I do love The Avengers. Even though BBC4 have got to the end of the Emma Peel era and seem to have stopped there, my DVDs arrived from amazon.com the other day, so now Thursday night is still The Avengers. For another 25 episodes anyway, which ought to keep me going for a while.

The interesting thing was the documentary about it on the bonus disk. I already knew what Honor Blackman looks like now because I remember her in a comedy series many years ago with Joe McGann. So I got to see what she looked like then (totally different!). Diana Rigg sounds different - which I knew because she was on Radio 2 recently - but doesn't look as if it's been 40 years at all.

I also re-watched Genesis of the Daleks. I saw this when they repeated a few stories when I was in the third year at uni (I don't like to think to much about what actual year that was because it's too depressing) but I didn't remember anything about it.

Some of the cliffhangers were a bit iffy, but then I think that's the problem with having to have a cliffhanger at the end of every episode, and this story had six episodes. Davros was, well, horrid. Not just in the sense of him not being a nice person, but generally. The daleks I just wanted to pat on the head, they were so sweet.

The commentary was interesting too. I found out that Ian Marter, who played Harry, died suddenly nearly 20 years ago, which I didn't know. And looking at the imdb, I keep finding that half the actors in Doctor Who have been in Blakes 7 as well. But then given that half the actors in Blakes 7 seem to be doing the Big Finish CDs, that seems fair.

Because I have 70-odd DVDs on my amazon rental list (I keep thinking of things I want to watch, it's terrible) I signed up to screenselect to use their free month (and I have a list of other places who do free months I can use). Only trouble now is I've had about enough of the Tom Baker era as I can take. So Drop the Dead Donkey is a nice contrast! The next Doctor Whos on my list are Jon Pertwees, which I'm looking forward to because I really like his Doctor.