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1998 |
Avengerland
The Official Website of
The Avengers Dead Man's Treasure Hunt |
United Kingdom |
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Chris Bentley opens
Avengerland, the official website of The Avengers Dead
Man's Treasure Hunt, an annual fan event that is still run
today. The main focus of the website is the filming locations of
the series. |
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1998 |
Granada Sky
Broadcasting
The Avengers
(Officially Licensed Site) |
United Kingdom |
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To tie in with their series of
Avengers reruns on British satellite channel Granada Plus,
Granada Sky Broadcasting produce a brief guide to the
series, along with a specially recorded introduction from
Patrick Macnee. |
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1998 |
People Are
Strange
Diana Rigg |
United States
of America |
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Russ Steffens adds a
Diana Rigg page to People Are Strange, a subsection of his
Strange Fun website. The page features a biography written
by David Lugowski, career highlights, a screenography and
notes about Diana. |
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1998 |
The Quite Quite
Fantastic
Avengers Website, Ltd |
United States
of America |
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Michael Phillips opens
The Quite Quite Fantastic Avengers Website, Ltd, which
quickly becomes one of the most popular Avengers websites
of the early years of Internet activity. |
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1998 |
Avengers
Mailing List @ Suburbia |
International |
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Mark Dorset opens an email mailing list for
Avengers discussions opens at Suburbia.com.au. It moved to a
new address in 2004 and in its final years before it closed it was administered by Howard H. Hayden. |
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1998 |
The Ultimate
Cult TV Page
The Avengers Page |
United Kingdom |
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Set up by Andrew in the
wake of the old CulTv website (established in 1996) having
to move from its metronet.co.uk address, this page replicated some
of the material from there, including The Avengers Page,
which is now simply an episode list. |
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7th January
1998 |
Chapeau Melon
et Bottes de Cuir
(The Avengers) |
Canada |
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Rιjean Gosselin of
Quebec opens a French language page about the series. It is
essentially an episode guide and is not to be confused with the
later websites and forums from France which carried the same name. |
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8th January 1998 |
Dial A for
Avengers |
France |
Dial A for
Avengers |
Jerome Delporte opens
Dial A for Avengers, a French language website complete with
English translation. The site contains a series history, a list of
episodes and photo galleries from the series and the Warner Bros.
movie.
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May 1998 |
A&E Home Video
Original
Avengers
(Officially Licensed Site) |
United States
of America |
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A&E Home Video launch
their official website, Original Avengers, to publicise
their home entertainment releases of the series. The site includes
a shop for the purchase of videos and DVDs, clips from the series,
background information, a demonstration of the digital remastering
of The Avengers, links and message boards. |
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Summer 1998 |
The Avengers
(Official Warner Bros. Website) |
United States
of America |
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The official web presence for
the 1998 Warner Bros. movie, The Avengers starring
Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman and Sean Connery. |
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1st August 1998 |
The Avengers
Forever |
United States
of America |
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Following encouragement from
Jackie Lane of The Avengers Diabolical Masterminds and
Extraordinary Agents and Frances Lash, David K. Smith
relaunches his Avengers website as The Avengers Forever.
It is
destined to become the website of choice for fans of the series
over
the ensuing decade and quite rightly so. |
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12th August 1998 |
Best's Place
The Avengers Cars |
United States
of America |
Best's Place
The Avengers Cars |
Best's Place launches
and details the cars and other vehicles used in The Avengers.
The site was a part of the Avengers Webring. |
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23rd August
1998 |
Tara-ra-boom-di-ay
The Linda Thorson Tribute Pages |
United Kingdom |
TARA-RA-
BOOM-DI-AY |
Chris Johnson's site devoted to
Linda Thorson and Tara King, her character in The Avengers, opens
its doors. |
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28th August
1998 |
Emma Peel |
United States
of America |
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A small, very basic site devoted to Diana Rigg's character,
Emma Peel, opens. The site contains some animated GIFs and
little else. It will prove remarkably long-lived, moves to a new
address in 2004 and is still on the web today! |
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Autumn 1998 |
The Avengers
The Official This Movie Sucks Ass Website |
United States
of America |
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Hardly official, but proof of
the negative reaction the Warner Bros. movie received in the wake
of its summer 1998 release. The site contained comments, quotes
and reviews. Not the most studied of websites, but interesting
reading nonetheless. |
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4th
September 1998 |
Mrs Peel
We're Needed! |
Australia |
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Piers Johnson
relaunches
Mrs
Peel We're Needed! at a new web host, having developed
the new site during August 1998. The revamped site contains an
episode guide, photos of Emma Peel, acknowledgements, links and
resources. |
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2nd October
1998 |
The Authorised
Guide to
The New Avengers |
United Kingdom |
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The Authorised Guide to The
New Avengers, now under the sole control of Dave Matthews,
moves to a new URL. |
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November
1998 |
ET's Avengers
Page |
France |
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Eric Touchard's
ET's Avengers Page moves to a new web address. |
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November
1998 |
Steed & Co. |
France |
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Due to the merger of mygale.org
and multimania.com, the Steed & Co URL is changed. |
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25th
November 1998 |
Steedophilia
The John Steed Website |
United Kingdom |
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STEEDOPHILIA |
Judith M. Galloway
launches her
site, Steedophilia, dedicated to John Steed and the actor
who portrayed him, Patrick Macnee. Before long it is also
home to the Avengers Fiction Circle. |
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3rd
December 1998 |
He! He! He!
With Umbrella, Charm and Bowler |
United Kingdom |
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David Chandler launches
what is undoubtedly the most tongue-in-cheek of the Avengers
websites. With features ranging from faked telesnaps of Series 1's
Diamond Cut Diamond, to faked merchandise and Mike Gambit
as an agony aunt, this is The Avengers Declassified's No. 1
'lost website' of The Avengers. It was a subsite of the
He! He! He! website. |
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26th
December 1998 |
The Unofficial
Avengers Home Page |
Canada |
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James Dawe moves his
site, The Unofficial Avengers Home Page, to a new web host. |
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