For the uninitiated, The Avengers was a stylish blend of espionage and science fiction that appealed to those who enjoyed witty, slightly off-beat humor. While this British show acquired quite a following back in the late sixties, it has been kept alive as a cult favorite by the baby-boomers who grew up with it – like me.

Airing from 1961-1969, The Avengers became one of the most popular TV series of all time. Much of the show’s popularity was due to the pairing of Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg as secret agents John Steed and Emma Peel.


We started out with high hopes of finding 10 TV Search Engines – not Video clips or TV show directories, and it can’t be done, so here are three we like – in no particular order.  They must be able to find this TV show to qualify, and ideally the episode “House that Jack Built” – just to make it interesting. 


 #1 – Couchville House That Jack Built Airdate: March 05, 1966.  Episode Description:  In the country to inspect a house she inherited, Emma is trapped in a giant machine built for revenge.

  #2 – TV.com The House That Jack Built: Community Score 8.9  - Great.  Emma inherits some property from her deceased Uncle Jack. The property is a very bizaarre house, and when Emma finds herself trapped in a labyrinth of psychological torture.

#3 LocateTV

If you do find another one, please leave a comment, and we will update this post.

TV Trivia question:  Who created the .tv domain – as in www.ceefax.tv? 

Super trivia question:  How did ‘Emma Peel’ get that particular name?


First one to post the correct answers in the comment section wins.

What is Scitopia.org?

The federated vertical search portal scitopia was created through the collaboration of 15 leading science and technology societies.  Searching for a better way to help researchers quickly get to the quality content they need, these publishers developed a way to the research most cited in scholarly work and patents.

Scitopia searches the entire electronic libraries of the leading voices in major science and technology disciplines and provides relevant results, without the noise of other Internet search engines. More than three million documents, including peer-reviewed journal content and technical conference papers, spanning 150 years of science and technology can be searched through the site.

Scitopia is powered by Deep Web Technologies’ Explorit Research Accelerator federated search engine.

What is a federated search?

A federated search consists of a real time search through a disparate group of databases. The user enters a set of query parameters, which are broadcast to the selected databases; the results are collated and presented back to the user in a unified format.

Federated search is distinct from traditional search engines, which use robots to continuously index and crawl through web-based content, retrieving results from previously cached documents that match the query terms.

Federated search portals form part of what is also known as the invisible web, which contains documents that cannot be accessed by traditional search engines due to limitations in crawler technology.