The New Avengers (TV Series)

Angels of Death (1977)

Joanna Lumley: Purdey

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• Purdey : [running a computer programme]  You wouldn't believe how many permitations there are of possible links between 47 people.

  Mike Gambit : Roughly 47 multiplied by known variables to the power of 6.

  Purdey : Gambit, I didn't know you've read mathematics?

  Mike Gambit : I haven't. I do the football pools.

• Mike Gambit : Still with me?

  Purdey : Like paper on a wall.

• Purdey : [reading aloud a list of statistics]  25 of them went to Oxford.

  Mike Gambit : Ah!

  Purdey : 23 of them went to Cambridge.

  Mike Gambit : Oh...

  Purdey : One of them went to both.

  Mike Gambit : He must have been schizoid on boat race day.

• Tammy : [pointing gun at Purdey's head]  Now go on, tell me you've got a weight problem.

  Purdey : Well, I suffered agonies at school. Everybody used to call me skinny. I was wondering if you could help me put on a few pounds. In the right places, of course.

  Tammy : How about inches, in height?

• Purdey : Gambit, switch it off or I'll be playing the Harlem Globetrotters!

• Purdey : Anyway, what's wrong with tall women?

  Mike Gambit : Nothing. Except you never know what you're getting up to.

  [raises eyebrows]