Episode 21 - A Touch of Brimstone

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Direction		Music		Humour		Intros/tags
Villains		Plot		Emma		Sets/Props
Overall (0-10)	It doesn't get much better than this. Wyngarde is fantastic as the villain, and Mrs Peel looks fantastic, both before and after her drug-altered Queen of Sin transformation. A great plot and debauched characterisations, fantastic sets and great acting by the ensemble cast.

Marque/Model/Type	Number Plate
Bentley	UW 4887
Four-horse carriage	Chippenham Stage

Victim	Killer	Method	click a name to see the face
VIP	Willy Frant V*	electrocution
Lord Darcy	Willy Frant V*	trapdoor into river
John Cartney V*	John Cartney V* & Emma	trapdoor into river (accidental)

We don't get to see much of Alf Joint in this episode - he's the sheik's security guard and - I think - the masked man who fights Robert Cawdron. Interested viewers can see more of him as the thug who jumps James Bond and winds up electrified in a bathtub at the beginning of Goldfinger ( picture and link at right).

Bill Reed is another notable stuntman who's being throwing himself off buildings for years, here he stacks explosives in the cellar - he might also be the hooded man who fights little Art Thomas.

Carol Cleveland will be familiar to Monty Python fans - she was a regular of the ensemble.

Robert Cawdron return as the fake policeman in Murdersville, and Colin Jeavons returns as the comic book writer Stanton in The Winged Avenger. Peter Wyngarde returns gloriously as Stewart Kirby in Epic (as well as in Jason King and Department S), Michael Latimer and Bill Wallis both return in The Positive-Negative Man (as the villainous Peter Haworth and the ill-fated Dr Charles Grey respectively) and Jeremy Young is the double agent Burton in The Forget-Me-Knot.

The man playing the VIP who's electrocuted also played Professor Spencer in The Master Minds, and the man I've described as a Beaky Libertine appears in a multitude of episodes.

Mrs Peel's snake seems to... uh... grow from a reasonably sized python when she's holding it to a much larger constrictor when it's crawling around the mantel. Paging Dr Freud!

Cartney certainly eats lively chocolates! The close ups of his armchair have been recut with the television footage in the editing room, but this means we see the chocolate on the chair before he picks them out of the box.