The New Avengers (TV Series)

Forward Base (1977)

Joanna Lumley: Purdey

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Quotes 

• Purdey : [phoney American accent]  It's quiet. Too darn quiet.

• Glover : This is a mark 5, no doubt about it. Quite useless to us. And, eh, if you don't mind my saying so, your whole operation here seems to be quite useless.

  Purdey : I do mind you saying so.

• Purdey : I've got it!

  Mike Gambit : Rhythm? Flu?

  Purdey : What we were talking about the other day. The fickleness of man.

  Mike Gambit : [spots someone walking by]  I know that face.

  Purdey : I said that man was infinitely more changeable than women, more restless.

  Mike Gambit : I've seen it on file somewhere.

  Purdey : And you of course disagreed.

  Mike Gambit : He's a hitman, a heavy.

  [gets out] 

  Purdey : You said that no man would ever up and leave a woman. Not if he really...

  Purdey : [turns around, notices Gambit has gone]  ... cared for her?

• Hosking : Oh, you collect birds eggs.

  Purdey : No, fish.

  Hosking : Fish? Fish are nesting in the trees?

  Purdey : Well, of course.

• Captain Malachev : It is Purdey I believe? I have seen your face in files many times, but I have never had the pleasure.

  Purdey : You and a hundred others.

• Purdey : Ah, you get your furnishing the same place Steed gets his bowlers.