The Avengers became one of the first British series to be aired on prime time U. S. television.

In 2012 for the first time in Marvel Comics a new team was composed of Avengers and X-Men members called Uncanny Avengers.

He also appeared in several episodes of Armchair Theatre ( during the first of these in 1958, Underground, one of the lead actors died during the live performance ) and The Avengers in addition to many ITC drama series including: William Tell, The Four Just Men, Sir Francis Drake, Danger Man and as a recurrent guest in The Saint.

Lumley's first major role was as Purdey in The New Avengers, a revival of the secret agent series The Avengers.

The first three series opened with a parody of The Prisoner while the fourth and final series was re-titled Still In Bed With Medinner, and the opening sequence changed to be a parody of the classic Avengers Series Five title sequence.

He and first wife, political activist Lee Stearns, are the parents of Film and TV Screenwriter Joss Whedon ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, and Marvel's The Avengers ).

Crime and The Nuns were first, followed by Chrome, The Mutants, The Units, VKTMS, The Contractions, Angst, The Sleepers, Pop-O-Pies, Sick Pleasure ( aka Code of Honor ), Crucifix, Negative Trend, The Avengers ( band ), SSI, Flipper and Pink Section.

The first character debuted during the Golden Age in USA Comics # 1 ( Aug. 1941 ), and was reintroduced in Giant-Size Avengers # 1 ( Aug. 1974 ).

The second, villainous version appears in the final panel of The Avengers # 69 ( Oct. 1969 ), the first chapter of a three-issue storyline by writer Roy Thomas and penciller Sal Buscema.

The Squadron Supreme first appeared in Avengers # 85 – 86 ( February – March 1971 ) and were created by Roy Thomas and John Buscema.

The Squadron Supreme are first encountered by four members of the team the Avengers — the Vision, Quicksilver, the Scarlet Witch and Goliath — who have arrived in the Earth-712 universe by mistake.

In the DC / Marvel crossover JLA / Avengers, Pietro first appears being brainwashed by Starro when the Avengers battle him.

His first group in Birmingham in the early 1960s was The Falcons, which he left in 1963 to join Gerry Levene and the Avengers.

The character first appears in Avengers # 8 ( Sep. 1964 ), and was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby.

On Kang's first foray into the 20th century where he expects to meet Doctor Doom, he attempts to conquer this time period and meets the superhero team the Avengers, he reveals how he returned and battles them.

Kang first promises any who aid him on Earth a place in his new order, which puts Earth's defenses and the Avengers under strain as they fight off villain after villain.

The first character debuted in The Avengers # 69 ( Oct. 1969 ), with five notable versions to date-two supervillains belonging to the team Squadron Sinister ( from Earth-616 ) two heroes from alternate universes, and a zombified clone.

The first Hyperion in Marvel Comics debuted in the title the Avengers.

The Avengers first battle and then assist the Squadron Supreme against the global threat posed by the mutant Brain-Child, before returning to their own universe.

He then illustrated the first six issues Marvel Comics ' 2007 relaunch of Mighty Avengers with writer Brian Bendis.

During her run in Astonish, van Dyne also joined Avengers in its first issue, along with her partner, Hank Pym.

The first was a list of fourteen manufacturing companies located in the state of Washington which were personally known to the research team to be active in defense work.

The Yankee triumph made Ralph Houk only the third man to lead a team to both a pennant and a World Series victory in his first year as a manager.

But now, for the first time since Lou Gehrig ( with 47 home runs ) spurred Ruth on in 1927, two men playing for the same team have zeroed in on 60.

Lincoln's followers organized a campaign team led by David Davis, Norman Judd, Leonard Swett, and Jesse DuBois, and Lincoln received his first endorsement to run for the presidency.

Alumni was the most successful team in the amateur era of Argentine football, winning 10 of the 14 league championships contested, being considered the first great football team.

They won the first eight matches in succession including a 5 – 0 whitewash in 1920 – 1921 at the hands of Warwick Armstrong's team.

The ruthless and belligerent Armstrong led his team back to England in 1921 where his men lost only two games late in the tour to narrowly miss out of being the first team to complete a tour of England without defeat.

Australia had lost 2 – 1 during a tour of the West Indies in 1964 – 65, the first time they had lost a series to any team other than England.

It was the first time since 1894 – 95 that a team following on had won a Test match.

The 2010 – 11 Ashes series is the only one in which a team has won three Tests by innings margins and it was the first time England had scored 500 or more four times in a single series.

In 1992 – 1993 a research team headed by Tim White discovered the first A. ramidus fossils — seventeen fragments including skull, mandible, teeth and arm bones — from the Afar Depression in the Middle Awash river valley of Ethiopia.

The local football team Alemannia Aachen had a short run-out in Germany's first division, after its promotion in 2006.

In 1926, the Aga Khan gave a cup ( the Aga Khan Trophy ) to be awarded to the winners of an international team show jumping competition held at the annual horse show of the Royal Dublin Society in Dublin, Ireland every first week in August.

The first sulfonamide and first commercially available antibacterial antibiotic, Prontosil, was developed by a research team led by Gerhard Domagk in 1932 at the Bayer Laboratories of the IG Farben conglomerate in Germany.

Having played baseball throughout his youth, Spalding first played competitively with the Rockford Pioneers, a youth team, which he joined in 1865.

Shortly after the team published its first results in 1940, Fleming telephoned Howard Florey, Chain's head of department, to say that he would be visiting within the next few days.

After the team had developed a method of purifying penicillin to an effective first stable form in 1940, several clinical trials ensued, and their amazing success inspired the team to develop methods for mass production and mass distribution in 1945.

The Falcons became the first team in NFL history to claim a playoff win over the Green Bay Packers in Lambeau Field, beating them 27 – 7.

It is also representative of the evolution and direction of our team .” During the 2003 preseason Michael Vick broke his leg and missed the first twelve games of the season.

Although they failed to make the playoffs in 2009, the streak ended when the team rallied to win their final three regular season games to record back-to-back winning seasons for the first time in franchise history.

The first serious attempt to land an expansion team for the Phoenix area was mounted by Elyse Doherty and Martin Stone, owner of the Phoenix Firebirds, the city's triple-A minor league baseball team and the top affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.