Three's a crowd but there's also safety in numbers - John Steed

Sue Wilkinson enjoys re-runs of The New Avengers

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Even without social media, the buzz created around the launch of TV series The New Avengers was sensational.

It stars-Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt and Joanna Lumley - the billing was in order of the then fame factor - were on the front of the TV Times, for goodness' sake.

That was better than millions of streams or followers.

Trailers ran for months before the first episode aired in October 1976.

The series is an updated version of The Avengers which also starred Macnee.

During the nine-year run, he had three female assistants - Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale, Diana Rigg as Emma Peel and Linda Thorson as Tara King.

I was too young to appreciate The Avengers first time around and despite re-runs, it never captured my imagination.