The Avengers Forever: Timeline

	1970
	1971	July: The Avengers stage play runs for a few weeks.
	1972	The Avengers radio show airs in South Africa.
	1973
	1974
	1975	Brian Clemens is offered financial backing from a French producer for The New Avengers. READ MORE
	1976	April: Production begins for the first season of The New Avengers. October: Production ends for the first season of The New Avengers. 19 October: The New Avengers premieres in Britain.
	1977	21 January: Season 1 of The New Avengers ends in Britain. February: Production begins for Season 2 of The New Avengers. READ MORE August: Production ends for The New Avengers. 9 September: Season 2 of The New Avengers begins airing in Britain. 17 December: Season 2 of The New Avengers ends in Britain.
	1978	5 September: The New Avengers premieres in America on CBS.
	1979	23 March: The New Avengers ends its run in America. September: Brian Clemens announces the return of The New Avengers.
	1980	CBS announces it is backing a theatrical film of The Avengers.
	1981
	1982
	1983
	1984
	1985	Plans for a new TV series, The Avengers International, are announced.
	1986
	1987
	1988	Mel Gibson makes a bid to produce The Avenging Angel, with himself playing Steed.
	1989
	1990
	1991	The Cathy Gale episodes are seen for the first time in America on A&E cable TV.
	1992
	1993
	1994
	1995
	1996	September: The Avengers Forever is launched.
	1997	After years of false starts, production for Jerry Weintraub's The Avengers movie is under way. Patrick Macnee's The Avengers and Me is published.
	1998	February: The movie is test-screened in Scottsdale, Arizona. July: A&E begins releasing the remastered Emma Peel episodes on video in America. August: The Avengers movie is released to theaters.
	1999	January: The Avengers movie is released on video.
	2000	January: A&E begins releasing Cathy Gale episodes on video in America.
	2001	April: "Girl on the Trapeze" is discovered in the UCLA film archive. Canal+ begins releasing bilingual DVDs in France.
	2002	The UK finally begins seeing The Avengers and The New Avengers DVDs. The first 20 minutes of "Hot Snow" and a 10-minute version of "The Strange Case of the Missing Corpse" are discovered in the UCLA film archive. November: "Girl on the Trapeze" is screened in London at the NFT.
	2003	May: The Avengers arrives on DVD in Italy and the Netherlands. December: The first season of The New Avengers on DVD is released in North America.
	2004	June: The second season of The New Avengers on DVD is released in North America. November: The Avengers arrives on DVD in Australia.
	2005	October: France re-releases the entire series all at once on DVD.
	2006	February: A&E re-releases its Emma Peel Megaset, which includes a bonus DVD containing the surviving first season episodes plus other extras such as Avenging the Avengers documentary, "The Strange Case of the Missing Corpse" and more. March: A&E releases The Avengers '62, containing the last of the Cathy Gale episodes to make it to DVD, and with this A&E has completed its promise to release everything Avengers, an odyssey that began July 1998.
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