Episode 17 - The Girl From Auntie

Episode Rating

The Cars

Who's Killing Whom?

Victim	Killer	Method	click a name to see the face
Mr Lamb	Old Lady/Man in disguise V*	knitting needle
Bates	Old Lady/Man in disguise V*	knitting needle
Marshall	Old Lady/Man in disguise V*	knitting needle
Barrett	Old Lady/Man in disguise V*	knitting needle
Barrett	Old Lady/Man in disguise V*	knitting needle
Wimpole	Old Lady/Man in disguise V*	knitting needle
John Jacques	Old Lady/Man in disguise V*	knitting needle
Paul Jacques	Old Lady/Man in disguise V*	knitting needle
George Jacques	Old Lady/Man in disguise V*	knitting needle
Fred Jacques	Old Lady/Man in disguise V*	knitting needle
Joseph Ivanoff V*	Old Lady/Man in disguise V*	knitting needle

continuity and trivia

©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd	00:10 - Recognise that gate? The same location is used at the beginning of The Girl From Auntie as the Town Hall, Pendley (the venue for this year's MFU Charity Fancy Dress Ball) and in The Thirteenth Hole as Craigleigh Golf Club.	©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd

New ©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd	3:00 - The mid-shot of the taxi leaving the airport is of a 1964 Austin taxi with the licence plate {BGJ 193B}. However, the earlier closeup of Steed inside as the porter packs all his luggage into it (2:45) and later when it arrives at Mrs Peel's flat (3:25) onwards, it's an earlier model Austin taxi with the licence plate {VGF 345} (the same one that was used in Epic).	Old ©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd

7:50 - The law firm of" "Bates and Marshall" is an Avengers in-joke, referring to John Bates (Ms Rigg's wardrobe) and Roger Marshall (screenplay).

10:12 - it sounds like a redub when Georgie says "Fred" at the end of "John, Paul George and..." - but Fred is in the original script (PDF 13.4MB) so it can't be, can it?

10:17 - The outer door of the Jacques Brothers shop reads "Jacques Brothers - Theatrical costumiers - John Jacques, Paul Jacques, George Jacques, Fred Jacques" but the inner door reads "Starr Bros. Theatrical Costumiers".

13:19 - When Aunt Hetty is having tea with Georgie and Steed, Steed asks her if the Jacques Brothers were alone when she visited them. Aunt Hetty replies, "That could hardly be, there were four of them." - but Sylvia Coleridge never moves her lips - it's clearly dubbed in later, and the voice is done by a man imitating an elderly lady to boot!

19:00-19:30 - Marshall's scenes 43-5 have been rewritten - Steed never overhears the receptionist planning his demise (sc. 43/4) as he's hit over the head (sc.45) halfway through scene 43. By the way, who did the casting? Yolande Turner doesn't look "fortyish" to me at all.

©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd	19:53 - Georgie Price-Jones whiles away a quiet moment or two with books from Mrs Peel's bookshelf - first up is" "Basic Nuclear Physics", but most notably is "No Holds Barred", a self-defence book written by Ray Austin, stunt arranger and frequent on-screen presence for The Avengers.	©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd

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<< 24:12 - This bird sculpture turns up in Season 5 in Mrs Peel's apartment and Tom Savage's photo studio turns up here at the offices of Art Incorporated, on the table in front of Steed. All of Mary Merrall's lines sound like a man imitating an old lady's voice - have they been overdubbed? She certainly sounds different in Homicide and Old Lace 40:00 - Who are those stunt men? I think it's Val Musetti playing Steed but I'm at a loss to put a name to David Bauer's double.

>> 50:00 - The Avengers leave in an unusual fashion in this episode - Georgie Price-Jones drives off in Steed's Bentley, while Mrs Peel and Steed are crammed into a tiny Messerschmitt KR201 cabriolet micro car. 50:26 - Double entendre? Steed describes Georgie as a "charming lady" and Emma replies, "I wonder if she's going our way." - then Georgie blows them a kiss.

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