Episode 9.9

This nasty episode carries an unusual 18 Certificate and has been disowned by the scriptwriter as the product of the drug Venlafaxine. No one is allowed to test positive for Venlafaxine on set any more as a result.

Perusing the script for this Avengers film – Emma Peel and Steed, not the Marvel comics – Alan and TW find that Sean Connery is a mad scientist aiming at increasing climate change with a large weather machine. Normally, they would have played this out and no doubt overcome him at the end of the third act. But frankly, the climate disaster has been allowed to go too far already. And so, going off script within the first scene and even before Connery has donned his teddy bear costume, they break his skull with the Saucer’s meat tenderiser and pull out his ‘vile jellies’ with the apple corer. Even if he were to survive his horrendous injuries – unlikely! – they have surely saved the viewer from any Scottish-accented drolleries he might have gone on to make. 

Just time for a selfie with Alan in his bowler hat.