Open Clickview. (If you have Windows 10, you can watch anything from Clickview anywhere, even at home). Find The Avengers in Library / Media Studies / J200 TELEVISION.
Exam question: 'Explain how social contexts influence television programmes. Refer to The Avengers.' You might include:
- the equality of Steed and Mrs Peel in terms of their actions, bravery, skills, responsibility for the success of the mission
- their upper middle class life style (their RP accents, turns of phrase, and those of 'Piggy' Warren)
- their clothes and props, such as fencing, Mrs Peel's op art outfit, their hats
- social behaviours such as the afternoon tea, ordering drinks
- the evidence that the country has recently been at war (the setting, references to war service, the abandoned mess with its bedsteads, dart board and pin-up picture)
