Category Archives: New Avengers

General Mills UK Toy Group New Product Review 1977

Very interesting booklet detailing the new products for the coming year, with estimates of sales, tooling costs, cost to produce per item and suggested UK selling price. Launch dates etc.

Includes details of Zorro doll, Bionic Woman and six million dollar man items. Emu and Basil Brush items. The New Avengers Purdey doll. Details a Goodies game, a That’s Life game and also a Multi Coloured Swap Shop game. Where these ever issued? Detailed but not photographed are Man from Atlantis action figures and Star Wars items.

Denys Fisher ’78 General Sales Cat

1978 General sales catalogue for Denys Fisher Toys details their range of Toys.

Includes details of model kits of C-3PO and R2D2 from Star Wars. Board games for The Generation Game, It’s a Knockout, Swap Shop, and Morecambe and Wise. New Avengers products are shown, as well as super heroes games, George v Mildred dice game. Angels dolls and Hospital. Basil Brush and Emu items. A Doctor who range of dolls, Batman items.

 

1977 Denys Fisher Catalogue

Trade Catalogue for the General Sales Division of Denys Fisher. Shows much of the range of Toys that the firm would be producing that year.

The cover features the New Avengers. Inside are all sorts of products relating to this, Dr Who and others, such as the Generation Game and It’s a Knockout games produced by the firm.

There is quite as selection of James Hunt items, as he had just won the F1 World Championship the previous year.

Featured in this catalogue are the New Avengers dolls of Purdey, Steed and Gambit. Of which only the Purdey doll was to see production.  Though not quite in the form promoted here , as it was to originally have had a push button leg kick action. The unissued steed figure was to have had a fencing lunge move with an umbrella that converted to sword, while Gambit was to have had a Karate chop type move. (It is believed that Steed and Gambit may have seen a limited issue in South Africa , for more details visit the Mego online museum)

Also shown are the New Avengers board game and Shooting game in their prototype forms. ( I wonder what happened to them)

The range of Doctor Who doll is illustrated showing the Dalek, Cyberman, Giant Robot, TARDIS, Doctor and Leela figures that appeared in the Range. Also the Doctor Who and War of the Daleks board games are shown.

A range of Dolls for the BBC hospital series Angels are also shown with a hospital ward for the nurses. Was this ever issued?

Several Batman toys based on the Sixties TV series (which was still being shown in the UK at this time) were also featured.

Look In Annual © 1979

Look In Annual published by Independent Television Publications Ltd.
Contains features, photographs and strips on various television and film shows of the period, Also various groups and singers are featured.
Contents include feature on Science fiction (with photographs from Doctor Who, Star Wars, Superman, Spiderman, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Sapphire and Steel, Buck Rogers in the 25th century), Sapphire and Steel, Small piece on New Avengers, Space 1999, Charlie’s Angels, Happy Days.
Original Price £1.45

Look In 1977 no 36

Look In 3rd September 1977
Contains features, photographs and strips on various television and film shows of the period, Also various groups and singers are featured.
Regular strips at this time included: The Six million Dollar Man, The Tomorrow People, the Bionic Woman.
Regular feature the worlds of Gerry Anderson. This week on Thunderbirds.
Feature on David Soul (Starsky and Hutch), Small photograph of Joanna Lumley in the New Avengers.
Original Price 10p

Look In 1980 no 38 Benny Hill Cover.

Look In 13th September 1980.
Contains features, photographs and strips on various television and film shows of the period, Also various groups and singers are featured.
Regular strips at this time included: Battlestar Galatica, Worzal Gummidge, Charlie’s Angels, Sapphire and Steel, Mork and Mindy.
Small photographs from the New Avengers, the Saint and Moonraker.
Original Price 15p

 

Look In comic 1978 No 37 Return of the Saint cover

Look in comic for 19th September 1978.
Features the Return of the Saint on the cover.
Contains features, photographs and strips on various television and film shows of the period, Also various groups and singers are featured.
Regular comic strips at this time were Six million dollar man, Logan’s Run, The Bionic woman.
Photo of Joanna Lumley.
Original Price 10p

 

Look In comic 1977 No 37 New Avengers cover

Look in comic for 10th September 1977.

Features the New Avengers on the cover.

Contains features, photographs and strips on various television and film shows of the period, Also various groups and singers are featured.

Regular comic strips at this time were Six million dollar man, The tomorrow people, The Bionic woman. Regular feature at the time was the worlds of Gerry Anderson, this week it featured Space 1999.

