Except it was all actually rather fine, rather classy and just beautifully and perceptively put together. Patrick MacNee and Diana Rigg are both superb in all 26 episodes, can't fault a single step of this journey.
These episodes are from the French prints, still in English but with Dutch subtitles that can be switched off. The print quality does vary and the titles have been crudely pasted over with French versions, but otherwise the experience is sound. Actually, the French titles are quite basic and literal and conveyt little meaning much of the time. "The Quick-Quick Slow Death" has style as a title, but the translation, from memory, was something like "Dance of Death" which has none of the quizzical nature of the original. A dead translation.
The other nice thing was that within this series are episodes that we have not seen before. Excellent to see something new!
Now for some ratings:
The Town of No Retrurn
![5 Star 5s](./images/smilies/star5.gif)
The Gravediggers
![5 Star 5s](./images/smilies/star5.gif)
The Cybernauts
![4 Star 4s](./images/smilies/star4.gif)
Death at Bargain Prices
![5 Star 5s](./images/smilies/star5.gif)
Castle De'ath
![5 Star 5s](./images/smilies/star5.gif)
The Master Minds
![5 Star 5s](./images/smilies/star5.gif)
The Murder Market
![5 Star 5s](./images/smilies/star5.gif)
A Surfeit of H2O
![5 Star 5s](./images/smilies/star5.gif)
The Hour That Never Was
![4 Star 4s](./images/smilies/star4.gif)
Dial a Deadly Number
![4 Star 4s](./images/smilies/star4.gif)
Man-Eater of Surrey Green
![5 Star 5s](./images/smilies/star5.gif)
Two's a Crowd
![5 Star 5s](./images/smilies/star5.gif)
Too Many Christmas Trees
![5 Star 5s](./images/smilies/star5.gif)
Silent Dust
![5 Star 5s](./images/smilies/star5.gif)
Room Without a View
![5 Star 5s](./images/smilies/star5.gif)
Small Game for Big Hunters
![5 Star 5s](./images/smilies/star5.gif)
The Girl From Auntie
![5 Star 5s](./images/smilies/star5.gif)
The Thirteenth Hole
![5 Star 5s](./images/smilies/star5.gif)
Quick-Quick Slow Death
![5 Star 5s](./images/smilies/star5.gif)
The Danger Makers
![5 Star 5s](./images/smilies/star5.gif)
A Touch of Brimstone
![4 Star 4s](./images/smilies/star4.gif)
What The Butler Saw
![5 Star 5s](./images/smilies/star5.gif)
The House That Jack Built
![5 Star 5s](./images/smilies/star5.gif)
A Sense of History
![5 Star 5s](./images/smilies/star5.gif)
How To Succeed...At Murder
![5 Star 5s](./images/smilies/star5.gif)
Honey For The Prince
![4 Star 4s](./images/smilies/star4.gif)
And for every episode they manage to find a tag scene involving Steed and Mrs Peel and some form of transport....and for most intros a new way for Steed to send the message, "Mrs Peel...we're needed!"