[on Honor Blackman] I love [her] to death as well. I think everybody does. She's beautiful and a very good friend of mine because we worked together for many years. On this particular show, one of the live Avengers shows with Ian Hendry - a big fight sequence with Honor in a railway station, in the waiting room. It was the final thing on the show. The final punch on the show was from Honor to me to go backwards over a table. Unfortunately - and this was live television - it connected right there [on the nose] and blood went everywhere. I literally did go backwards and finished up lying across a table with my head upside down and blood pouring out. There was the camera, a fantastic shot, but I didn't appreciate it very much! She was off camera then because it had panned down onto me. I saw the rushes the next day - they weren't rushes then, but I saw the show and there was another camera on her and they said "Cut!" and she flew over and I got the biggest cuddle - how about that, it was worth the blood! She was really, really concerned, but it was a hell of a good fight.
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