The Rise of the Covidian Cybernauts

In the 1960s, a British television program called “The Avengers” featured two government agents, John Steed and Emma Peel, fighting the rogue agents and provocateurs who engaged in espionage and attempts at destabilizing the British government. The plots were strange and the puns even stranger. The politics was always “hush-hush,” and it was never clear who was avenging whom. The fans didn’t care, as long as they got to watch the beautiful Diana Rigg, in the role of Mrs. Peel, fighting the bad guys and all the while wearing multi-colored Mod dresses and tight jumpsuits.  

In one of the episodes, “Return of the Cybernauts,” Paul Beresford (played by the perfectly dark Peter Cushing) revitalizes his late brother’s project of cybernetic engineering, except in this case, it was not to serve the good of mankind but rather Beresford’s evil whims. He pursues his brother’s cybernetic project even further by making human cybernauts.

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