Original Price 10p

ITV THEMES – STANLEY BLACK & LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

ITV THEMES – STANLEY BLACK & LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

A RARE L.P. RELEASED IN 1988 ON PICKWICK LABEL CAT. NO — SHM 3247

SIDE ONE –

THUNDERBIRDS, THE PROFESSIONALS, THE AVENGERS, THE NEW AVENGERS, JEWEL IN THE CROWN, UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS, THE DUCHESS OF DUKE STREET, BLACK BEAUTY ( GALLOPING HOME ), MINDER ( I COULD BE SO GOOD FOR YOU ), THE TWO OF US, HAPPY DAYS, TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED

SIDE TWO –

CORONATION STREET, THE SWEENEY, THE BILL ( OVERKILL ), HANNAY, WORLD OF SPORT, AZTEC GOLD, CARMEN TO THE RING, SAINT AND GREAVSIE, HILL STREET BLUES, L.A. LAW, HOOPER MAN, THE ‘A’ TEAM, THIS IS YOUR LIFE, HIGHWAY BLOCKBUSTERS

New Avengers – Cybernauts UK Hardback

New Avengers Hardback (5)The following year 1977 Arthur Baker Ltd published two more hardbacks  relating to the New Avengers, primarily for libraries.

Once again these books were novelizations of various episodes of the New Avengers series.

The Cybernauts By Peter Cave.

Original Price £3.95

New Avengers – House UK Hardback

New Avengers HardbackIn 1976 Arthur Baker Ltd published three hardbacks  relating to the New Avengers, primarily for libraries.

Unlike the books issued for the original Avengers series these books were novelizations of various episodes of the New Avengers series.

The first of these was House of Cards By Peter Cave.

Original Price £3.75

New Avengers Fight Hardback

New Avengers Hardback (4)The following year 1977 Arthur Baker Ltd published two more hardbacks  relating to the New Avengers, primarily for libraries.

Once again these books were novelizations of various episodes of the New Avengers series.

Fighting Men  By Justin Cartright.

Original Price £3.75

New Avengers – Rat UK Hardback

New Avengers Hardback (3)In 1976 Arthur Baker Ltd published three hardbacks  relating to the New Avengers, primarily for libraries.

Unlike the books issued for the original Avengers series these books were novelizations of various episodes of the New Avengers series.

The third of these was To Catch a Rat By Walter Harries.

Original Price £3.75

New Avengers – Eagle UK Hardback

New Avengers Hardback (2)In 1976 Arthur Baker Ltd published three hardbacks  relating to the New Avengers, primarily for libraries.

Unlike the books issued for the original Avengers series these books were novelizations of various episodes of the New Avengers series.

The second of these was The Eagles Nest  By John Carter.

Original Price £3.75

John Steed – An Authorised Biography

IMG_7317A fictional Biography of Steed was published in 1977, published by Weidenfield & Nicolson. It was written by Tim Heald, and tells of Steeds early life up to his first meeting with Cathy Gale. While it was titled as Vol 1 Jealous in Honour, a second volume sadly did not materialise.

Original Price £4.95

Cloth Patch

New Avengers PatchCloth Patch featuring the New Avengers. Produced by Kingfisher patches in 1976, unknown if this was licensed or not. It is approximately two to two and a half inches square, and could either be glued or sewn on clothing or bags, or just about anywhere.

New Avengers – Rat USA Paperback

New Avengers 3rd USAIn 1978 Berkley Medallion Books published the first three British paperbacks  relating to the New Avengers in the USA.

The third of these was To Catch a Rat By Walter Harries.

Original price $1.50

New Avengers – Fight UK Paperback

New Avengers fightingThe following year 1977 was to see Futura Books produced a further three paperbacks  relating to the New Avengers.

Once again these books were novelizations of various episodes of the New Avengers series.

Fighting Men  By Justin Cartright

Original price 60p

New Avengers – Hostage UK Paperback

New avengers hostageThe following year 1977 was to see Futura Books produced a further three paperbacks  relating to the New Avengers.

Once again these books were novelizations of various episodes of the New Avengers series.

Hostage By Peter Cave

Original price 65p

New Avengers – Cybernauts UK Paperback

New Avengers CybernautsThe following year 1977 was to see Futura Books produced a further three paperbacks  relating to the New Avengers.

Once again these books were novelizations of various episodes of the New Avengers series.

The Cybernauts By Peter Cave

Original price 65p

New Avengers – Rat UK Paperback

New Avengers ratIn 1976 Futura Books produced three paperbacks  relating to the New Avengers.

Unlike the books issued for the original Avengers series these books were novelizations of various episodes of the New Avengers series.

The third of these was To Catch a Rat By Walter Harries

Original Price 60p

New Avengers – Eagle UK Paperback

New Avengers EaglesIn 1976 Futura Books produced three paperbacks  relating to the New Avengers.

Unlike the books issued for the original Avengers series these books were novelizations of various episodes of the New Avengers series.

The second of these was The Eagles Nest  By John Carter

Original price 60p

New Avengers – House UK Paperback

New Avengers house New Avengers house (2)In 1976 Futura Books produced three paperbacks  relating to the New Avengers.

Unlike the books issued for the original Avengers series these books were novelizations of various episodes of the New Avengers series.

The first of these was House of Cards By Peter Cave. This copy has been autographed by Joanna Lumley.

Original price 55p