{"id":28086,"date":"2017-09-05T07:28:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T11:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=28086"},"modified":"2017-09-05T07:42:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T11:42:27","slug":"tw-communicator-spotted-in-the-avengers-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/tw-communicator-spotted-in-the-avengers-tv-series\/","title":{"rendered":"TW Communicator spotted in “The Avengers” TV series"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Andy\u00a0Howlett, who writes:<\/p>\n

Some while back I spotted an elderly ‘TW Communivator’ in use the a late episode of The Avengers TV series. The episode in question is called ‘All done with Mirrors’.<\/p>\n

Studio Canal are a bit touchy about people nicking stills from their videos, but I sent my screen-grab to the website ‘TW Radio’ which is a site dedicated to Tom Withers and his products. The owner got permission for a one-off reproduction.<\/p>\n

You can see the photo by going to http:\/\/www.twradio.uk\/page98.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks, Andy! The Avengers<\/em> is one of my favorite action\/adventure TV shows of the 1960s. Lately, I’ve been waiting for a used DVD box set of the series to appear at a local retailer. The fact that I’ve always had a crush on Diana Rigg (a.k.a. Emma Peel) has nothing to do with this. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Check out other radios spotted in film and TV series by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here to read more about The Avengers<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Andy\u00a0Howlett, who writes: Some while back I spotted an elderly ‘TW Communivator’ in use the a late episode of The Avengers TV series. The episode in question is called ‘All done with Mirrors’. Studio Canal are a bit touchy about people nicking stills from their videos, but I sent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[508,3,305,43],"tags":[5506,6483,6484],"class_list":["post-28086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-shortwave-radio","tag-radios-in-movies","tag-the-avengers","tag-tw-communicator"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7j0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45443,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/help-mark-identify-this-radio-in-the-new-avengers\/","url_meta":{"origin":28086,"position":0},"title":"Help Mark identify this radio in The New Avengers","author":"Thomas","date":"September 22, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark Hirst, who writes with another mystery radio to identify: This radio (see photo above) is featured in the mid 1970's TV show 'The New Avengers', an episode called \"To Catch a Rat\". 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