Editing The Avengers (TV series) (section)

===Radio series===
{{redirect-distinguish|The Avengers (radio series)|The Avenger (radio program)}}
{{further|List of The Avengers (radio series) episodes}}
A radio series<ref>{{cite web|url=http://declassified.theavengers.tv/radio_main.htm|title=The Avengers Declassified: The Radio Series|work=theavengers.tv|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100724023813/http://declassified.theavengers.tv/radio_main.htm|archive-date=24 July 2010}}</ref> was transmitted between 6 December 1971 and 28 December 1973 on [[Springbok Radio]], the English-language service of the [[South Africa]]n Broadcasting Corporation ([[SABC]]); it was recorded at Sonovision Studios in [[Johannesburg]], produced by Dave Gooden, the original TV scripts were adapted and directed by [[Tony Jay]], for the first six months and Dennis Folbigge for the remainder. South Africa did not have national television until 1976.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100808203011/http://www.southafrica.info/about/media/satv.htm "South Africa's television channels"], International Marketing Council of South Africa, 16 October 2006</ref> The episodes were adapted from both Emma Peel and Tara King episodes (with Tara changed to Emma Peel throughout). The Avengers were played by two British expatriate actors, Donald Monat as Steed and Diane Appleby as Mrs Peel, with Hugh Rouse as the tongue-in-cheek narrator. The stories were adapted into five-episode serials under Tony Jay and six- and seven-episode serials under Dennis Folbigge, of approximately 15 minutes each (including adverts) and stripped across the week, Monday-Friday, on Springbok Radio.

Currently only 19 complete serials survive, all from [[reel-to-reel]] off-air recordings made by John Wright in 1972. Also, the first three episodes of a remake of ''Escape in Time'' currently exist. Episodes 1 and 2 are copies from the original Sonovision tapes, and episode 3 is from an off-air recording, on audio cassette, made by Barbara Peterson; the rest of this serial is still missing. These episodes are also known to have been transmitted in New York on station [[WBAI]] on 99.5 FM, from 1977 to the early 1990s, and are currently being transmitted on Miami station [[WRGP]] on early Monday mornings.

Copies from the original off-air recordings have been restored by Alan and Alys Hayes, and can be heard at their "The Avengers Declassified" website and its sister website "Avengers on the Radio".

Many more serials were broadcast during its two-year run on South African radio; it is thought 83 serials were made and transmitted, but no other episodes are known to exist at present.