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Tara King is a fictional character of British 1960s adventure television series The Avengers, played by Canadian actress Linda Thorson.The sixth partner of agent John Steed (and fourth female partner), she appeared in series six (in colour) of the series (1968–1969), playing in 33 episodes.
Major The Hon. John Wickham Gascoyne Beresford Steed MC OM [2] usually known as John Steed, is a fictional character and the central protagonist on the 1960s British spy series The Avengers and its 1970s sequel The New Avengers, played by Patrick Macnee in both; by Donald Monat in the South-African radio series adaptation of The Avengers; by Ralph Fiennes in the 1998 film of the same name and ...
Emma Peel and John Steed were seen among the crowd in a bar scene in Kingdom Come #2 (1996) by Mark Waid and Alex Ross. Emma Peel and John Steed appeared unnamed in Superman #13 (1988) by John Byrne and Karl Kesel. A crossover series, Batman '66 Meets Steed and Mrs. Peel, was launched in June 2016 as a joint effort between DC Comics and Boom ...
[2] [6] Macnee, alongside designer Pierre Cardin, adapted the look into a style all his own, and he went on to design several outfits himself for Steed based on the same basic theme. Steed was also the central character of The New Avengers (1976–77), in which he was teamed with agents named Purdey (Joanna Lumley) and Mike Gambit (Gareth Hunt).
Emma meets her replacement, Tara King (played by Linda Thorson), who enters the building as she herself is leaving and tells her that Steed likes his tea stirred "anti-clockwise". Peel would be the last of the "talented amateurs" with whom John Steed was teamed, as her successor is a neophyte professional agent.
Shortly afterwards, John Steed learns from a newspaper that unexpectedly Emma Peel's long-lost husband, the air ace Peter Peel, has been found alive in the Amazonian jungle, so Mrs Peel is leaving. She gets in a car with a man who looks very much like Steed, and drives off, while Tara comes up to Steed's flat, revealing she is his new partner.
The “SNL” star and “Search Party” actor’s appearance as a couple on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” is late-night TV magic.
Alec Leamas in John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Alex Rider, young "informal" MI6 agent in Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider series. The series also includes Alan Blunt, head of MI6 Special Operations; Ali Imran in the Imran series; Basil Argyros in the Harry Turtledove short story series collected in Agent of Byzanium