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1996 |
The Avengers!
(or How the British put Bondage
on Prime Time) |
United States
of America |
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It had to happen. The
Avengers as a sub-site of an adult website. Slightly off the
beaten track as you might imagine. Doesn't have much to say, and
the archived version of the site is thankfully eviscerated. |
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1996 |
Bienvenue... The Avengers
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Chapeau Melon et Bottes de Cuir |
France |
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Annie Cordier adds a
page for the 'sιrie culte',
The Avengers, to her website Bienvenue. The site
contains episode guides to the Emma Peel episodes and image
gallery for the same era of the series. |
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1996 |
CultTv
The Avengers & The New Avengers |
United Kingdom |
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George (aka The Master)
set up his CulTv website in 1996 and his Avengers/New
Avengers page was reputedly a complete steal from James Dawe's
The Unofficial Avengers Homepage. No early archives of this site
are available, and the material was removed after protest. The
later version that is archived contains news and reaction to the Warner
Bros. movie and an episode list. |
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1996 |
Fairchild's
Avengers Page |
United Kingdom |
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Jennifer Cumming opens her
site, Fairchild's Avengers Page. The site presents an
episode guide, a brief history of the series and outline guides to
the characters, cars and fashions. |
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1996 |
Looker Online
Chapeau Melon et Bottes de Cuir |
France |
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David Fakrikian, webmaster of
Looker Online, launches pages for The
Avengers and The New Avengers. |
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1996 |
No. 3, Stable
Mews, London |
United States
of America |
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No. 3, Stable Mews, London
was Heather DeLong's Avengers fiction site. Her stories were
contemporary and featured Victoria Elizabeth 'Tori' Steed,
daughter of John Steed. |
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3rd March
1996 |
The Avengers
The Ultimate Episode Guide |
United Kingdom |
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Archive television
enthusiast Chris Perry writes the first Avengers
series guide to be published on the Internet. Chris now runs
Kaleidoscope, an archive television preservation society and
publisher. |
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8th March
1996 |
The New
Avengers
The Ultimate Episode Guide |
United Kingdom |
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Chris Perry also
launches an episode guide for The New Avengers. |
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8th July 1996 |
Elan The
Avengers on the Web |
United Kingdom |
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Alistair McGown opens Elan
The Avengers on the Web. His site quickly becomes one of the
best and most visited Avengers websites in the early years
of Internet activity. Alistair would go on to write a series of
excellent liner notes for many of the Kult TV/Contender VHS home
video releases. He later wrote the excellent encyclopedia of
British children's television drama, The Hill and Beyond. |
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18th August 1996 |
The Avengers
Diabolical Masterminds
and Extraordinary Agents |
United States
of America |
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A landmark for The Avengers
on the Internet when Jackie Lane and Ray Wallace
launch the first American website about the series. The site
boasts Jackie's personal take on The Avengers, plus
character guides to the agents and diabolical masterminds, photos,
a Diana Rigg biography and a look at The Avengers in print. |
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September 1996 |
The Avengers @
dsmith
(The Avengers Forever) |
United States
of America |
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David K. Smith launches
The Avengers @ dsmith (later renamed
The
Avengers Forever). The three pages on offer represent a
humble beginning for the website that will go on to set the
standard for The Avengers on the web into the new
Millennium, but the seeds are there right from the beginning. |
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November
1996 |
alt.tv.avengers |
International |
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alt.tv.avengers |
The first ever discussion group
for The Avengers is started, the newsgroup alt.tv.avengers. |
URL:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.tv.avengers |
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28th
November 1996 |
Sammelsurium:
SK96 |
Germany |
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Stefan Kucinski opens
his German site Sammelsurium: SK96 (which translates as
'Hodgepodge: SK96' in English) dedicated to The Avengers.
It is one of many pages of Stefan's site another is for the
staggeringly brilliant West German sci-fi series Raumpatrouille
Orion, so it's a big thumbs up from us! |
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December
1996 |
The Authorised
Guide to
The New Avengers |
United Kingdom |
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Dave Matthews and
James Pimentel-Pinto open their website
dedicated to The New Avengers and The Professionals,
each having its discrete area. It is notable in that not
only is it a well put together site, it has the official blessing
of Brian Clemens. |
URL (moved 1997):
www.personal.u-net.com/~carnfort/NewAvengers/intro.htm |
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