This page contains hyperlinks to snapshots of old versions of websites that are preserved archive.org's Wayback Machine. Occasionally, images on these archived sites will be missing, but they are linked to to give a general idea of the sites as they appeared at or near the time concerned, providing a nostalgic trip down memory lane for Avengers fans.

2002

 Anne's Stuff, and 'The Avengers'
United Kingdom
Anne Louise opens her Avengers fiction page, which contains five of her stories which centre mostly on the relationship between Steed and Mrs Peel.
URL:
www.geocities.com/loadsofbrolly
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2002

 A Bit of... The Avengers
United States
of America
Robert Haycock's site moves to a new address.
URL:
http://theavengers.0catch.com/index.html
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2002

 Collector's Homepage —
The Avengers
Germany
Thomas Staedeli adds a page for his Avengers autographs (Patrick Macnee's and Diana Rigg's) alongside a brief biography of each.
URL:
www.cyranos.ch/aveng-e.htm
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2002

 Honor Blackman Official
United States
of America
Larry Green Productions open an officially authorised site for the actress Honor Blackman. The site offers signed photographs in its store.
URL:
http://honor-blackman.com/index.shtml
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2002

 Serie TV — Agente Speciale
Italy
The fan website Serie TV, dedicated to classic television series of the 1960s to 1980s, launches. Run by Renata and Claudio Secco Bertola and Giuseppe Turdo, the site includes a set of pages about The Avengers.
URL (moved 2013):
www.serietv.net/agente_speciale/index.htm
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2002

 The Sword and the Quill —
Rough Magic
United States
of America
James Lincoln Warren and Margaret P. Warren launch a joint site to share their writings. Margaret's works include Rough Magic, an Avengers novel which remains available via the web archive.
URL:
www.swordquill.com/index.htm
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1st January 2002

 Yahoo! Group —
Emma Peel
International
David Edge opens a Yahoo! discussion group, the first to be dedicated entirely to the character of Emma Peel.
URL:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EmmaPeel/
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18th January 2002

 Los Vengadores
Argentina
Not content with running the first Spanish language Avengers site on the Internet, Carlos Pagés launches an English language mini-site within Los Vengadores. Many of the site's Spanish pages have been translated into English by Carlos and Susana Grassino, with Alan Hayes helping out by giving the English text a final polish.
URL (moved 2004):
http://theavengers.tv/losvengadores/
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19th January 2002

 The Avengers
United Kingdom
Scott Saunders opens a website in association with Alan Hayes of The Avengers on the Radio. The site is designed to 'transmit' episodes of The Avengers radio series by download, one serial a week.
URL:
http://homepage.mac.com/the_avengers/index.html
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February 2002

 F.O.L.L.I. in
Avengerland
United States
of America
F.O.L.L.I. in
Avengerland		 Sula Bassana launches her fan fiction site, F.O.L.L.I. in Avengerland. The acronym stands for 'Flights Of Light Literary Imagination' and the site includes the following stories, written by Sula: Just Desserts, The Uncertainty Principle, The Cat That Got the Cream, The Birthday and The End of the Affair, among others.
URL:
www.geocities.com/sula_bassana/index.html
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15th February 2002

Mrs Peel — We're Needed!
Australia
Piers Johnson moves Mrs Peel — We're Needed! to a new web host and adds DVD screengrabs and an incredible 720 images in his section on the fashions of The Avengers.
URL:
http://www.dissolute.com.au/the-avengers-tv-series/
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Spring 2002

 Steed & Co.
France
Due to the purchase of Lycos by multimania.com, the Steed & Co URL is changed.
URL (moved 2010):
http://membres.lycos.fr/steedco/
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April 2002

