So long Ms. Peel
Long before there was a Peggy Carter, Nikita Taylor, or Carrie Mathison, Emma Peel had what it took to (stylishly) wield a Beretta Jetfire, Walther P-38, MP40, Colt Peacemaker, and everything in between.
She also looked strikingly like Countess Teresa di Vicenzo, the only dame tough enough to become the wife of a very Australian-sounding James Bond.
Speaking of dames, Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, DBE, has gone on to that great stage in the sky and another of my great unrequited childhood loves and aired its final episode.
NOT to put too fine a point on it, but having watched episodes during my childhood, she was NEVER referred to as “Ms.” always as “Mrs. Peel “. The invented bastardization did not exist back then, even as a joke.
I like the pictures of her in black leather the best.
Then thou shalt go here: http://www.kimdutoit.com/2020/09/11/aobtd/
Hubba, hubba!!