So long to the Dame who oozed sex a-Peel | Daily Mail Online
Anyone of a certain age brought up on 1960s black and white television will remember Diana Rigg as the leather catsuit-clad, high-kicking Emma Peel.
With her blue-stocking delivery, she disarmed villains before polishing them off with the firmest of karate chops while at the same time her witty, sexually laden double-entendres with her co-star left viewers forever wondering if they did, or did not, go to bed.
The Avengers, which made her a star, is still shown around the world and polls regularly vote her the sexiest television star of all time.