 Second Sight —
The Avengers Image Archive
United Kingdom
Alan Hayes and his wife Alys Hayes close Second Sight — The Avengers Image Archive some two years after they launched it, preferring to concentrate on The Avengers on the Radio. The site is removed from TheAvengers.TV server by mutual agreement as, being an image site, it is heavy on bandwidth and space. The images are re-sized and are subsumed into The Avengers Forever.
URL:
http://theavengers.tv/secondsight/
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April 2002

 The Avengers on the Radio
United Kingdom
Alan Hayes and Alys Hayes are contacted by South African radio enthusiast John Wright, who reveals that he has reel-to-reel tapes of the radio series that he recorded off air in the 1970s. John is happy to donate them to the site, with the Hayeses paying his shipping costs. Alan and Alys are pleased to agree and the recovered tapes, which include six serials which have not been in circulation, are soon being restored and shared with Avengers fans with the approval of the South African broadcast archives.
URL (moved 2004):
http://theavengers.tv/radioavengers/
No archive available
 

 

7th April 2002

 The Avengers Forever
United States
of America
David K. Smith returns from his sabbatical and relaunches The Avengers Forever with a ground-up recreation and redesign, most of it 'under the hood'. There are also new features like Jon Woods' Illustrated Rogue's Gallery and The Avengers eStore becomes an entirely separate site. David closes his update noting his gratitude to Alan Hayes for his services as temporary webmaster and also to Alan's wife Alys, Mike Noon and Carlos Pagés for emotional and practical support.
URL:
http://theavengers.tv/forever/welcome.htm
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31st May 2002

 Deadline &
Dead Duck
United Kingdom
Mike Noon splits his Noon:Doomsday website in two, and relaunches as Deadline (detailing the press coverage of The Avengers) and Dead Duck (which deals with memorabilia).
Deadline Dead Duck
URL (moved 2004):
http://theavengers.tv/deadline/		 URL (moved 2004):
http://theavengers.tv/doomsday/
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Summer 2002

 Emmerpeeler.de
Germany
Winfried Secker opens a German page dedicated to The Avengers — or Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone, as the series is known there. The site is the official web presence of the German fan club for the series.
URL:
www.emmapeeler.de/index1.html
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5th July 2002

 Police Surgeon —
TheAvengers.TV
United States
of America
David K. Smith performs the seemingly impossible feat of producing a whole website about the little-known ancestor to The Avengers, Police Surgeon, which also starred Ian Hendry.
URL:
http://theavengers.tv/police/
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18th August 2002

 The Science Fiction and
Telefantasy Databanks —
The Avengers
United Kingdom
Clive Banks adds an Avengers page to his excellent Science Fiction and Telefantasy Databanks website.
URL:
www.clivebanks.co.uk/Avengers%20Intro.htm
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27th August 2002

 Honor Blackman Online
United States
of America
Sam McCallie of The Nitpicker's Guide to The Avengers opens a new tribute site dedicated to the actress Honor Blackman. The site is live on the web until midway through 2005.
URL:
http://honorblackman.alexia.us/
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30th October 2002

 Avengers on the Radio
United Kingdom
Despite a bout of the 'flu, Alan Hayes posts the first ever review of the recovered Series 1 episode Girl on the Trapeze at The Avengers Forever and relaunches, with his wife Alys, a redesigned, revamped version of  Avengers on the Radio. The site name loses the first 'The' — aww, we'll miss it!
URL (moved 2004):
http://theavengers.tv/radioavengers/
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1st December 2002

 Los Vengadores
Argentina
Carlos Pagés follows suit and also revamps his Los Vengadores website, rebuilding the whole site from scratch.
URL (moved 2004):
http://theavengers.tv/losvengadores/
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1st December 2002

 The Avengers
Fan Fiction Library
Canada
Patricia 'Patty Pat', a Swiss national living in Canada, opens The Avengers Fan Fiction Library after enduring a fruitless search online for similar fare.
URL (moved 2003):
http://pattypatwebdesign.net/library/pat.html
(via domain http://devoted.to/seddi)
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Researched and compiled by Alan Hayes and Denis Kirsanov

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