Episode 10 - Dial a Deadly Number

Episode Rating

The Cars

Who's Killing Whom?

Victim	Killer	Method	click a name to see the face
Todhunter	Fitch V*	needle through heart
Myers?	Steed and himself V*	motorcycle crash (caused by gunshot?)
Frederick Yuill V*	Fitch V*	needle through heart
Fitch V*	himself and Steed	bicycle pump gun (in fight)
Henry Boardman?	Ben Jago V*	shot

continuity and trivia

1. 1:09 - The clocks above the bar read: Frankfurt irregular 2:10, Zurich further losses 2:10, New York firm 8:10, Melbourne further rises, 10:20, Tokyo sharp losses 10:23.
   The times in Melbourne & Tokyo are wrong by 10 and 13 minutes respectively.
2. 3:23 - the 'phone number of the bar is Leadenhall 7141. The same 'phone turns up again in Two's a Crowd, did the Russians steal it?
3. 3:50 - Steed tells Emma the dent in the pocket watch he's been bequeathed saved his uncle's life in the Great War. "German bullet?" she queries, and he replies, "Canadian mule!"
4. 4:00 - we go straight from the board room to Steed's kitchen for no apparent reason.
5. 12:16 - the Bank on England facade outside Yuill's window is a bit too obviously a blow-up.
6. 14:58 (15:14) - When Steed first meets Ben Jago he tells him they have the same broker; Jago replies, "Charlie Bingham?" as a test. Steed looks taken aback and replies "Yuill, Brian Yuill" (but the character is called Frederick Yuill, as Boardman says at 7:35), and Jago merely says, "One can't be too careful."
7. 15:30 - Separated by a common language - When Steed queries the lack of ice in his drink, the waiter explains it's a house rule. A Wall Street broker once asked for "bourbon on the rocks" and two brokers fell dead on the spot. ("On the rocks" of course being City slang for bankrupt).
8. 20:27 - Steed questions Emma's lack of tan and is told it's the rainy season in Barbados; Harvey chips in that half the annual rainfall of 36" falls between September and November, putting this episode in October or November - it was filmed in January and screened the following December.
9. 22:09 (22:45) - Steed contradicts the above when he notes that next Tuesday - the day of the wine-tasting - is the anniversary of the relief of Ladysmith in 1900 (which occured on 28 February, and was a Tuesday only in 1961 and 1967). If, on the other hand, the date was the start of the seige of Ladysmith, then it's 2 November 1965, which works perfectly.
10. 24:25 (25:10) - Yuill causes more problems later on when he swallows while Emma examines his corpse.
11. 26:57 - Steed approaches Emma at the wine tasting, smiles and says, "Agreeable, well-rounded, a little on the flinty side". She smirks and he produces a glass of Pouilly Blanc Fumé which she tastes (and spits everywhere in what seems to become a theme for the episode). She then replies, "Venerable, devious, a little ambivalent" - and reveals she's talking about Boardman's. (A similar exchange happens in The Murder Market).
12. 27:06 - Emma & Steed 27:39 (28:27) - Later, at the wine tasting, when Steed chooses a wine for the duel, he tastes a glass of the Latour '59 but spits most of it onto his jacket.
13. 28:40 (29:33) - Steed's tasting notes:
    

    It's either a '65 Algerian red or a Premier Cru...
    Chateau Lafitte-Rothschild.
    [BOARDMAN: What year?]
    No nose; it's old, very old. Pre 14-18 War?
    [HARVEY: Correct.]
    It's an outstanding vintage, definitely pre 1914 but no earlier than 1880.
    [BOARDMAN: You still have 34 years to play with. Well?]
    190- 8 [Harvey smiles] - would not be the year. 1909!
    [Boardman looks surprised]
    From the northern end of the vineyard.
    [Boardman's is so surprised his monocle falls from his eye]

14. 30:08 (31:10) - When Fitch examines the frame showing Steed's watch, you can see the spools are still turning on the projector when they should be still. Furthermore, why does he examine the still at all, when he already has a blow-up of the frame?
15. 40:07 - Fitch claims to have invented the bicycle-pump gun.
16. 48:10 (49:50) - Mrs Peel emulates Steed's wine identification in the cab - but she's read the label:
    

    A claret with unusual body, - the Bordeaux distict.
    Mmmmm... the little village of St. Perignon which would make it the de Villé vineyard.
    A Mérignac Sainte-Claire!
    Nineteen-thirty... would not be the year - 1931!

    Fantastic, Mrs Peel! Nose or palate? Uh uh, eyes, I read the label.
17. Running time: 49'45"