' 1976 

ABOVE: An interesting and rare peep at both Peter Cushing and Joanna Lumley on set, during the making of 'The Satanic Rites of Dracula' !

 

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UPDATE: PATRICK MACNEE DIES TODAY AGED 93

As we announced earlier today, the very sad passing of Patrick Macnee, we would also take this opportunity to celebrate that the fact that both Patrick Macnee and Peter Cushing had the opportunity work together working together several times...not just 1968. In 68 Patrick was very much established in a superb tv programme made in the UK called The Avengers...Peter worked with both Patrick and Diana Rigg on this programme.

Then in 1970, Macnee and Cushing both 'landed' in a film called 'Incense For The Damned' aka 'Bloodsuckers' It received a limited release at the time, but seems to have found something of a 'cult-status' in the land of '100 Horror Poor and Weird Film' dvd compilations, these day.

Then in 1978, the Avengers tv series was rebooted and relaunched and in it's first episode, not only brought us Macgee and Cushing ....but also two new side kicks for Macgee, Gareth Hunt as 'Tough man' Gambit and Joanna Lumley as Purdey.....who not only supplied buckets of sex appeal to the tea time Sunday evening programe, but high kicks and a hair style that anyone who considered themselves a bit of a catch, were proudly modeling within days of the first programme being broadcast! Lumley had played Cushing grand-daughter Jessica Van Helsing in Hammer films 'The Satanic rites of Dracula' (1973)

Read all about th Avengers episode with a 'twist'. Right HERE

DRACULA AD 1972 : PETER CUSHING STEPHANIE BEACHAM CHRISTOPHER LEE PUBLICITY SHOT

One of the rare ones, from a set of three poses of Peter as Van Helsing, Christopher Lee as Count Dracula and Stephanie Beacham as Jessica Van Helsing in a quickie on set publicity shot from Hammer Films 'Dracula AD 1972' (Hammer Films. Alan Gibson)