The Avengers needed some female oomph to attract a wider viewership and, thus, the name Emma Peel was born. Dame Diana Rigg died on September 10 last due to cancer which had been diagnosed just six months earlier. To be precise, as the world went into the Coronavirus lockdown, the clock of life for Diana Rigg also became locked within a specified timeframe. But it would be wrong to say that Diana Rigg slipped into eternity after a period of oblivion. The episode, A Touch of Brimstone, has three sublime English actors: Peter Wyngarde, Diana Rigg, and Patrick Macnee.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 27, 2020 16:07 UTC