Linda Thorson

Linda Thorson plays Tara King on The Avengers, the partner who arrives after Honor Blackman’s Cathy Gale and Diana Rigg’s Emma Peel have already taught the world the pose. Patrick Macnee’s John Steed keeps the bowler; Thorson keeps the danger walking in a series that exported British spy chic as mid-sixties weather. Leather optional, deadpan mandatory. Bond-adjacent television that treated attitude as the gadget.

Years first: The Avengers on ITV from 1961–1969. Tara King is how Thorson clocks in. s01e01 still does the introductory work. Hot Snow opens the ITV run before the catsuit folklore: Macnee's Steed already the bowler, attitude mandatory, gadgets optional. Thorson on The Avengers remains catalog craft on ITV from 1961–1969.

Tara King photographs as weather and plays as the assignment Thorson actually clocked. Credits will argue rank. The mid-run argument lives at s04e01. The Town of No Return is the Peel-era door — Diana Rigg's leather chic as export product, Bond-adjacent television with better posture. s04e03 is the later check. The Cybernauts — mid-sixties machine menace in a tailored frame, the fandom hour people still name when they mean The Avengers. Thorson does not fade into the wallpaper.

Thorson stays in the cut as Tara King on The Avengers, which ran on ITV from 1961–1969. s01e01 remains the door; s04e01 remains the turn. TV Flash files her as 1960s British export: the last Steed girl of the original run, catsuit weather included once those hours have done the positional work.

Closing a decade is a thankless job when the predecessor is already a poster. Thorson does not play tribute; she plays the assignment. On TV Flash she is 1960s catalog cool — the Tara who made the last stretch of Steed’s original run feel like a partnership, not a souvenir shop for catsuits already sold.