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British actors Patrick McNee and Diana Rigg are John Steed and Emma Peel, on the set of the TV Series The Avengers, created by Sydney Newman. (Photo by ABC Weekend Television/Associated British Corporation/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

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