Brilliant, beautiful and athletic, it comes as no surpirse that Emma Peel is also a scratch golfer.
But this is no pleasure round she's playing. Mrs. Peel and John Steed are called to investigate strange goings-on at a golf course -- spies, selling scientific secrets to "the other side"! This is dangerous stuff.
The highlight is a lengthy golf-course fight between Mrs. Peel and the tough-guy Collins. He jumps her from behind, only to find himself tossed into a greenside bunker. Each time he tries to scurry out of the sand, she kicks him back down, before diving down into the pit with him. They wrestle and tumble around on the sand, before the thug plays dirty: He pulls her hair! And how.
Collins grabs a solid handful of Emma's shining locks and throws her to the sand, then yanks her back up to her feet. Holding the insolent bitch up by her hair, he decides a slap or two are owed for the trouble she caused.
Truly a delightful fight, filmed with thought and care, as was usually the case with "The Avengers." It's as if they had us in mind!
And Francis Matthews, playing Collins, is he the luckiest guy on earth, or what? In his place, I would have kept calling for another take. "Didn't get that one quite right, let's try it again!" Enjoy his good fortune!