The New Avengers (TV Series)

The Eagle's Nest (1976)

Joanna Lumley: Purdey

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Quotes 

• Purdey : Mike Gambit, one of these days...

  Mike Gambit : I know. I'm looking forward to it.

• John Steed : [Purdey has just knocked out 4 Nazis with high kicks]  Where did you learn that, the Royal Marines?

  Purdey : [two Nazi's get up, Purdey knocks them down with another couple of kicks]  The Royal Ballet, they threw me out.

  John Steed : [one Nazi casts a fishing line at Steed, who grabs it and pulls the man against a pillar]  What did you do, maim the leading man in his pas de deux?

  Purdey : Too tall.

• Purdey : [Purdey & Steed are locked up in seperate cells]  Steed, I want to confess...

  John Steed : [dresses as a monk]  The habit was just a disguise.

  Purdey : I don't really think you're like St. Paul's Cathedral.

  John Steed : What?

  Purdey : Gambit used to think you were old fashioned. But I said, suppose you are? So is St. Pauls, and you've both survived a very long time.

• John Steed : [about Purdey's lipstick]  What a pretty shade of pink.

  Purdey : [a bit miffed]  Pink! It's called 'sins of youth'.

  John Steed : That's not a colour, it's an accusation.