Eccentric ironic & fantastic series like The Avengers & Danger Man with their professional secret agents or The Saint & The Persuaders featuring flamboyant crime-fighters still inspire mainstream & cult followings. Saints & Avengers explores & celebrates this television genre for the first time. Saints & Avengers uses case studies to look for example at the adventure series representations of national identity & the world of the sixties & seventies. Chapman also proves his central thesis: that this particular type of thriller was a historically & culturally defined generic type with enduring appeal as the current vogue for remaking them as big budget films attests.