As Emma Peel, the butt-kicking spy in The Avengers, the British actress Diana Rigg was a '60s TV icon. From 1965 to 1968, she ...

11. Epic - Mrs Peel is kidnapped by an eccentric film director, who wants her as a leading lady in his latest film, The Destruction of Emma Peel.Will movie stardom be the death of her? More info ...

Actress Dame Diana Rigg, famous for roles including Emma Peel in TV series The Avengers and Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones, has died at the age of 82. Her daughter, actress Rachael Stirling ...

As the sharp and suave investigator Mrs Emma Peel, Rigg helped make The Avengers a global TV hit. She took over from Honor Blackman opposite Patrick Macnee's urbane secret agent John Steed ...

3. Escape in Time - Steed and Mrs Peel investigate the murder of an agent shot with a 16th-century bullet, and the stabbing of a second victim, found with a Jacobean dagger in his back. More info ...