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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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead-drunk in the street, carried to the duke’s house, washed and dressed and laid in the duke’s bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke, and assured that he had been insane, owes its popularity to the fact that it symbolizes so well the state of man, who is in the world a sort of sot, but now and then wakes up, exercises his reason and finds himself a true prince.”
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—Terry Castle, U.S. lesbian author. The Apparitional Lesbian, ch. 1 (1993)