Her daughter Rachael is just as beautiful and witty. Fine actress, too.

Yes she was .. . 💕😘

Man, you ain't kiddin'

And bit of a stuntwoman too as she did pretty much all of her stuff, even the fight scenes as shown here. I think this might be where Tom Cruise picked up his penchant for his practice.

She also had a beautiful British accent. Good Yorkshire girl.

She was definitely one of the most beautiful women on TV.

I remember the "Avengers" as a kid I just loved watching the show. And was unhappy when they stopped. Just like the show "Are you being served". The tele show was a real kicker. Sometimes my mother would have tears in her eye's from laughing at the crazy goings on. British shows are fine with me. But regrettably my old shows are gone but not forgotten...

Did you talk to her?

@@phoebexsp122 - No - she was just quietly having her lunch on her own so it didn’t feel right to violate her privacy.

The comparison is torturous.

I partied with K.K. Gold and got her kicked out of her own house...AND SHE L@@KED EXACTLY LIKE DIANA RIGG. Crazy.

LOL. I never had any doubts about myself. It's not an option but women like her and a few others made me want to be a man.... quickly.

I was only 6, so I didn't know yet why I liked her, I just really, really, really liked her. My father always gave me a heads-up when the show was coming on (here in America), because I didn't dare miss an episode. "It's T-A time!" he'd call. "T-A" of course stood for "The Avengers," though now that I'm no longer 6 I wonder if my father didn't mean something else.

GOOD-GOOD-GOOOOOD FOR ALL US THE MEN !!!!

@@falcychead8198 "T-A time", ha-ha! That's a very good one, your father was evidently a witty man! :)

You were lucky that you didn't go to an All Boys Grammar School and have Andy Bradbury in your class at 14 years old. He could have turned Casanova Gay but I held out and eventually realised I was a raving heterosexual.....

That was "The House That Jack Built", still one of my favorite episodes. Emma Peel did not run away from danger, she ran towards it, and used her intelligence and kick ass (literally) to figure things out.

@@coolaunt516 I LOVE THE WAY THAT EPISODE ENDS...THE WEY THEY LOOK AT EACH OTHER WHEN STEED FINALLY APPEARS....

@@stylusfantasticus I know what you mean. I watch the last episode (The Forget Me Knot) and it's like being 15 all over again. I didn't want her to leave!

The house that jack buildt

Nice pick up!

@@brucelee-wo5ge Indeed!

Yes, but I don't she would've had much impact, without the chemistry between her and Steed, which brought out each character's essence.

You and many, many others. There are many FB groups devoted to it.

The Producers were idiots. The show (and its ratings) was never the same without her.

gk10002000 Very true! Good point. He was one of my favorite audiobook voices[Jack Higgins novels], and is most missed!

You are right! Diana was made a Dame( or whatever the British call the title.)

@Vlodec Yes, the volume of work she did does say a lot

Everyone knows to be a knighted sir in England is to be a homosexual

@@kbfults Obamahas the Novel Peace Prize ? must be some positive discrimination thing

Well, almost. Honor Blackman as Steed's partner Cathy Gale was flipping evil doers around for two seasons before Emma Peel arrived. Just giving Honor her due. I agree that Di Rigg was fabulous. 😍

I felt exactly the same way. .

The Avengers are back on TV here in the US again starting with the first episodes pre Honor Blackman and they're very different. Steed doesn't wear a bowler, no antique cars, and there's none of the cuteness, campy villians or Hitchcocklike camera angles. You have to really pay attention due to all the dialog too.

The Avengers survived with Linda...I think for 2 or 3 more years. TubiTV.com offers every existing Avengers program from Season 1 through 9 and also the New Avengers. There is no cost and minimal commercial interruptions.

I felt the same way very disappointed almost as sad the feeling when The Beatles split as far as I was concern the beginning of the end very sad indeed

All us were devastated.

Same here...first woman to ever give me one. I was 6 or 7 and had no idea what was going on, LOL....!!!!

Wow!

And then I saw her face, now I'm a believer...........

It was not only her sexappeal but also the smart way she played her role and the image she had created with it for the audience.

Lance2773 I think they loved each other. Not sure what kept them apart.

Diana Rigg was born in 1938. She was almost 30 when she left. A book I read about the Avengers said she was 28 when she got the roll of Emma Peel. At any rate, she was just fabulous and the chemistry she had with Patrick was wonderful. They adored each other and it showed.

@@sandiphillips3907 I have quite a few books on the Avengers and in one book, Patrick Macnee said to him a number of times that she really had to be with a man of intellect. That's what she was attracted most in a man. Apparently Patrick didn't fit the bill and he was 16 years older although he didn't look it in my opinion. And yet, they adored each other. Patrick said he was madly attracted to her and had a real hard time focusing due to the shear physically of her nearness. The chemistry was so potent, I wondered whether anything happened in private. They looked like lovers even in candid shots. They traveled together at times..

@Laika Ma Belle Yes, sounds more like it. I knew she couldn't have been 24. Anyway, she was just fabulous. I'm a huge fan of hers.

Good try Fozzie,,,, must've been punching above your weight!

@@brucelee-wo5ge Way above. I was 25 and nobody. She was 34 and an international star. But the turn-down letter is a lovely keepsake :).

can u share the handnote with us(big fans) please?

@@SuperBritishSteel My 138th book, "The Director Should've Shot You" (shameless plug) comes out in April from Centipede Press. The handwritten note is reproduced therein. Much nicer than just retyping.

Well, at least you had the opportunity to ask her! More than most of us would ever get...

Actually Bond married her in On Her Majesties Secret Service!

Would've loved to see Sean Connery as 007 with Diana Rigg in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service."

@@701CPD Oh, yes! If there had been chemistry between them, those two together in a Bond film would eclipse everything else! And you could never do that sort of thing now, of course.

701CPD I Agree.

gragrn Exactly. And Tracy was no bimbo.

sid miller yes they were.

@@michaelglass4701 Make that" were" into an"are" or at least into an "is" as in the recent "a-ppeal" for funds for St Jude Childrens' Hospital here in The States, That Girl( now Woman) appears and does a bit of reminisce with one of her Daddys' adverts and Donald Hollinger's fictional and Phil Donahue's real life wife the beautiful Marlo Thomas still has it! Haven't seen GOT other than some clips and I do not have cable or satellite or whatever that pay tv is it is on so I cannot give the idea for Ms Rigg.

I was a awkward 12 year old girl, who wanted to group up lookingike her. She had class. Style poise and humor. Still admire her 60 years later. Thankyou Mrs. Peel

A strong character, enigmatic, and entirely charming!

It was on ITV not BBC

It's not BBC

@@pca1987 Actually it appeared on every show ending sequence ABC then; Associated British Corporation.

I have all the Emma Peel episodes on DVD.

Without a doubt.