John Steed - Being the traditional drink of the British it should be no surprise that tea was a common beverage of agent John Steed (Patrick Macnee) on the espionage adventure THE AVENGERS/ABC/1966-69. Whereas the likes of secret agent James Bond preferred his martini shaken not stirred, Steed preferred his tea with three lumps of sugar, stirred anti-clockwise. This trivia bit was passed along by the departing Mrs. Peel (Diana Rigg) to her replacement Tara King (Linda Thorson) on the staircase outside Steed's apartment on the episode "The Forget-Me-Knot."

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