The Avengers (TV Series)

Return of the Cybernauts (1967)

Patrick Macnee: John Steed

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Quotes 

• Emma Peel : [referring to 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]  A man doesn't have to be handsome to be attractive. There's a sort of ugliness for it's own sake. And if you look closely, you'll find a sense of humour. And the eyes are kind.

  John Steed : It hasn't got any eyes.

• Rosie : I expect there'll be hundreds of pictures.

  John Steed : Eh?

  Rosie : In the papers, pictures of me. 'Ravishing blond beauty defends her honour to the last'. Well I would have done. Have I got time to change? Before the photographers arive. I've got a super bikini. It's ever so revealing, Do you know I've nearly been arrested twice wearing it?

• Emma Peel : How the head?

  John Steed : What head? I'm numb from ear to ear.

  Emma Peel : Never tangle with a Cybernaut.

  John Steed : Tangle? I was almost decapitated.

  [winces in pain] 

  Emma Peel : Well, this ice should...

  John Steed : Should be in a glass with a large whiskey wrapped around it.

  Emma Peel : All right...

  John Steed : [moans as he gets up]  Ah well, it's part of the great tradition: unless one's head is in two separate halves... hah, the show must go on.

• John Steed : Sorry to break up your evening.

  Paul Beresford : There'll be another one.

  John Steed : Good night, Paul.

  Paul Beresford : Good night, Steed and good luck.

  John Steed : Thank you.

  Emma Peel : Good night, Paul.

  Paul Beresford : Surely Steed can handle this alone?

  Emma Peel : He could, but I mustn't let him find out.

• Emma Peel : Are you coming up?

  John Steed : Now is not the time for a glass of claret, not even a '29. No, I think I'll stay here.

• John Steed : Oh there's an old saying: three's a crowd. Of course there's equally an old saying: eh, safety in numbers.

• Paul Beresford : No ordinary watch, Mr. Steed. It controls the will. The entire nervous system.

  John Steed : But does it keep good time?

• John Steed : [trying to fix Emma's toaster, it explodes and shoots toast through the ceiling]  That's the first thing Great Britain's ever got into orbit.