BBC reports (via
AICN) that Emma Peel herself, uber-spy star Dame Diana Rigg (also the greatest Bond Girl of all time), will appear alongside her daughter, Rachel Sterling (
Tipping the Velvet) on an upcoming episode of
Doctor Who penned by none other than
Mark Gatiss! Gatiss is not only the author of the fantastic Lucifer Box spy send-ups
The Vesuvius Club and
The Devil in Amber (as well as the less successful third novel in the trilogy,
Black Butterfly), but also an
avowed fan of of both James Bond and Sixties spy television. (He's all over the extras on the DVD release of BBC's answer to
The Avengers,
Adam Adamant Lives!, for instance.) I have little doubt that he'll be able to resist working in a sly reference or two to Rigg's famed spy roles. (He even references Charles Helfenstein's excellent book
The Making of On Her Majesty's Secret Service on an audio commentary for the
latest season of Sherlock, the brilliant modern-day take on Sherlock Holmes that he co-created with current
Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat.) Apparently the pair will play a mother and daughter on the show, too. (I was kind of hoping they'd play older and younger versions of the same character on a time travel show. Oh well.) Rigg's
Avengers predecessor Honor Blackman memorably appeared in the epic 1986
Doctor Who serial "
The Trial of a Time Lord."
3 comments:
Mrs. Peel, you're needed.
That is NOT Emma Peel (Diana Rigg).
What isn't?
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