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2000 |
The Avengers
2000 |
United States
of America |
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Alanna Sandry opens an
Avengers website for the new millennium. The site contains
a basic Series 4 episode guide, fan fiction, trivia and details of
how to join the site's Avengers club! |
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2000 |
Cybernaut —
Locations of The Avengers |
United Kingdom |
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John Dineley's
location based website, Cybernaut, moves to a new web host
where it remains until closure. |
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2000 |
Diana Rigg
Picture Gallery |
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Jason Baucom's picture
gallery moves to a new address. |
URL:
http://frodisman.com/dianarigg.html |
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2000 |
Joanna Lumley —
The Ultimate Fan Site |
United Kingdom |
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Eddie Norris launches a
fansite devoted to Joanna Lumley, who portrayed Purdey in The
New Avengers. The site contains a biography of Joanna and
information regarding her career. |
URL:
http://web.onetel.net.uk/~eddienorris/Joanna/ |
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2000 |
My Front Tomb —
The Avengers |
United Kingdom |
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He7en's
Avengers page is added to her My Front Tomb website in 2000. It is
still there today, attractive but unchanging. |
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2000 |
My Small Page
About
The Avengers |
United States
of America |
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Mikel's
Avengers page is indeed small, and contains just two brief
biographies, one for John Steed and the other for Emma Peel. |
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January 2000 |
Transdiffusion
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ABC, Your Weekend TV |
United Kingdom |
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Transdiffusion
open an page on their website
devoted to ABC Television, the company which produced
The Avengers. A page for The Avengers itself is added
in January 2001. |
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January to
March 2000 |
The Avengers
Forever |
United States
of America |
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In the early months of 2000,
The Avengers Forever welcomes a number of first time
contributors who become regular writers, including Anthony
McKay, Francis Hui, Mike Cheney and Carlos
Pagés. Anthony will later join David K. Smith at
TheAvengers.TV, bring his A Guide to Avengerland on
board. Carlos will do likewise with his own website, Los
Vengadores. |
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29th
January 2000 |
Andrew's
Autograph Heaven —
The Avengers |
United Kingdom |
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Andrew Bird adds a
handful of Avengers pages to his Andrew's Autograph
Heaven website. His site is effectively a gallery of the
autographs he has collected over the years, including those of
Avengers stars. |
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30th
January 2000 |
Second Sight —
The Avengers Image Archive |
United Kingdom |
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After a
blink-and-you'll-miss-it launch on Christmas Day 1999, followed by
the host removing the site from view the next day, Alan and
Alys Hayes' Second Sight — The Avengers Image Archive
is relaunched on a new web host, xoom.com. The site is
instantly popular, not least because of the presentation of more
than 60 rare images from lost Series 1 episodes. |
URL (moved 2001):
http://members.xoom.com/sec2sight
(via
www.second-sight.uni.cc)
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Spring 2000 |
The Avengers
Shrine |
United States
of America |
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The sort of website that has
you reaching for the sunglasses. You just try reading it without
getting a migraine... |
URL:
www.itsmysite.com/cgi-bin/itsmy/go.exe?page=2&domain=1&webdir=murder |
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March 2000 |
The Young
Avengers —
A Division of The Avengers
Forever |
United Kingdom |
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Joseph Lloyd's pages at
The Avengers Forever are fanned out into a separate site,
but are still linked to David K. Smith's site. |
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17th March
2000 |
The Avengers —
Noon: Doomsday |
United Kingdom |
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Alan Hayes of Second
Sight — The Avengers Image Archive submits a guest
essay to Mike Noon's Noon: Doomsday which focuses on the
South African radio version of The Avengers. This will lead
to a major collaboration between the two webmasters and Alan's
wife Alys later in the year. |
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31st March
2000 |
The
(Permenent) Avengers Shrine |
United States
of America |
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The (Permenent) Avengers Shrine |
Chris Murphy
opens his Avengers shrine, badging it 'Permenent' [sic].
Built with the co-operation of The Avengers Forever's David
K. Smith, the site features some decent articles compared to other
small Avengers sites. The site has gone some way to living
up to Murphy's claim to permanence as it was still live more than
two
decades later. |
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July 2000 |
Kult TV —
The Avengers
(Official Licensed Site) |
United Kingdom |
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An officially licensed website
from Contender/Kult TV to accompany and publicise their
home video releases in the United Kingdom. |
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2nd August
2000 |
Tara-ra-boom-di-ay —
The Linda Thorson Tribute Pages |
United Kingdom |
TARA-RA-
BOOM-DI-AY |
After a year at its original
location, Chris Johnson's site relaunches at this new address and
is revamped. |
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22nd August
2000 |
Patrick Macnee
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<patrickmacnee.com> |
United States
of America |
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Rupert Macnee opens his
father's official website. The site consists of news, biographical
information, a screenography, images, audio and video. It also
features exclusive material from Patrick Macnee himself and the
opportunity to purchase signed books, photographs and other items. |
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13th October
2000 |
The Avengers on
the Radio |
United Kingdom |
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Alan Hayes, Alys Hayes
and Mike Noon open a new website The Avengers on
the Radio, which is dedicated specifically to the South
African radio adaptations of the early 1970s. Work commenced on
the site in April 2000 and it has been put together in
consultation with Donald Monat, the radio John Steed, and other
members of the cast and crew. Many well-known names contribute to
the site (which is now a part of The Avengers Declassified),
including David K. Smith, Andrew Pixley and
Carlos Pagés. |
URL (moved 2001):
http://members.madasafish.com/~secondsight/index.htm
(via
www.radio-avengers.uni.cc) |
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15th
October 2000 |
Wacky Genre TV
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The Avengers |
United States
of America |
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The producers of the website
Wacky Genre TV add a section about "all things wackygenre and
British", and this includes The Avengers. They 'borrow' and
crudely adapt David K. Smith's The Avengers Forever
logo without permission. Naughty! |
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18th
October 2000 |
The Avengers —
Chapeau Melon et Bottes de Cuir
(Official StudioCanal Site) |
France |
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StudioCanal, owners of The
Avengers series since 1996, launch their own official website
to coincide with their home video releases in France and (through
Kult TV/Contender) in the United Kingdom. The site is in two
languages, French and English, and is coded in HTML and Flash
variants. |
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December
2000 |
The Avengers |
France |
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This new French site launches
and creates a storm — and not for the right reasons — for it
plunders large swathes of David K. Smith's site The
Avengers Forever. The site is quickly taken down and replaced with a holding page
displaying the series logo against a bright pink background. |
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20th
December 2000 |
Yahoo! Group —
The New Avengers |
International |
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A members-only discussion group
is set up for fans of The New Avengers at Yahoo! Groups.
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URL:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/The_New_Avengers/ |
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