In Popular Culture
- In Get Smart episode "Run, Robot, Run" (1968), evil British agents "Snead" and "Mrs Neal" are spoofs of Steed and Mrs Peel.
- In an episode of Married... with Children, Al Bundy tries to buy an Avengers video featuring Mrs Peel, but receives a Tara King episode instead.
- In Frasier episode "Radio Wars" Frasier's father says his sons were picked on as children for emulating Steed by wearing bowler hats. Daphne says she once dressed as Mrs. Peel in a skintight black leather catsuit for Halloween.
- In an episode of Leverage Sophie and Hardison use the pseudonyms Emily Peel and Jonathan Steed.
- In the comic book series X-Men Emma Frost and the Hellfire Club were inspired by an episode of The Avengers. The X-Men spin-off Excalibur introduced a villain named Emma Steed, a thinly veiled combination Emma Peel and John Steed.
- In the graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, Mother appears as Director of British Intelligence, Robert Cherry, and is referred to as "M". A young Emma Peel appears and the recent death of her father Sir John is a subplot. An older Emma Peel appears in the graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century; in the story she has replaced Mother as "M" and is leader of MI5. Her character is drawn to resemble Judi Dench's "M" character from the James Bond film series.
- Catherine Gale (played by Laura Putney) was the name of a CIA agent featured in the CBS series JAG in five episodes during seasons eight and nine (2002–2003): "Critical Condition" (8.01), "Need to Know" (8.07), "Pas de Deux" (8.23), "Shifting Sands" (9.02), and "Back In The Saddle" (9.06).
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